Lady hester lucy stanhope (16 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

First Edition. Three vols, 12mo, pp.I: xvii, [3], 394, II: vi, 384, III: vii, [1], 361, [1], with a lithographed frontispiece in each volume (the portrait of Stanhope in volume I hand-coloured), each with tissue guard, one lithographed folding plan of Stanhope's 'Residence at Joon'; some scattered foxing but a good set, edges untrimmed, in contemporary half green roan with marbled sides, large printed label to upper board of vol.III of Harvey's Library, Sidmouth, the spines also thus stamped and numbered (labels removed from the other boards, and from endpapers).First edition, the entertaining memoirs of the Middle East traveller Lady Hester Stanhope (17761839). Having looked after her uncle, William Pitt, during most of her youth and run his household while he was Prime Minister for the second time, Stanhope left for the Levant in 1810. She took with her a companion, Miss Williams, and her physician, Charles Meryon, who attended her for the first seven years and later revisited her on three occasions in 1819, 1830, and 1837-8. 'After a couple of months in Malta, a year in and about Constantinople, and a shipwreck off Rhodes, Hester and Michael [Bruce, with whom she had begun an affair in Malta] reached Cairo, where Mehmet Ali Pasha received them with honours and pageantry. A tour in the Holy Land and Lebanon followed' (ODNB). She entered Damascus on horseback in male Turkish clothes, making a great sensation, then became the first European woman to visit Palmyra, in the company of the Bedouins. In 1814 she settled at Mar Elias, and then after few years, increasingly in debt and increasingly eccentric, 'she moved to Dar Jun, a more remote spot higher in the hills, where she repaired an old building, added others, laid out gardens, and surrounded the whole with a wall. Here she lived with an unruly household of some thirty servants and slaves for the rest of her life.' She conceived a violent aversion to England, barely leaving the compound, but would talk late into the night with her few visitors, including Meryon; she died, having dismissed most of her servants, in June 1839. In the Memoirs, Meryon 'described with the utmost minuteness her complicated living arrangements, her tyranny, and her interminable conversations and cross-questionings, of which he himself was often a victim' (ibid.). Harvey's Library, on Fore-Street, Sidmouth, was a subscription library on three-day terms. Harvey also offered 'Books and Music, or any other Article whatever, procured to order, from London', periodicals, printing, and bookbinding, and 'fancy stationary [sic]'. Language: English.…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Large duodecimo. 2 works in 6 volumes. Contemporary dark blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt. Lithographic frontispiece to each volume (hand-colored in volume 1 of the Memoirs), a folding plan and woodcut illustrations in-text. Extremities with some wear, a little further scuffing to volume 1 of the Memoirs. A little foxing internally but generally a very clean example. Both works are rarely found together in first edition, especially in a matching, contemporary binding. A Very Good set. "No one really knew quite who Lady Hester was (was she perhaps the daughter of the king of England?) but everyone knew that she was a great personage and must be treated as such" (ODNB). A niece of William Pitt, Lady Stanhope (1776-1839) travelled with her physician Charles Meryon in 1810 via Malta to Constantinople and then on to Egypt. There she was received with honours by Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, subsequently touring the Holy Land and Lebanon. Most notably during this time she was crowned 'Queen of the Desert' at Palmyra. From thereon she lived in Sidon and Dar Jun in Lebanon, apparently developing a serious interest in the occult and housing refugees during Ibrahim Pasha's siege of Acre in 1831-2. Meryon had returned to England in 1817, however visited her in 1819, 1830 and 1837, documenting her changing circumstances. His accounts value cannot be overstated, as it stood as the only eyewitness account of her remarkable life. "Despite their diffuseness the Memoirs make excellent reading . . . Meryon describes with utmost minuteness her complicated oriental environment, her tyranny, and her in terminable conversations . . . with an almost Boswellian power of self-effacement" (DNB, cited after Blackmer). Blackmer 1117. Very Good.…