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The Naval and Military Exploits Which Have Distinguished the Reign of George the Third
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The Naval and Military Exploits Which Have Distinguished the Reign of George the Third: Accurately Described, and Methodically Arranged

by Jehoshaphat Aspin

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Few scratches on hinge, slight discoloration of cover, mild age-browning of pages, Very little foxing. Five raised bands on spine, title, author and date gilt stamped in compartments. Aspin's classic, highly specific, detailed, interesting and actually quite readable accounts of naval and military campaigns and encounters with France, Spain, Native Americans, the new United States of America during the American Revolution, wars in India, as well as conflicts with Holland, Cuba, Napoleon, the storming of Algiers and the freeing of Christian slaves, etc.. Many coloured (aquatint) plates. 3 Page edges gilded. 784 pages. A rare and handsomely bound little book in Very Good condition.
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Athènes aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles (2 Tomes)
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Athènes aux XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles (2 Tomes)

by Laborde, Léon, comte de.

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D' après des documents inédits. Tome premier: xviii+276 pp. Tome second: 392 pp. 25,2x16,5 cm. Chez Jules Renouard et Cie, Libraires, Paris, 1854.
Mixtes techniques d'illustration. Un des premiers livres illustrés par la photographie, contenant deux calotypes sur papier fin monté. Il contient 7 pp. de fac-similé reproduisant une description d'Athènes par un anonyme vers 1460 + 24 gravures h.t. et quelques dans le texte, sur bois, cuivre ou lithographiées, dont plusieurs repliées, avec une eau-forte originale de Ch. Méryon représentant le couvent des Capucines à Athènes, spécialement gravée pour cet ouvrage.
--- Half-leather (private binding, morocco leather), marbled endpapers. Light edgewear. Occasianal foxing. Tight binding, original paper covers are included. Pages clean of underlinings or notes. Very impressive engravings, a rare edition. (More photos are available)
--- Simon Joseph Léon Emmanuel, Marquis de Laborde (1807-1869) was a French archaeologist and politician. At the… Read More
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La decouverte des Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols / ecrite par don Balthazar de Las Casas,...
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La decouverte des Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols / ecrite par don Balthazar de Las Casas, evêque de Chiapa

by CASAS, Bartolomé de las

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1697 1st ed Las Casas Spanish West Indies VOYAGES Cortez Conquistadors Torture

Bartolomé de las Casas was a 16th-century Spanish historian who published an important historical account of the discovery of West Indies by Spain. This book chronicled the first years of Spanish colonization in the New World; however, it did provide a view of the severe maltreatment of the local tribes in the Caribbean islands. He provides early information on Cuba, Nicaragua, Jamaica, and many other ports and islands. This work also provides details on the exploration and findings of Hernando Cortez!
This 1697 first French edition of 'The Discovery of the West Indies' was among the first books printed to expose the torture and oppression to Caribbean peoples. Casas was named as the Protector of the Indians for his role in seeking to end the cruelty.
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Controversial manuscript on the expulsion of Jesuits from South America
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Controversial manuscript on the expulsion of Jesuits from South America

by [“Ministro di Stato” (= Bernardo Tanucci (1698-1783)?]

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Controversial manuscript on the expulsion of Jesuits from South America
["Ministro di Stato" (= Bernardo Tanucci (1698-1783)?].
Notizie Anecdote.
Italy (Naples?), 1759.
4°, 8 pp. Manuscript in black ink in a notarial hand on 18th century paper.
Ruthlessly anti-Jesuit manuscript, possibly by Bernardo Tanucci: prime minister of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The text summarizes the events involving the Jesuits in the years 1755-1759, from the controversy over the Paraguayan Missions to the trials for the assassination of Joseph I of Portugal. This autograph is not signed but clues to the identity of the author can be found in a rare 1759 published analysis of the contents of this manuscript, titled Sposizione letteral delle notizie anecdote giustificative della condotta de' MM. RR. PP. Gesuiti nel Paraguai, e nel Portogallo per aggiungere al loro manoscritto di Napoli (Barcelona [= Naples?], Antonio Michele Cervellò). In the second edition of this work (1760, same publisher), editor Alfonso Nicolini… Read More
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A Tour Through Paris
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A Tour Through Paris: illustrated with twenty-one coloured plates

by [William Sams]

