john sobieski stolberg stuart (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of fascinating and entertaining stories from the past hundred years, ranging from tales of adventure and intrigue to heartwarming accounts of love and friendship. From the high seas to the battlefields of Europe, these stories capture the spirit of the times and offer a glimpse into the lives of fascinating people from all walks of life.

8vo, (vi), 344, (2, errata) pp., nineteenth-century marbled boards, neat new calf spine, printed label. First edition. John Sobieski Stolberg Stuart (1795?Ð1872), and Charles Edward Stuart (1799?Ð1880), impostors and forgers, were brothers who claimed to be the heirs of Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Chevalier. Their father was Thomas Gatehouse Allen, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. The brothers' pretensions were based on the belief that Thomas Gatehouse Allen was not the son of his supposed father, Admiral John Carter Allen, but was in fact the legitimate son of the Young Chevalier and his wife, born in Italy and fostered by the admiral. "By their own account, they discovered the 'truth' of their birth in 1811, and promptly offered their services to Napoleon, fighting at Dresden and Leipzig in 1813, and again at Waterloo, where they claimed to have been personally decorated by Napoleon. The date of their first appearance in Scotland is unknown, but they were certainly there with their father in 1822 at the time of George IV's visit to Edinburgh. They threw themselves fervently into the acquisition of Scottish culture, and Scotticised their name first to Allan, then to Hay Allan, and then to Hay, encouraging the belief that they were related to the last Hay earl of Erroll."ÑOxford DNB. Under the name of John Hay Allen, the elder brother published The bridal of Calchairn in 1822; a "fifth" edition appeared in the same year attributed on the title-page to Walter Scott. The last eighty pages comprise prose notes on the poems, which are almost wholly on matters of Scottish history and tradition. In 1829 they announced that they had found what purported to be a late fifteenth-century manuscript, entitled the Vestiarium Scoticum, or, the Garde-Robe of Scotland, depicting the clan tartans of Scottish families, but when they refused to allow anyone to see the object it was dismissed as a fantasy. In 1842, the brothers published their supposed manuscript in a limited edition of fifty, and in 1844 produced another volume, The costume of the clans, in which they set out to demonstrate that the Catholic, Celtic Scotland of the middle ages had been part of a sophisticated and rich culture; "as Hugh Trevor-Roper has demonstrated, they saw themselves as living embodiments of the revival not just of highland dress, but of an entire, vanished civilization. The Costume of the Clans was a work of immense scholarship, drawing on a wide variety of disciplines and arcane sources; it was, none the less, 'shot through with pure fantasy and bare-faced forgery.'"ÑOxford DNB.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 2° (58x43 cm);dunkelblaues Leder mit Rückentitel und reicher Vergolgung; umlaufender Goldschnitt; Deckel innen aud aussen mit kariertem farbigen Stoff, ebenso die Vorsätze und der sehr stabile Schuber; - XIX, LXVIII, 171 S., davon 37 Tafeln mit altkolorierten Stiche mit den prächtigen Kostümen der Highland Clans und 2 Lithographien; auch das Titelblatt mit sehr schöner kolorierten Lithographie; - mit biographischer Einführung; - Text englisch; - Limitierte Auflage von 500 Exemplaren, dies die Nr. 45 - Clan Stuart war von 1371 bis 1714 die schottische Königsfamilie. Die Stewart Dynastie startete mit Robert II. Sein Vater war der Gemahl von König Robert Bruces Tochter. Das letzte Mitglied des Clan Stewart, das auf dem schottischen Thron saß war Königin Anne. Sie starb im Jahre 1714. - prächtiges, seltenes Werk von sehr guter Erhaltung; Gewicht 13 Kg!