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183013810Furne Libraire-Éditeur 1830 578 pages in8. 1830. reliure editeur demi basane. 578 pages. Woodstock ou le Cavalier est un roman historique de Walter Scott traduit en français par Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret. L'histoire se déroule en Angleterre après la bataille de Worcester (1651) alors que le futur Charles II est en fuite se cachant pour échapper aux forces de Cromwell. Le récit mêle intrigue politique et aventures dans le contexte de la Première Révolution anglaise
188036330Berlin, Verlag von Oswald Seehagen, 1880. 8°, 558 S., Unter Zurgrundelegung der Bearbeitung von Dr. G.S. Kriegk besorgt von Dr. Oskar Jäger und Prof. Dr. Th. Greizenach, 1 Karte, Bezahlung per PayPal möglich, we accept PayPal, Einb. beschabt u. bestoßen u. angeschmutzt, fingerspurig, Schnitte angeschmutzt, altersbed. Bräunungen, Gebr.sp., Leinen
183852830New York:: Bufford's Lithography 1838. First edition thus. stitched and enclosed in unprinted blue paper wrappers as issued; enclosed in a custom cloth folding box. . Some scattered inoffensive foxing; beautiful original condition. Rare. Folio. Ten lithographs and five engraved maps. . Deak Picturing America 477. These views and maps illustrate NYS Assembly Document 200 1838 and were also issued separately. Deak: "This early series of ten lithographic views and fine engraved maps constitutes one of the most important keys to the iconography of the Adirondack region." Bufford's Lithography, hardcover
184331805Camden Society, London, 1843. XVI, 304 Seiten / pp.; Gr.-8°, ca. 23 x 17 cm, Leinen / Hardcover
1818057604London: J. Dowding 1818. Hardback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two volumes bound as one 224 pages 199 pages Twenty plates and two folding maps Appears to be 1818-1819 edition with less plates. Small octavo hardback original boards rubbed paper title on spine. Good condition Some plates have a little foxing. <br/> <br/> J. Dowding hardcover
1859053968London: Edward T. Whitfield 1859. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1859. Hardback. Original dark-blue pebble-grained cloth; gilt lettered spine. Original yellow end-papers. Untrimmed edges as issued. Neat owner name; no internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Minor wear to head and foot of spine. VERY GOOD INDEED. xv 307 pages. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. 8vo. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. SCARCE <br/> <br/> Edward T. Whitfield hardcover
1838921T7Frome: J. Gardiner 1838. Cloth. Very Good. 5.5" by 3.5". None. A smart second edition of the very scarce lecture inscribed by the author. Second edition. Very scarce. Inscribed by the author to the front endpaper dated March 16th 1840. A pamphlet of a sermon on the Lord's Prayer from English reverend G. Cromwell. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Author's ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good J. Gardiner hardcover
1820C218619London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1820. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 140pp. Bound in contemporary half leather over marbled boards with gilt spine titles. Front board detached slight wear and foxing otherwise very good. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, hardcover
1820C40160London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1820. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Full decorative leather slightly rubbed and worn at extremities occasional scattered foxing otherwise very good indeed. Names to prelims. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, hardcover
182188609London England: Longman & Co.; Printed by P. Youngman 1821. First Edition. Leather-bound. Very Good. 18mo. 6.4 in. x 4 in. Volume I: pp. 216. Volume II: 216. Both volumes illustrated with engraved frontis and title page; 26 additional full-page engraved plates to volume I and 46 additional engraved plates to Volume II. Rich red morocco boards with floral frame in gilt and in blind to fronts and backs. Gilt title floral decoration and four raised bands to spines. Publisher's gilt edges. Rubbing to edges and corners; two corners just showing. Gilt dentelles. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpapers. Previous owners signature dated 1851 to front flyleaf of Volume II. Touch of spotting to title page of volume II and engraved plates. Spine and hinges tight; bright interior. Thomas Cromwell 1792-1870 worked for Longman the publisher before becoming a unitarian minister. He was an enthusiastic antiquary and besides several other works wrote the text to accompany the engraved views for the series Excursions through England and Wales Scotland Ireland. <br /> <br /> The Excursions through Ireland was planned as a 12 volume work to be published in monthly numbers which was to cover the entire island and to contain 600 engravings later reduced to 400. In the event interest was insufficient and after two volumes had been published the work began to experience difficulties although it did struggle on to complete a third volume with a reduced complement of plates before collapsing. <br /> <br /> The scope and method of the work is described on the wrappers of the parts. It notices that most works on Ireland had dealt both in text and illustration with a restricted highly repetitive range of places mainly the