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Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley (Margravine)Biblio.com

Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach: Written By Herself RIVIERE FINE BINDING

1826Best.-Nr. 240826003London: Henry Colburn 1826. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. OVERALL CONDITION: VERY GOOD BOOK INFO Published in 1826 by Henry Colburn in London. First edition first printing. In mid-nineteenth century 1/2 black morocco over marbled paper fine Riviere binding: Five raised spine bands compartments with gilt emblems or lettering; top edges gilt marbled endpapers bordering in gilt. Octavo 9"x 6" VIII 430 pp.; VII 406 pp. Each volume with a frontispiece. Two volumes complete. This first edition of this autobiographical work from socialite author and playwright Elizabeth Princess Berkeley sometimes styled Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach. Published only two years prior to the author's death. She was an author and playwright perhaps best known for her travelogues. Early in her literary career she wrote a number of light farces pantomimes and fables some of which were performed in London. She knew Samuel Johnson and James Boswell and became a close friend of Horace Walpole who published her early works. CONDITION REPORT The books are in VERY GOOD antiquarian condition for 160-year-old binding. Square spines with firm hinges and joints. One gutter between flyleaves cracked. Rubbed extremities and joints. Corners bumped. Some pencil writing and partially erased pencil writing to blank flyleaves in volume I. Pages are quite clean and bright with the exception of some foxing to endpapers and frontispieces and an occasional spot or two of light foxing elsewhere. ABOUT THE BINDERY This lovely set was bound by hand by world-famous bindery Rivi re now Bayntun-Riviere of Bath England the last remaining private bindery in England that still uses the same antique tools and refined craftsmanship that it has since this book was bound by hand over 160 years ago. This 2-volume set was published between 1840 and 1860 as it is signed simply "Riviere" on the bottom of the first blank flyleaf. Henry Colburn hardcover

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Lasartemay Family (Berkeley, CA); Ruth Hackett Lasartemay; Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay, East Bay Negro Historical SocietyBiblio.com

Material from the Lasartemay Family in Berkeley. Cards from the East Bay Negro Historical Society Two Photographs of African American families in the Bay Area in the 1930s and a Post Card from Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay.

Best.-Nr. 63-4078Berkeley CA: Lasartemay Family 1933-1938. Four Cards. 4" x 2.5" from the East Bay Negro Historical Society Very Good. Two B&W Photographs 4.5" x 2.75" of African American families in the Bay Area in the 1930s One Good with creasing and minor stains the other Fair with losses tears staining. Two envelopes one addressed to Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay the other to the East Bay Negro Historical Society. Post Card 5.25" x 3.5" MS Signed from Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay Sept 26 1933 Good with staining.Provenance: Eugene Pasqual & Ruth Hackett Lasartemay Berkeley.Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay 1903-1993. In 1937 he earned a First Assistant Engineer’s license becoming the first licensed black marine engineer to sail from the Port of San Francisco. He was also active in a number of civic religious and historical organizations in Berkeley and Oakland. He was a co-founder of many black organizations in the East Bay including the East Bay Negro Historical Society Berkeley Branch of the East Bay Lodge #44 Men of Tomorrow Inc. Colonel Allensworth State Historical Park Berkeley Branch of the NAACP. He was an active member of the boy scouts serving as a Neighborhood Commissioner and Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop #43 and was awarded the scout’s highest honor - the Silver Beaver Award. He served as president of the United Consumers and Producers East Bay Negro Historical Society vice president of the East Bay Pensioner’s Club of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union and the Berkeley Branch of the NAACP and treasurer of the Fannie Wall Children’s Home of Oakland.Ruth Hackett Lasartemay 1902-1991She worked for 17 years with the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company between 1928-1944. She was active in many civic and women’s clubs in Oakland and Berkeley including the California State Association of Colored Women’s Club Inc. National Association of Negro Musicians Inc. League of Women Voters South Gate Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and was a co-founder and the first curator of the East Bay Negro Historical Society.Scope and Content of Collection Berkeley, CA: Lasartemay Family, 1933-1938. unknown

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