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9484Albin-Beaumont, 1910. In-4, plaquette agrafée sous couverture illustrée, 17 pp. Avant-propos - Par qui fut scindée l'Enseigne? - Côté moral. - L'état civil du tableau - Le côté scientifique - A Monsieur Seidel, conservateur des Collections Impériales - Bibliographie.
2010412199New Haven London New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; National Portrait gellery ; in association with Yale University Press 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xxvi 314 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Publsished to accompany the exhibition ""Thomas Lawrence: Regency power and brilliance"" co-organized by the Yale Center for Britiish Art and the National Portrait Gallery London on view at the National Portrait Gallery from 21 October 2010 to 23 January 2011 and at the Yale Center for British Art from 24 February to 5 June 2011. Includes bibliographical references pages 302-306 and index. Contents; Lawrence among men : friends patrons and the male portrait / Peter Funnell -- The construction of desire : Lawrence's portraits of women / A. Cassandra Albinson -- ""Charming little brats"" : Lawrence's portraits of children / Marcia Pointon -- Catalogue. Arrival on the scene : the 1790's ; Delineating a life : Lawrence as draughtsman ; New ambition : experimentation and innovation in portraiture practice ; Lawrence in Europe : international career and reputation ; Court academy and society : the 1820s -- Photographic copyright and credits -- A survey of the literature / A. Cassandra Albinson. Subjects; Lawrence Thomas 1769-1830 ; Exhibitions. Lawrence Thomas 1769-1830 Criticism and interpretation. Art British 18th century. Art British 19th century. Portrait painting British 19th century ; Exhibitions. New Haven London New Haven : Yale Center for British Art ; National Portrait gellery ; in association with Yale University Press hardcover
1967500310642Editions De L'erable 1967 298 pages 1967. capa dura. 298 pages. Le Chevalier d'Harmental premier grand roman historique d'Alexandre Dumas publié en 1842 raconte l'histoire de Raoul d'Harmental un jeune aristocrate monté à Paris en 1711. Après s'être illustré sous Louis XIV il se retrouve mêlé à la conspiration de Cellamare un complot de la noblesse contre le régent Philippe d'Orléans tout en tombant amoureux de sa voisine Bathilde
2009500112501Black Lace 2009 272 pages 12 9x19 6x2 4cm. 2009. Broché. 272 pages.
People thought Miss Jonas a very odd lady indeed, still unmarried at fifty, with an outspoken way of talking and a habit of wearing exotic costumes she had picked up in her youthful travels. But Miss Jonas was also very rich, so her relatives tended to tolerate her eccentricities. Until, that is, she astonished everyone by deciding to take in an orphaned refugee from the French Revolution. Then her drunken spendthrift brother Thomas saw the fat inheritance he had been expecting going to some adopted 'French brat', and he began to lay some rather unpleasant plans. Particularly when the 'child' turned out to be Serge, Vicomte de Valmont, a handsome, arrogant, six-foot tall young aristocrat.... Book
'I wish,' Philadelphia Smith said wistfully, 'that something would happen to me.' Nothing ever happened to Philadelphia until she made that wish one fine autumn evening, Her dreams came true that very night when she got more attention than she bargained for: Jamie, her handsome fiance, was tired of waiting to marry her. He was going to jilt Philadelphia that evening - or was she going to jilt him? Mr. Artherton, her rich and jaded neighbor, was enchanted by her fresh young beauty. The more he attempted to console the weeping, distraught Philadelphia, the more he wanted to seduce her. Ferdy, Mr. Atherton's gambling companion, was the blackest sheep in the noblest of families. He had designs on Philadelphia - every one of them evil." Book
Little did Octavia dream that the lurid novel she penned in secret would become the most sensational scandal of the London season. She was even less prepared to have her identity as the author revealed, and to be branded as a shocking adventuress. And when the man she loved accused her of using him as the model for her novel's villain, Octavia thought life could hold nothing worse than his cruel accusations. But that was before she realized that the sophisticated drawing-rooms she had so accurately captured in fiction concealed a smooth-tongued traitor. For England was at war with France, and Octavia had unwittingly revealed more than the foibles of the aristocracy--she had exposed the treachery of a spy.... Book
