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The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations; the Earl of Radnor Sir Walter Corbet Bart. and Others

1899Best.-Nr. 1024H21London: Printed for Her Majestys Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode 1899 . First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". None. The first edition of the Historical Manuscripts Commission"s extensive survey of Shrewsbury and Coventry manuscripts. In a contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards. First edition. Issued as the Fifteenth Report Appendix Part X of the Historical Manuscripts Commission and presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Queen Victoria. Parliamentary paper C. 9472. A detailed calendar of important municipal and privately owned manuscripts providing transcriptions summaries and descriptions of historical records dating principally from the medieval and early modern periods. Exceptionally early records include gild-merchant rolls dating from the reign of King John and bailiffs" accounts beginning under Henry III. Further reports examine manuscripts belonging to Sir Walter Orlando Corbet Philip Edward Tillard John Ralph Carr-Ellison the Earl of Radnor and Andrew Kingsmill. With an extensive index of people places and subjects. An extensive reference work for the history of Shrewsbury and Coventry. contemporary half calf binding with marbled paper boards. Externally generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in minor loss to calf with slight peeling to upper corners. The odd light spot to endpapers. Slight rubbing to boards Minor lifting to upper corner of spine label. The odd light scuff and handling mark to calf more so to spine. Hinges slightly strained but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned. The odd minor spot and handling mark to fore edge of first and last few leaves. Very light cockling to leaves. Pagination slip bound in between pages 142-3 with inscribed corrections to page numbers to head of page. Very Good Indeed Printed for Her Majestys Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode hardcover

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Flores Historicas. Extracto de la Obra Francesa de P. Larousse. Traduccion de A. Almeida. Copia de J.F. Pellon manuscript title

1884Best.-Nr. 1574Habana 1884. Good plus. 2496 i.e. 498pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf gilt a.e.g.; rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners repaired with later black buckram; boards scuffed spine chipped. Hinges cracked repaired with later cloth and renewed endpapers. Minor scattered foxing and toning to text. Accomplished in a neat highly legible hand. A very attractive manuscript translation into Spanish of Pierre Larousse's well-known work on eminent and historical personages Fleurs Historiques des Dames et des Gens du Monde in a contemporary Cuban gilt goatskin binding. The manuscript connects three figures in the upper social echelons of Cuban society. José Fernandez Pellon the scribe of this volume is recorded as the Grand Master of Cuba's freemasons lodge the Gran Logia Unida de Colón y la Isla de Cuba. The translator Aurelio Almeida helped to found the organization in 1875 and at this time served as the Lodge Secretary. The initials E.D. gilt at the foot of the spine and the dedicatory inscription "A Eugenia Desvernine" refer to Eugenia Desvernine y Galdós b. 1865 daughter of the famous Cuban pianist Pablo Desvernine and Carolina Galdós y Echániz. She was also the niece of Benito Pérez Galdós the Spanish realist novelist who some authorities consider only second in stature to Cervantes. A contemporary social register remarks that Eugenia was one of the most beautiful women in Cuba perhaps an inspiration for the painstaking production of this manuscript. The original work by Larousse was a loose collection of religious parables classical myths biographies of ancient and modern historical figures. The title of the manuscript advises that is an extract and in the brief introduction Almeida explains his selection process writing that "He suprimido algunos artículos sobre cosas muy sabidas de la historia sagrada; y otros sobre la de Francia que mencionan frases ó personas casi ninca citadas ó citades solamente por las escritores francesas." He also notes several alterations and additions more relevant to Spanish history saying "En Cambio he agregado algunos artículos sobre historia de España que no están en el original y he tomado unos pocos de otra obra del mismo Mr. Larousse y de libros diversos." The result is an original amalgam of biographies historical episodes and religious parables. Interestingly we find no recorded printed editions of Larousse's work in Spanish so that the present manuscript is also an entirely original work of translation. A fascinating product of the cultural interests and mores of Cuban high society near the end of the Spanish colonial period. unknown

McBride Rare Books · Vereinigte Staaten1.250,00 $≈ 1.116,77 €

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