principal towns and cities. "A work like the present therefore comprising the topography statistics history and antiquities of the whole country has become imperatively necessary. The editor will be an actual visitant to every place he describes; and his manuscript will be submitted to the inspection of gentlemen whose local knowledge as residents and antiquaries is indisputable previously to its issuing from the press. It should be noticed also that the work will by no means be found a dry detail of sites buildings ruins agricultural produce &c; but that it will be the editor's chief endeavour to render it an image of the country and the people it portrays - luxuriant wild original and interesting - all in no common degree" <br /> <br /> The first volume focuses on Dublin city and the second explores the villages and towns of Cos. Dublin Louth Meath Westmeath Kildare and Longford. Each volume has its own separate detailed index. <br /> <br /> The plates softly executed line engravings mainly after drawings by the distinguished Irish antiquarian and artist George Petrie provide particularly in the proof state in these volumes an excellent view of the contemporary landscape villages antiquities bridges &c. Bradshaw 7808. Longman & Co.; Printed by P. Youngman unknown
18595118London: Unpublished Manuscript Letters 1859. No Binding. Good. ALS. Mary Anne Everett Green writes to the Society of Antiquaries about the discovery of a new document in the hand of Oliver Cromwell's wife Elizabeth Cromwell as 'I understand that the society of Antiquaries pleases itself somewhat upon being possessor of what has been supposed to be the only known autograph of Elizabeth Cromwell the protectress.' Writing on three sides of a bifolium in May 1859 from the 'State Paper Office' where she was then working Green describes the discovery among 'an immense mass of petitions' and appends a copy of the document not present with her inferences about the handwriting as well as a second copy of a document by Henry Cromwell and further explanation of her discovery. Green signs off with a hint of gloating: 'I think these papers will possess some interest for the Society' and signs her name in full. The letter was heavily revised during writing; there is a stain to the first page and a note above the address in another hand: 'read 9. June '59'. Green helped oversee the establishment of the Public Record Office as well as writing extensively on British history. Good 1859 Unpublished Manuscript Letters unknown
184828846New York: Wm C Bryant. Boston: Mussey 1848. 176pp. Disbound light title page dust else Very Good. <br/><br/> A campaign booklet supporting the Martin Van Buren-Charles Francis Adams presidential candidacy on the Free Soil ticket. Much detail is provided on the split of the Democratic Party in New York State the effects of the Mexican Cession on the political parties the divisive influence of the all-consuming slavery issue the proceedings of the Herkimer and Utica Conventions giving birth to the Free Soil Party and the history of Free Soil movements during the nation's existence. <br/>FIRST EDITION. Sabin 26626. Not in Miles Wise & Cronin Eberstadt Decker Work Blockson Dumond. Wm C Bryant. Boston: Mussey unknown books
186227695New York: The Religious Society of Friends 1862. First printing. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Three reports from the Quakers during the Civil War on their ministry amongst the "Colored Refugees" of Virginia & Washington DC reporting on the conditions and needs at Fort Monroe Camp Barker Craney Island Alexandria Hampton Norfolk etc. Conditions are tough in the refugee camps but none wish to return to where they have fled from. "Slaves have been abandoned and we must help. Don't we owe them for our prosperity--- enjoying indirectly from the unrequited labor of these people." <br /> <br /> Encyclopedia Virginia writes on their website- "In this report dated May 1864 the Committee on Colored Refugees who were representatives of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends gives its assessment of the needs of the formerly enslaved people escaping behind Union lines and how Quaker charity efforts were meeting them in contraband camps across Virginia including Alexandria. One of their agents Harriet Jacobs wrote her own letter documenting what she saw in Alexandria and Washington D.C. For Quakers the abolition of slavery was a moral and religious imperative."<br /> <br /> Title continues: Address of the Representatives of New-York Yearly Meeting of Friends to Its Members.; Third Report of Committee of the Representatives of New York Yearly Meeting of Friends upon the Condition and Wants of the Colored Refugees<br /> <br /> 1862 Report OCLC: 21308787 8vo 30pp black title on cream paper wraps saddle stitched. Clean throughout. 1862 Address OCLC: 25519700 8vo 10pp. October 24th 1862. 1864 Third Report OCLC: 25113848 cites 9 copies; 8vo 23pp May 1864 slt. marked wrapper. <br /> <br /> All in their original self wrappers overall in very good condition. The Religious Society of Friends unknown
185546136NY: Cook 1855. Sheet music. Large 4to pp. 6. With a color lithograph of the actress Elisa Felix Rachel 1820-1858 on front. Disbound from a collection. Somewhat soiled and offset o/w VG. Cook unknown books
1871174978Leipzig, Frohberg, 1871. 521 S. Hlwd. M. Rsign. Einbd. etwas berieben. St. u. Sign. a. Tit. Teils etwas stockfl.
