Picciola. A new edition, revised by the author. With illustrations by Leopold Flameng. The Riverside Classics.
by [NAPOLEON]. SAINTINE, X. [avier] B.[oniface]
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- Hardcover
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Vancouver, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1879. 8vo. 254 pp. Illust. title in red & blk. Engravd frntsp., numerous plates. Embssd & decrtd brick-red cloth, gilt & blk lettrng & decrtn frnt cvr & spine (vry mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng to crnrs), VG copy, w/ 19th-century booksellers label for G.H. Hill City Book Store, Portland, Oregon. Revised edition of this scarce account of the sentimental story of the Comte de Charny, a political prisoner, who saved himself from madness during captivity during the early Napoleonic era.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37984
- Title
- Picciola. A new edition, revised by the author. With illustrations by Leopold Flameng. The Riverside Classics.
- Author
- [NAPOLEON]. SAINTINE, X. [avier] B.[oniface]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Osgood and Co.,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1879.
- Keywords
- Napoleon, France, French Literature, 19th-century Imprints, Leopold Flameng, Riverside Classics, Santine, Comte de Charny
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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