1782 1857 (27 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the original blind decorated cloth. Wear and tear as with age. Boards detached with some of the spine band missing. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Provenance; from the library of Daniel Canon Rock and the Bibliotheca Seminarii S. Ioannis with the respective bookplates. Series; Camden Society. Old Series ; 21. Physical description; xii, 133, [1] pages 23 x 18 cm. Notes; Includes notes and index. Contents; I. Device for the coronation of King Henry VII. -- II. The marriage of Mary, daughter of Henry VII. to Louis XII. of France. -- III. The field of the cloth of gold. -- IV. Meeting of King Henry VIII. and the Emperor Charles V. at Gravelines. -- V. The visit of the Emperor Charles V. to England, A.D. 1522. -- VI. Documents relating to the household of King Henry VIII. -- VII. Claims at the coronation of Queen Mary, A.D. 1553. Subjects; Manners family. Great Britain History Henry VII, (1485-1509) Sources. Great Britain History Henry VIII, (1509-1547) Sources. Great Britain History Sources Henry VII, (1485-1509). Great Britain History Sources Henry VIII, (1509-1547). Great Britain History Henry VII, (1485-1509) ; Sources. Great Britain History Henry VIII, (1509-1547) ; Sources. Great Britain Court and courtiers History 16th century Sources. Great Britain History Sources. England. History. 15th Century. England. History. 16th Century. Genres; History. Sources. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 770 pages in various pagings ; 20 cm. Subjects; Uwins, Thomas (British painter, 1782-1857). Uwins, Thomas (British painter, 1782-1857) Correspondence. Painters England ; Biography. Painters, British 19th century ; Biography. English paintings Uwins, Thomas Biographies. Artists; Correspondence, reminiscences etc. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy bound in contemporary leather-backed, marble boards. Raised bands with a dark morocco gilt-blocked label. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. Some wear with minor loss to spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 495 pages; Decription: vii, 495, [4] p. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Swetchine, Sophie - Correspondence. Table of contents, p. [2] at end, called Table du troisieme volume. List of publisher's titles facing title page. Anne Sophie Swetchine (nee Sophia Petrovna Soimonov or Soymanof; November 22, 1782 - 1857), known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris. Language: French. 3 Kg.

Stipple engraving, from Pettigrew's "Medical Portrait Gallery", 1838-40,

576 pages. - Early 20th century simple halfcloth-binding; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 12 x 3,5 cm). *** Édition originale très rare / Rare first edition. - Lacks the titlepage, 1 sheet (pp.473/474), indexpage and last blank with small crease in the white margin; first textpage with manuscript old religious-library mark, else in best condition.

India paper engraving (dimensions c. 22 x 16 cms) neatly laid down on piece of wove paper c. 29 x 22 cms. Very good, with the slightest spotting, and with minor creasing and staining to the extremities of the mount. A pensive Murray sits in an armchair, reading a manuscript.

blank wrappers. 23x14cm, 56 pages., Contemporary blank wrappers. Tears & chips to spine. "Extrait du tome IX et X (3e série) des 'Annales de philosophie chrétienne'". Rear cover detached. Unopened. Worn. Good.

blank wrappers. 23x14cm, 30 pages., Contemporary blank wrappers. Spine torn. "Extrait du 'Journal asiatique', IIIe série". Study of the works of Arab geographer & historian 'Ali al-Husayn al-Masudi [ca. 893- 956 CE]. Covers partially detached. Unopened. Worn. Foxed. Good.

blank wrappers. 23x14cm, 42 pages, Tears & chips to spine. Worn. "Extrait du 'Journal asiatique', Troisième série". Contemporary blank wrappers. Unopened. Good.

First Edition. in contemporary marbled boards with green cloth spine, printed paper label on front board: a little dusty and slightly worn at extremities but a good copy. Small 8vo, (155 x 93 mm), pp. 88, [3], Attributed to the architect and traveller Charles Kelsall, this is an entertaining fantasy arising from the proposal to erect a national monument to Shakespeare. Written in the form of a play, it is set in the green-room at midnight, where the committee take their seats around a long table. As they prepare to begin their meeting, there is a peal of thunder and a ball of fire rends one of the walls, through which appears the shade of Aristotle, who addresses the committee with his thoughts on Shakespeare. He is followed by many others, including Longinus, Aeschylus, Molière, Milton (blind), Dryden, Voltaire, Diderot, Johnson, Susanna Shakespeare, Frank Crib (owner of the Butcher?s Shop at Stratford-upon-Avon), Peter Ogee, an Architect of York, Obadiah Flagel, a Schoolmaster of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Samuel Grim, Plug-turner of the Pipes which supply the Theatre with Gas.

