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LOSTELNEAU, Colbert de. Le mareschal de bataille. Contenant le maniement des armes. Les evolutions. Plusieurs bataillons, tant contre l'infanterie que contre la cavalerie. Divers ordres de batailles ...
Paris, Toussainct Quinet (printed by Estienne Migon), 1647. Folio. With 48 full-page engraved plates of French infantry-men exercising with musket (35) and pike (13), after the models of Jacques de Gheyn, 400 full-page (or larger folding) woodcut diagrams of battle formations, all printed in red and black, some also in yellow, with troops represented by red and black dots and a few smaller woodcut illustrations. Dark brown gold-tooled calf (ca. 1700?). XII, 459 pp. Full description

[LOUIS NAPOLEON]. Cylindrical black lacquered wooden box.
Diameter 90 mm; height 21 mm. With a lacquered engraved portrait of Louis Napoleon mounted on the centre of the lid, below his coat-of-arms (an eagle facing to the viewers right with the motto "Vox populi vox Dei" and the caption "Lélu du peuple") and above the total number of votes (7,481,231) cast for him on 21 December 1851; the portrait is surrounded by the names of all the French Departments (Ain, Aisne ... Yonne), the colonies and the army, each with the exact number of votes for and against him. With a red ribbon to open the box. Full description

[MADOU, Jean-Baptiste (lithographer)]. [Vie de Napoleon rédigeé par une société de gens de lettres sur les nouveaux documens dictés et corrigés à Ste. Hélène par Napoleon même].
[Brussels, Lithographie royale de Jobard, 1827]. Oblong 4to (ca. 25.5 x 33 cm). With a hand-coloured lithographed double-page title, and 132 coloured full-page lithographed plates. Contemporary gold-tooled half red morocco, decorated ("pseudo marbled") paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine, and a red morocco title label on the front, marbled endpapers. The work is housed in a later red and yellow marbled paper slipcase. [134] ll. Full description

MANUEL, Henri. [Collection of 33 Paris fashion photographs from the 1910s].
Paris, Henri Manuel, [ca. 1910/20]. 33 albumen prints , 3 oval (ca. 19 x 15 cm) and 30 rectangular (ca. 27 x 16 cm), including 5 duplicates (with tint variations). The faces on two of the photographs are lightly tinted. Each photograph is mounted on a sheet of paper and signed in pencil "Henri Manuel Paris". Three photographs are also signed in the plate. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - FRENCH EAST INDIA COMPANY]. Death certificate of a former employee of the French East India Company.
Puducherry (Pondichéry), 2 November 1786. Folio. [2] pp. Full description

[MANUSCRIPT - MORLOT DE WENGI, Alcibiade]. Etude de diverses parties de l'art de la Guerre
[France], January 1820. Small 4to (ca. 20.5 x 16 cm). With 6 hand-coloured folding illustrations, 3 full-page plates (on pp. 36, 57, and 83), 1 half-page plate (on p. 79), and numerous smaller mathematical figures, tables, and other illustrations in the text, most with grey washes and some in colour. The work is written in French in a very neat cursive hand. Contemporary half green painted sheepskin, red sprinkled paper sides. 151, [152-155 blank] pp. Full description

[MAP - FRANCE - GERMANY]. Nouvelle carte itinéraire, qui indique d'une manière très-exacte les routes et stations, ainsi que les distances des principales villes de France et dAllemagne.
Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, [ca. 1810]. An engraved map printed on linen (ca. 33.5 x 43 cm.), partly coloured by hand in red and blue ink. Folded. Full description

MAPPUS, Marcus and Johan Christian EHRMANN (editor). Historia plantarum alsaticarum.
Strasbourg and Amsterdam, Johann Daniel Dulsecker and Pieter Mortier, 1742. 4to. With 7 folding copper-engraved plates of plants, an engraved printer's device on the title-page, an engraved coat-of-arms of François-Joseph de Klinglin, baron de Hattstatt etc. as a headpiece above the dedication, 3 woodcut initials, a headpiece made up of typographical ornaments at the start of the main text and the index, a woodcut tailpiece at the end of the main text, and the title-page is printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled, mottled, polished calf. [8], 335, [32] pp. Full description

[MAP - PYRENEES]. SANSON, Nicolas. Les Monts Pyrenées, ou sont remarqués les Passages de France en Espagne.
Paris, Hubert Jaillot, 1719. Engraved map on 2 assembled sheets (54.5 x 88 cm). With title in decorated cartouche (signed F.C.) in upper right corner and scalebars in decorated cartouche in the lower left corner. Coloured in outline. Full description

MARSDEN, William and Cornelis Pieter Jacob ELOUT. Nederduitsch en Maleisch woordenboek, gevolgd van een Fransch en Maleisch woordenboek ... naar het Engelsch en Maleisch woordenboek van den Hr. W. Marsden. | Dictionnaire Hollandais et Malai, suivi dun dictionnaire Français et Malai ... daprès le dictionnaire Anglais et Malai de Mr. W. Marsden.
Haarlem, Johannes Enschedé and sons, 1826. 4to. With several wood engraving ornaments throughout. Later half black sheepskin. [8], 432 pp. Full description