Fictitious (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green buckram covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece by Piranesi, (viii), 267 + 5 pp. Age tanning of the buckram down the spine and to the edges, else in Very Good neat and tidy condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERATURE 1900-1925.…

Hardcover. 10th edition. [1],54 p. + 4 leaves (blank; prospectus for The Brunswick, or, true blue, 2 leaves; advt.); 21 cm. Sig. on p.[1]: Wm. Scrivener [bound with] Blacow, Richard. The substance of a discourse, preached in St. Mark's Church, Liverpool, on Sunday evening, Nov. 26th, 1820, by the Rev. Richard Blacow, A.M. on the aspect of the times. Fourth edition, with additional notes; and an appendix bearing on the Radical question. London: printed for, and published by Mr. Wright.; Johnson, printer, Liverpool. [1821?] 32 p. -- For the passages - `The term "cowardly," which they have now laid to my charge, I think you will do me the justice to say, does not belong to me--that feeling was never an inmate of my bosom; neither when the Jacobins raged around us with all their fury; nor in the present day of Radical uproar and delusion. The latter, indeed, it must be allowed, have one feature about them, even more hideous and disgusting than the Jacobins themselves. They fell down and worshipped the Goddess of Reason--a most respectable and decent sort of Being, compared with that which the Radicals have set up, as the idol of their worship. They have elevated the GODDESS OF LUST on the PEDESTAL of SHAME.' (p. 9), and `I used her name [Caroline] in the Liturgy, in this very reading desk, under a persuasion at the time, that the foul charges then in circulation against her, were not founded in truth; and, not knowing all the circumstances of the case, I deemed the authorized omission of that name somewhat harsh. But subsequent events and proceedings have too painfully convinced me of the reality of her guilt. of the grievous sin of adultery. under circumstances the most base, shameful, and disgusting.' (p. 11) - he was convicted of libel in 1821. Good chipped quarter green morocco. Sig. lipped from title-page. vignette: royal arms (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8'' x 8¼''. Contains 36 pp with monochrome illustrations and throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Loosely inserted double-sided hand written card from 'The Graves Art Gallery' SIGNED 'David Alston' Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Italian].…

Pamphlet. Zustand: Very good. Private Printing. Private printing of A Fictitious Paul Jones Masquerading as the Real by Mrs. Reginald De Koven. Octavo, 30pp. Green paper covers, stapled at spine and tied with cord. Solid text block, paper clip marks to last page and rear cover, faint toning to front cover, a very good example. With laid-in sheet indicating this pamphlet is a response to A.C. Buell's biography of John Paul Jones. Tipped in errata slip on page 27. Some of the material in this pamphlet originally appeared in The New York Times in 1906, with Mrs. De Koven adding additional information several years later. Anna de Koven (1862-1953), novelist, historian, and socialite, married composer Reginald de Koven in 1884 and published her works under his name. This pamphlet was written in response to the blatant fabrications A.C. Buell wrote in his biography of American Revolutionary War naval captain John Paul Jones. Buell often lied in his writing, and was arrested for an accusation of libel in 1876. Other writers grew in popularity for debunking Buell's writing, including Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, who won a Pulitzer Prize for John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography. Private printing of A Fictitious Paul Jones Masquerading as the Real by Mrs. Reginald De Koven. (illustrator).…

