Maillard, (Emilien) - Histoire d'Ancenis et des barons. Nantes, Vincent Forest 1860. In-8° full contemporary chagrin, fillets on sides, gilt edges, frontispiece, 2 ff., 566 pp. 3 folding tables, 2 hors-texte lithographs, 1 map of Ancenis. Autograph signed letter from the author to the mayor of Ancenis in 1860. Copy annotated in ink in the margins, enriched with several coats of arms pasted on certain pages, an invitation to the wedding of Emilien Maillard's son, a letter from the Institut Héraldique addressed to the Mayor of Ancenis, an autograph bill concerning Ancenis and an issue of the Ancenis newspaper dated January 31, 1864 in which this work is mentioned. Good condition, binding slightly weakened by the addition of these documents.

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