[Item #48068] Grandeur et Adversité: Enfance de Femmes Célèbres. Contes historiques dédiés a la jeunesse. Eugénie FOA.

Grandeur et Adversité: Enfance de Femmes Célèbres. Contes historiques dédiés a la jeunesse

Paris: Amedée Bédelet, n.d., ca. 1860. Revised Edition. Octavo (ca. 21cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards printed color lithograph; [4],183 [i.e. 197]pp.; two-toned frontispiece, seven leaves of plates. Boards a bit chipped and rather toned along extremities, endpapers darkened, contemporary manuscript prize inscription to front free endpaper, shallow dampstain to fore-edge of first few leaves, else Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label to front pastedown. Collection of brief accounts of the childhoods of notable French women, including Clotilde de France, younger sister of Louis XVI; Madame de Maintenon; and Josephine, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Price: $75.00

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