In his lifetime, Harry was a rogue and a rake. Now he's a ghost--visible only to those in love. He roams the halls of Steadford Abbey, atoning for his romantic sins by helping others find romance.sometimes with the most unexpected--and charming--results. Giles Steadford has inherited the Abbey--and is about to see it for the first time. He arrives, having been wounded in battle, and creates instant chaos. Giles is put under the care of Elizabeth, a nurse who finds him as cantankerous a patient as she's ever had. Giles, in turn, is too jaded from war to appreciate her tender ministrations. But if Harry has his way, Elizabeth will not only heal Giles' pain, but heal his heart--and open it to at true and lasting love. Book
(Signet Regency Romance) Beautiful and spirited Jane Stanfield had made her choice between her two childhood friends, the dashing Lord Langston and the devoted Stephen Middleton. She had chosen to listen to Langston's impassioned proposal and turned her back on Stephen's gentle sweetness. That was before her family's ruin wrecked her marriage plans. That was before she was reduced to being paid companion to Langston's mother while Langston himself had to hunt a wealthy wife in the marriage mart. Now Stephen had returned from abroad a new man, determined this time to get what he wanted. And Langston refused to let her love any man but him. Which left Jane to choose once again--having learned all too well that the last thing in the world she could trust was her heart.... Book
29251Amsterdam Chez Michel Charles Le Cene 1722 in 12 (17x9,5) 2 volumes reliures pleine basane foncée de l'époque, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de titre de maroquin rouge (la moitié droite de la pièce de titre du tome 2 manque), 559 pages, 459 pages [11], petite trace de mouillure claire sur quelques feuillets. Abraham Nicolas Amelot De La Houssaie, 1634-1706. Edition originale posthume. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1938100147373Hachette 1938 in12. 1938. Broché. La vie privée du Régent est un livre d'André Ransan publié en 1938 par Hachette faisant partie de la collection "Les vies privées". L'ouvrage explore l'intimité et la vie personnelle du Régent de France Philippe d'Orléans qui gouverna pendant la minorité de Louis XV. Il s'agit d'une réédition numérique d'un livre devenu indisponible dans son format original
193813619Hachette 1938 254 pages in12. 1938. broché. 254 pages. Cet ouvrage d'André Ransan publié en 1938 par Hachette dans la collection 'Les vies privées' explore l'intimité et la vie personnelle du Régent de France Philippe d'Orléans qui gouverna pendant la minorité de Louis XV
195634<p>Acceptable condition. Scuffing and creasing to covers x on cover yellowing to pages. Paperback. Ace Books 1956. A Chase through alternate worlds. 169 pp. F-391. <br /><br /></p> Ace Books paperback
Regency High-Society Affairs Vol 4: Two novels [A] Lord Calthorpe's Promise by Sylvia Andrew "Lord Adam Calthorpe had been rash in his promise to look out for a fellow soldier's sister before the soldier was killed at the battle of Waterloo. For Miss Katherine Payne was a golden-eyed shrew who took genuine delight in flouting Adam's authority at every turn.Surely bringing her to stay with his mother for the Season would absolve him of his responsibilities -- though he sincerely doubted such a headstrong young woman would ever find herself a husband in the marriage mart. But when an unscrupulous man starts pursuing Katherine, Adam comes to realize that fulfilling his promise might actually involve marrying her himself" [B] The Society Catch by Louise Allen "Miss Joanna Fulgrave has turned herself into the perfect society catch to be worthy of dashing Colonel Giles Gregory. But all her hard effort to improve herself comes to nothing when it looks as if Giles is about to propose -- to someone else! Deciding that bad behavior is infinitely more attractive than perfection, Joanna flees her shocked family. Giles is hot on her trail, determined to catch her and bring her safely home. But will he be as determined to make her his bride? Book
In 8° pp. VI + 298. Cartone coevo con tit. al dorso e monogramma di appartenenza al piatto anteriore impresso in oro. Macchioline ai piatti e qualche carta tenuamente arrossata; altrimenti fresco e nitido esemplare. Biografia di un prelato con una visione assai originale del cattolicesimo e men che meno della parola di Cristo.
181998497Paris, Chez Janet et Cotelle, Libraires 1819 2 volumes. In-8 20,5 x 12,5 cm. Reliures de l’époque basane havane porphyre, dos lisses orné d’un grand fer, de roulette et de filets dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison vert-émeraude, XXXVI-395-449 pp., bibliographie, table des matières. Exemplaires en bon état.
