Anthony Bailey

Standing in the Sun a Life of J.M. W. Turner

London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1997. First edition. Cloth. A biography about the romantic painter Joseph Turner. Joseph Turner was a romantic painter and water colourist, who lived in London with a strong Cockney accent his whole life. He mostly painted sea and landscapes, and achieved great fame and fortune during his life. In a cloth binding in original dustwrapper. Gilt lettering to the spine. Dustwrapper is excellent with some mild shelfwear and bumping to head and tail of spine. Externally, as new except for some mild shelfwear to the head and tail of spine. Internally, as new. As New . Ill.: None. As New/Fine.

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Boeknummer: MOD10-B-8

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: joseph turner romantic watercolour landscape romantic None

Edmund Heafod [Osias Bain]

Gimani

London, Gaberbocchus, 1961. First edition. Cloth. A superb and scarce limited edition signed by the author. This diary contains the author's interesting thoughts on philosophy and psychology. The first edition of this work by Edmund Heafod, pseudopseudonymous for Osias Bain. One of two hundred printed copies signed by the author, this being number nine.A scarce book, this charming prose journal comprises the author's  philosophical and psychological thoughts, departing from his research ballistician nature. Osias Bain is a big name in the world of Chess. With the unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, lovely. With a neat inscription by a previous owner to the front free endpaper, dated 1977. The dustwrapper is unclipped and excellent with only minor shelf wear and a minor damp marking to the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: 769A63

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: diary biography dustwrapper philosophy biography limited None

F. Arthur Bain

Life and Adventures of Nansen the Great Arctic Explorer

London, The Walter Scott Publishing Co, c1897. Leather. A prize binding edition of this fascinating and touching biography on the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, an illustrated biography. An insightful biography on the life and career of the great Arctic explorer Fridjtof Nansen.Nansen is one of the most important and prominent Arctic explorers of all time, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for leading the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one map, and many full-paged and in-text illustrations throughout.Collated, complete.By J. Arthur Bain.Undated, dated from the preface. In a prize binding from the Wesleyan High School for Girls, with a prize label to the front paste down. In a full calf prize binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored. Externally, with a little discolouration to the spine and extremities. Evidence of former loss to the backstrip. Light marks to the boards and spine. Prize label to the front paste down. Bookseller's label to the rear paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a few odd spots to the first and last few pages only. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .

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Boeknummer: 792P31

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Life and Adventures of Nansen the Great Arctic Explorer nansen fridtjof nansen arctic nansen Various

Jacques Bainville

Louis II de Bavieãƒâoeã‚â€Re

Paris, Editions J. Tallandier, 1927. Leather. A smartly-bound biography of Ludwig II of Bavaria, sometimes called the Swan King, by French author Jacques Bainville. In a half morocco binding, with marbled boards and end papers. Binder's stamp of Sotheran to the verso of the front free end paper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 18 plates. Collated, complete. Jacques Bainville (1879-1936) was a French historian, journalist and geopolitical theorist, who was concerned by Franco-German relations and was a leading figure in the monarchist Action Française. This is his biography of Ludwig II (1845-1886), King of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886. In a half morocco binding. Externally very smart, with bumping to the boards and a little rubbing to the extremities and to the head of the spine. Colour and gilt remain bright. Front hinge is strained but is holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Closed tears to the front free end paper, but otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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Boeknummer: 850M21

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Ludwig II Bavaria Biography Bainville Bavaria Not Stated

Rev. James Baker

The Life of Sir Thomas Bernard

London, John Murray, 1819. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this very scarce biography of English social reformer Sir Thomas Bernard. A first edition of this very scarce biography of Sir Thomas Bernard, third Baronet. In this interesting biography, James Baker offers an outline of the Life of English social reformer Sir Thomas Bernard. Having married a rich wife, Bernard devoted his time to social projects, working as a treasurer for the Foundling Hospital for abandoned babies in 1795-1806, and establishing the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. As well as promoting vaccination, improving the conditions of child labour, and advocating allotments, he was a leading proponent of Regent's Canal in London. In a contemporary full calf binding. Externally, lovely. The front hinge is just beginning to crack near the tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Aside from the frontispiece which is lightly foxed, pages are bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .

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Boeknummer: 854N7

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: The Life of Sir Thomas Bernard English Social Reform Salt Duties Royal Insitution English Social Reform Very Scarce Leather Binding Not Stated

J.G. Ballard

The Kindness of Women

London, HarperCollins, 1991. First edition. Cloth. A near fine, first edition copy of this semi-autobiographical work by British writer, J.G. Ballard. Signed by the author to the title page and in the original dust wrapper. Presenting this semi-autobiographical work by noted British author, J.G. Ballard. It is a sequel to his earlier 1984 novel, Empire of the Sun, and tells the story of the author's childhood in China and his move to England in adulthood. It includes themes of sex and death, and Ballard has stated that this work is the story of his life 'seen through the mirror of the fiction prompted by the life&apos. The first edition, first printing of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with no discernible shelf wear. Original unclipped dust wrapper is excellent and bright, with just a small amount of edgewear to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. A few light spots to the fore-edge, not affecting the pages, which are slightly age-toned to the edges, but otherwise are completely clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Fine.

