Series of 5 numbered postcards, with narrative captions, poking fun at the arrogance of the legal profession. The child peasant in need of legal assistance cannot pay the lawyer enough
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Postcards depicting two French children as attorney and peasant and Legally themed postcards depicting two French children as attorney and peasant
Description:
In lower right corner: R.P.I., Postmarked 1904., Title devised by cataloger. , Card number 5 dated 1903 in manuscript. Other manuscript notes on some postcards, some of which are addressed to Mademoiselle B. Devidel and Jeanne Lacaton. , Accompanied by translation., Also available in original print http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1281709, Digital reproduction. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Law Library, 2019 LM ZA Postcards v.1 no.4 tall., In French., and Online resource; description based on print version record.
BEIN 1971 439: Rubricated. Illustration of the Annunciation (B5 recto) completely hand-colored. Bookplate of Clarence Sweet Bement. Ownership inscription of Baron de Jean Haussonville. Contemporary ms. annotations in several hands., Signatures: A-L⁸, M⁴., Colophon: ... acheuees a Paris le huitiesme iour de Mars. Lan mil cinq cẽs et neuf. Par Gillet Hardouyn imprimeur demourant au bout du Pont au Change a lenseigne de al Rose au desboubz de la belle ymage., Printed on vellum., Illustrated t.p., Text within ornamental border., Guide letters for initials., and Contains a number of full-page illustrations, including one of the Annunciation.
To Nicocles and Pros Nikoklea, peri basileias logos
Description:
BEIN If M81 r516: From the libraries of Cuthbert Tunstall, Thomas Godwyn, J. Hilton, John Loveday, and the Loveday family from 1736-1940. Contemporary blindstamped Flemish binding, clasps wanting. No. 5 of 7 works bound together., BEIN Gfm83 b515: Stamp: Herzoglicher S. Meiningischer Bibliothek. Blind stamped pigskin binding. No. 6 of 6 works bound together., Record romanized., Caption title., Signatures: [Alpha]-[Delta]⁴ [alpha]-[delta]⁴ ([delta]3-4 blank)., "Isokratous pros Dēmonikon": sig. [alpha]-[delta]., Edited by Girolamo Aleandro., Imprint from BM STC French., and Described in Mémoires de la Société de l'histoire de Paris, XVIII (1891), p. 24-25.
Relief shown pictorially., Title from lower right cartouche., Originally in 4 sheets., Includes text and ill., and Insets: Les costes de la Louisiane de puis la Baye de l'Ascension jusques Acelle de St. Joseph ... Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000] -- Les environs de Québec -- Veüe de Québec.
Publisher:
Chez L'Auteur
Subject (Geographic):
North America, Mississippi River Delta (La.), Gulf Coast (Miss.), Gulf Coast (Ala.), and Québec Region (Québec)