Time and distance have changed them both... Quiet and obliging, Mary Fleming and John Bexley marry to please their families and John immediately leaves on a two-year diplomatic mission. Now John is back, and everything they thought they knew about each other was wrong... It's disconcerting, irritating-and somehow all very exciting... Book
The first sight that Miss Susan Wyndham and Miss Marianne MacClain had of each other was enough to make their eyes blaze. For both were arriving at the first grand ball of the season at the same time--in identical gowns. But even this flurry of fury paled beside the emotion that each young lady felt when she saw the gentleman who stepped in to make peace between them.He was Randal Kenyon, Baron Ellerton, the most supremely handsome, charming, elegant, and eligible lord in London. And far from making peace, he sparked a battle between a pair of dazzling young beauties who had always had everything they wanted, and who now wanted only him.... Book
The Hartington sisters were three of the most captivating young ladies in the realm -- and suddenly among the most impoverished. The demise of their spendthrift father and the passing of their generous aunt left them with only their wits, wiles and beauty to fend off disaster -- and forced them to go their separate ways. Aggie, the eldest, became a governess. Thalia, the literary one, became a schoolmistress. Euphie, the musical one, became companion to an aristocratic old lady. And all of them saw the future of their hopes and the men of their dreams slipping out of their reach until they discovered that three Hartington heads were better than one when it came to playing a winning hand in the marriage game.... Book
Miss Elizabeth Beresford had become an heiress upon her grandmother's death. Her sister, Evadne, thought she was very clever when she engineered that Elizabeth would be trapped overnight in the cellars with Evadne's brother-in-law. Except that the plot misfired and it was Sir Richard Knightley who became entrapped with Elizabeth! Richard was not unwilling to marry, for Elizabeth had changed beautifully from the young girl he remembered. It was Elizabeth who was reluctant, for she loved him and there was something she couldn't tell him.... Book
"This new selection from the letters is separated into six periods of the writer's life, starting in 1796, when she was twenty, and ending in 1817, the year of her death." Selected and introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett. 160p. illus bibliography.index. Donor inscription on ffep, else fine. Book
Julia Maitland had an idyllic childhood with her brother and younger sisters on her family's estate in rural Derbyshire. Upon reaching marriageable age, she looked forward to everything that her new status could bring: the excitements of her first "season" in society, a choice of handsome suitors, and-hopefully-a blissful future with a man she cherishes. But Julia's prospects take a disastrous turn with the sudden and unbearably tragic death of her soldier brother in the war against Napoleon and the loss of her father's investments. Within the span of a few weeks, she finds herself in London, then fashionable Bath, and ultimately chasing smugglers through the countryside in coastal Dorset. Yet through all the drama and turmoil she keeps alive her hopes for happiness and a love passionate, powerful, and true. The4rs is an appendox and bibliography about life in Regency England244p. Book
Miss Elizabeth Rossiter was finished with love forever - after a disastrous episode that had left her with a broken heart and a reputation that would be ruined should her scandalous secret be revealed. She had sought safety by fleeing her proper station in society to take a position as companion to the daughter of a wealthy family far from London, where Elizabeth's beauty and wit had once so brightly shown. But now her hope of a safe haven was shattered. To her horror, the one man in the world she hoped never to see again appeared in this rural retreat. Robert Denning, the handsome, faithless Marquis of Hetherington, had made a mockery of her dreams before - and now was working his old magic and mischief in her life once more... Book
A love that cannot be bought or sold proves to be the greatest gift of all, in this heartwarming classic that demonstrates once again why New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh is among the most celebrated authors of historical romance. Weddings are supposed to be joyous occasions - especially when a couple seems as well matched as Randolph Pierce, Earl of Falloden, and his bride-to-be, Eleanor Transome. Ellie brings to the marriage a vast dowry, while Falloden, though distant, is handsome, tremendously desirable, and possessed of a title most young ladies can only dream of sharing. Yet Ellie is not most young ladies. She knows that she must honor her dear father's dying wish for her to wed the proud earl, but she dreads a lifetime in a union without love - and how can Falloden claim to love her when he married her only for her fortune As Christmas descends upon the Falloden manor, the warmth of the season may yet melt away the trappings of duty and wealth, leaving behind only a man and a woman destined for each other's arms. Book
Lady Sophia Bryant had no intention of ever marrying. However, her own parents had been estranged for some fourteen years, and her one desire was to bring them together again in love. Surely, if she were to announce her betrothal -- even a false one -- they would be forced to see each other at last. Lord Francis Sutton was perfect for such deceit. Devilishly handsome and a notorious rake, he was always agreeable to games of passion, especially those in which he had nothing to fear and nothing to lose. The trap was set... if only Lady Sophia could keep her foolish heart from falling prey to her brilliant snares... Book