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Boeknummer: 800J9

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: autobiography introspection china england introspection death ballad Not Stated

J.S. Balmer

Frederick Atkin a Biography

London , Ideal Publishing Union, Limited, 1901. Cloth. A scarce biography of Frederick Atkin. A preacher and lecturer on religion and the temperence movement, Atkin published several works on the subject himself, notably Reminiscences of a Temperence Advocate. In cloth binding. Externally quite smart, there is wear to the extremities and backstrip, as well as markings to boards. Internally, the pages are generally firmly bound and are bright and clean throughout, aside from some offsetting and an ink inscription to the endpages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: GEN19-D-19

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Temperence Atkin Frederick Atkin Atkin None

Liv Balstad

North of the Desolate Sea

London, Souvenir Press, 1958 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this memoir and autobiography about Liv Balstad's experiences living in the Arctic circle. First edition of North of the Desolate Sea by Liv Balstad in the original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper. An uncommon work. An exciting, honest, and fascinating look into life in the Arctic Circle, as Balstad reveals the ups and downs of her daily life after she relocated and married the Governor of Spitzbergen. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, across twelve plates. Collated, complete. Prior owner's ink inscription from 1958 to the first pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. There is some wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper including some small closed tears and light marks. Prior owner's ink inscription from 1958 to the first pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some light age toning. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 853W24

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Arctic Liv Balstad Desolate Sea Liv Balstad Not Stated

Jean-Louis Guez Balzac.

The Choyce Letters of Monsieur de Balzac Written to Severall Grand and Eminent Persons in France Whereunto Are Annexed the Familiar Letters of Monsieur de Balzac to His Friend Monsieur Chapelain

London, Thomas Dring, 1658. Leather. An English translation of Jean-Louis Guez Balzac's letters. A very scarce work. Not seen at auction for over thirty five years. With a portrait frontispiece of Balzac. With two title pages, the first title page is in Red and Black and with the title 'Balzac's Remaines or his Last Letters' the second is 'The Choyce Letters of Monsieur de Balzac.' One of these title pages is clearly a cancel. The running title of the work is 'Choise Lettres' and therefore it is likely the cancel is the red and black title page. There are two copies held at the British library, one with the first title page and one with the second title page. It is unusual to have both. (Wing B616). Collated using both British library copies of this work, Complete. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature, history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller, Humphrey Moseley and began his, unfortunately unfinished, PhD dissertation on him. Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author noted for his epistolary essays. This volume comprises of his letters to notable courtiers which gained him a great reputation. This work mostly contains his letters to Jean Chapelain, a French Poet who organized and founded the Academie Francaise. In a full calf binding. rebacked with original boards preserved. Externally, generally smart with rubbing to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Small worm holes to the tail of spine and also to the head. The worming only seems to have slightly affected the front endpaper at the gutter and the rear hinge. Both hinges are slightly strained but firm. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, Christopher Rowe. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are age toned with light spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: EXP2-B-12

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Balzac Letters Christopher Rowe Jean Chapelain Letters Correspondence None

Albion Rajkumar Banerji

An Indian Pathfinder: Memoirs of Sevabrata Sasipada Banerji

Oxford, Kemp Hall Press, Ltd. 1924. Paperback. A scarce work on the life of social worker, Sevabrata Sasipada Banerji. Scarce work. The memoirs of Sevabrata Sasipada Banerji, a social worker and leader of the Brahmo Samaj who is remembered as a champion of women's rights and education and as one of the earliest workers for labour welfare in India. Written by his son, Albion Rajkumar Banerji, an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Cochin, 21st Diwan of Mysore, and as Prime Minister of Kashmir. With a foreword by Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Second Marquess of Zetland, a British Conservative politician and expert on India, who served as Secretary of State for India in the late 1930s. In the original paper binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine. Discolouration and fading to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Contemporary ink inscription to front endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: 853T84

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Indian Pathfinder Banerji Pathfinder None

Ernest Barker

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse 1864-1929

London, Humphrey Milford, 1929. Paperback. A scarce obituary for the sociologist Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, as arranged by the British Academy. Scarce work. An obituary for Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, an English liberal political theorist and sociologist considered a leading voice in the development of Social Liberalism and the canon of New Liberalism. Along with colleague, Edward Westermarck, he was appointed the first professor of sociology in the United Kingdom at the University of London. Written and delivered by Sir Ernest Barker, an English political scientist and Principal of King's College London, for the British Academy. In the original paper wraps. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and sunning to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light scattered spotting. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: 861T54

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Barker Trelawny None

Nicholas Barker

The Printer and the Poet and Account of the Printing of &Apos;the Tapestry&Apos; Based Upon Correspondence between Stanley Morrison and Robert Bridges

Cambridge, Privatley Printed (Cambridge), 1970. Cloth. This is a limited edition compilation of letters between Stanley Morrison and Robert Bridges. This edition, one of a five-hundred copy limited run, was printed as the annual Christmas book for 1970 for presentation by the university printer. In a cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally smart with light rubbing. Small marks to board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: GEN20-H-2

