Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane

Boston: D. C. Heath & Company, 1929. Some wear cover edges, library marks, pencil marks throughout, otherwise book clean and tight. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex Library.

Paris: Compagnie des Libraires, 1787. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. Good. Volume four only! Nouvelle edition, 1787, hardcover with full-leather boards, 12mo., 348pp., illustrated with b&w engravings. Book good with joints cracked, moderate wear to spine that includes some chipping to outer layer of leather, edgewear to spine ends and corners, boards worn, binding tight with marbled endpapers, text toned… Read more about this item

Librairie de Paris, Fermin et Didot Cie, Paris, n.d. Very Good. French language; 686p., immaculate and without writing except for former owner's name in tiny elegant hand on front end page with date of 1938; binding firm; beautiful Art-Deco "marbled" boards in tonalities of sepia, with sepia cloth corners and spine, with gilt lettering on dark brown… Read more about this item

Paris, France: Chez Lefevre, Libraire, 1820. Hardcover. Good-Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3vol.set: vol.1-440pp.; vol.2-524pp.; vol.3-454pp.; HB's brwn.leather w/gilt; heavy rub w/worn edges&corners; spines&edges sunned; slight foxing; marble endpaper w/clean,tight pgs.; vol.1ft.hinge cracking; French picturesque novel. Full trans.of title: "History of Gil Blas of Santillane, by The Sage; edition collated with that of… Read more about this item

Paris / New York: P. C. Lehuby / Roe Lockwood and Son Text in French. Not dated (c1880). Original blue cloth stamed design with gilt, blue, green, yellow and red decorative illustration on the front cover and the spine. All edges gilt. Twenty (20) full page plates. Overall in GOOD condition.. Full Cloth. Good. 8vo - over… Read more about this item

Paris: J. J. Dubochet. Le Chevalier et Cie, 1846. Leather. Very Good. 11" by 7.5". Ernest Meissonier. A smartly bound and profusely illustrated copy of Alain-Rene Lesage's picaresque novel 'Gil Blas', illustrated by Ernest Meissonier. Written in the original French. 'Gil Blas' is a adventurous novel following the eponymous character, who is born into poverty.… Read more about this item