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Very good complete suite of 21 aquatint views of Paris in the years of the Bourbon Restoration.Lively collection of Parisian scenes showing the sights (parks, bridges, catacombs, morgue, swimming pool, etc.), the people (tradesmen, famous characters, itinerant merchants, street performers) and events (festivals, military rituals, religious processions). A good selection of post-Napoleonic costume too.First published in parts in oblong folio with the title A Tour of Paris in 1822, this is the first collected edition with letterpress and the title A Tour Through Paris. Plates dated 1822 and 1824.The illustrations are unsigned but accredited to the French artist Victor Auver. Four plates previously appeared in Richard Brinsley Peake's The characteristic costume of France, (1816): Itinerants on the Boulevards, Street Characters (as Water Carriers), The Catacombs and La Morgue.The plates depict: Distribution of wine on the morning of St. Louis; The voitures (coach-drivers) of Versailles; The blind man… Read More
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(Fine Binding - Wood of London ) The Prince;  Translated from the Original Italian of Niccolo...
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(Fine Binding - Wood of London ) The Prince; Translated from the Original Italian of Niccolo Machiavelli To Which is Prefixed an Introduction

by Machiavelli, Niccolo; Byerley, John Scott (Translator)

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London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1810. Finely bound by Wood of London in early 20th c., half red morocco over red buckram boards, tasteful gilt decorations back, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. xcv, (1), 211, (1 ads) pp. RARE, this early translation into English is the third, after William Fowler in the 1590s and Edward Dacres in 1640. In the Introduction Byerley makes the connection between Napoleon and Machiavelli (" shewing the close analogy between the principles of Machiavelli and the actions of Buonaparte") [from title cont.]. A Fine copy, handsomely bound by a distinguished London binder. Oddly, OCLC lists the translator's name as John Scott Ripon, in contradiction to the title page"By J. Scott Byerley". . First Byerley Translation . Half Morocco. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Pauli Aemilii Veronensis De rebus gestis Francorum, libri IIII [i.e. IX]
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Pauli Aemilii Veronensis De rebus gestis Francorum, libri IIII [i.e. IX]

by EMILI, Paolo

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1519 Paolo Emili FRANCE De Rebus Gestis Badius FOLIO p Incunable Chronicle Kings

Paolo Emili was a 15th-century Veronese humanist known for his histories of France and the Gauls. First published in 1515 and appearing in multiple parts, "De Rebus Gestis Francorum" was written to chronicle the lives and reigns of the French kings from Pharamond through Charles VIII. However, Emili died in 1529 before he could complete the work and it was finished by numerous contributors into the early 17th-century.

This printing from Josse Badius was published around 1517-1519 as Badius did not publish any other editions of Emili after.

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EMILI, Paolo

Pauli Aemilii Veronensis De rebus gestis Francorum, libri IIII [i.e. IX]

Venundantur in aedibus Iodoci Badii Ascensii, [Paris: between 1517-July 1519 and Feb 1520].

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Het Achterhuis. (The Diary of Anne Frank). [First Edition/Second Print].
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Het Achterhuis. (The Diary of Anne Frank). [First Edition/Second Print].: Dagboekbrieven van 14 juni 1942- 1 Augustus 1944. Met een woord vooraf van Annie Romijn - Verschoor

by Anne Frank.