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Stanley Morrison Robert Bridges Printing Robert Bridges None

Frank Barlow

The Letters of Arnulf of Lisieux

London , Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1939. Cloth. A collection of the letters of medieval French bishop Arnulf of Lisieux. Camden third series, volume LXI. Arnulf was a partisan of the king in the conflict between Henry II and Thomas Becket, and after the murder of the latter undertook the royal defence before the pope. In 1181 or perhaps a little earlier, he lost the good will of the king, and for a while that of Pope Lucius III. In a blue cloth binding. Externally smart, with just some light bumping and a couple of marks, as well as sunning to the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. Hinges are slightly strained. Institutional bookplate to front pastedown, with ink stamps to front free-endpaper, front pastedown and title page. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: GEN33-F-4

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Arnulf of Lisieux Camden History Henry II Camden None

Frederick Barnard; Thomas Archer

Charles Dickens a Gossip About His Life, Works and Characters in Six Divisions

London, Cassel and Company Ltd, c1890. Paperback. The original six divisions of Archer's charmingly illustrated biographies Originally supplied to subscribers only. "Written in a spirited and attractive style..The characters which Charles Dickens has created are living, moving personalities in the minds and imaginations of the large majority of English men and women. To portray these characters in a manner which shall satisfy the aspirations of the countless multitudes of the author's admirers is a success of which any artist may feel justly proud." With six of the original eighteen photogravures, described as "absolutely unrivalled as masterpieces of their particular kind." As well as numerous wood-cut vignettes. Illustrated by Victorian illustrator, caricaturist, genre painter, and well known Dickens' illustrator, Frederick (Fred) Barnard. Barnard undertook an enormous task when he was commissioned in 1871 by Chapman and Hall to illustrate nine volumes of the Household Edition of Dickens's works. Included would be Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, Sketches by Boz, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Dombey and Son and Martin Chuzzlewit. He followed in the footsteps of the respected Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz") who had worked with Dickens himself. For his prodigious output of some 450 illustrations over an eight-year period, Barnard could lay just claim to the title of "The Charles Dickens among black-and-white artists". Frederick Barnard brought an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Dickens novels to bear on his work. A young man when he started on his mammoth task, Barnard decided that he would concentrate on scenes other than those that Browne and Dickens had chosen to portray. Whereas 'Phiz' was inclined to create dramatic group scenes for his prints, Barnard was more interested in showing the relationships between pairs of characters. While Phiz had to produce illustrations for the monthly serials as Dickens wrote them, Barnard had the advantage of being able to read the complete work repeatedly before starting on his drawings. At the same time Barnard had to seamlessly blend the characters as visualised by 'Phiz' with his own style, not daring to deviate too much from their established appearance. Written and edited by Thomas Archer. Author of "Fifty Years of Social and Political Progress", "Decisive Events in History", "Vanishing London", and "Pictures, Royal Portraits". In original quarter cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Externally, some light marks to the boards and wear to the extremities. Division one has some heavier sunning to the boards. Internally, all divisions are generally firmly bound, although lacking twelve of the original plates. Some light scattered spotting and handling marks, although generally bright. Very Good . Ill.: Frederick (Fred) Barnard. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: SET3-A-3

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Biography Charles Dickens Illustrated Thomas Archer Charles Dickens Frederick Barnard Frederick (Fred) Barnard

Paul Barras; George Duruy (ed.); Charles E. Roche (translator)

Memoirs of Barras Member of the Directorate

London, Osgood, McIlvaine and Co. 1895-1896 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this fascinating english translation of the memoirs of Paul Barras, the renowned French politician, and one of the most powerful members of the Directory during the French Revolution. This work was original edited, with a general introduction, prefaces and appendices by the renowned French historian author George Duruy, translated in this set by Charles E. Roche. This work is complete in four volumes: Volume I: The Ancien Regime - The Revolution Volume II: The Directorate Up To The 18th Fructidor Volume III: The Directorate From The 18th Fructidor To The 18th Brumaire Volume IV: The Consulate - The Empire - The Restoration - Analytical Index. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of volume I. Collated, complete with: Four plates to volume I, one of which is folding. Two plates to volume II. Two plates to volume III. Three plates to volume IV, one of which is folding. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt crest to front boards. Externally slightly bumped to extremities and head and tail of spine. Bumping to head and tail of spine resulting in small splits and slight loss to head of spine volume I. Slight rubbing to boards and spine. Front hinge tender after frontispiece, and rear hinge split and tender, volume I. Hinges slightly split and strained volume IV, but reasonably firm. Internally firmly bound, slightly strained in places. Pages age toned to edges but bright and clean, with the odd spot to the occasional page. Light scattered spots only to endpapers. Tissue guard to frontispiece plate volume II partially detached to gutter but present. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .

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Boeknummer: 634M27

Catalogus: Biography & Autobiography

Trefwoorden: Burras Illustrated Memoir Duruy Illustrated French Politics Various