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PDF Ebook titles on 19th
century Paris and France - vintage travelogues and photography, illustrated, fiction, non-fiction.
Discover the Belle Epoque, 1800's, 1900's life, French culture and history, with
our selection of electronic books. All available to purchase and download online.
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A Vintage Paris Photo Tour (PDF ebook postcard album)
An ebook album of antique photos of Paris, mainly late 19th century /
early 20th. Includes monchrome, sepia, hand-tinted and colortint images.
This digital scrapbook edition contains over one hundred period photos, mainly
old postcards, of Paris, Parisians the River Seine, and all the famous
monuments (Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Sacré Coeur, Louvre, Bastille,
Champs Elysées, Notre Dame...), including aerial views, architecture and busy, animated
street scenes.
The photos are organised by theme, together with hyperlinked contents
table.
The book has been formatted with a mock “aged paper effect”
background, to enhance the impression of a 1900's photo souvenir album.
Supplied as a landscape format PDF file, for Acrobat Reader. Price only
$3.99 Buy online
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Baudelaire's
Paris
- a literary tour,
by Nigel Woodhead
A
literary guided tour through 19th century Bohemian Paris. Evocatively
illustrated, with suggested poems (original French with English
translations) for each of the landmark locations from the
life of cult French poet Charles Baudelaire, author of the Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of
Evil).
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Details, Free Sample, Special Offer
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Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris - Tour Guide
 | Follow in Toulouse-Lautrec's footsteps - by visiting the addresses in this
unique ebook guide - either online, or in the flesh. |
| Each landmark location is illustrated with biographical anecdotes and contemporary
photographs |
| The guide also contains many period prints, postcards and photos, to help recapture
the atmosphere of the place and time. |
| A fascinating and educational virtual tour with a real flavor of Paris.
Use it to plan your own self-guided walking tour of the sites. |
| Plus vintage postcards and photos of Paris as Lautrec knew it, and interactive links to online biographical resources
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| A must for anyone interested in 1890's Paris, or the origins of modern art.
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and Download it now for only $ 3.99 |
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Cancan Girls - an e-book album of vintage erotic nudes and postcards
Over 100 vintage erotic images - genuine old photos and
postcards - frilly fillies, lacey ladies from France, from the Naughty
Nineties to the Flappers of the Roaring Twenties, in one elegant e-book!
Dancers from famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge often modelled in
their spare time, and many of these images survive as postcards. Includes
rare photos by famous pioneer photographers such as Nadar, Grundworth,
Agelou and Calavas.
Exotic dancers, French maids in uniform, Parisian
prostitutes in sexy stockings and suspenders, as well as a cheeky chorus
line of cancan girls, ballet and belly dancers, actresses, artists' models,
courtesans, Mata Haris, strip teasers, nudes, risqué lingerie, artistic
poses and soft focus portraits - naughty Victorian, Edwardian, WWI and 20's
beauties. Vive la difference!
Early color, sepia, hand tinted and B&W images.
Mock parchment paper effect completes the Victorian
"look-and-feel", perfect bedtime reading for a traveling
gentleman's portable library... Fascinating insight into the "secret
history" of ladies underwear and cosmetic fashion!
A quality image collection, The PDF version features
mock aged paper for a Victorian "look-and-feel". Great value. A
collector's item. Just $3.99. Also
available as a Windows Screensaver. Buy online now
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Art Nouveau Beauties - PDF Vintage
Postcard Album / Slideshow
Art Nouveau had a broad influence on creative fashions of the day -
architecture, sculpture, jewelry, and of course glamour photography!
A digital photo anthology of over 100 early photos, postcards and art
prints of female models, with their characteristic poses, influenced by
movements from dance and ballet, their gowns, beads, hats and frilly
French lingerie. Feminine models, often amateurs... sultry nude and
semi-nude girls, plus haute couture and stage costume studies. Ornate,
colorful fabrics, flowers, romantic decor, oriental, classical and
mythical influences, patterns inspired by nature...
