Ventre, Madeleine L' IMPRIMERIE ET LA LIBRAIRIE EN LANGUEDOC AU DERNIER SIÈCLE DE L'ANCIEN RÉGIME 1700-1789.
Paris Mouton & Co. 1958 8vo. stiff paper wrappers xii, 288 pages Text in French. A study of the printing and bookselling businesses in the southern French region of Languedoc in the waning years of the Old Regime, before the Revolution of 1789. Focus on government repression of those businesses. A volume in the "Book and Society" series publshed by the École Pratique des Hautes Études. Preface, table of contents, introduction, index of books published in Languedoc during the time of this study. Wrappers faded at edges. Price: $ 25.00
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Order nr. 114569
(Welter, Hubert) [COLLECTION OF SALES CATALOGUES FROM H. WELTER].
Paris H. Welter 1904-1911 8vo. quarter leather with paper-covered boards varriously paginated Sales catalogues issued between 1904 and 1911 by the multi-lingual bookseller Hurbert Welter. Catalogues proclaim the ability to speak and correspond in English, German, Spanish and Italian. Catalogues are arranged in a confusing and sometimes fragmentary manner. Included are a few "Catalogue général" and "Le Marché des livres d'occasion." From the reference library of H.P. Kraus. Price: $ 65.00
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Order nr. 77507