7 fictitious auction catalogues in 1 volume. Collection of 7 fictitious auction catalogues, satirically describing the lots supposedly offered for sale. These catalogues, all in Dutch, were published mostly during the Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784), which threatened the Dutch Republic's existence, and they all mock the British Empire. Most of them purport to describe the collection of "G.R." (Georgius Rex), meaning King George III (ad 1 explicitly describes the goods as coming from the foreclosure on his estate). The third catalogue in this collection, titled Catalogus van eene zo ongemeene zeldzaame, als uitmuntende verzameling van manuschripten, supposedly offers the collection of the English nobleman Lord William Gordon (1744-1823). These fictitious auction catalogues proved popular enough that several went through multiple editions. These catalogues appeared during the heated strife between two political parties, the Orangists, who supported the stadtholder Willem V, Prince of Orange, and the anti-Orangist Patriots, leading to the failed Patriotic Revolution of 1787, inspired by the American Revolution and in turn, in spite of its failure, inspiring the French Revolution. King George III of England supported the stadtholder Willem V and the two together were the enemies of the Dutch Patriots. Ad 1 is here in its third edition, being a very rare re-issue of the second edition. Even its list of "errata" is a joke, noting three corrections to the descriptions of paintings: in each, the omission of a comma makes a phrase that should refer to the painting refer instead to the subject, indicating that the king was anointed with soot, a lord stabbed with a pen, and an English admiral nicely washed by a French master.With a few marginal annotations, particularly headwords to help the reader find items in specific categories in the inventory. Spine very slightly rubbed, with a small crack at the head, some browning, stains, frayed margins and a tear in A4 of ad 2. Some leaves are trimmed. Overall in good condition. A collection of fictitious auction catalogues, rarely found on the market (we have noticed only 3 examples in the past hundred years).l Ad 1: STCN 202814955 (4 copies); not in Knuttel; cf. Knuttel 19700 & 19701 (first and second impression). Ad 2: Knuttel 19709; STCN 166695440. Ad 3: Knuttel 19699; STCN 166705268 (5 copies); not in ESTC. Ad 4: Knuttel 19704; STCN 166698857. Ad 5: Knuttel 19706; STCN 166318329 (8 copies). Ad 6: Kossmann, Boekhandel te 's-Gravenhage, pp. 300-301; Knuttel 20420; Knuttel, Verboden boeken 91; STCN 169116417. Ad 7: Knuttel 20419; Knuttel, Verboden boeken 92; STCN 169113078 (9 copies); cf. Van Vliet, "Fopcatalogi en spookbibliotheken", in: De boekenwereld 22 (2005-2006), p. 150. Contemporary half mottled calf, brown spine label with blind-tooled text and with some gold-tooled floral decorations, 20th-century marbled sides and endpapers. Ad 2: the introductory letter, from "Wilhelmus Batavus" to "Lambertus Koopmans" is dated from The Hague, 15 February 1781. Ad 3: the introductory letter, from Thomas Henly, is dated 2 February 1781. Ad 4: this catalogue presents itself as a second appendix to ad 1. Both the original catalogue and the first appendix describing themselves as catalogues for the sale in May or June 1781. Ad 6: with the supposedly authenticating woodcut on the title-page, showing the coat of arms of William the Silent hanging from a memorial cross. Pages: [4], 27, [1]; 16; 16; 16; 15, [1]; 32; 37, [2 blank] pp. With: (2) Commissie brief van den heere Wilhelmus Batavus, een aanzienlyke Nederlandsche patriot, aan den heere Lambertus Koopmans, commissionair te Londen. Benevens een notitie der commissien, door gemelden heer Batavus gegeeven, op de fraaye capitaale en prachtige inbedoel des heeren G.R.[The Hague?, 1781].(3) Catalogus van eene zo ongemeene zeldzaame, als uitmuntende verzameling van manuschripten[!]. Betreffende den voorleedene en tegenwoordige staat van Engeland. Bestaande buiten de pakketten in 341 deelen in folio, alle in Engelsche banden, fraay gebonden, en eene meenigte andere in kleinder formaaten. Als meede eenige teekeningen en prenten, van de voornaamste meesters, sommige van die in kostbaare lysten met superbe glaazen, enz. Zynde dit koninklyk kabinet waar van geen weergaa in Europa te vinden is, met onvermoeiden vlyt en kosten byeen vergadert door den Lord W. Gordon. Het welke verkocht zal worden den 30ste Maart 1781. ten huize van Thomas Henly, boekhanderaar te Londen.London [= Amsterdam or The Hague?], sold by Thomas Henly, [1781].(4) Beredeneerde notitie van 't vorstlyke poppe- en speel-goed, der kinderen van den heere G.R. . door onachtsaamheid der makelaars Thomas Brandi, William Roastbeuf en James Punch zo wel by . der Catalogus van den capitaalen inboedel des Heeren G.R. als by . het appendix, . vergeeten ., waarom deeze notitie, als een tweede appendix . moet gevoegd worden.[Amsterdam?, 1781].(5) Sleutel of noodige ophelderingen der onlangs uitgekomene catalogus, van een fraaije capitaale en prachtige inboedel; met veele moeiten en kosten, in veele jaaren byeenverzameld, door den heere G.R. Zullende gemelde boedel, by executie verkocht worden, binnen Londen, in de maanden Mey of Juny deezes jaars.Dordrecht, Abraham and Pieter Blussé; Rotterdam, Cornelis van den Dries; The Hague, Herman Hendrik van Drecht; Amsterdam, Johannes Geyger; etc., [1781]. (6) Beredeneerde catalogus eener verzameling van schilderyen, der eerste meesters van Nederland.The Hague, Thomas Pietersz. van Os, [1783/1789?].(7) Beredeneerde catalogus, van eene uitmuntende verzameling schilderyen, door de vermaardste Nederlandsche meesters, uit het Fransch vertaald.Holland, 1783.…