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![178 179 180 18 pear 182 183 184 185 186 Foreign Legion. Memoirs of the Foreign Legion, by M. M. With an intro- duction by D. H. Lawrence. Cr. 8vo., cloth. 1924 (7/6) 3/- The author of this curious and authentic document died by his own hand in Malta in 1920. Mr. D. H. Lawrence in his 100 page introduction, explains how the manuscript fell into his hands. Formosa. An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan. By GEORGE PSALMANAAZAAR, a native of the said Island. Giving an account of the religion, customs, manners, etc., of the Inhabitants. Together with a relation of what happen’d to the author in his Travels ; particularly his conferences with the Jesuits, and others in several parts of Europe. To which is prefix’d a preface in vindication of himself from the reflections of a Jeswit lately come from China. With 16 plates, reproduced from the original edition of 1704, roy. 8vo., buckram. 1926. LIBRARY oF ImposTERs, Edited with an intro- duction by N. M. Penzer (25/-) 7/6 France. The Land of the Rhone. Lyonsand Provence. By Hugh Quigley. With many fine plates from photographs and 4 maps, 8vo., cloth. 1927 (12/6) 6/- The Rhone sweeping along in a fine magnificence from the Alps to the Mediterranean has been one of the greatest civilizing forces in European history. This book traces the development of the Rhone Valley from the earliest times. France. A Little Tour in France, by Henry James. Wath 94 illustrations by Joseph Pennell, cr. 8vo., cloth. 1924 (7/6) 3/6 France. Thiers [Adolphe] and the French Monarchy. By John M. S. Allison. Wauth portraits, 8vo., cloth. 1926 (18/-) 7/6 This work is more than a biography of the French Statesman, Adolphe Thiers; it is a history of France during his period and takes the story from the 1790’s to 1848. Frankau, Gilbert. Poetical Works, 1901-20. Portrait, 2 vols., 8vo., cloth. 1923 (25/-) 5/- Many of these poems appear in book form for the first time. Franklin, Benjamin. The first civilised American. A study in the light of the new Psychology, by Phillips Russell. With numerous facsimile letters and documents, portraits from old paintings and prints, etc., 8vo., cloth. 1927 25/-) 6/6 Mr. Phillips rescues a great American in this book, from the 1a gah Bs se endeavours to present him as he was in his living dimensions. Frederick the Great, by Margaret Goldsmith. With an introduction by Harold Nicolson. Portraits and illustrations, 8vo., cloth. 1929 (12/6) 4/6 The book tells us enough, but not too much, of the outward circumstances of Frederick’s life, and speaks openly of what the experts have for long known but have hesitated to affirm. French Architecture. ‘‘ Picturesque Architecture in Paris, Ghent, Antwerp, Rouen, etc., Drawn from Nature on Stone by Thomas Shotter Boys, 1839.” A re-issue of the complete set of these exceedingly rare and beautiful delinea- tions of Continental Cities, printed in colour. Descriptive notes to each plate, and an introduction by E. Beresford Chancellor. 26 plates in colour from the original lithographs of 1839, 4to., cloth, gilt. 1928 ({3/-/-) ,18/- The subjects delineated by Boys are full of extraordinary interest, and in nearly every case, exhibit that mediaeval picturesqueness which lent itself specially to the artist’s incomparable draughtsmanship as well as his artistic conceptions,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31810433_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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