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A Catalogue of Engravers, Who have been born, or resided in England; Digested by Mr. Horace Walpole from the MSS. of Mr. George Vertue; To which is added an Account of the Life and Works of the latter.
London: Printed for J. Dodsley. 1786. Second edition, [4],306,[6]pp., cont. calf, rubbed, covers detached.
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Keywords: ENGRAVING ANTIQUARIAN
Memoirs of the Count de Grammont.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1928. First edition thus (hardback), limited to 1000 copies. 8vo (24cm by 17cm), viii, 230pp. 8 woodcuts by Wilfred Jones mounted on the page and tissue-guarded, decorations in the text. Original two-tone cloth binding (red-brown boards, grey spine), gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. Binding rubbed, endpapers foxed; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.
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Catalogue: 3
Memoires de Comte de Grammont Nouvelle Edition Augmentée de Notes & D'Eclaircissemens Necessaires
Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, 1772. New edn. 4to (9 x 7¼ ins). Contemporary full speckled calf, spine elaborately gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting gilt lettered label, boards with gilt tooled border and gilt tooled at edges, marbled endpapers (lightly worn at edges of spine and corners - in protective cover). Pp. [iv] + xxiii + 290 + [3] table + [5] blank, illus with 3 engraved plates (inscribed 'Buckingham Given by the Editor' on title page). [French text]. .
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Catalogue: Modern History
Letters of the marquise du Deffand to the hon. Horace Walpole, afterwards earl of Oxford, from the year 1766 to the year 1780 - To which are added letters of the madame du Deffand to Voltaire from the year 1759 to the year 1775
Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London 1810, 11x18cm, 4 volumes reliés. Edition originale. Reliures en plein veau caramel, dos à fins nerfs soulignés de filets dorés et ornés de doubles caissons dorés richement ornementés, nom de l'auteur de veau rouge, pièces de tomaison de veau vert olive, triples filets estampés à froid sur les plats, gardes et contreplats de papier bleu, liserés estampés à roid en encadrement des contreplats, deux ou ex-libris encollés sur un contreplat du premier volume et les gardes suivantes, frises dorées sur les coupes, tranches mouchetées rouges, élégantes reliures anglaises Notre exemplaire comporte bien, dans le premier volume, le portrait de la marquise du Deffand en frontispice ainsi qu'un fac-similé de son écriture après la préface. Bel exemplaire très joliment établi. - Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, London 1810, 11x18cm, 4 volumes reliés. [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] First edition. Elegant English bindings in full beige calf, spine elaborately decorated and framed in gilt, author's name in red calf, volume labels in green olive calf, boards triple framed in blind, blue paper endpapers and flyleaves, two ex-libris on front pastedowns to first volume, speckled red edges, elegant English bindings. Our copy includes the frontispiece portrait of the Marquise du Deffand in the first volume, as well as a facsimile of her handwriting after the preface. A fine copy, very nicely bound.
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Catalogue: Histoire - Renaissance & Temps Modernes
Lettres de la Marquise Du Deffand à Horace Walpole (1776-1780). Première édition complète. Augmentée d'environ 500 lettres inédites. Publiées d'après les originaux, avec une introduction, des notes et une table des nom par Mrs. Paget Toynbee. 3 Volumes complets.
Londres, Methuen, 1912,. 230x150mm, 640 + 648 + 752 pages, reliure d'éditeur. Percaline verte, titre au dos doré, tranche supérieure dorée. Très bel exemplaire.
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Keywords: Littérature
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&Sf): April, Apr. 1957
NY, Fantasy House. 1957. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 12, No. 4. Edited by Anthony Boucherl. Cover art by Nuetzell. Includes "Anthropological Note" (short novelet) by Murray Leinster; "The Little Witch of Elm Street" by Margaret Clingerman; "We Move on Turning Stone" (verse) by Leah Bodine Drake; "QRM" by Richard Wilson; "The By-Product of Science Fiction" (article) by Isaac Asimov; "The Girls on Channel N" by Bob Ottum; "Little Jimmy" by Lester del Rey; "Masters of the Metropolis" by Randall Garrett & Lin Carter; "The Status Quo Peddlers" by G. C. Edmondson; "Recommended Reading" (department); "License" (novelet) by Poul Anderson; "Second Prize" by John Novotny; "Didn't He Ramble" by Chad Oliver; "Saturnian Celia" by Horace Walpole. Minor flaws; tanning. Very Good+ to Near Fine.