1845752381845. CARLYLE Thomas. CARLYLE Robert ed. CROMWELL Oliver. OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND SPEECHES: WITH ELUCIDATIONS. In Two Volumes. New York: Wiley & Putnam 1845. First American edition second printing first issue. Two volumes bound in four part of Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading vols. 39-42. xvi1-258 ii adv.; iv259-560; x1-252; iv253-437 ii adv. 12mo. brown printed wrappers. Pencil ownership. Wrappers are lightly sunned at spines with a couple of small nicks and show very light dust-soiling overall. Text leaves are clean and fresh. A near fine copy in a fragile format. Tarr A14.2.I-IV.b1. unknown books
184531228AB1845. First Edition. Three Volumes complete set with the Supplement in Second Edition. London Chapman and Hall 1845 - 1846. Octavo 145 cm x 22 cm. Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Cromwell engraved by Francis Holl with Cromwell's facsimile - signature XII 522 pages / Volume II: XIV 692 pages / Volume III Supplement to the First Edition: XVIII 224 pages plus c. 230 empty pages for annotations and notes which were left empty by the 19th century owner. Hardcover / Stunning original 18th century full calf with gilt lettering and original spine-labels. Marbled Endpapers matched with marbled edges all around. Strengthened and restored bindings in splendid and firm condition. Minor repaired tear to titlepage of Volume I only. The text in excellent very clean condition which is unusual for this set. Very Rare in this condition ! Volume I: Anti-Dryasdust / Of the Biographies of Oliver / Of the Cromwell Kindred / Events in Oliver's Biography / Of Oliver's Letters and Speeches / Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches including Letters during the Campaign in Ireland 1649 / Letters by Cromwell to Presdient Bradshaw Dublin 1649 To Governor Taaf Ross 1649 / Accont of Gaining of Ross / To Hon. W. Lenthall 1649 about Proceedings in Munster: Cork Youghal Baltimore Castlehaven etc. including a letter from 14th November 1649 in which i talk about Colonel Townsend aboard having been a very active instrument for the return of both Cork and Youghal to their obedience" Volume II: Letters regarding: War with Scotland / Battle of Dunbar / The Little Parliament 1651-1653 / First Protectorate Parliament 1654 / The Major Generals 1655-1656 / Jamaica / The Disaffected in Ireland / Can sell Newhall / Dangers in Ireland Second Protectorate Parliament 1657-1658 / Kingship / Case of James Nayler / Conference with the Committee of Ninety-nine in regard to the Title of the King / Perils of the Nation / Perils of the Protestant Interest in Europe at large / Death of the Protector / Index Supplement: The Supplement is a first edition but also includes a "Preface to the Second Edition". This supplement-volume adds Letters to Volume I and II including Letters about: Surrender of Berwick and Carlisle/ Essex in Cornwall / Summons to Dundak / Capture of Wexford / To Lord Wharton Cork 1649 about Wharton's Doubts / Letter to Hon. T.Scott Ross 1649 about "The Vote of Lands to Lieut.-Gen. Jones - Lord Broghill" / Summons to Cahir / Summons to Kilkenny / Fatherly Advices: Raleigh's History / Inchgarvie surrendered / Letter to Lieut.-Gen. Fleetwood about "Difference between Love and Fear in matters of Religion" / Letter to Downhall / At Ely / Letter to Cambridge with "Protestation" and "Preamble" / Gainsborough Fight Letter to Fairfax on the Action at Islip-Bridge and Bletchington / Battle of Naseby - Two Letters concerning Ely / Letter on behalf of Young Cholmely / Correspondence with the Mayor of Waterford / Exchange of Prisoners - Renegado Wogan / Vowel's Plot / Penruddock's Plot / New-England / Last Royalist Plot etc. Thomas Carlyle 4 December 1795 5 February 1881 was a Scottish essayist historian and philosopher. A leading writer of the Victorian era he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art literature and philosophy. Born of peasant parents in Ecclefechan Dumfriesshire Carlyle attended the University of Edinburgh where he excelled in mathematics inventing the Carlyle circle. After finishing the arts course he prepared to become a minister in the Burgher Church while working as a schoolmaster. He quit these