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Lettres d'un voyageur à l'embouchure de la Seine: Contenant des détails historiques, anecdotiques et statistiques sur les contrées de la Normandie connues sous le nom de pays de Caux, de Lieuvin et de Roumois, dans les départemens de la Seine-Inférieure, du Calvados et de l�
by Masson de Saint-Amand, Amand-Narcisse
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- Hardcover
- first
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chez Guibert. Paris. 1828. First edition. Octavo. [4]. 280pp. Coloured frontispiece, coloured map. Contemporary silked cloth, leather label, gilt lettering. A little rubbed, bumped and faded. Pages untrimmed, foxed, with water staining to upper margins. Signature M. Griffiths to ffep.
Amand-Narcisse Masson de Saint-Amand, (1794-1831) Letters of a traveller at the mouth of the Seine, containing historical information, trivia and statistics on the regions of Normandy of Caux, of Lieuvin and Roumois, in the departments of the Lower Seine, Calvados and Eure. Scarce.
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- Bookseller
- Paul Haynes Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio152
- Title
- Lettres d'un voyageur à l'embouchure de la Seine
- Author
- Masson de Saint-Amand, Amand-Narcisse
- Book Condition
- Used - See item description
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez Guibert
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1828
- Keywords
- France, Normandy, Calvados, Eure, Seine, Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Exploration; History; Europe; France and French Interest;
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Hay on Wye, Herefordshire
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- Foxed
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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