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Mystères des vieux châteaux de France, ou, Amours secrètes des rois et des reinces, des princes et princesses, ainsi que des grands personnages du temps : aventures mystérieuses, scenes dramatiques, faits merveilleux apparations, revenants, fantômes, etc. / par une société d'archivistes ; sous la direction de A.B. Le François.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DC33 .B15 1848 Frost copy t.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailly, Alexandre.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- France--Social life and customs.
- France.
- Manners and customs.
- Castles--France.
- Castles.
- Penn Provenance:
- Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 6 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Mystères des vieux châteaux de France
- Amours secrètes des rois et des reinces, des princes et princesses, ainsi que des grands personnages du temps
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : E. et V. Penaud fréres, [1848-1849]
- Contents:
- t. 1. Choisy-le-Roi. Anet. Amboise. Loches. Beauje. Chambor.
- t. 2 Marly. Parc-aux-Cerfs. Blandy. Offémont. Bellevue. Chelles. Madrid.
- t. 3. Châteu-l'Evêque. Chinon, Château-Gaillard. Saint-Germain. Chantilly. Semblançay.
- t. 4. Gaillon, Sceaux. Villarceaux. La Malmaison. Nérac. Cinq-Mars.
- t. 5. Fontainebleu. Vau-le-Praslin, Pau.
- t. 6. Chanonceaux. Ruel. Luciennes. Rambouillet.
- Notes:
- Published in parts.
- Vols. 1-6 of a work planned to comprise 8 v.
- Local Notes:
- Frost Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.
- Frost Collection copy 1 imperfect: t. 1-3 only. Tome 2: plates opposite p. 3 and 315 wanting. Tome 3: plate opposite p. 2 wanting.
- Frost Collection copy 1: t. 1 has partially illegible French ms. ownership inscription ("le livre fait [...]tir de la Bibliothèque de M. A. [...] [...] de le [...].") on half-title leaf.
- Frost Collection copy 2 imperfect: t. 4-6 only; in t. 6, plate after p. 266 wanting.
- Frost Collection copy 2: t. 5: plate before p. 233 hand-colored by a reader.
- Frost Collection copy 2: t. 6: spine damaged.
- OCLC:
- 11939775
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