and several other endeavours before settling on literature writing for the Edinburgh Encyclopædia and working as a translator. He found initial success as a disseminator of German literature then little-known to English readers through his translations his Life of Friedrich Schiller 1825 and his review essays for various journals. His first major work was a novel entitled Sartor Resartus 183334. After relocating to London he became famous with his French Revolution 1837 which prompted the collection and reissue of his essays as Miscellanies. Each of his subsequent works from On Heroes 1841 to History of Frederick the Great 185865 and beyond were highly regarded throughout Europe and North America. He founded the London Library contributed significantly to the creation of the National Portrait Galleries in London and Scotland was elected Lord Rector of Edinburgh University in 1865 and received the Pour le Mérite in 1874 among other honours. Carlyle's corpus spans the genres of history the critical essay social commentary biography fiction and poetry. His innovative writing style known as Carlylese greatly influenced Victorian literature and anticipated techniques of postmodern literature. While not adhering to any formal religion he asserted the importance of belief and developed his own philosophy of religion. He preached "Natural Supernaturalism" the idea that all things are "Clothes" which at once reveal and conceal the divine that "a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one" and that duty work and silence are essential. He postulated the Great Man theory a philosophy of history which contends that history is shaped by exceptional individuals. He viewed history as a "Prophetic Manuscript" that progresses on a cyclical basis analogous to the phoenix and the seasons. Raising the "Condition-of-England Question" to address the impact of the Industrial Revolution his political philosophy is characterised by medievalism advocating a "noble Chivalry of Work" led by "Captains of Industry". He attacked utilitarianism as mere atheism and egoism criticised laissez-faire political economy as the "Dismal Science" and rebuked "big black Democracy" while championing "Heroarchy Government of Heroes". Carlyle occupied a central position in Victorian culture being considered not only in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson the "undoubted head of English letters" but a secular prophet. Posthumously his reputation suffered as publications by his friend and disciple James Anthony Froude provoked controversy about Carlyle's personal life particularly his marriage to Jane Welsh Carlyle. His reputation further declined in the 20th century as the onsets of World War I and World War II brought forth accusations that he was a progenitor of both Prussianism and fascism. Since the 1950s extensive scholarship in the field of Carlyle Studies has improved his standing and he is now recognized as "one of the enduring monuments of our literature who quite simply cannot be spared." Wikipedia hardcover
1849059207London: Chapman and Hall 193 Piccadillly 1849. Third Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. LONDON : 1849. Five Volumes hardback in matching contemporary rust-red cloth; gilt lettered spines. Black elaborate decoration to spines and covers. Original yellow end-papers. Untrimmed edges as issued. Revised Edition. Top-edges gilt. Neat owner contemporary name; S.A. Broadhurst. No internal markings. Minor use only. Tight bright and clean. NEAR FINE. Approx 300 pages per volume. Includes bibliographical references and Index. Handsome set. A valuable resource. Will be well-packed for shipping. This is a heavy set; extra postage needed. 8vo. Chapman and Hall 193 Piccadilly. A nice attractive bright set. SCARCE in this condition. <br/> <br/> Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadillly hardcover
