thomas stanhope (16 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. collins edition on brown gilded cloth a new translation and an introduction by george maine.

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First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 155 pages; Physical desc. : xlv, 155 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768 --Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773 --Correspondence --Europe --Politics and government --18th century --Sources. Series: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) . Publications. V. 44. 4 Kg.

Zustand: Good. Bennington: Darius Clark, 1816. 16mo. 240pp. Good book. Spine ends worn; tail and joints chipped. Boards spotted and edgeworn, corners frayed. Book is slightly dampstained at front hinge and first few pages; also at top corners and back endpapers. Pages aged with some spotting. Inquire if you need further information.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 155 pages; Physical desc. : xlv, 155 p. ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject: Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of (1693-1768) -- Correspondence. Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of (1694-1773) -- Correspondence. Series: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) . Publications. V. 44. 3 Kg.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

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8vo (21 x 13.5 cm); 4 engraved plates including frontispiece, occasional minor spotting, gift inscription in pen to rear free endpaper verso, occasional light spotting, slight offsetting to frontispiece and title, small puncture hole to A5 with slight loss of text to verso; contemporary sprinkled calf, covers ruled in gilt, spine in 6 gilt banded compartments, a little rubbed, very good; [12], 339, [3], 45, [1]pp. An early edition in English of Thomas à Kempis' great spiritual meditation De Imitatione Christi, an important work of Christian mysticism in the Late Medieval Devotio Moderna movement which called for religious reform and apostolic renewal. Kempis (d.1471) was born in Kempen, in the Diocese of Cologne, but received his education at Deventer, in the Low Countries where he came into contact with the Fratres Vitae Communis, a majority lay confraternity founded by the Dutch deacon Gerard Groot, a leading figure in the Devotio Moderna movement. Members took no irrevocable vows, but lived according to the monastic principles of poverty, obedience and chastity, with all earnings put into a common fund. Having completed his studies, Kempis joined the reformed monastery of the Augustinian Canon Regulars at Mount Saint Agnes, near Zwolle, where he was ordained priest in 1413, later becoming Sub-Prior in 1429. From here he wrote lives of Groot and his associate Florentius Radwyn, and composed the four disparate mystical tracts, together forming the Imitation, which began to circulate in manuscript in the 1430s. The first printed edition appeared in 1473, and the first English-language translation in 1503 â" it has never been out of print since and remains a mainstay in the canon of Western literature.

Eleventh edition, 8vo., pp: xii+1-339,45[1], A-Z4, Aa-Bb4, frontispiece and 4 plates, with the armorial bookplate of Deburgh Earl of Clanricardie, possibly the 13th and 1st (1744-1808), succeeded his father as Earl and was from 1782 to 1789 the Earl - or his brother Henry de Burgh (1742-1797), 1st Marquess of Clanricardie - silk marker, marbled endpapers, contents very good condition. Possibly in an Irish Binding of a later date than publication in black morocco, gilt with ornate corners and borders, repeated to both boards and a central decorative rectangle to both boards with the use of distinctive tools. The spine with raised bands, gilt ruled, red leather title and author label, gilt cross and decoration to compartments. In the compartment beneath the label are carefully hidden in the decoration the clear initials "F N", presumably the Binder, all edges gilt, corners rubbed, hinges rubbed & very tender, little chipped to tail of spine, otherwise very good. Written originally in Latin by Thomas A'Kempis, now rendered into English, to which are added Meditations and prayers for sick persons by George Stanhope.General John Thomas de Burgh, 13th and 1st Earl of Clanricarde (1744-1808), was an Irish peer and soldier who was Governor of County Galway and a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. De Burgh raised the 88th Regiment of Foot, later became Colonel of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot. Later he was in command in Corsica and with Commodore Horatio Nelson, in Tuscany. He was promoted full General of the Army in 1803. After the death of his elder brother, Henry, 12th Earl and 1st Marquess of Clanricarde in 1797, John inherited the Earldom. The House of Burgh or Burke was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman aristocratic dynasty (with the Anglo-Irish branches later adopting the surname Burke and its variants) who held the earldoms of Kent, Ultster, Clanricarde and Mayo at various times, provided one Queen Consort of Scotland and played a prominent role in the Norman invasion of Ireland. The original de Burgh coat of arms is blazoned as Or, a cross gules (a red cross upon a gold shield). Motto One king, one faith, one law.

Off-print original twine stitched cream card wrap covers (soft back). 4to. 10¾'' x 10''. Contains colour detailed frontispiece, title, 26 pp with statistical tables. Rubbing to the spine edges, stab marks exposed, else in Very Good. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Dover].

Hardback, 8.25 x 5 inches. In full calf leather binding, raised and gilt banding to spine with gilt lettering to leather spine label. Speckled page edges. In very good condition. Later leather to spine. Later endpapers. Some chips and bumps to corners and edges of boards, chip to leather on front. Some occasional minor handling marks and occasional minor spot else pages and plates all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight early copy. Illustrated with 5 B&W engraved plates. 339pp + 45pp.

6. London, W. Innys a.o., 1751, frontispiece, x + 339 + ii + 45 pp, 4 plates h/t, contemporary leather, severe use at corners, raised back, frontcover completey detached. This edition not in the catalogue Delaveau-Sordet. They list under n° 730 an edition of 1742 by William Innys.

