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Placets de l'officier Desbans / preface by Neil MacGregor.

Title
Placets de l'officier Desbans / preface by Neil MacGregor.
Author
Desbans, Edme Louis, 1728-
Publication
New York, N.Y. : [Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club], 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Saint-Aubin, Gabriel Jacques de, 1724-1780.
  • MacGregor, Neil, 1946-
  • Wrightsman, Jayne
  • Roxburghe Club
Description
14, 41 p. : facsims.; 38 cm.
Series Statement
[Roxburghe Club publications ; no. 279]
Uniform Title
Roxburghe Club publications ; no. 279.
Subject
  • Desbans, Edme Louis, 1728-
  • Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793
  • Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
  • Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 > Pictorial works
  • Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 > Pictorial works
  • Wrightsman, Jayne > Library
  • France. Armée > Promotions
  • Petitions > Facsimiles
Genre/Form
  • Facsimiles
  • Pictorial works
Note
  • Petitions of an army officer named Desbans (probably Edme Louis Desbans) to Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI requesting promotion to a lieutenant-colonelcy.
  • Facsim. ed. of a book made in Paris in 1775, containing fifteen pictorial decorations, as well as head- and tailpieces by Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin who also lettered the text.
  • Foreword by Jayne Wrightsman.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (1st group, p. 14).
Indexed In (note)
  • Wrightsman collection,
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
OCLC
221757256
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library