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Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Contact, dec 1947. Anne.Frank; 'Het Achterhuis, Dagboekbrieven van 14 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944'. Very good condition. Small octavo. Hard cover, pp 253. Dust jacket included. Damaged dustjacket has had a professional restoration. FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING of the diary of Anne Frank in the original Dutch language. One of the booklets printed ALMOST 75 YEARS AGO in dec 1947. Original white and red paper-covered boards. Illustration with 3 photo's of the hiding place ('Het Achterhuis'), 1 groundfloor-plan and 2 examples (facsimile) of the handwriting of Anne Frank. Introduction by Annie Romein-Verschoor. Title on the front board and spine. A very good copy! Pages are a little bit tanned after all these years. No inscriptions.Anne began her diary on her 13th birthday, 12 June 1942 during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The diary was found in the hiding place ( 'Het Achterhuis') by Miep Gies, after Anne Frank, her Jewish family and other Jews were taken away to the… Read More
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Memoires relating to the state of the royal navy of England, for ten years, determin'd December 1688
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Memoires relating to the state of the royal navy of England, for ten years, determin'd December 1688

by PEPYS, Samuel

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1690 Samuel Pepys 1ed State of Royal NAVY of England Glorious Revolution SHIPS

Samuel Pepys was a 17th-century English naval administrator and politician who is best-known for his diary. His diary was a daily journal account of his life, kept for nearly ten years. It is an important and thoroughly detailed account of Pepys's life as well as major British events and life in London from the second half of the 1600s.

Interestingly, only one work of Pepys was published during his lifetime. His 'State of the Royal Navy of England' was published in 1690 and covers the state of the Royal Navy leading up to the Glorious Revolution and his demands for change. Notable topics include:
· the naval interactions with commerce ships
· the costs of new ships in the navy
· methods of acquiring new ship hands
· how to ready ships
· and much more!

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French038 | RECUEIL Des ORAISONS FUNEBRES
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French038 | RECUEIL Des ORAISONS FUNEBRES

by Jacques Benigne Bossuet

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Funeral Orations.
Full Leather
Opens and closes easily, however there is a hingery kind of problem that will likely develop *over time* with continuose use, deffinitely handle with care.
Delicate and ancient.280 years oldNew EditionMarbled pages are discolored and have age marks / stains.
Boards are leather with gold gilt titling to the spine with 5 raised bands and gold gilt detailing.
Gorgeous book inscribed by the previous owner.
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De la Monarchie Prussienne, sous Frederic le Grand ; avec un appendice contenant des recherches...
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De la Monarchie Prussienne, sous Frederic le Grand ; avec un appendice contenant des recherches sur la situation actuelle des principales contrees de l'Allemagne. Par le Comte de Mirabeau.

by MIRABEAU, Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti, Comte De

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A Londres; et se trouve A Paris : Chez Le Jay & Maradan , 1788. Four volumes bound in contemporary full vellum, red morocco labels back with gilt lettering and devices, marbled end papers. Provenance; with the bookplates of Francesco Rizzo Patarol (1749-1807) front paste downs of Vols. I, III, and IV, whose noble family built the Rizzo Patarol palace in Venice which was at one time the seat of the Savoy embassy, then the French embassy. A Very Good Plus set, light soiling to vellum, uniform browning. Vol. I: xliv, 522 pp., 8 tables, 7 of them fold-out. Vol. II: (2), 566, (4) pp., 34 tables, 25 fold-out. Vol. III, 710 pp., 2 fold-outs at p. 34, plus engraved Metropolis of Scotland Colledge fold-out plate tipped in at p. 449. Vol. IV: (4), 560, (1) pp., 14 fold-outs. An oversize and heavy set, extra postage will be requested for priority mail or international orders. . First Edition. Vellum. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Sacre et couronnement de Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, dans l'Église a Rheims, le 11....
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Sacre et couronnement de Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, dans l'Église a Rheims, le 11. juin 1775 : précédé de Recherches sur le sacre des rois de France, depuis Clovis jusqu'a Louis XV ; et suivi d'un Journal historique de ce qui s'est passé à cette auguste cérémonie

by PICHON, Thomas Jean

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1775 ROYAL ARMS 1ed Louis XVI of France Sacred Coronation Illustrated Pichon

Louis XVI, King of France was the final French monarch, crowned in June of 1775. Author Thomas Pichon commemorated the event with an impressive, beautiful book filled with French history, biographical sketches of notable French kings, and illustrated scenes of the coronation. These 32 engravings provide an excellent portrayal of costumes and architecture that were common amongst French courts in the 18th-century.

