ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH-ALEXANDRE DE CHABRIER DE PELOUBET AT THE TIME OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, Together with Some Account of HIS FOREBEARS IN FRANCE & THE FOUNDING OF THE PELOUBET FAMILY IN AMERICA
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by Harold A. Small. Preface by Francis Peloubet Farquhar. Frontispiece silhouette, with one plate and a color family crest. San Francisco: [The Grabhorn Press], 1953. First edition, limited to 185 copies. The account of a young eighteenth century Frenchman of the provincial nobility, his journey from the Garonne to Paris, and further adventures on his way to the Rhine to join the royal army. Inscribed and dated by Francis Farquhar on the front flyleaf. With the prospectus laid in. Quarto. Original decorative blue paper-covered boards over a linen spine, with a printed paper spine label. A near fine copy in the original plain paper dust jacket. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #52540
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