reminiscences recollections captain von gronow r h (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good+ condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean pages with a mild tone - ex libris sticker to front pastedown.

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. New edition. First volume. In brown cloth, with gilt, silver & red lettering & coat-of-arms. 13 colour illustrations. Page fore-edge lightly foxed, with a few spots of faint foxing in text. Being 'Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court and the Clubs at the close of the last war with France' and 'Recollections and anecdotes'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Unmarked copy. 13 coloured plates.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Unmarked copy. 17 coloured plates.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Abridged edition. Introduction by John Raymond. Small quarto. 384pp. Frontispiece and sixteen illustrations from contemporary sources. Hinge cracked but sound, boards gently worn, spine edges slightly bumped, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. xiv 340p bright blue cloth with arms to front, top edge gilt, a tight and fresh copy of Volume 2 ONLY, first edition Language: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Volume 1 - First published in this edition in 1984 by The R.S. Surtees Society rebound on brown cloth and elaborate crest to frontis.

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.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). 2 volumes. Frontispiece portraits and 32 other illustrations by Joseph Greco. 8vo, blue cloth with heraldic image on front covers, lightly rubbed. London: John C. Nimmo, 1900. Very good(+). A very good set of the celebrated and entertaining society "gossip" who moved in the best circles and knew everybody worth knowing -- from Monk Lewis and Beau Brummell, to Wellington and Louis Napoleon. With the bookplates from Ralph Frederica Pulitzer.

Cloth. First edition. xxviii, 351 pp.; xii, 343 pp. Illus. with 25 color plates and 25 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. No. 667 of 875 copies, with duplicate plates, one on plate paper, proofs before letters, and the other on Whatman paper, with title, and colored by hand. Includes Boston Daily newspaper ad clipping dated Dec. 6, 1889. Near fine copies; owner's book plate on front pastedown of Vol. I.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). The first two volumes of Captain Rees Howell Gronow's memoirs. In total Gronow wrote and published four volumes of his Reminiscences, and these are the first two volumes published. Volume I is illustrated, with four full page plates. Errata slip to volume I also. Russell Howell Gronow was a Welsh Grenadier Guards officer, a dandy and a writer of celebrated reminiscences. He was ensigned in 1812 and took part in several military operations. By June 1815 he was a lieutenant of his regiment. Gronow's reminiscences were extremely popular as they gave an interesting insight into his military career, the camp, the court and the clubs. Volume I also specifically references the war with France. In a quarter calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Just some minor handling marks to spines. Internally, both volumes are firmly bound. Prior owner's inscription to title page of volume II, H Low. Pages are slightly age toned, particularly to edges, with instances of the odd spot throughout. Very Good Indeed. book.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). 2 volumes. Four woodcuts, and twenty etched and aquatint illustrations from contemporary sources by Joseph Greco. Small 4to, 3/4 brown morocco, marbled boards and endpapers. London: John C. Nimmo, 1899. Very good (+). Large paper copy. One of 870 numbered copies. A very good set of the celebrated and entertaining society "gossip" who moved in the best circles and knew everybody worth knowing -- from Monk Lewis and Beau Brummell, to Wellington and Louis Napoleon. With the bookplates from Ralph Frederica Pulitzer.

28, 353, (1) S. u. 14, 340 S., 1 Porträt-Taf. u. 32 Taf. nach zeitgenössischen Illustr. OLwd m. Kopfgoldschnitt (gering berieben, 1 Bd etwas fl., bei Bd 1 fl. Vors. beschädigt). Neuausgabe dieser amüsanten Betrachtungen des Captain Rees Howell Gronow (1765 - 1865), die in vier Serien (1862 - 1866) erschienen, und Persönlichkeiten und Ereignisse der Zeit von 1810 bis 1865 Revue passieren lassen "in merely fragmental and miniature illustrations of contemporary history". Er schätzte sich glücklich "to have lived . one of the most eventful centuries of England's history; to be thrown amongst most of the remarkable men of his days, whether soldiers, statesmen, men of letters, theatrical people."- Eingeklebt: Ein maschinenschriftlicher Brief eines Austen Chamberlain an den deutschen Botschafter Stamer (Anrede und Unterschrift eigenhändig). Sprache: Englisch.