Zustand: Good. Oblong 8vo, 18.5 x 11.5cm. Aquatint title and 25 hand-coloured aquatint views, one folding (reinforced with tape along fold), contemporary ink gift inscription, hinge cracked in one place, the odd spot to margins, not affecting images, original red roan-backed printed boards, rubbed, preserved in custom-made drop-back box. Abbey Scenery 21; OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1106928983 Only microilm copies on OCLC.Havell was a genre and landscape painter. Son of Luke Havell (d. 1810); cousin of Robert Havell senior (1769-1832).

0. *** Am Rand leicht stockfleckig. Sprache: Deutschu.

unbound. 1 page, 10.5 x 16 inches, with military vignettes, State of Vermont -- a military appointment, by his Excellency: Captain-General, Governor and Commander in Chief - Cornelius Van Ness, and that: "William Brock is to take charge of the said Company of Cavalry, as 2nd Lieutenant, April 15, 1824." Several small holes along the usual folds with the original embossed seal still intact; otherwise in very good condition. American politician and diplomat of Dutch descent who served as the 10th Governor of Vermont.

unbound. Zustand: very good. 1 page, 7 x 4.25 inches, Paddington Green, London, July 30, no year, circa 1840, to Thomas Porters, a member in good standing, British Royal Academy, presenting a gift of one of his works of art, in full: "Please to give to Mr. Green my picture no. 158. This makers pictures I will call or send for by another." Evenly toned and in very good condition. English portrait and book illustrator.

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

1 S. Qu.-8vo. Mit eh. Adresse. "Ich komme um 7 [Uhr] Abends an, muß 8 [Uhr] früh weiter. Bitte ein Zimmer". - Seit 1804 beteiligte sich Hahn finanziell an reisenden Theatertruppen und am Schweriner Hoftheater und verlor damit nahezu sein gesamtes Vermögen; 1808 wurde ihm dessen Verwaltung entzogen. 1814 übernahm Hahn unter der Scheindirektion des Schauspielers F. A. Ruhland die Leitung des Altonaer Theaters.

See Clarke's entry in the Oxford DNB. The present letter, signed 'Charles Mansfield Clarke', was written (from Caston, where Clarke's son-in-law Walter Patridge was rector) a few weeks after the death on 3 July 1856 of Clarke's wife of fifty years, Mary Anna (née Squire), by whom he had two sons and five daughters. Lady Clarke's own husband had died a year and a half before, on 26 January 1855. 4pp, 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In good condition, lightly aged, with minor traces of mount on reverse of second leaf. Folded once. The letter begins: 'My dear Lady Cullum | In the course of thte Correspondence which has been entailed upon me by the late event no part has gratified me more than your honest and feeling letter, for which and for the tender of your hospitality I thank you heartily'. He explains that the 'long illness of my Dear Wife has kept me out of Society during the last three years and neither my daughter nor myself have quitted our charge'. He is happy that there was 'no suffering in the Case of our lost one: she sunk from exhaustion without the evidence of any disease'. After 'every thing at Brighton had been concluded', Clarke and his daughter Elizabeth stayed for a few days with his son at Hanwell. He is writing from 'the house of my Son in law, Rev Walter Patridge, he having lost his wife (my daughter) some years since'. He hopes to 'spend half a day with Mother' on his journey back to Brighton. He wishes he could 'pass a quiet day or two with yourself at Hardwick! but it is impossible you would I know, be as kind to me as you were to poor Westrop.' He ends with the news that he has 'let Wigginton Lodge', and that he intends Brighton to be 'my living and my resting place'.

Oblong 8vo. 1 page. Mounted on backing paper. "We shall probably return to London early in next winter [.] all well at Balagne [.]". - Slight fingerstaining, with collector's notes to backing paper.

Folio. 1/2 p., halbspaltig beschrieben. Rechter Rand defekt. Ergebenstes Pro Memoria" über die Reinigung von Wasser durch Braunstein.Daß verdorbenes Wasser durch Zusetzung des Sauerstoffs verbessert werden kann, ist einleuchtend und richtig []".

