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Placets de l'officier Desbans / preface by Neil MacGregor.
LIBRA - Rare UB415.F5 D47 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desbans, Edme Louis, 1728- author.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Desbans, Edme Louis, 1728-.
- Desbans, Edme Louis.
- Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793.
- Marie Antoinette.
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
- Louis.
- Wrightsman, Jayne--Library.
- Wrightsman, Jayne.
- France. Armée--Promotions.
- France.
- Petitions.
- France. Armée.
- Armed Forces--Promotions.
- Libraries.
- Genre:
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- Legal petitions.
- Facsimiles.
- Physical Description:
- 14, [48] pages : color facsimiles ; 38 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club, MMVII [2007]
- Notes:
- Petitions of an army officer named Desbans (probably Edme Louis Desbans) to Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI requesting promotion to a lieutenant-colonelcy.
- Facsimile edition 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.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 14 (first count)).
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare UB415.F5 D47 2007 is the gift of Jonathan J.G. Alexander, 2023. Card with mounted color facsimile of a manuscript page on one side and text ("WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF MRS. CHARLES WRIGHTSMAN 820 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK NY 10065") on the other laid in. Typescript letter dated 10 February 2008 from Jonathan J.G. Alexander to Jayne Wrightsman thanking her for this copy laid in. Housed in clamshell case (retained).
- Cited in:
- Wrightsman collection, v. 5, p. 340-344
- OCLC:
- 221757256
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