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No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Manuscript. A good letter on Goring House (Barstow's home) An 11 line handwritten letter with a clear signature. Dated 26 September 1975 and complete with stamped addressed envelope.

SOFTCOVER. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Square 4to in textured stiff card covers, tissue end-papers, 39 works, all illustrated in colour, by 34 American artists. PLUS loosely inserted hand written note from Richard York (signed as Richard) presenting the catalogue to a friend . [CONDITION: Slight sunning to spine else FINE, a well preserved and very clean and tight copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Siskowitz (Siskovics) [Josef (József) von] Count. (1719-1783) Grundsatz Zu Erhaltung einer graden Linie bey denen in Front Marche vormarschirenden Officirs. Prague 1782 83. Calligraphic manuscript in brown ink on Dutch watermarked paper. Folio (320 x 204mm). [84] pages = [13 + 3 blank + 51 + 1 blank + 10 + 2 blank + 12]. Introductory 4- page letter in French in roman letters signed by the author at the end; main text in German penned in a neat gothic hand arranged in half-page columns; with tactical sketches in two of the ample blank margins. also some notes. Leaves with vertical folding marks in centre- page; contents inscription on recto of front blank leaf in a contemporary gothic hand: Grundsätze Ueber die Richtung mit mehreren Batallions von dem F[eld]z[eug]m[ei]ster Grafen von Siskowitz 1782. Contemporary sprinkled brown boards; gilt morocco title label in top of backstrip; ends of spine worn; contemporary armorial bookplate pasted inside frontcover. An unpublished Austrian 18th century treatise on linear tactics and function. The present manuscript interprets the principle of officers and non-commissioned officers having to maintain a straight line consisting of several ranks when advancing in battalion strength. (The Prussians mostly used the oblique order in most of their battles). This was based on the author s experiences during the Seven Years War (1756-63), when Prussian infantry advanced in three lines of battalions with three ranks apiece. Movement in the formation was very slow and a breakdown in cohesion likely unless the battalion was well trained. Described in detail are the various manoeuvers involved for directing marching columns, keeping proper distance, and wheeling at the right moment; two illustrations (one half-page) and 15 commentaries are contained in the ample blank margins. Siskowitz, an Hungarian staff officer from Szeged, made a rapid career in the Imperial Austrian army reaching the rank of lieutenant.general . He distinguished himself at the battle of Kolin in 1757, where he successfully carried out an order by Fieldmarshal von Daun to ambush a Prussian column with a force of 7000 men for which he was decorated and ennobled. The author died in Prague on 18th December 1783. The present manuscript was submitted to the attention of an unnamed military superior by way of an introductory letter in French on the subject. The 4-page extract , dated 12th February 1783, signed C[om]te.Siskovics , has been bound to precede the manuscript in this volume. The letter refers to an imperial order by Joseph II to align flags and marching columns of several battalions before advancing on the enemy; Siskowitz states that he considers it necessary to prescribe his method saying that he has no difficulty whatsoever to submit it to the recipient as an old friend if he wishes to make use of it. However, he stresses that his system should be carefully studied before it is put it into practice. Siskovitz insists the relevant maneuvers be carried out by officers and non-commissioned officers, never by other ranks, that they must be properly exercised before applied, and that it was not sufficient to rely on reading his instructions. He states that he demonstrated his method in 1782 with 13 batallions taking 2000 steps in 8 seconds. Both letter and manuscript are written on the same quality Dutch laid paper showing two different watermarks respectively : a larger with the legend PRO PATRIA surrounding a circular composition and a smaller one wih the the crowned initials GR of the paper maker within a round border of intertwined leaves. The Pro Patria or Maid of Dort watermark shows a seated maid, holding a hat on the point of a spear, and a rampant lion brandishing a sword and holding a bundle of arrows; both are surrounded by a palisade, a symbol of Holland maintaining liberty by force of arms. Reference: Churchill, W.A. Watermarks in Paper in Holland, England, France etc. in XVII and. …

215 S. Mit 24 Tafeln (Heliograv.). Roter HMaroq. d. Zt. mit eingeb. OU-Deckel 4°. Mit Brief vin Felicien Rops an seinen Verleger, montiert auf dem Vortitel verso (1 S. in 8°, 22 Zeilen) Lettre autographe signée de Rops.

O.O. und Datum (zwischen 1809 und 1826). 8°. 1/2 Seite. To his editor and Partner James Ballantyne - An seinen Verleger und Partner James Ballantyne. Über die Drucklegung eines Buches (von Scott). .I send you the revised sheets K.L. Sheet M. must remain till the index of letter VI is completed. I will be glad to have running copy following all up to that having been finished.". - Auf ein größeres Blatt montiert. - Beigegeben ein Stahlstich-Porträt Scotts. A personal handwritten letter of Sir Walter to his publisher and partner James Ballantyne concerning the printing of one of Scotts books. Fine condition.: Joint seperately by an old engraving of a Scott Portrait. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.…

