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CEUX DE L'ALPE TYPES ET COUTUMES
Written by Antoine Chollier. Illustrated by Th.-J. Delaye.
Stock no. 1803943
Published by Horizons De France. 1st 1937. Almost very good condition.

No.10 in the series 'La Collection Provinces De France Types et Coutumes'. Large format. Text in French. Cardwraps. 137 pages. Colour illustrations. Top & tail of spine worn with slight loss. Neat inscription in ink to front endpaper. The occasional foxspot but contents generally very nice and clean. Fairly strong odour present (disinfectant?). Original glassine wrapper present - edge worn and torn with some loss.

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MONT BLANC A TREATISE
Written by E. Viollet-Le-Duc; B. Bucknall.
Stock no. 1204139
Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1st 1877. Good condition.

A Treatise on its Geodesical and Geological Constitution; its Transformations; and The Ancient and Recent State of its Glaciers. Blue cloth with gilt & black title and decoration. 112 woodcut illustrations. xvi plus 378 pages and 2 page book list to rear. Edges worn, corners bumped. 1" split to side of spine which is browned. Name in ink to verso of front endpaper. One section detached but present pages 65 to 80.

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AUVERGNE, PIEDMONT, AND SAVOY: A SUMMER RAMBLE
Written by Charles Richard Weld.
Stock no. 1204133
Published by John W. Parker. 1850. Good condition.

Green cloth with embossed decoration and gilt title to spine. xi and 351 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners chipped. New endpapers. Ex-library with only one stamp suggesting thus. A little foxing. Small name in ink to front pastedown.

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SUMMER DAYS IN AUVERGNE
Written by H. De K..
Stock no. 1703448
Published by Richard Bentley & Son. 1875. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. 5 b/w plates including tissue guarded frontis. Covers edges worn. Covers grubby. Small amount of loss to top of spine. Two inscriptions in ink to prelims. All plates present.

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THE ROAD TO VERDUN
Written by Ian Ousby.
Stock no. 1601461
Published by Jonathan Cape. 1st 2002. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

France, Nationalism and the First World War. 304 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0224059904. Wrapper is lightly edge creased.

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THE TRAGIC EMPRESS
Written by Comtesse Des Garets; Marie-Louyse Des Garets.
Stock no. 1901002
Published by Skeffington & Son, Ltd.. Circa 1931. Very good condition.

Cream cloth. B/w plates. Biography of Empress Eugenie of France. Name in ink to front endpaper. Corners slightly bumped.

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GUIDE DU MASSIF DES ECRINS (2 VOLS)
Written by Lucien Devies; Maurice Laloue.
Stock no. 692737
Published by B. Arthaud. 1951. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Small format. Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Text in French. Two volumes. Meije, Ecrins, Ailefroide, Pelvoux, Bans, Olan, Muzelle. Wrapper to vol I browned and edge-torn. Wrapper to vol II browned and edge-chipped.

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FRANCE
Written by John Edward Courtenay Bodley.
Stock no. 668383
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1902. Fair condition.

Dark green cloth, gilt title. Name in ink to front endpaper. Front board almost detached. Spine worn.

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PARIS IN PROFILE
Written by George Slocombe. Illustrated by Olinda.
Stock no. 693472
Published by Humphrey Toulmin. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

Orange cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations. Inscription in ink to front endpaper.

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PAYS DE SAVOIE
Written by Valery D'Amboise.
Stock no. 693592
Published by Editions D'Amboise. 1st 1988. Slightly better than very good condition.

Pink cloth, gilt title blocks. Colour photos. 430 pages. ISBN: 2903795134.

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CONQUEROR OF THE NIGHT
Written by J. Christiaens. Illustrated by Edward Mortelmans.
Stock no. 612543
Published by Abelard-Schuman. 1st 1970. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the invention of Braille, the system of reading by touch. ISBN: 0200716301. price-cut wrapper.

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MEMOIRES D'UN CENTENAIRE DEDIES A SES ARRIERE-PETITS ENFANTS
Written by Alex De Saillet. Illustrated by J. Vogel.
Stock no. 200856
Published by A. Desesserts. Circa 1851. Very good condition.

The memoires of a centenarian French nobleman, born in 1741. 20 beautiful tissue-guarded coloured plates, most depicting costume, plus numerous b/w text illustrations. Dark blue leather binding with gilt decoration and raised bands to spine. Gilt borders to covers. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Text in French. 9.25 x 5.75". 322 pages. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Edges rubbed and corners worn. Covers a little scuffed. Foxing to contents but colours still bright.

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