A Faggot of French Sticks, containing a series of descriptive sketches of the principal public institutions of Paris, and of the system of instruction of the various branches of the French army.

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John Murray, London 1855, thrid edition; two volumes, 8vo, 130 x 195mm; pp viii, [9]-463 and iv, [5]-455; full calf, panelled spines gilt, red and green labels, marbled end papers and edges, gilt rules; the feet of the spines and more particularly the head of these is a little rubbed and with small tears on the head of the hinges of vII but nevertheless a firm, tight and generally clean copy; free end papers foxed and with that of vI; holograph inscription from one Eton pupil, Robert Pierpoint, to his friend, Fitzroy Paley Ashmore, on the occasion of the departure of one of them from Eton., dated Lent, 1864. . . . . . Sir Francis Head was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada from 1835 until he used the colonial militia to put down the Mackenzie Rebellion in 1837.This work is a series of linked essays where Head drew entertainingly on his experiences during a visit to Paris in 1851 . . . . . NOTE that as the two volumes together weigh approach 1.26 overseas (but not domestic) order will need a supplement to the default carriage charge shown, the amount depending on the destination and the service used.

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A Faggot of French Sticks, containing a series of descriptive sketches of the principal public institutions of Paris, and of the system of instruction of the various branches of the French army.

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Griego Moderno

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Hardcover

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