2. Bruxelles, Weissenbruch, 1926, in-8°, 47 pp, dark blue half morocco, with an autograph dedication of the author and an autograph letter loosely inserted (dated April 2 1926). The author thanks M. Van Glabbeke (Belgian liberal politician) for the translation of his text from English in French.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Langlès, Louis Matthieu (1763-1824). Autograph letter in English, signed and dated 5th July 1820. 1 page; note in ink on headed writing paper ('Ecole royale et spéciale des Langues orientales vivantes'près la Bibliothèque du Roi. .L'Administrateur de l'Ecole, Professeur de Persan'). The Curator of Oriental Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque du Roi acknowledges a request by an Englishman for the loan of an oriental title: 'I have now received [an] answer from the officer of the Interior, I will go to ask for it .to remit to you the Adaussi little book . My library and the librarian are to your order [at your disposition] . I remain with a true friendship and esteem your humble and devoted servant. L.Langlès'. Louis Langlès, a pupil of Silvestre de Sacy, taught Persian at the College de France and edited many oriental texts; he corresponded with William Jones in Calcutta and was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. He translated and annotated books about India. Signed by Author(s). …

copied from a letter dated 1718, a piece of cloth pinned to the inside of the first leaf; edges a bit soiled and frayed, pp. [20], 4to; beginning with two blank leaves, and the rest with manuscript recto/verso; quires stapled together, remnants of gilt edges; loosely inserted typescript letter dated 5 July 1955, on headed paper from the Court of the Lord Lyon, the Scottish genealogical register. A fair copy of a letter from Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale (c. 16801749) to her sister, in which she recounts the plan by which she masterminded the escape of her husband, Lord Nithsdale, from the Tower of London in 1716. William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, was a Scottish nobleman who took part in the Jacobite rising of 1715. He forfeited his titles and was imprisoned, but escaped from the Tower the evening before his scheduled execution, disguised as his wife's maid. Recounted in full here, some of the details of the prison break are frankly extraordinary; that Lady Maxwell successfully hid his 'long beard' with white make up and rouge, and that once she had smuggled him out she returned to his chambers and made fake conversation, performing half the pretended dialogue in a deep voice. The couple travelled to the continent, and it was from there that Lady Maxwell sent this report to her sister Lucy Herbert (1669-1744), who was the abbess of the so-called English Convent at Bruges. The original letter was dated April 16th 1718, and this copy made almost a century after the events it recounts, in 1813. There is a small square of brown cloth pinned to the verso of the first leaf, with the implication that this was cut from the costume Nithsdale used to escape. The episode - in this epistolary format - was published shortly after this copy was made, appearing in the Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany in 1816. Widely reproduced, the story remained a cornerstone of romance and daring for much of the nineteenth century, appearing in compendiums of similarly audacious escapes, and in several artistic representations including one by Emily Mary Osborn (1834-93). In 1848 the family was restored to their seat of Terregles.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Casanova de Seingalt, Giacomo Girolamo (1725-98). Libertine, adventurer, spy & autobiographer. Autograph letter in ink, signed 'G.Casanova' addressed to Count Ottaviano Antonio di Collalto, his benefactor & fellow freemason, Dated: Dux, 2 March 1789, (reply received 9 March 1789). 3 pages in 4to. Writing 2 months before the outbreak of the French Revolution from his home at Dux in Bohemia, Casanova warmly thanks an aristocratic benefactor for his letter of 14 February, addressing him as 'Excellenza mio adorato Padrone' (Excellency my adored master) Your gentle and generous heart dictates to your happy pen everything that can be read in your writing, by which you can only notice sentiments of truth and of virtue May God repay you for the kindness you have shown me, and preserve your good health for a long time as for the advantage of your illustrious family and also to give me, in case of need, new token of your grace and of your protection . He refers to Collalto s sad news that prince Karl von Li[e] chtenstein(1) was dying, but it was also welcomed because over here he was thought dead, and [instead] as long as there is breath there is hope ; Casanova comments on social events Now the Carnival is over and so are the balls and the nice court assemblies, to which Your Excellency deservingly took part A correspondent of mine from Venice tells me that the Doge(2) is dying, and that according to the public opinion the ducal horn will be appointed to His Excellency the Procurator Memmo (3) , but the same [correspondent] also tells me that he has no money, and that he is quarrelling with the Martinenghis, who claim from him 145.000 ducati for works carried out in the palace at S. Marmola which he gave as a dowry to his daughter I am told that in Vienna the Venetian minister will be a patrician with a noble title, but I do not know who he will be. The last paragraph contains an extended reference to [Lorenzo] da Ponte, Mozart s librettist : I was told that the Italian music was dismissed. I am wondering if the abbé da Ponte4 will stay. He doesn t write to me anymore. He is angry with me because I didn t praise his poems. He who flatters is not a friend (1) Karl Joseph Prince of Liechtenstein (1730-89) , Austrian general; (2) Doge Paolo Renier (1779-89) was actually succeeded by Ludovico Manin (1789-97), the last doge; (3) Andrea Memmo (1729-93) Proculator of St Mark s, architectural theorist, was in financial difficulties when he left his palace to his daughter as a dowry to the Martinenghi family; (4) Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), born as Emanuele Conigliano, a converted Venetian Jew, was a gifted opera librettist, poet and priest, who wrote the libretti for Mozart s three most famous operas :Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro & Cosi fan tutte; he made his career as librettist to the Italian opera in Vienna under the patronage of the Emperor Joseph II, but lost his post under the new Emperor Leopold; he had met Casanova in October 1787; both men had been expelled from Venice and had a tempestuous relationship (da Ponte was critical of Casanova in his memoirs); after a spell in London, da Ponte emigrated to New York, where he produced the first full performance of Don Giovanni, and founded the New York Opera Company in 1836, the predecessor of the New York Metropolitan Opera House. Traces of ink oxidization throughout, otherwise in very good condition. Autograph letters by Casanova of this length and interest are rarely offered for sale.…