This PDF format slideshow opens by default in a rolling presentation
mode, with random transition effects between each image - a delightful,
tastefully erotic ebook with a difference! The show takes approx 10
minutes. You can interrrupt at any point to linger longer over any of
these gorgeous ladies in ebook mode. Fascinating to browse, for all fans
of performing arts & classic women's fashion, or makes a great
alternative to a screensaver!
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Art Nouveau Beauties here for just $3.99 ... |
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Voyagers and Voyeurs, by Nigel Woodhead
A treasure-chest from the golden age of travel writing. Long before
Peter Mayle grumbled his way through A Year in Provence, or Stephen
Clarke traced his slippery path through A Year in the Merde,
travellers from the English-speaking world were amazed by the curious
customs, the strange sights, sounds and smells of France. Complaining
about the waiters, the plumbing, admiring the cheeseboards and pretty
girls.
Annotated, humorous highlights from well over 100 travel accounts (travelogues,
diaries,
journals, collected letters, reports, guide books, literature) written between 1750
and 1918. English and American authors, including some of the most famous
literary figures of the 18th and 19th centuries: Dickens, RL Stevenson,
James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, Henry James, Thackeray, plus an eccentric host of
itinerant parsons, amateur antiquarians, well-heeled aristocrats and
ladies of independent spirit. A huge read.
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100+ French Cabaret Girls - Vintage
Postcard Album
Paris in the Edwardian and Art Deco years boasted dozens of variety
venues where groups of sexy girl starlets - dressed in sequined, feathery,
sometimes revealing costumes, or body stockings - excited audiences each
show: cabarets, music halls & vaudeville theaters, famous for their
lavish musical spectacles - the Folies Bergères, Moulin Rouge,
Ambassadeurs, Casino de Paris, the Opera Comique and Alcazar...
Some of these pretty ladies, the stage divas and beauty queens of their
day, became stars whose legendary names are still familiar: Mata Hari,
Jane Avril, Gaby Deslys, Lili Damita, Josephine Baker... performing dances
such as the French Cancan.
Now you can enjoy a huge compendium of early artistes and chorus girls,
portraits by famous studios and portrait photographers such as Reutlinger,
Walery, Sazerac... compiled as a digital ebook album, with added rolling
slideshow function. Over 100 images, many in beautiful hand-tinted color
(no nudes). Fascinating to browse, for all fans of performing arts &
classic glamour fashion, or makes a great alternative to a screen saver!
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& download today for just $3.99 !! |
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Kill or Curare - a
historical crime novel, by Nigel Woodhead
May
1897. Suicidal playwright Oscar Wilde, just released from prison,
arrives in Dieppe. On the same ferry is Captain Drake Hastings, sent by
British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, ostensibly to “protect national
interests”...
Hastings soon discovers there is far worse beneath the skin of the chic
resort than mere political intrigue: against a “Naughty Nineties”
backdrop of disease and drugs, absinthe, vice and violence, a serial killer
appears to be responsible for the abductions and murders of several
English prostitutes working in the town. The authorities are strangely
keen to cover up these crimes. Crimes which echo those of the Whitechapel
(Ripper) murders of 1888.
The novel features a host of historical characters - decadent writers and
artists including Audbrey Beardsley, Walter Sickert, Arthur Symons and Leonard Smithers,
as well as Edward the Prince of Wales.
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Details, Free Sample Chapter, Special Offer, Instant Purchase, from
just $3.99...
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Souvenirs of Old Montmartre - Historic
Photo Tour
Visit the original haunt of French artists, writers and
Bohemians in 19th century Paris, the picturestque hill and its streets
around the Sacré Coeur, in the 18th Arrondissement. Vintage photos,
antique prints, old documents and theatre programmes, souvenirs from the
notorious cabarets, famous bars and cafés, such as the Moulin de la
Galette and Cabaret du Néant.
A fascinating virtual tour featuring dozens of historic
images. Fascinating for all fans of France, art and literary history. Also
includes tasters from some of our other recent history and vintage photo
series titles! This ebook
edition is downloadable in PDF format for Acrobat Reader, with optional
rolling slideshow effects. Price just $2.99 |
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An Absinthe Scrapbook (illustrated PDF
ebook)
Absinthe - the legendary demon drink of the decadent 19th Century, that
inspired a cult and drove many of its artistic and literary devotees mad
or to suicide(writers and artists including Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas,
Aleister Crowley, Oscar Wilde).
