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Lot 141
[FRANCE] [JARVES, JAMES JACKSON]. Parisian Sights and French Principles, Seen Through American Spectacles.
London: Clarke, Beeton, & Co., 1853. First English edition. Publisher's pictorially gilt and decoratively blindstamped patterned cloth. 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches (19 x 12 cm.); [2], [i]-viii, [9]-215 pp., frontispiece and illustrations in text, 4 pp. publisher's ads bound at front and 2 pp. at rear. Light edgewear, spine sunned, corners bumped, staining to cloth, contents lightly toned with the occasional pale spot, overopened at pp. 152.
An amusingly illustrated popular travel guide for Americans in Paris.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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