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Catalogue: Magazines
Keywords: Science Fiction Fantasy Magazines Periodicals Science Fiction Magazines Fantasy Magazines
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&Sf): April, Apr. 1957
NY, Fantasy House. 1957. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 12, No. 4. Edited by Anthony Boucherl. Cover art by Nuetzell. Includes "Anthropological Note" (short novelet) by Murray Leinster; "The Little Witch of Elm Street" by Margaret Clingerman; "We Move on Turning Stone" (verse) by Leah Bodine Drake; "QRM" by Richard Wilson; "The By-Product of Science Fiction" (article) by Isaac Asimov; "The Girls on Channel N" by Bob Ottum; "Little Jimmy" by Lester del Rey; "Masters of the Metropolis" by Randall Garrett & Lin Carter; "The Status Quo Peddlers" by G. C. Edmondson; "Recommended Reading" (department); "License" (novelet) by Poul Anderson; "Second Prize" by John Novotny; "Didn't He Ramble" by Chad Oliver; "Saturnian Celia" by Horace Walpole. Tanning; short tear at heel; minor roll, creasing and edgewear. Very Good+.
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Catalogue: Magazines
Keywords: Science Fiction Fantasy Magazines Periodicals Science Fiction Magazines Fantasy Magazines
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&Sf): April, Apr. 1957
NY, Fantasy House. 1957. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 12, No. 4. Edited by Anthony Boucherl. Cover art by Nuetzell. Includes "Anthropological Note" (short novelet) by Murray Leinster; "The Little Witch of Elm Street" by Margaret Clingerman; "We Move on Turning Stone" (verse) by Leah Bodine Drake; "QRM" by Richard Wilson; "The By-Product of Science Fiction" (article) by Isaac Asimov; "The Girls on Channel N" by Bob Ottum; "Little Jimmy" by Lester del Rey; "Masters of the Metropolis" by Randall Garrett & Lin Carter; "The Status Quo Peddlers" by G. C. Edmondson; "Recommended Reading" (department); "License" (novelet) by Poul Anderson; "Second Prize" by John Novotny; "Didn't He Ramble" by Chad Oliver; "Saturnian Celia" by Horace Walpole. Tanning; creasing; short tear at heel; minor roll; glued added between pages 90 & 91. Good to Very Good-.
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Catalogue: Magazines
Keywords: Science Fiction Fantasy Magazines Periodicals Science Fiction Magazines Fantasy Magazines
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&Sf): April, Apr. 1957
NY, Fantasy House. 1957. Single Issue Magazine. Vol. 12, No. 4. Edited by Anthony Boucherl. Cover art by Nuetzell. Includes "Anthropological Note" (short novelet) by Murray Leinster; "The Little Witch of Elm Street" by Margaret Clingerman; "We Move on Turning Stone" (verse) by Leah Bodine Drake; "QRM" by Richard Wilson; "The By-Product of Science Fiction" (article) by Isaac Asimov; "The Girls on Channel N" by Bob Ottum; "Little Jimmy" by Lester del Rey; "Masters of the Metropolis" by Randall Garrett & Lin Carter; "The Status Quo Peddlers" by G. C. Edmondson; "Recommended Reading" (department); "License" (novelet) by Poul Anderson; "Second Prize" by John Novotny; "Didn't He Ramble" by Chad Oliver; "Saturnian Celia" by Horace Walpole. Tanning; stress; 1/4" loss at spine heel; corner wear; minor rear cover soil; minor creasing, scuffs and dings. Very Good.
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Catalogue: Magazines
Keywords: Science Fiction Fantasy Magazines Periodicals Science Fiction Magazines Fantasy Magazines
Memoires du Comte de Grammont, Par Monsieur le Comte Antoine Hamilton. Nouvelle Edition,s Augmentée de Notes & d'Eclaircissemens necessaires....
