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1819rif. 9032703Edinburgh: Printed for Stirling and Slade and Archibald Constable et al. 1819. Hardcover. Very Good. In English. Originally published in 1756 this is the first edition with an appendix. "A New Edition Carefully Corrected Embellished With Portraits." Bound in half-calf with tan cloth boards spines stamped in illustrated gilt and red spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Illustrated portrait frontispiece in each volume. Text blocks are mostly in very good condition clean and bright with sunning to endpapers and very occasional and minimal foxing. Volume four has light water damage along bottom edge to roughly an inch in height not affecting text. Minimal wear to extremities barely through calf on less than half of the corners. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Printed for Stirling and Slade, and Archibald Constable, et al. hardcover books
rif. 3541Philadelphia: Childs and Inman Lith. 1833. Lithograph 10.5" x 8.5" plus margins. A scarce and very fine lithographic portrait of Fanny Kemble as Julia in James Sheridan Knowles' play The Hunchback after a painting by Thomas Sully. Kemble and her father toured the United States in 1832-1833 immediately following her much acclaimed performance as Julia in London. Both Sully's painting and this lithograph reproducing it were executed in 1833. The painting is owned today by the Rosenbach Museum and Library. Philadelphia: Childs and Inman, Lith., 1833 unknown books
1778rif. 375380London: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons J. Dodsley S. Crowder G. Robinson T. Cadell and T. Evans 1778. A New edition. Frontispieces in vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in three-quarters red morocco with marbled paper boards gilt borders and spine. Edgewear but very good. A New edition. Frontispieces in vol. 1. 5 vols. 8vo. Reprint of the standard English edition. Sully was renowned for his reform of 17th century French finance and for his promotion of agriculture. He opposed "the theory of the mercantile school and anticipated by more than a century the doctrines of the physiocrats" Palgrave. Coquelin & Guillaumin II 684 ff Printed for J. Rivington and Sons, J. Dodsley, S. Crowder, G. Robinson, T. Cadell, and T. Evans unknown books
1775rif. 263037Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. hardcover. very good. Small vignette with NB initials on titles and several other engraved headpieces throughout. XLVIII 180 188; 4 181-304 189-442 pages. 2 volumes 8vo bound in full contemporary brown calf; simple gilt-ruled spines with black leather labels worn at ends and with small ex-library tickets affixed; marbled endpapers. Amsterdam: Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume 1775. Nouvelle edition par M. l'Abbe Baudeau. A very good copy clean and tight. Scarce - OCLC lists only 7 copies. Each volume is in two separately paged sections numbered continuously between volumes: Memoires 304 pages; Observations 442 pages. Chez tous les Libraires de Paris & du Royaume unknown books
1861rif. 25926Philadelphia 1861. Half page. 1 vols. 8vo. Lined paper. Fine. Half page. 1 vols. 8vo. Thomas Sully 1783-1872 emigrated from England at the age of 9 and grew up in Charleston. He learned painting from his brother Lawrence whose widow he subsequently married and from his brother-in-law Jean Belzons; he later studied with Benjamin West in London. He moved to various locations settling in Philadelphia in 1808 where he quickly became its leading portrait painter a position he held until his death. This letter to the famous historian Benson Lossing is in response to Lossing's request for the character and appearance of "the late Commodore Decatur.he demeaned himself as a perfect gentleman. His form was perfect. I painted him for the City of New York 12 of July 1814." It is one of his most famous portraits now in City Hall New York. It is a full figure portrait with Decatur leaning on the hilt of his sword and with Castle William and New York Bay in the background. Edward Biddle & Mantle Fielding "The Life and Works of Thomas Sully 1783-1872 #450 Portrait of Decatur referred to here unknown books
1819rif. 291640Edinburgh: Stirling 1819. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. Frontispiece copperplate portraits in each volume. 8vo full contemporary brown crushed morocco ornately gilt spines marbled page edges. Hinges on volume 1 and 5 reinforced. Edinburgh: Printed For Stirling and Slade And Archibald Constable. 1819. A New Edition Carefully Revised. First published in English in 1756 this is the first edition with the appendix. A handsome set. Stirling unknown books
1638rif. 1353033Amsterdam Château de Sully: Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee Château de Sully 1638. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio 6 8 535 pages 8 448 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Full calf repaired with banded spine and gilt lettering. Boards show light wear to edges light plus bumping to top corners and light shelf-wear overall. Text-block has light plus soiling to top- and fore-edge and very light uneven age-toning. Hand-colored Author's devices on title-pages of each volume. Authentic first edition from the author's private press in the Chateau de Sully Sully's poem "Paralella Caesaris Et Henrici Magni" appears in both Latin and French in non-italic font not one of the many forgeries issued around the same time. RW Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1353033. Special Collections. Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee [Château de Sully] hardcover books
1638rif. 182049Amstelredam.: Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee & Graphexechon de Pistariste. No date but circa 1638. Contemporary full mottled calf raised bands gilt spine decorations marbled edges. Good corners bumped spine ends worn title pages and a few other sheets browned light dampstains affecting mostly the margins very little foxing a good copy in a nice contemporary binding. folio. French text. 2 engraved and hand colored title page devices showing three virtues and a crown of amaranth. Alethinosgraphe de Clearetimelee & Graphexechon de Pistariste. hardcover books
1756rif. 44515London: Printed for A. Millar in the Strand; R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and W. Shropshire in New-Bond-Street 1756. Fine. First edition in English extra-illustrated copy of this "instant classic" Carlile the autobiography of the minister and advisor to King Henry IV of France. Charlotte Lennox was born into a well-to-do Scottish family that fell upon hard times. Well educated and distinguished early for her poetic precocity - but left to fend for herself financially she turned to a career in writing. After publishing two novels THE LIFE OF HARRIOT STUART based heavily on her own experiences in the American colonies and voyage back to Britain; and THE FEMALE QUIXOTE for which she is best known today Lennox took up translation work in hopes of finding a more stable source of income. Among Lennox's most successful productions in her long publishing career this translation of the Duke of Sully's MEMOIRS also led to an offer of a royal pension for Lennox in gratitude for literary services performed. She turned it down in favor of her patron finding a government position for her husband instead. The Duke of Sully 1560-1641 was viewed by many in the Georgian period as an ideal Enlightenment-era statesman and his MEMOIRS has been read as a literary political treatise. It influence was broad including on the American Founding Fathers: it features in the 1783 list of books to be imported for the use of Congress compiled under the leadership of James Madison. This copy has been generously supplemented with nearly 200 engravings primarily of portraits and landscapes of the figures and places described. As a 17th-century text via an influential 18th-century translation in a characteristically deluxe 19th-century extra-illustrated binding it is a lovely hybrid artifact. Three quarto volumes 10'' x 7.75'' each. Nineteenth-century full maroon straight-grain morocco by Bayntun raised bands elaborately gilt-tooled spines large gilt cornerpieces and triple-gilt rules to boards. Gilt dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Extra illustrated with 193 additional plates: portraits landscapes dramatic scenes inter alia. Half titles in first two volumes. 4 540; 4 viii 555 1; viii 408 pages plus index. Only light rubbing to joints. Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand; R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; and W. Shropshire, in New-Bond-Street unknown books