Bulstrode, Sir Richard, Kt [1617 - 1711]. Bulstrode, Whitlocke - Contributor

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Viz. I. Of Company and Conversation. I I. Of Solitariness and Retirement. III. Of Nobility. IV. Of Contentment. V. Of Women. VI. Of the Knowledge of God, and Against Atheism. VII. Of Religion. VIII. Of Kings, Princes, and the Education of a Prince. IX. Of Greatness of Mind. X. Of the Education of Children. XI. Of Law. XII. Of Man. XIII. Of Old Age. With the Life and Conversion of St. Mary Magdalen, with Some Reflections Upon the Conversion of the Good Thief; also, the Life and Conversion of St. Paul.; Published, with a Preface, by his Son Whitlocke Bulstrode, Esq

London: Printed for Jonas Browne, 1715. 1st edition. Period brown full speckled calf. Maroon leather title label to spine Gilt spine decorations. [8], xxxii, 390, [2] pp. Adverts last 2 pages. Head- tailpieces. 8vo: A^8 a^8 b^4 B - 2B^8 2C^4. 7-5/8" x 4-3/4". Joint leather starting, though boards firmly held by cords. Ffep partially detached. Usual browning & spotting to paper. PO pencil marginal note to p. 130. A Good-plus copy.

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Costain, Thomas B.

Son of a Hundred Kings a Novel of the Nineties

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. DJ is is missing pieces on back; 465 pages.

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GALLAND, P.J.

Cours pratique d'éducation à l'usage des jeunes demoiselles, et convenable aux jeunes gens qui ne sont pas à porté de suivre les études de collège, ou qui les ont suivies sans succès; contenant la grammaire, précédée de principes de lecture servant d'introduction; la rhétorique, l'arithmétique, la cosmographie, la géographie, l'histoire et la mythologie, traitée séparément pour l'enfance et pour l'adolescence, par demandes et par réponses. Dédié à Son Altesse Royale Madame, Duchesse d'Angoulême.Paris, Librairie d'Éducation d'Alexis Eymerie, and the author (on back of title-page: printed by J.-B. Imbert), 1816 (vol. 3!)-1817 (vols. 1-2). 3 volumes. Large 12mo (17.5 x 10.5 cm). With a large folding engraved map of France, 3 astronomical and cosmographical figures on 3 engraved plates, a large folding hierarchical "tableau synoptique" of French grammar, and numerous numerical tables and mathematical equations in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled, grained green morocco, each board with the large arms of the dedicatee, Marie Thérèse de France, Duchesse d'Angoulême, daughter of King Louis XVI: a crowned double coat of arms (each in an oval) in a wide border of fleurs-de-lis and tulip-like flowers, the dexter arms (of her husband) that normally used by the Duc de Berry, but also by the seconde maison Capétienne d'Artois and the sinister arms (of her father Louis XVI) matching that of the Kings of France, pink silk endleaves, gilt edges.

[4], 515, [1]; 552, [2]; 492, [2] pp.Very rare first and only edition of a compendious educational work intended for girls, dedicated (in the newly restored Bourbon monarchy) to Marie Thérèse de France (1778-1851), Duchesse d'Angoulême and daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, the only heir directly descended from Louis XVI to survive the Revolution. The dedication itself appears in volume 1 (1817), but is noted on all three title-pages (so also 1816). The present copy is in a beautiful armorial morocco binding clearly intended as a dedication copy for Marie Thérèse, with her arms on both boards of each volume. She had married her first cousin Louis Antoine d'Artois (1775-1844), Duc d'Angoulême in 1799 (he was to be King of France for 20 minutes in 1830 when his father and he abdicated, then pretender to the throne, calling himself Louis XIX). She was nearly forty and childless when the book appeared, soon after the 1814/15 restoration of the Bourbon monarchy with her uncle as King Louis XVIII. Rather than impale the husband's and father's arms as the English did, French ladies displayed them side by side: courtoisie. The book contains lessons in all subjects girls of good family should be taught. The first volume covers French grammar and syntax, with separate courses for younger and older girls, followed by a basic course in rhetoric. The second volume covers arithmetic and geography in single, extensive courses. The third and last volume covers history and mythology, again with separate courses for the younger and older girls, both presented like a catechism. with questions and answers for the children to learn by heart. In fine condition with only a small tear in the folding table and occasional very minor foxing. Fine copy in a fine armorial dedication binding for the daughter of King Louis XVI in the restored Bourbon monarchy.l KVK & WorldCat (5 copies); Quérard III, p. 245; not in Gumuchian; for the arms on the binding: Olivier, Manuel armoriées Françaises 2553, fer no. 2 (recorded on a different 1816 book).

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Gordon, Alexander

The Lives of Pope Alexander VI. And His Son CæSar Borgia. Comprehending the Wars in the Reigns of Charles VIII. And Lewis XII. Kings of France; and the Chief Transactions and Revolutions in Italy, from the Year 1492 to the Year 1506. First Edition

London: Printed for C. Davis and T. Green, 1729. 2 volumes in 1, continuously paginated. [24], 182; [4], [183]-410, [98] pp. With 2 engraved frontispiece portraits. (folio) 32x19.5 cm (12½x7½"), rebound in black cloth spine lettered in gilt. With an appendix of original pieces referred to in the work. The frontispiece to the first part is chipped and laid down on modern paper backing. Borgia, Cesare, -- 1476?-1507 -- Early works to 1800. Alexander -- VI, -- Pope, -- 1431-1503 - OCLC Number: 1851756 Condition: A few of the pages darkened; good to very good. .

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