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LES ÉTOURDIS by [Berry, Marie-Caroline, Duchess of]; [Andrieux, François-Guillaume Jean Stanislaus]

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Title: LES ÉTOURDIS
Author: [Berry, Marie-Caroline, Duchess of]; [Andrieux, François-Guillaume Jean Stanislaus]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Fine.
Description: Paris: Vente, 1816. Fine.. Royal wedding edition of this popular pre-Revolution comedy, issued on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Marie-Caroline and the Duc de Berry - and from the library of the Duchess herself, who famously sold her books after her failed coup in 1832. The Duchess's wedding occurred only a year after the restoration of the royal House of Bourbon in 1815, following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo. On that occasion, a special performance of Andrieux's 1787 play was performed for the Duchess, a devotee of the theater. This rare edition was printed as a memento of that event, which was to have massive implications in French history. The Duchess's new husband was the king's brother; after the Duc de Berry's assassination in 1820, their son became the heir apparent to the French throne. But when the July Revolution of 1830 deposed the Bourbons, the Duchess and her son went into exile. In 1832, however, the Duchess of Berry clandestinely returned to France to lead a rebellion, becoming "the most wanted woman in France" (Samuels). Her coup failed, and she was once again exiled; her story would later be dramatized in fiction by Alexandre Dumas as LES LOUVES DE MACHECOUL (1859). Realizing she would never return to her beloved library of some 8000 volumes at Chateau Rosny, she made the decision to sell it. It was then one of the most famous libraries in France, with a tremendous range in philosophy, history, travel, science, law, theology, fiction, and theater. This copy's binding and bookplates mark its provenance from the library of the Duchess. It was bound by René Simier (1772-1843), who "had no superior and few rivals during his career" (Ramsden, 190), with his ticket announcing him as "Binder to the King, to Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Berry and to His Royal Highness the Duke of Bordeaux." The binding is in the style the Duchess regularly ordered from Simier, featuring her gilt arms on the boards upon a carefully selected full morocco. It further bears the engraved bookplate of Rosny on the unusual pink endpapers. Books from the Duchess's library still appear with some regularity on the market today, but rarely with such a close personal connection to the Duchess herself. Contemporary full honey morocco, boards stamped in gilt with the arms of the Duchess of Berry, bound by René Simier (with his ticket, "Relieur du Roi, de S.A.R. Madame, Duchesse de Berry et de S.A.R. Mgr le duc de Bordeaux"). Pink glazed endpapers, all edges gilt. [4], 82 pages. Engraved bookplate of the Bibliothèque de Rosny on front pastedown; bookplates also of Alexis Rouart and Eugène Aubry-Vitet. Only trace rubbing and soil.

JAPAN DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE, VOL. V, DE LUXE ED by BRINKLEY, F.

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Title: JAPAN DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE, VOL. V, DE LUXE ED
Author: BRINKLEY, F.
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1897. BRINKLEY, F., ed. JAPAN DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE, WRITTEN BY EMINENT JAPANESE AUTHORITIES AND SCHOLARS, VOL. V, DE LUXE EDITION. Boston: J B Millet Company, 1897. No. 439 of 750 numbered copies (De Luxe edition). Elephant folio, 190 + [2] pp. + 8 large plates, being one color collotype (10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches), six colored albumen photographs (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches) and one mat-framed color plate (14 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches) with accompanying essay by Kakuzo Okakura. There are 20 additional smaller colored albumen photos tipped in to the text. Includes "Yoshitsune, Genghis and the Mongol Invasion." Some wear to dark grey decorated paper covered boards, light rubbing, corner wear. No stains, rips or tears. Japanese style cord binding, accordion fold pages (with publisher's notice laid in: Do Not Cut The Leaves). Extra shipping charges will be required for this large and heavy book.

An Essay on Translated Verse by Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, fourth earl

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Title: An Essay on Translated Verse
Author: Roscommon, Wentworth Dillon, fourth earl
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good with some age toning; front cover separated; wide margins.
Description: London: Jacob Tonson, 1684. First Edition.. 19th century cloth backed marbled boards.. Good with some age toning; front cover separated; wide margins.. 4to, [14], 24 pp. A1v mis-signed; page [7] mis-paginated. This is Roscommon's slim but important contribution to the restoration debate on the nature of poetry. It is in this essay that he first introduces the notion of poetic diction. The Essay is in verse. John Dryden contributed the introductory poem. Johnson noted that Roscommon, " ... improved taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be numbered among the benefactors to English literature." New Wing III, R-1930; Macdonald, #18a

A book of alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon drawn by Eric Gill. With a foreword by Douglas Cleverdon and an introduction by John Dreyfus

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Title: A book of alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon drawn by Eric Gill. With a foreword by Douglas Cleverdon and an introduction by John Dreyfus
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1987. First edition limited to 550 copies (this, no. 139 and one of 450 bound by Woolnough Fine Binding); 8vo, pp. 15, [1] followed by 28 leaves of letters and colophon; original quarter red cloth over decorative paper boards, gilt lettering on spine; fine in a fine blue paper slipcase.

Life of David P. Kimball and Other Sketches by Kimball, Solomon F.

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Title: Life of David P. Kimball and Other Sketches
Author: Kimball, Solomon F.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1918. First Edition. 128pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. David Patten Kimball (1839-1883) was the son of Heber C. Kimball and an early Mormon leader. Kimball was one of the three young men of the Sweetwater handcart rescue (1856). Later he served as President of the Bear Lake Stake in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. In 1877 he setttled in Northern Arizona where he served as first counselor in the St. Joseph stake and worked as a teamster. Flake/Draper 4622. Rare in this condition.

Mit Flugzeug, Faltboot und Filmkamera in den Eisfjorden Grönlands. Ein Bericht über die Universal Dr. Fanck Grönlandsexpedition by [ARCTIC EXPLORATION - GREENLAND] SORGE, Ernst

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Title: Mit Flugzeug, Faltboot und Filmkamera in den Eisfjorden Grönlands. Ein Bericht über die Universal Dr. Fanck Grönlandsexpedition
Author: [ARCTIC EXPLORATION - GREENLAND] SORGE, Ernst
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Berlin: Drei Masken Verlag, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in blue and red on spine and front cover; 184pp; illus; appendices. Light overall soil and wear; foxing to text block edges; Very Good, lacking the jacket. Prize label inside front cover, awarded by ther Gewerbeschule Lörrach to Ernst Roser, April 1935. Account of a filmmaking expedition to Greenland that resulted in the American-German co-production S.O.S. Eisberg (American title: S.O.S. Iceberg), released in 1934 and starring Leni Riefenstahl. With numerous photographic illustrations (cyan-tinted halftones) and a section of line diagrams at rear.

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