bethune duke sully (9 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved By Armstrong (illustrator). A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual. Circa. 1820.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid engraved portrait, printed in circa 1860. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraved portrait.

hardcover. Zustand: very good. 5 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portraits in each volume, some browning offset from the frontispieces. 8vo, 1/2 brown morocco, marbled boards (all volumes are worn and crackled on the spines, hinges on volume 3 are reinforced and spine is faded). London: William Miller, 1810. Very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: g. Third edition. Quarto. xxxii, 540, viii, 555, vii, 406pp + Index. Original full calf with with gilt lettering and ruling on spine; raised bands. Red edges. De Bethune was the Prime minister to Henry the Great. History of life and reign of the monarch and his administration, including the trial of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great. Translated from the French. Binding rubbed with some scuffing along hinges, edges and at corners. Hinges weakened at all 3 volumes. Corners lightly bumped. Ex Libris on inside cover of all 3 volumes. Offsetting and some foxing on first and last few pages of each volume. Sporadic light foxing, at times heavier. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ condition.

Zustand: Fine. First Edition. First edition in English, extra-illustrated copy, of this "instant classic" (Carlile), the autobiography of the minister and advisor to King Henry IV of France. Charlotte Lennox was born into a well-to-do Scottish family that fell upon hard times. Well educated and distinguished early for her poetic precocity - but left to fend for herself financially, she turned to a career in writing. After publishing two novels (THE LIFE OF HARRIOT STUART, based heavily on her own experiences in the American colonies and voyage back to Britain; and THE FEMALE QUIXOTE, for which she is best known today), Lennox took up translation work in hopes of finding a more stable source of income. Among Lennox's most successful productions in her long publishing career, this translation of the Duke of Sully's MEMOIRS also led to an offer of a royal pension for Lennox in gratitude for literary services performed. (She turned it down in favor of her patron finding a government position for her husband instead.) The Duke of Sully (1560-1641) was viewed by many in the Georgian period as an ideal Enlightenment-era statesman, and his MEMOIRS has been read as a literary political treatise. It influence was broad, including on the American Founding Fathers: it features in the 1783 list of books to be imported for the use of Congress, compiled under the leadership of James Madison. This copy has been generously supplemented with nearly 200 engravings, primarily of portraits and landscapes of the figures and places described. As a 17th-century text, via an influential 18th-century translation, in a characteristically deluxe 19th-century extra-illustrated binding, it is a lovely hybrid artifact. Three quarto volumes, 10'' x 7.75'' each. Nineteenth-century full maroon straight-grain morocco by Bayntun, raised bands, elaborately gilt-stamped spines, large gilt cornerpieces and triple-gilt rules to boards. Gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Extra illustrated with 193 additional plates: portraits, landscapes, dramatic scenes, inter alia. Half titles in first two volumes. [4], 540; [4], viii, 555, [1]; viii, 408 pages plus index. Only light rubbing to joints.

Hardcover. First Edition. Folio, [6], [8], 535 pages, [8], 448 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Full calf, repaired, with banded spine and gilt lettering. Boards show light wear to edges, light plus bumping to top corners, and light shelf-wear overall. Text-block has light plus soiling to top- and fore-edge, and very light uneven age-toning. Hand-colored Author's devices on title-pages of each volume. Authentic first edition from the author's private press in the Chateau de Sully (Sully's poem "Paralella Caesaris Et Henrici Magni" appears in both Latin and French in non-italic font), not one of the many forgeries issued around the same time. RW Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1353033. Special Collections.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). 5 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portraits in each volume. 8vo, full contemporary brown crushed morocco, ornately gilt spines, marbled page edges. Hinges on volume 1 and 5 reinforced. Edinburgh: Printed For Stirling and Slade, And Archibald Constable. 1819. A New Edition, Carefully Revised. (First published in English in 1756, this is the first edition with the appendix.). A handsome set.

6 volumes, portraits of Sully and Henry IV, 7 x 4, full polished calf, covers very worn, hinges loose, back cover of vol 1 missing, front cover of vol 3 detached, vol 6 split in two pieces (from top to bottom), contents good, w/ folding map in vol 1 torn in margin, a couple of edge tears but overall contents vg. Fourth Ed., SWAF.