A collection of dozens of illustrations - Art Nouveau posters, labels,
adverts, art, accessories, history, paraphanalia, for all the major brands
of absinthe, pastis and anisette, Terminus, Oxygenée and Pernod, plus
| - Absinthe Recipes - cocktails with a bitter streak |
| - Absinthe Tales - lurid short stories from the Bohemian Age,
inspired by visions of the Green Goddess |
The book has been formatted with a mock “aged paper effect”
background, to enhance the impression of a 1900's souvenir album. Supplied
in PDF format for Acrobat Reader. Ideal, novel gift for absinthe fans and
connoisseurs and collectors. Buy it now for just $3.99 ....
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Ooh La La!! Naughty French Vintage Photo Girls
(Screensaver)
Ooh La La indeed! Rude French postcards and early, artistic soft porn
photo portraits from the golden age of erotica. A saucy selection of
images, including many digital reproductions of prints by famous French
and European photographers and publishing houses from the Victorian,
Edwardian and 20's eras. Includes many color images and nudes.
Supplied as a .EXE installation file, with random transition effects
between each image. Once installed, to edit screensaver parameters, open your computer's
Control Panel, select the Display icon, click on the Screensaver tab, and
choose "Naughty French Girls" from the drop-down list
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online with PayPal or a credit card and download today for just $4.99 |
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100 Classic Exotic Dancers - Vintage Risqué Photos
(Windows Screensaver)
A theme album in screen saver format, in fact well over 100 antique
erotic photographic images. Dancers from the cabarets and music-halls of
old Paris - Victorian, Art Nouveau and early 20th century images from old
photo prints and genuine RPPC postcards. Sexy showgirls and outrageous
French cancan dancers from legendary venues such as the Moulin Rouge, the
Folies Bergeres and the Bal Tabarin, including Josephine Baker, Lily
Damita and Mata Hari, as well as actresses, artists' models and amateurs
in period dance poses, classical and oriental costumes, and frilly
lingerie - plus nudes and topless shots.
Photographers include Mandel and Iris Verlag. A lyrical, tastefully
sensual selection, often humorous, that includes many color images. An
ideal acquisition or gift for collectors of historic erotica.
Supplied as a .EXE installation file, with random transition effects
between each image. Once installed, to edit screensaver parameters, open your computer's
Control Panel, select the Display icon, click on the Screensaver tab, and
choose "Exotic Dancers" from the list. Purchase
online for only $4.99
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100+ Vintage Showgirls - Old Photo and Postcard Album
From the end of the 19th century, the cabarets, music halls and
theatres of the great capitals of Europe and America were famous for their
lavish musical spectacles. London, New York, and above all Paris, each had
dozens of venues where groups of sexy girl starlets and variety performers
- dressed in body stockings, or in fantastic sequined, feathery, sometimes
revealing Art Nouveau or Art Deco costumes -appeared on stage before
Victorian and Edwardian audiences every evening.
In Paris, the Folies Bergères, Moulin Rouge, Ambassadeurs, Casino de
Paris... Some of these pretty ladies, the beauty queens of their day,
became stars whose legendary names are still familiar: Mata Hari, Jane
Avril, Gaby Deslys, Lili Damita, Josephine Baker... performing dances such
as the French Cancan, or dressed as the veiled and seductive Salomé in
belly dancing routines inspired by so-called Indian or Oriental dance.
Routines that would inspire the musical productions of the early Hollywood
cinema movie producers...
The studio photo portraits and publicity postcards of these gorgeous
dancing girls have been collectors' items ever since, and originals are
often rare and expensive. Now you can enjoy a huge compendium of early
dance artistes and chorus girls as a digital ebook album (PDF format),
with added rolling slideshow function. Over 100 images, many in beautiful
hand-tinted color (no nudes). This collection will be of great interest to
all fans of theatrical nostalgia and thespian historical fashion! Download
100+ Showgirls now for only $4.99 !! |
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Paris
d'Autrefois - diaporama PDF de cartes postales anciennes -
Vintage Paris in Photos & Postcards
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