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Mémento de l'escrimeur
by Mauroy, Victor
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Quarter vellum and marbled boards, red morocco spine label. Some toning to first and last leaves
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, Jouaust, 1887. First edition. 185 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Quarter vellum and marbled boards, red morocco spine label. Some toning to first and last leaves. First edition. 185 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed by the author on the half title, "A Monsier Hebrard de Villeneuve Président de la Sociéte d'Encouragement de l'Escrime, Hommage de l'auteur, Victor Mauroy".
Hebrard de Villeneuve (1848-1925), French soldier, politician, and fencer, was founder of the Société d'encouragement de l'escrime and later the French national fencing association. Thimm, p. 187
Hebrard de Villeneuve (1848-1925), French soldier, politician, and fencer, was founder of the Société d'encouragement de l'escrime and later the French national fencing association. Thimm, p. 187
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- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 368349
- Title
- Mémento de l'escrimeur
- Author
- Mauroy, Victor
- Format/Binding
- 185 pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Quarter vellum and marbled boards, red morocco spine label. Some toning to first and last leaves
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Librairie des Bibliophiles, Jouaust
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1887
- Keywords
- Fencing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports & Games;
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- First Edition
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Marbled boards
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- Vellum
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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