The recipient of the letter, the 5th Earl of Chesterfield, was Postmaster General between 1790 and 1798. The 'Mr. Palmer' mentioned in the text is John Palmer (1742-1818), MP for Bath, who was Comptroller General of the Post Office between 1786 and 1792. Harraden appears to have been regarded by his superiors as a whistle-blower and trouble-maker. In 1788, as Clerk of the Money Book in the Inland Office (he is elsewhere described as ''Clerk of the letter-bill, and keeper of the cheque-book in the surveyor and comptroller general's departments'), he devised a general system for the registration of property letters. Although the plan was not fully implemented, some of its suggestions were adopted in 1792. Shortly afterwards he was the subject of a curious appendix to a parliamentary paper, which describes him as a tool of 'the Junto', and 'the instrument of their duplicity and the victim of their vengeance at a Board. The report prints 'Mr. Harraden's Plan (his object being 'to prove that a thousand pounds had been stolen in one week', which 'Lord Chesterfield admitted'), and Mr. Stowe's Observations on it'. The extreme craft and imposition which they practised on the Postmaster General, in the affair of the 1st of March, 1796, require to be particularly exposed.' 3pp., folio. Bifolium addressed on the reverse of the second leaf to 'The Right Honrble the Earl of Chesterfield'. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. Harraden begins by stating that he is enclosing 'a Letter addressd [sic] to Lord Walsingham in the year 1798 soliciting his Sanction to a recommendation of Mr. Palmers wherein He was pleasd to remark that my services merited an encrease of Salary and earnestly entreating his Lordships Consideration to the hardships of my case but nothing favorable arising therefrom His Lordship entirely forgetting every Circumstance and now compelld by necessity, I have renewd the subject and wrote again and also beg leave to lay before Lordship [sic] some features of my situation that may serve to explain, and satisfy you, that the application merited a more considerate fate than has yet attended it -'. He recounts that in 1800 he 'solicited to retire from the Post Office and was granted a Pension of £53 . 6 . 8 P annm but so overwhelmed in pecuniary affairs owing to the error I fell into by following the first Law Authorities and bringing an Action your Lordship as Postmaster General that from this Cause alone I was under continuall [sic] arrests and suffered near Three Years Imprisonment and now hold my Liberty by a Public Act of Insolvency and as the Income Tax has reduced my Pension under £12 P Quarter I have been forced to Petition the Postmaster General for some relief stating that the Price of every article in Life is raised nearly Double since it was granted'. He quotes the unfavourable response to his petition, and proceeds to explain how he 'sustained the loss of near £500 for endeavouring to recover Money actually expended in a Public Service'. The next paragraph concerns the recommendation of 'Mr. Palmer' for an advance in the pension of £20 per annum, as a result of Harraden's 'attendance and unremitting efforts to his useful Plan [] for it was observed by all I was indefatigable Night as well as Day in the Cause being often called up by Opening all Letters and expresses to Mr Palmer for the first Several Years of his being Comptroller General'. He is 'apprehensive of Trespassing too much' on Chesterfield's time, but feels regarding his case that 'if a Blot could be justly made against me in official matters I would not solicit any great or good Man in my favor and if such Gentlemen as Mr. George White Thomas [MP for Chichester] Mr. Wm. Hayley if Earlham [friend of William Cowper and patron of William Blake] and others did not approve my Conduct and think me worthy they would not have interested themselves in my behalf'. He ends with a flurry of flattery, stating that he was 'in great hopes' when his 'good Friend' Thomas waited on Chesterfield 'purposely on my account and then wrote me word your Lordship was so far favorably inclined as to give hope'.

4. London, Printed by M. Roberts , for D. Brown, without Temple-Bar ; R. Sare, in Holborn., 1706, in-8°, (16)nn pp (engraved frontispiece included) + 339 pp + 4 full page engravings (signed M. Vander Gucht) + (2)nn pp + 45 pp (Meditations and Prayers) + (1)nn pp (list of books published by George Stanhope). Bound in later (19th. c.) black half leather with gilt title on spine, ex-library copy without stamps but with tipped on ex-libris on first paste down, some notes in ink on the blank recto of the title page. Still a good/fine copy. Not in the catalogue of Delaveau-Sordet. They list under n° 548 an edition from 1708.

15 pp, narrow folio (14.5 x 38 cm), in the remains of a volume which has been reused and cut up (see below). Although aged and dogeared, the eight pages carrying the accounts are in reasonable condition, with all texts clear and complete, although the last leaf of the eight has the lower third cut away. In remains of original vellum binding, with '17 Maij j683' on front board. The pages are variously paginated in a contemporary hand between 245 and 274. Among the accounts are those of Thomas Stanhope; William Sacheverell; Samuel Chase, churchwarden of Strapton; Alderman Carter; Reginald Cynder; Captain John Every; William Cavendish of Dovebridge; Mr Beaumont of Barrow; churchwardens of Feston; John Harpur; Brooke Boothby; Mr Moseley of Roulston; Samuel Orme, churchwarden of Broadfall; Mr Charles Cogge of Yeildersley; Hill Francis of Derby; Henry Keys; 'ffor ye funerall of Mr James'; John Bainbrigge; 'ffor ye: funerall of Mr Sheppard'; Mr Mellor of Ashborne; 'ffor the funerall of Mr Burton of Weston July 9o: 1710:'; William Gilbert; Robert Bingham; Captain Hopkinson; William Chambers; Simon Dogg. The itemised entries include charges for 'Lisbon', 'Canary', 'wt: wine', 'french wine', 'Vinegar', 'Rhenish', 'Lemons' and 'Galetia wt: wine'. Substantial sums are spent, with a couple of accounts totaling around £40, and one containing about fifty items. A great number of other pages of the volume have been cut out, and the eight surviving leaves of accounts are followed by one complete leaf and three parts of leaves, on which the semi-literate family of John Smith, whose signature is on the back cover, has recorded births and other family events between 1772 and 1821. The first entry reads 'Joseph Smith Build [sic] my House In the Year of our Lord 1772 Paid Mr. Ford For Bricks 16 Thousand At 18 Shillings Per Thousand £8 18s 0d Flour Bricks £1 1s 0d In Total All £40 0s 0d'.