Pitt sir william (7 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine steel engraving, from 'The Popular History of England' by Charles Knight, c. 1860. Mounted and ready to frame, engraved size approx 9 x 6 ins, 23 x 15 cms. High quality, delicate engraving with decorative border, and name plate - most unusual, decorative and attractive. Mounted and ready to frame.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine steel engraving, from 'The Popular History of England' by Charles Knight, c. 1860. Mounted and ready to frame, engraved size approx 9 x 6 ins, 23 x 15 cms. High quality, delicate engraving with decorative border, and name plate - most unusual, decorative and attractive. Mounted and ready to frame.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. An exceptional example of the scarce first edition of the letters written by William Pitt to his intended, Eleanor Eden. With an account of Pitt's health from his physician. The scarce first edition of this privately printed work.This volume presents the letters detailing the unfulfilled love story between Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and Eleanor Eden. They were rumoured to have been engaged, but he disavowed the connection and never married, possibly due to his dedication to his political career and poor health.This volume includes an account of Pitt's health from his physician, Sir Walter Farquhar.With the bookplate of the Arma Comitis de Bradford's Weston Library to the front pastedown, and with an inscription from the Bradford family, dated 1909, to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, exceptional. Bookplate and inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Titelblatt, (2) 227 Seiten, 1 ausfaltbare 'Vergleichungs-Tabelle des Handels und der Einkünfte Englands während der beiden ersten Jahre des gegenwärtigen Krieges, . . .'*. - Blauer Orig.-Interimsumschlag der Zeit über 4 leicht erhabenen Bünden mit handschriftlichem Rückenschild und handschriftlichem Inventarschildchen der Zeit; 8vo.(ca. 17 x 11 cm). ~~~ [SOMMER-SCHLUSS-VERKAUF / SUMMER SALES: um 50% reduzierter Preis bis Donnerstag 24.09.2026 / PRICE-REDUCTION of 50% until Thursday, September 24, 2026; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 80,-] --- 1. DEUTSCHE AUFLAGE, BROSCHIERTE ORIGINALAUSGABE; NACH DER FRANZÖSISCHEN ERSTAUSGABE AUS DEMSELBEN JAHR, die ausgerechnet in London erschien. Ivernois musste daraufhin nach Genf zurückkehren, von wo er sich einst als Vertreter der Genfer Reformbewegung nach England abgesetzt hatte, während andere führende Mitglieder der Genfer Volkspartei nach Frankreich flohen und später als Mitarbeiter Mirabeaus eine bedeutende Rolle in der französischen Revolution übernahmen. *) Ivernois setzt sich hier mit Englands Rolle im ersten 'Koalitionskrieg' (gegen Frankreich bzw. die Französische Revolution) auseinander, das nicht nur in Europa direkt gegen Frankreich vorging sondern auch durch Intervention in dessen zentralamerikanischen Überseegebieten - vor allem in Haiti - versuchte, die junge Republik zu schwächen. Dort waren es - im Gegensatz zu den europäischen Verhältnissen - widerum die Engländer um Pitt und seinen Freund Wilberforce, die als Gegner der Sklaverei Positionen der Reformbewegungen unterstützten. - SEHR GUTES EXEMPLAR DER SELTENEN PUBLIKATION.…

Folio, 2 pp. On first leaf of bifolium, with the verso of the second leaf docketed, under the heading 'King's Warrant'. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Headed '(Copy)', and with 'George R' in a bold hand in the top left-hand corner. Although the signature is almost certainly not in the hand of the king, the document is docketed in pencil: 'Signature of his late beloved Majesty King George III on Copy of a Warrant retained by General Saml. Townsend'. Begins (in another hand): 'Whereas We are given to understand that our Trusty and Well beloved Major General Samuel Townsend Inspector General of the Recruiting Service is set insuper in the Account of Our Right Trusty and Well beloved Counseller Richard Rigby late Paymaster General of Our Forces for the Sum of Seventeen Thousand Four Hundred Sixty Four Pounds Fourteen Shillings and Eight Pence being Money Imprested to him for carrying on the above Service from the end of the year 1778, to the 24th. day of June 1786 [.]'. The document records that the original was signed by Pitt, Eliot and Aubrey, as 'Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts', 'the Commissioners having recommended unto Us to discharge Major General Samuel Townsend from rendering any further Account of the same'.…

12mo, [viii] + 210 pp, together with four unpaginated pages before p. 79 and two unpaginated pages before p. 165. With fold-out list of Knights of the Garter. On aged paper, in worn eighteenth-century binding, lacking spine, and with front board and title-leaf almost detached from rest. Ownership inscription, at head of p.1, 'Mary Standish of Standish - Her Book'; and a couple of ownership initials on title-page. Pp.194-210 carry 'A Catalogue of Books Printed at the Theater in Oxford, since the first Printing there which was in the Year 1672 to 1682 (With several others) and sold in London, by Moses Pitt at the Angel against the Great North-door of St. Pauls-Church. 1682. Those with an Asterisc are Printed at the Theater.'.…