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Les Tâtonnements de Jean Bidoux
Paris: Mon. Martinet, 1860. Item #04607
The Trial of Jean Bidoux in his Military Career
CHAM [Pseudonym of Charles Amédée de Noé]. Les Tâtonnements de Jean Bidoux dans la Carrière Militaire. (The trials of Jean Bidoux in his Military Career). Par Cham. Paris: Mon. Martinet, [1860].
Large quarto (13 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches; 336 x 250 mm.). Pictorial lithograph title-page and eighteen lithograph plates with sixty-five amusing images.
Publisher's quarter red roan over blind stamped red cloth, front cover decoratively titled in gilt. Small stain to top margin of last plate, otherwise a fine copy.
Price: $1,500.00
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