L’Worker 8 Years – Jules Simon – 1867 – Magazine Of Deux Worlds – Tome 54 – Bag

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La Revue des Deux Mondes is a monthly French literary review founded in 1829, it is one of the oldest periodical publications still in activity in France. In the 19th century, it was a major center of expression for very young writers and critics of the Romantic generation. “It is sometimes said that we will not see such great things as our fathers. This is undoubtedly true, considering only politics, and in this respect the year 1789 has no rival to fear; but whatever the sadness of the present hour, they are diminished and perhaps compensated by the brilliance and importance of the scientific movement. This great and definitive revolution erases all others. It is up to philosophers and politicians to hasten to follow it, because we cannot boast of governing a society whose conditions of.

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1867 Le Monde Illustrè French Illustrated Magazine Antique Book

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Le Monde Illustrè. Paris, 1867. You can gracefully decorate the walls of the study or dining room, bedroom or living room to unique pieces. that are able to decorate any collector's display. Similar illustrations are also used by leading stylists and designers.

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1867 Central AFRICA Expedition Ashango-Land Gabon w/ Interesting Inscription 1st

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Du Chaillu, Paul B. New York: D. Appleton, 1867. First edition. Du Chaillu was one of the early and important white explorers in Africa. He set out on this, his second expedition, to reach the Nile River, but after a year of trying, he had to give up the effort (he reached Gabon) after being shot by a poison dart during an attack.

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Antique NY History Book Voyage to New York Netherlands in 1679-80 Dankers 1867

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MemoirsOf theLong Island Historical SocietyVolume IJournalOf AVoyage to New YorkAnd ATour in Several of the American ColoniesIn1679-80,ByJaspar Dankers and Peters SluyterOf Wiewerd in FrieslandTranslated from the Original Manuscript in Dutch for theLong Island Historical Society, and Edited byHenry C. MurphyBrooklynPublished by the Society1867. Antique, immediate post US Civil War era three quarters leatherbound hardcover book with marbled paper covered boards in overall good condition. Book is the complete Voyage to New York in 1679 to 1680 by Dankers and Sluyter but is Volume I of the Long Island Historical Society's "Memoirs" series and is here presented as a stand alone, original period edition. Exterior shows rubbing to the outer corners and edges of the boards and spine and the back cover board's hinge is split and cracked but still connected to the rest of the book via a clothbacked bookbinder's tape strip at the back inside hinge gutter and is firmly connected to the rest of the book though the white of the tape can also be seen in the hinge from the outside of the back cover. Interior of the book is overall very clean with some pencil notations on the front and back endpapers as well as a tipped in 1909 letter from a Long Island Historical Society member preceding the title page and some minor tatters to the outer page fore edges here and there. Book also has a 1941 Long Island Historical Society paper slip inside of it. Book has 12 plates at the back of it, the majority of which are fold outs which are overall all in very good or better condition with the exception of plate III which is split into three pieces. Book's binding is overall intact with the aforementioned repair to the back cover hinge and the book is complete with all pages present and none coming loose, detached or missing. Book totals 440 pages, measures approximately 9 3/8 x 6 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches and weighs about 2 1/2 pounds.

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Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper’s Bazar, 1867-1898 (Dover Fashio…

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Condition Notes: Book is in good condition. Hard cover books may show signs of wear on the spine, cover or dust jacket. Paperback book may show signs of wear on spine or cover as well as having a slight bend or curve to it.

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