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La bataille de Rocroy
- Title
- La bataille de Rocroy / par Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale.
- Author
- Aumale, Henri [Eugène Philippe Louis] d'Orléans, duc d'., 1822-1897.
- Publication
- Paris : Soc. des bibliophiles françois, 1899.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. French 1899+ | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 3 p.l., 87 p., 3 l., 7 pl., 1 port. 66 extra pl.; 4̕.
- Subject
- Note
- Illustrations: etchings by Adolphe Lalauze from original aquarelles by his son Alphonse Lalauze, consisting of a frontispiece and a portrait of the author, each in two states; title-page vignette portrait of Auguste de Thou; initial head-piece, 6 plates, and final tail-piece, in colors, and with plate proofs in one tone and in colors; following the text, an original aquarelle by Alphonse Lalauze designed for the tail-piece, but refused by the society; mounted on the leaf preceding the original cover, a manuscript note of M. Germain Bapst referring to the cancelled tail-piece, inserted following the half-title, a second original aquarelle by Lalauze; appended, 46 plate proofs in colors in various states, including 17 with remarques or notes by the artist in the margins. In all, 77 illustrations.
- Binding, by Mercier, 1909, of red crushed levant morocco, gilt. Sides within fillets and an ornamental frame inlaid in blue and tooled in the manner of Derome. Doublé with white morocco within a border of small tools. Center panel surrounded by a deep dentelle border in the style of Derome. Back tooled, lettered, and inlaid. With gilt edges, marbled end papers, and lining of red grosgrain silk. Original covers, dated 1900, bound in. In loose leather protective cover, tooled and lettered, and inserted in slip case.
- Bookplate of W. A. Spencer.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1899+
- OCLC
- 131739479
- Author
- Aumale, Henri [Eugène Philippe Louis] d'Orléans, duc d'., 1822-1897.
- Title
- La bataille de Rocroy / par Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale.
- Imprint
- Paris : Soc. des bibliophiles françois, 1899.
- Local Note
- no. 3 of thirty copies on Japan paper printed for members of the society; this copy printed for M. le duc de Fitz-James. Appended, a list of the members of the society, December 30, 1899.
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- Added Author
- Lalauze, Alphonse, ill.Lalauze, Adolphe, engraver.Société des bibliophiles français, Paris.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. French 1899+