Captain j buchan telfer (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Red cloth binding with gilt title to spine. General wear to exterior as shown with some marks and scuffs, spine ends and corners bumped, slight discolouring to spine. Half title with ink and pencil notes. Inner joint cracked. Pages complete with frontispiece and 2 further portrait plates, and a folding facsimile, as called for. Light marginal age toning and the odd little spot here and there, otherwise pages are generally clean as shown. Pages: xix, [5], 378pp, 3pp, [3], 24pp, frontispiece, 3 plates (1 folding). Size: 22.2cm by 14cm. Charlotte d'Éon de Beaumont or Charles d'Éon de Beaumont (5 October 1728 - 21 May 1810), usually known as the Chevalière d'Éon or the Chevalier d'Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, and soldier. D'Éon fought in the Seven Years' War, and spied for France while in Russia and England. D'Éon had androgynous physical characteristics, appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years, although during that time, successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. Starting in 1777, d'Éon lived as a woman and was officially recognised as a woman by King Louis XVI.…