Europe / France, Greece & Italy

MENOU, Jacques-François ("Abdallah") de Boussay de. Proclamation aux habitans de lEgypte.
Cairo, Imprimerie Nationale, 6 brumaire an 9 [28 October 1800 CE]. Folio (141 x 42.5 cm). Five small oblong sheets, printed in French and Arabic in parallel columns, pasted together one above the other to form a single long broadside. Full description

MENOU, Jacques-François ("Abdallah") de Boussay de. Copie de lordre du général en chef ... 5 Fructidor an 8 [= 23 August 1800] [and six more to] 16 Brumaire an 9 [= 7 November 1800].
Cairo, Imprimerie Nationale, [23 August - 7 November 1800]. Folio (22 x 31.5 cm). 8 sets of regulations issued in 10 weeks, printed in French and Arabic in two parallel columns, each set with 2 to 24 pages. Each with a drop title with a woodcut vignette (either of 2 different blocks) representing the French Republic personified as Marianne with the motto "Liberté Egalité". [24]; [16]; [2]; [3], [1 blank]; [4]; [10]; [6]; [2] pp. Full description

MENOU, Jacques-François de Boussay de. Ordre du jour, du 29 nivôse an 9 [19 janvier 1801].
Cairo, Imprimerie nationale, [19 January 1801 CE =] 29 nivôse an IX. Small folio (21.5 x 31 cm). Printed in French and Arabic in two columns. 2 pp. Full description

[MEYER von SCHAUENSEE, Maurus]. Lettres familieres sur la Carinthie et la Stirie, adressées a madame Bianchi, de Bologne. Par un officier général Français, prisonnier de guerre en Autriche. 1799.
Leoben (Austria) and Paris, Louis-François Prault, an IX [= 1800/01]. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title-page. Contemporary green half calf, gold-tooled spine. [8], 208 pp. Full description

MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Abregé chronologique de l'histoire de France. ... Divisé en six tomes.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1673-1674. With engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe and full-page engraved portrait of Louis XIV by A. Zylevelt in volume 1, 61 engraved portraits of French rulers in text.
With: (2) MEZERAY, Francois Eudes de. Histoire de France avant Clovis.
Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1688. 12mo. With engraved frontispiece-title in the style of Romeyn de Hooghe. 2 works in 7 volumes. 12mo. Uniform polished, crushed, gold-tooled red morocco by the leading Brussels bookbinder Charles DE SAMBLANX (1855-1943). Full description

MICHELIN, Jean Louis Hardouin. Iconographie zoophytologique, description par localités et terrains des polypiers fossiles de France et pays environnants.
Paris, P. Bertrand (back of title-page: printed by Fain & Thunot), 1840-1847. 4to. With 79 lithographed plates by Ludovic Michelin and Delarue fils. Contemporary half calf. XII, 348; [4] pp. Full description

MONLUC, Blaise, Seigneur de. The commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc, Mareschal of France.
London, Andrew Clark for Henry Brome, 1674. Folio. With engraved frontispiece full-length portrait of the author. Contemporary blind-tooled mottled calf. Expertly rebacked in similar blind-tooled calf. [18], "404" [= 400], [12] pp. plus engr. frontispiece. Full description

[MONTE CARLO AUTOMOBILE RALLY]. [A collection of manuscript documents, photographs, magazines and newspaper clippings concerning the 1937 Monte Carlo Automobile Rally].
[The Netherlands, Monte Carlo, etc.], 1937. Full description

MOQUIN-TANDON, Alfred. Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France. Contenant des studes sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés.
Paris, Bailliere, 1855. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. Royal 8vo. With 54 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. VIII, 416; 646; 92 pp. Full description

[MOREAU, Jacob-Nicolas]. Lettres d'un François a un Hollandois au sujet des differends survenus entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne, touchant leurs possessions respectives dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.
"Paris" [The Netherlands?], "P. La Rive", 1755. 4to. Early 20th-century half cloth, with the original marbled wrappers bound in. 90 pp. Full description