A Londres: Chez J. Dodsley, 1783. 4to, 235 x 175 mms., pp. xxi [xxii - xxiii contents, xxiv blank], 290 [291 - 293 Index, 294 blank, engraved portrait of Grammont as frontispiece, further engraved portraits of Hamilton opposite page [iv], and of Cometesse Grammont opposite page 92, contemporary calf; corner cut from title-page and following page to remove name,, joints cracked and tender, corners worn, top and base of spine chipped. With a contemporary inscription of five lines in French on the recto of the front paste-down end-paper, 19th century autograph "Rebecca Hinds 1822" on title-page. Walpole (1717 - 1797) published this first at the Strawberry Hill Press in 1772, printing only 100 copies; this Dodsley imprint is the second edition and Walpole wrote an introduction for it. Hazen: Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, no. 18; no. 54 in his bibliography of Walpole.
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: biography History prose
Memoirs of the Count de Grammont
London: John Lane / The Bodley Head Ltd, 1928. Limited Edition [1000]. Red hardback cloth spine on marbled card boards. 250mm x 170mm (10" x 7"). viii, 230pp. Wood engravings by Wilfred Jones.. VG: in very good condition without dust jacket. Rebound with new endpapers. Cover rubbed and marked. Browning to page edges .
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography French History
Memoirs of the Count de Grammont
London, John Lane the Bodley Head LTD, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition copy of Antoine Hamilton's memoirs of his brother-in-law Philibert de Gramont. A limited edition of one thousand copies. This is an out-of-series complimentary copy.From the library of Sir Campbell Stuart, with his bookplate to the front paste down. Stuart was a Canadian newspaper magnate, who ran propaganda operations for Britain during both World Wars.Illustrated with eight plates, and in-text wood engravings throughout, by Wilfred Jones.The memoirs of Philibert de Gramont, a French courtier and soldier of the seventeenth century, written by his brother-in-law, Antoine Hamilton. Philibert was the younger half-brother of Antoine III of Gramont. He was exiled from Louis XIV's court in 1662 for courting one of his mistresses, Anne-Lucie de la Mothe-Houdancourt. Upon this exile, Philibert found home at the court of Charles II in England, though he was allowed to return to France after a couple of years. When Philibert was 80, he supplied his brother-in-law, Antoine, with the material for these 'Memoirs&apos. Hamilton provided interesting passages in this volume on the history of the court of Charles II. Translated from French to English by Horace Walpole. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. A small amount of loss to the head of the front joint. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light marks and rubbing to the boards and spine. Spine is a little discoloured. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Wilfred Jones. Very Good .
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Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography
Keywords: Memoirs of the Count de Grammont count de gramont philibert de gramont horace walpole count de gramont Wilfred Jones
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Memoirs of the Count de Grammont
London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1928. Cloth. A limited edition copy of this illustrated memoir of Count de Grammont, translated into English. Limited to one thousand copies for Great Britain, of which this is number seventy-four. Illustrated with eight tipped-in plates of wood engravings. Collated complete. The memoirs of Philibert, Count de Grammont, a French courtier and soldier who was half-brother to Antoine III of Grammont, Marshal of France, and uncle of Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Princess of Monaco. Written by Anthony Hamilton, an Irish-French soldier and writer. Translated to English by Horace Walpole, an English writer, art historian, antiquarian, politician, and man of letters. Illustrated by Wilfred Jones, an American illustrator. In the original quarter buckram with red cloth boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Wilfred Jones. Very Good Indeed .
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Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography
Keywords: Memoirs Count Grammont Hamilton Count Wilfred Jones
Memoirs and Portraits
New York, Macmillan, 1963. Paperback. 264p. A softcover book in good condition. The cover has a lightly soiled "feel" to it. Foxing inside and on foredge. Pages age-toned, but otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Good .
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Catalogue: Biography
Le château d'Otrante - Collection romantique n°4
José Corti, 1943. 1943. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Papier jauni. 153 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne. .
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Catalogue: LETTRES