This book is known to be highly valuable and desirable! It was printed and distributed to a SELECT few with the royal arms of Louis XVI embossed into the leather.

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PICHON, Thomas Jean

Sacre et couronnement de Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, dans l'Église a Rheims, le 11. juin 1775 : précédé de Recherches sur le sacre des rois de France, depuis Clovis jusqu'a Louis XV ; et suivi d'un Journal historique de ce qui s'est passé à cette auguste cérémonie

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Costumes du Directoire
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Costumes du Directoire: Tires des Merveilleuses

by A. Guillaumot fils, Victorien Sardou

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One of only 25 copies published in folio size with hand-coloured etchings on papier de Hollande
According to the publisher's catalog, this edition comprised "200 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande au format in-folio, dont 25 avec les planches coloriées."
The etchings by A. Guillaumot Fils (Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr.) were made from theatrical costume designs by Eugene Lacoste and Draner for productions of the comic opera Les Merveilleuses (The Lady Dandies) (1873) by Sardou. The costumes were based on contemporary prints from the Revolutionary era.
Second edition with 30 plates plus portrait, following the first with only 20 plates in 1874. The Merveilleuses is set in Revolutionary France during the period of the Directoire, 1789-1804, where Royalist Parisian society is led by the Incroyables and Muscadins, ridiculous fops and dandies, and Merveilleuses, outrageous women wearing classical Roman- and Greek-inspired robes in see-through fabrics. Engraved portrait of Sardou (by Guillaumot Sr.) as… Read More
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Annales d'Espagne et de Portugal, contenant tout ce qui s'est passé de plus important dans ces...
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Annales d'Espagne et de Portugal, contenant tout ce qui s'est passé de plus important dans ces deux royaumes & dans les autres parties de l'Europe

by COLMENAR, Juan Alvarez de

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1741 FAMOUS Colmenar Annals of SPAIN & Portugal CUBA Haiti MAPS Barcelona 4in2
Juan Alvarez de Colmenar's "Annals of Spain and Portugal" is a rare 18th-century history of the Iberian Peninsula and the political and military struggles between Portugal and Spain. Colmenar describes the current state of affairs, the influences of Spain and Portugal on the rest of Europe, and a chronological history beginning in the earliest tribes and Roman occupation. This work also served as a travel guide to 18th-century travelers in Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Burgos, Toledo, Seville, and many other cities.
This impressive 1741 edition is profusely illustrated with more than 160 engravings, plus 3 large folding maps. The maps display a city view of Barcelona, a map of Haiti and the Island of Hispaniola, and view of Cuba and the West Indies.
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Annales d'Espagne et de Portugal, contenant tout ce qui s'est passé de plus important dans ces deux royaumes & dans les… Read More
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Historical collections of private passages of state, weighty matters in law, remarkable...
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Historical collections of private passages of state, weighty matters in law, remarkable proceedings in five parliaments, beginning ... 1618 and ending ... 1649

by RUSHWORTH, John

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1680 English Civil War Rushworth Papers Charles I Cromwell England FAMED MAP 7v
John Rushworth was a 17th-century English historian who is best remembered for his work covering the English Civil War. Colloquially known as the 'Rushworth Papers', 'Historical Collections' is one of the best accounts of the reigns of Kings Charles I and James I of England.
This particular set of folios contains reports on the proceedings in Parliament from 1618 through 1649. It is especially notable, not only being a first edition, but it contains the highly coveted folding map of England – a map printed over an illustration of the Battle of Prague.
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RUSHWORTH, John
Historical collections of private passages of state, weighty matters in law, remarkable proceedings in five parliaments, beginning ... 1618 and ending ... 1649
London. Printed by J.A. for Robert Boulter, 1680-1701. 1st edition
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