Sobieski john stuart charles edward (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Signed Limited Edition of 350 copies, this copy No.36 signed by both Ian Oates and Lord Lovat to colophon page. Landscape pp175 with colour frontis and a further 11 colour plates with b/w illustrations by Ian Oates throughout. Hardcover issued without dust jacket in slipcase. Green cloth covered slipcase in very good condition with a little rubbing to edges. The book itself is bound in half green morocco leather over green cloth boards with gilt titles and stag heads to spine and stags head to front board in circular inlay. Binding in very good+ condition with a little fading to gilt on spine along with a touch of sunning. Inside all pages with full edge gilt in lovely near fine condition. A very nice copy of this signed limited edition originally published in two volumes in 1848. Ian Oates (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

New Ed. Landscape 4to. 176pp. Profusely ills. from sketches, 12 colour plates. Gilt ruled buckram with gilt stags head to upper board, t.e.g., card slipcase sl. faded and rubbed with loss. No. 164 of a Limited Edition of 350 Copies.From the library of Peter William Monckton Copeman (19322018) English dermatologist known as "Dr Spot" by his colleagues. He was consultant physician at Westminster Hospital and consulting dermatologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He treated many celebrities and also helped modernise Qatar's medical services. He authored over a hundred peer-reviewed articles and pioneered research on allergic vasculitis and malignant melanoma.Outside medicine, he co-founded the Game Conservancy, where he arranged the regeneration of the British grey partridge. US$126. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1848). 1848 1st editions. Two volumes. Small 8vo (132 x 206mm). Ppxiv,381 + 2pp;viii,560. Tinted frontispiece to each volume. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt, coat-of-arms in gilt to blind-stamped boards. A good two-volume set, both volumes professionally recased in original publisher's cloth, foxing, especially of tissue-guards, light stains to cloth. The Allen brothers were born in Wales in the late 18th century. They were later to claim to be the grandsons of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward Stuart, 1720-1788, and in the 1871 census claimed their birthplace as Versailles. The pseudonyms for the two brothers are ".extremely confusing, and there is conflicting information about [them] from all sources, including the venerable Dictionary of National Biography. To compound the issue, these same sources seem to repeatedly confuse the two brothers and their various names. What is agreed upon is that the brothers were enamored with the lore of Scotland, and invented an elaborate genealogical record, which changed and was added to throughout their lives." (Callahan). They are the authors of the notorious Vestiarium Scoticum, a book claiming to be based upon a 16th century manuscript on Scottish tartans that was soon revealed as a forgery. .…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. A lovely copy of a very scarce early edition the Sobieski Stuart's unusual historical work, providing dubious evidence of their relationship to Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charlie. A very scarce early edition of this historical work from John Carter Allen and Charles Manning Allen, siblings and pretenders to the Scottish throne, who adopted the Sobieski Stuart name in the late 1830s, claiming their descent Bonnie Prince Charlie.Illustrated with a lithographic frontispiece, and in a bright quarter morocco binding.First published in 1847, within the work the brothers detail three scenes in recent history which, taken together, suggest that their father was the child of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and Louise of Stolberg. The work was swiftly characterised by historians as one of 'solemn self projection', and not based in reality.The final three-hundred pages, are composed of copious historical notes, aiming to prove the voracity of their claims.With the bookplate of J. L. Weir to the front pastedown.A bright copy of a very scarce early edition of this curious work of historical myth. Rebound in quarter morocco, with marbled paper covered boards, and endpapers renewed. Light fading to back strip, otherwise externally fine. Front hinge starting between title page and frontispiece, with board holding firm. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

7.5 x 4, full leather, 230 pp, 300 pp notes, lithographed frontis piece, gilt decorated red morocco, signed binding by Larkins, edge worn, front hinge tender, bookplate, spine labels gone, written by two pretend claimants to descent from Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stuart, who promoted Scottish nationalism). This series of short stories on Romans is presented as a justification of their descent. The rear of the book has several contemporary newspaper articles tipped to blank pages related to the book and its authors. Also a manuscript letter signed by Sobieska Louise de Plat nee Stuart Comtesse d'Albanie, a daughter of the junior author, requesting donations for a school in Bucharest also a printed broadside from the Archbishop of Bucharest in support of her endeavors. First published in 1847, this is an early printing with some great association pieces tipped in. EARLY PRINTING.…

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.…

1st thus. 175 pages, TEG, landscape 4to. 12 full page colour plates, and full page and text illustrations by Ian Oates, with an introduction by Lord Lovat. Limited to 350 numbered copies this being number 139, Publishers green cloth with gilt stag head vignette to upper board and stag head motifs to spine. In the publisher's card slipcase there is some fading and light rubbing to the edges of the slipcase, a vg + copy. Originally published in 2 volumes in 1848. The second volume from which the text of this book is drawn. It contains fascinating descriptions of deer stalking as it was practiced at that time both in the Highlands and on the Continent.…

Diss: Antony Atha Publishers. 1985. Oblong 4to. Original green cloth, gilt rules and stag's head to upper board, gilt lettering and decoration to spine; pp. 176, 12 colour plates and text illustrations by Ian Oates; fine. Provenance: ffep with inscription from Lord Lovat "To my friend Wyndham [Lloyd-Davies]/ armed with rod, gun or rifle".No. 279 of limited edition of 350. Introduction by Lord Lovat. This copy Signed by Lovat and Ian Oates. A handsome reprint of the famous 1848 poetic work on deer stalking by two brothers who were heirs to the royal House of Stuart.…