Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance.
Paris. Librairie de Firmin Didot. 1873. Hardcover. thick4to. 28cm, v,571p., with 14 chromolitho plates including the frontis & 409 woodcut text figures and illustrations, index, quarter red morocco backed pebbled red cloth boards, elaborate gilt titles & decoration and borders on the spine and boards, gold decorated endpapers, a.e.g., some scattered foxing, some slight wear on the edges, (ds1). ~ A very attractively bound military and religious history of Europe by noted French bibliographer and author, Paul Lacroix (1807 84) known as "le bibliophile Jacob". The vivid chromolithos are by F. Kellerhoven, Regamey and L. Allard. Extensive woodcut illustrations by Jules Huyot, noted as the illustrator of the books of Dumas. Item #31247
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