- Dustwr. sl. yellowed and frayed at spine-ends.
AND 2 others in 3 vols.: C. HOCKING, Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam, Including Sailing Ships and Ships of War lost in Action. 1824-1962 (London , 1969, 2 vols., orig. unif. rexine, 4to) and P.S. DULL, A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945) (Cambridge, 1978, ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo).
- Unevenly browned; closed tears on folds.
= The text tells the story of the wreckage and disaster of the French frigate Medusa, in the words of one of the survivors. The woodcut illustration shows the survivors of the disaster of the vessel Medusa on their makeshift raft, after the composition by Theodore Gericault.
- Paper occas. sl. brittle; partly sl. yellowed. = Very rare.
- Partly waterstained in lower margin, also affecting some of the maps/ plans; occas. trifle waterstained in upper blank margin; a few maps/ plans sl. browned on fold(s) (1x w. some fraying); libr. stamp on title-p.
= Cohen/ De Ricci 128.
- All vols. owner's entry on title-p./ htitle; some foxing.
= Probably a translation of F.W.Schütz (a.o.), Geschichte der Kriege in Europa seit (...) 1792.
= Dealing with various aspects of Belgian military history.
AND 11 loose issues: série 11, no.1 and 3-8; série 14, no.1-3; série 15, no.2.
- Each vol. w. royal library stamp ("Bibliotheek van H.M. de Koningin") and "Afgevoerd" on verso first free endpaper. Bindings trifle rubbed and scratched.
= Lipperheide Qc 35; Colas 529; Hiler p.139.
- Bookplate on upper pastedowns. Fine copy.
= Warranted by the author. Colas 1064; Hiler p.313; Pohler III, p.390 (24 plates). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIII.
- Contents loose(ning).
= Colas 1258: "Cet ouvrage (...) sert de biblio-iconographie du costume militaire français"; Lipperheide Qc 39.
Malibran, H. Guide à l'usage des artistes et des costumiers contenant la description des uniformes de l'armée française de 1780 à 1848. Paris, Combet & Cie./ Boivin & Cie., 1904/ 1907, 2 vols., (4),946; 248,(2)p., 211 plates, contemp. unif. hcl. w. paper letterpiece, large 8vo.
- Vol. 1 occas. sl. foxed; vol. 2 foxed more often; one map w. closed tear. Spine-ends sl. worn; vol. 1 backwr. reattached; both vols. turn-ins of protective glassine wrappers attached verso of htitle and and final blank.
- Map w. sm. tear in inner margin, just touching image. All vols. spines dam.; joints (starting to) split; covers rubbed.
Idem. Histoire des révolutions d'Angleterre. Paris, Belin, 1794, new. enl. ed., 4 vols., contemp. unif. marbled calf w. gilt spine and 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces.
- All vols. some offsetting from turn-ins; occas. trifle foxed; vol. 3 three lvs. waterst. in outer margin. All vols. backstrips discol. and lacking volumepiece; vols. 2 and 4 frontcover w. chafed spot; vols. 1 and 4 top of spine dam.
- Spine-ends sl. worn. = Attractive floral compositions, in a larger binding than usual.
- Sl. foxed. Rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip. = Tobler p.161ff; Gay 3671 (both listing German editions).
AND 1 other in 2 vols.: C.W. WILSON (ed.), Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt. Vol. I and IV (London, ±1880, 2 (of 5) vols., steelengr. maps/ plates, ills., orig. unif. gilt dec. cl., a.e.g., folio).
- A few leaves at the end trifle dampstained. Backstrip and corners worn. = Rare.
- Lacks 10 maps; occas. trifle yellowed.
= Sabin 65405; Tiele 103; NHSM, p.108; Muller, America 1898. The first 7 vols. deal with travels to the East Indies and to Africa (Guinea, Benin, Congo and Angola). The series contains accounts of the voyages and explorations by the Portuguese, English, Dutch and French, with plates depicting local inhabitants, plants and animals, but also customs, fortifications etc.
- Lacks at least 5 plates; general title-p. foxed and w. sm. tear; panorama foxed. Portfolio lacks closing strip and 2 narrow sides.
= The number of plates varies in most copies, with a maximum of 52. Our copy contains, apart from the general fold. panorama: Souvenirs de Pau (title and 4 (of 6) numb. views), Souvenirs des Eaux-Bonnes (title and 9 (of 10) numb. views), Souvenirs des Eaux-Chaudes (title and 6 (of 8) numb. views), Souvenirs de Cauterets (title and 7 numb. views) and Souvenirs des Hautes-Pyrénées (title and 7 views). Copies with this many handcoloured plates are extremely rare.
- Bindings sl. rubbed and occas. w. some sm. dam. spots; vol. 18 sl. worse and upper joint splitting.
= Comprises: Histoire Ancienne (vol. 1-7); Histoire Romaine (vol. 8-15); Traité des Études (vol. 16 and 17); Opuscules (vol. 18).
- Lacks engr. title; the maps sl. yellowed; (sl.) foxed almost throughout. Backstrip worn; joints splitting
= Gumuchian 4990; Colas 2584 (ed. 1830); Hiler p.761 (ed. 1830, prob. erroneously calling for 79 plates). With worldmap and maps of Europe, Russia, France, England, Asia (3x), Africa and America (3x). The plates mainly depicting costumes, also some views.
- The map w. closed tears and tipped onto lower pastedown; sl. yellowed and foxed.
= Sloos 840-01; Pohler II, p.309. First published in 1824.
- Without vol. 3-6 and atlas vol.; occas. trifle foxed.
= Cat. (...) des Russica L432; Cohen/ De Ricci p.613. Nicolas-Gabriel Le Clerc served as a military physician in the Russian army from 1769-1777. His magnum opus on Russia consists of 3 parts on ancient and 3 parts on modern Russian history.