18991291281899. First Edition. GARDINER Samuel Rawson. Oliver Cromwell. London: Goupil 1899. Folio 10 by 13 inches contemporary full tan morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $3000.Limited edition of Gardiners highly regarded biography of Cromwell one of 1475 wide-margined copies printed on fine paper illustrated with lithographed color frontispiece portrait 44 engravings most full-page and manuscript facsimiles handsomely bound by Bumpus.When Scotland began to rise up against Charles I in 1637 Oliver Cromwell was poised at the center of this turning point in British history. Soldier and brilliant strategist controversial politician and statesman Cromwell would ultimately be sworn in as Lord Protector in December 1653. Though his is a checkered legacy Cromwell nevertheless made it possible ""for the first time in three and half centuries for Jews to live trade and worship openly in the City of London"" Schama II:235. Prior to Cromwell ""no private person had taken power to rule a great European kingdom no subject had taken it upon himself to sit in judgment on his lawful sovereign condemn him with the formality of a lawful process and publicly execute him as a criminal. In a country governed by custom precedent and the common law Cromwell completely changed the ancient frame of government reforming Parliament and imposing a written constitution"" Cannon 263. Issued same year as a limited edition of 350 copies printed on Japanese vellum. This is an out of series copy marked ""Presentation Copy"" for the limitation number. CBEL III:911. Bookplate.Scattered foxing. Beautifully bound. hardcover
1821021160London: John Warren 1821. First Edition . Half-Leather. Marbled boards with leather spine and corners - appears to be the original binding. Wear at corners and outer hinges; small chip in leather spine at top and the bottom 2" of the backstrip is missing. Three of the raised bands on the backstrip are present as is the title in gilt. Includes a steel engraving of a portrait of the subject as well as a facsimile of his signature and the seal used for the warrant for beheading Charles I. Interior is very clean except for minor foxing encountered sporadically; no names or other markings in the book. <br/> <br/> John Warren hardcover
1821500021558London: John Warren 1821. First. . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Ex-Library 484pp bookplate of R W Awdry cousin of W Awdry the Thomas the tank Engine author nbookplate of Bouverie family at Market Lavington Manor House <br/> <br/> John Warren hardcover
18461154222William H. Colyer 1846. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Cover has wear and interior heavily foxed. Binding is tight and inside is otherwise unmarked. William H. Colyer hardcover
1845mon0003895189London: Chapman and Hall 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. . 2-volume set. uniformly rebound in blue half-morocco with raised band gilt ruling and lettering boards with blue cloth. covers show minor wear and fading on the spine. pages tanned with light scattered foxing a bit of minor annotation. London: Chapman and Hall hardcover
1885853N12London: Chapman and Hall 1885-1886. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 6". Not stated. Leading Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle offers a gloss on the letters of Oliver Cromwell in these three attractive volumes. The third edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches elucidated by Scottish essayist historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Following an introduction to Cromwell Carlyle offers a gloss on the statesman's letters composed between 1636 to1658. Prize bookplate to the front paste down of volume I. Mr Arthur Wansborough Jones was awarded the Daniel Reardon Prize in 1889. With a gilt crest of the Law Society of the United Kingdom to the front boards Binder's sticker to the rear paste rear pastedown of volume I and to the front pastedown of volumes II and III. Bound by 'J. Low' of Chancery Lane. In a full blue calf binding with a gilt crest of the Law Society of the United Kingdom to the front boards. Externally smart with some very light rubbing to the boards. Each volume has some minor rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed Chapman and Hall hardcover
1887r016.131GB: Chapman & Hall 1887. Only first volume bears the date 1887. 180 x 123 mm. Red cloth lettered in gold on spines and in black on covers. Set is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES MAY APPLY Packed weight 1600g. . Copyright Edition. Hardback. VG/No DW. Chapman & Hall Hardcover