16mo, 17cm, The First Edition, 178p., title vignette, illus'd text devices throughout, quarter red cloth backed original boards, untrimmed, paper label, complete with half title, a fine clean copy thus, rare. (cgc). "It includes four long satires on ignorance, avarice, laziness, and envy, which he regarded as the besetting sins of French Canadians." (Story). Dionne I 193. Gagnon I-272. Lande 1576. Morgan p30. Sabin 5158. T.P.L. 1569 (imperfect). Story p. 69. - "No writer worked harder in the preparation of the first literary flowering than Michael Bibaud who devoted his entire life to educating his compatriots in this regard. " best known for his Histoire du Canada, . It is as a poet that Bibaud deserves our attention, ptres, Satires, Chansons, Epigrammes, et Autres Pices de Vers. This is nothing but ryhmed prose, attacking the vices and short comings of Canadians, he exhorts them to mend their ways and, particularly, to speak better French. ." Tougas. History of French Canadian Literature.

original watercolour and drawing , William HAVELL (Attrib.) (1782-1857) is apparently the preliminary drawing to the print of the same name. The print was used as illustration for the book by Basil Hall: Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea and the great Loo-Choo Island. Pub. 1818, paper with watermark Ruse & Turners 1810, format ca. 25,5 x 20 cm ORIGINAL drawing, antique, antike Grafik de 500 Grafik.

0. Sprache: Deutschu.

0. *** Wellcome 616.2. *** Schönes Blatt in guter Erhaltung. Sprache: Deutschu.

Eigenhändiger Brief (2 SS. 8°, mit Trauerrand) mit Unterschrift signiert Vendredi.

Zustand: sehr guter Zustand. Federlithographie, 1804, auf grauem Bütten. 31:22,2 cm. Literatur: F. Man: Anfänge der Künstlerlithographie in England, 84. 1806 bei Gg.J. Vollweider, London, erschienen. - Inkunabel der Lithographie! Obwohl die Erfindung der Lithographie in Deutschland beheimatet ist, war es der von A. Senefelder (1771-1834) 1801 in London eingerichteten und von J.A. André (1775-1842) geleiteten Filiale vorbehalten, als erste das neue Medium ausschließlich für den künstlerischen Steindruck entwickelt zu haben. Zu den ersten in dieser Technik in England arbeitenden Künstlern gehörte auch Havell. André verkaufte die Steindruckerei an Gg. J. Vollweider, bei dem die hier beschriebene Lithographie erschienen ist.

Lithographie ( a. a. China ) v. Schauer n. Siloh ? b. W. Korn in Berlin, um 1830, 19,6 x 24,1 (H) Blattgr. 42,5 x 29,7 Mit 2-zeiligem faksimilierten Spruch unter der Darstellung: "Ein flammendes Herz leite und erleuchte die Brüder .". - Mitglied der Freimaurer-Loge "Zum goldenen Schiff". - Leicht fleckig und angestaubt, verso mit Resten alter Montierung.

In der Platte bezeichnet "T Uwins del. / at R. Ackermann`s Repository of Arts, 101, Strand/A Cardon sculps." und Written & Engraved by J. Girtin". Im rechten Unterrand als "PROOF" bezeichnet. Horatio Nelson, 1. Viscount Nelson, Herzog von Bronte, KB (1758-1805) war ein britischer Admiral, der mehrere viel beachtete Seesiege errang bzw. daran entscheidenden Anteil hatte: 1797 St. Vincent (vor der Küste Portugals), 1798 Abukir, 1801 Kopenhagen, 1805 Trafalgar. Das Blatt trägt das Datum 24.12.1805, der Tag an dem der in der Schlacht bei Trafalgar gefallene Admiral in London ankam. Das Prachtblatt erschien be Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834), der auch den Bestattungswagen für Admiral Lord Nelson entwarf. Seinen Ruhm begründete die Repository of Fashions. Der Kupferstecher und Drucker James Girtin (um 1780 London - nach 1820) entwarf Banknoten, Wappen-Exlibris auch Titelblätter zu Ackermanns Rository. Die Stecher waren Thomas Uwins (1872-1857), Anthony Cardon (1772-1813) und Simon de Koster (1767-1831). - Selten. - Minimal gebräunt und unbedeutende Braunfleckchen. Sprache: Deutsch 59,5 x 38,5 cm (Darstellung) auf Unterlageblatt 69,5 x 48 cm.