DOCUMENTE PRIVITOARE LA FAMILIA MANO DIN SEC. XVI- XIX DE CONSTANTIN GEORGE MANO by CONSTANTIN GEORGE MANO - 1907

London: Printed by J. Barfield for Cadell and Davis, and Others, 1800. Octavo. 2nd edition. Volume one. Translated from the French. 379pp., three folding maps, (one very large map has old repair to fold). This is basically a reprint of the 1797 first edition with a few changes and corrections and of course with added maps. He had planned a five volume set over the next couple of years 1800-1801. Bound in full calf, spine flat and decorated in gilt, joints rubbed and somewhat fragile, closed edge tear to last page. Author's note: "It is scarcely necessary to say, that the high price to which paper has lately risen, and the still greater increase of expence, incurred by the addition of the maps, do not permit the price of this volume to be left the same as that of the first edition". A good copy.

London: J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1792. Hardcover. Near Fine. Printed for J. Sewell, Cornhill; and J. Debrett, Piccadilly." [3], 324-400 p., frontispiece portrait of John Smeaton, civil engineer, and 1 additional leaf of a plate: music; 22 cm. Later (possibly 20th-century) dark blue cloth spine with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. The second plate is a view of "An ancient place of tournament at Senlis." Pages are untrimmed; 4 leaves are unopened. In addition to reports on the pardoning of two men involved in the mutiny on the Bounty and the execution of three others, includes: Remarks on Slavery by Adam Smith -- Remarks made in a trip to Paris in 1792 -- The Blatant Beast: A Poem by Moses Mendez [1st appearance of this poem by Moses Mendes] -- Critique on Somerset House, London, by a foreign architect -- Remarks on an ancient place of tournament at Senlis, built by James, Duke of Vendome -- State Papers related to the French Revolution -- Occasional Address, and Elegy: The Dead… Read More

Boston: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan. Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards worn, dampstained and . sunned, vol. 1 gift inscription and dampstaining to lower half of boards . and text.. 1854. Hardcover. A married set in two volumes (volume one in ribbed dark brown cloth while volume two is in patterned lighter brown cloth). Uniform gilt lettering and designs on spines, boards stamped in blind. 332; 355 pp. An early American edition of Dickens’ only book written for children - his own, in fact - which provides his lively view of English history from ancient times through the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

This is a 17-Volume collection of works of Historical Fiction by Luise Mühlbach, a well-known German Author, who wrote most of her work in the 1860s and early 1870s. Her Books focus on several well-known German and European personalities including Frederick the Great, Joseph the Second, Empress Josephine, Goethe and Schiller, Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, King Henry and others. Her Books were translated into English by several different translators and published as a set by A.L. Fowle, Publisher, of New York in 1905. This Set was not published with Volume Numbers for each Book. Each Book contains 400-650 pages of text and three to five illustrations.There are 20 Volumes in the complete set. However, the set being offered here is limited to 17 Volumes and are listed below:BERLIN AND SANS-SOUCI, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER SON, Translated by Rev. W. L. Gage;ANDREAS HOFER,… Read More

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, imprimeurs de l'institut, 1887. First Edition, First Printing. Half-leather. Very Good, No Dust Jacket As Issued. Half-leather to marbled boardswith 5 spine bands; marble paper end papers. 4to 10.5 by 7.25 inches Contains tissue-guarded colour frontispiece; [viii]; 322 + i pages of French text with 214 monochrome engravings. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with foxing on the title pages. Minimal shelf handling wear.. [Title Translation] Old France | Chivalry and the Crusades. Feudalism - Blazon - Military Orders. Illustrated book of 214 engravings and a chromolithography from the great works of Paul Lacroix on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

London: Printed by J. Barfield for Cadell and Davis, and Others, 1800. Octavo. 2nd edition. Volume one. Translated from the French. 379pp., three folding maps, (one very large map has old repair to fold). This is basically a reprint of the 1797 first edition with a few changes and corrections and of course with added maps. He had planned a five volume set over the next couple of years 1800-1801. Bound in full calf, spine flat and decorated in gilt, joints rubbed and somewhat fragile, closed edge tear to last page. Author's note: "It is scarcely necessary to say, that the high price to which paper has lately risen, and the still greater increase of expence, incurred by the addition of the maps, do not permit the price of this volume to be left the same as that of the first edition". A good copy.

London: J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1792. Hardcover. Near Fine. Printed for J. Sewell, Cornhill; and J. Debrett, Piccadilly." [3], 324-400 p., frontispiece portrait of John Smeaton, civil engineer, and 1 additional leaf of a plate: music; 22 cm. Later (possibly 20th-century) dark blue cloth spine with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. The second plate is a view of "An ancient place of tournament at Senlis." Pages are untrimmed; 4 leaves are unopened. In addition to reports on the pardoning of two men involved in the mutiny on the Bounty and the execution of three others, includes: Remarks on Slavery by Adam Smith -- Remarks made in a trip to Paris in 1792 -- The Blatant Beast: A Poem by Moses Mendez [1st appearance of this poem by Moses Mendes] -- Critique on Somerset House, London, by a foreign architect -- Remarks on an ancient place of tournament at Senlis, built by James, Duke of Vendome -- State Papers related to the French Revolution -- Occasional Address, and Elegy: The Dead… Read More

Boston: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan. Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards worn, dampstained and . sunned, vol. 1 gift inscription and dampstaining to lower half of boards . and text.. 1854. Hardcover. A married set in two volumes (volume one in ribbed dark brown cloth while volume two is in patterned lighter brown cloth). Uniform gilt lettering and designs on spines, boards stamped in blind. 332; 355 pp. An early American edition of Dickens’ only book written for children - his own, in fact - which provides his lively view of English history from ancient times through the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

This is a 17-Volume collection of works of Historical Fiction by Luise Mühlbach, a well-known German Author, who wrote most of her work in the 1860s and early 1870s. Her Books focus on several well-known German and European personalities including Frederick the Great, Joseph the Second, Empress Josephine, Goethe and Schiller, Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, King Henry and others. Her Books were translated into English by several different translators and published as a set by A.L. Fowle, Publisher, of New York in 1905. This Set was not published with Volume Numbers for each Book. Each Book contains 400-650 pages of text and three to five illustrations.There are 20 Volumes in the complete set. However, the set being offered here is limited to 17 Volumes and are listed below:BERLIN AND SANS-SOUCI, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS FAMILY, Translated by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and Daughters;MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER SON, Translated by Rev. W. L. Gage;ANDREAS HOFER,… Read More

Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, imprimeurs de l'institut, 1887. First Edition, First Printing. Half-leather. Very Good, No Dust Jacket As Issued. Half-leather to marbled boardswith 5 spine bands; marble paper end papers. 4to 10.5 by 7.25 inches Contains tissue-guarded colour frontispiece; [viii]; 322 + i pages of French text with 214 monochrome engravings. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning with foxing on the title pages. Minimal shelf handling wear.. [Title Translation] Old France | Chivalry and the Crusades. Feudalism - Blazon - Military Orders. Illustrated book of 214 engravings and a chromolithography from the great works of Paul Lacroix on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.