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Souvenirs de Abraham Rösselet (1770-1850), lieutenant-colonel en retraite du service de France. Publiés par R. de Steiger

1857réf. 7398Imprimerie de J. Attinger 15 x 22 Neuchâtel 1857 In-8, reliure demi-vélin à la bradel fin XIXe, dos lisse, pièce de titre de cuir rouge encadrée de filets dorés, lettre "H" et chiffre "365" en queue, XXII-[2]-322-[2] pp. Portrait de l'auteur (Lith. Durheim) en frontispice de la première partie. Souvenirs publiés par Rudolph von Steiger à partir du manuscrit de l'auteur. Descendant d'une famille originaire du canton de Berne (Douanne) et de tradition militaire, Abraham Rösselet (1770-1850) s'engagea comme cadet volontaire à 13 ans dans le régiment Schönau (puis Reinach) à Phalsbourg (Lorraine) en 1783. Il est blessé à Paris (1789), puis se met au service de la Hollande. Sergent chez les chasseurs bernois (1796), adjudant-instructeur (1799) dans la 5e, puis la 3e demi-brigade helvétique, Rösselet participa à la première bataille de Zurich. Il servit en Corse dès 1801 dans le 1er régiment suisse (1805), puis fut commandant de place en Calabre (1806-1811). De retour de la campagne de Russie (1813), il fut lieutenant-colonel et chef de bataillon de la garde royale à Paris (1816-1831).(Source DHS). Ces "Souvenirs" constituent une intéressante et vivante contribution à l'histoire des régiments suisses aux services étrangers. Rösselet est resté plus ou moins au service de la France depuis Louis XVI jusqu'à Louis-Philippe, servant les Bourbons en 1789, puis lors de la première Restauration, mais aussi la France révolutionnaire et l'Empire par l'intermédiaire des régiments helvétiques. Provenance: bibliothèque des frères Raoul et Jean Brunon, avec leur ex-libris gravé par Benigni sur le premier contre plat et le tampon "Archives et collections, Raoul et Jean Brunon, 174, rue Consolat, Marseille (4e)", ainsi que l'ex-libris manuscrit de Jean Brunon (1890-1985) qui fut un des grands collectionneurs de la période impériale. Tampon humide "Bibliothèque populaire". Rare.(B49) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

Histoire et Société · Bordeaux, France700,00 €

Rösselet, AbrahamLivre Rare Book

Souvenirs de Abraham Rösselet (1770-1850), lieutenant-colonel en retraite du service de France. Publiés par R. de Steiger

Histoire et Société · Bordeaux, France700,00 €

Temple, Henry John 3rd Viscount Palmerston; Temple, Emily Viscountess Palmerston; Hayward, AbrahamBiblio.com

Lady Palmerston: A biographical Sketch - A signed presentation copy with letters from Lord and Lady Palmerston bound in

1872réf. 003726Privately printed. HAYWARD Abraham. Lady Palmerston. A Biographical Sketch. A signed presentation copy with autograph correspondence of Viscountess Palmerston and Lord Palmerston bound in. London reprinted by permission from The Times of September 15 1869; dated June 1872. Slim 8vo 21 pp. Contemporary full green morocco boards with dense gilt fillet borders and elaborate gilt corner and frame tooling upper cover lettered in gilt; spine gilt ruled. Rubbing to extremities minor wear at corners but a handsome and well-preserved presentation binding. Internally clean with manuscript material neatly bound in at the front. Very good. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Alfred Montgomery with the inscription leaf bound in at the front: "Alfred Montgomery Esq. with best regards A.H." Bound in with the pamphlet are five autograph letters addressed to Alfred Montgomery: four from Emily Temple Viscountess Palmerston and one from Henry John Temple 3rd Viscount Palmerston dated 1856 and signed "Palmerston". The Palmerston letter was written during his first term as Prime Minister 1855-1858. The Lady Palmerston letters concern social arrangements and engagements. The pamphlet itself was privately issued marked "Not for Sale" and printed shortly after Lady Palmerston's death in 1869. Hayward's sketch is one of the earliest biographical appreciations of her role within Whig political and social life. Alfred Montgomery 1814-1896 was a senior Admiralty clerk private secretary to Lord Wellesley later Commissioner of Stamps and Taxes and of the Inland Revenue and a well-known Victorian society figure. According to contemporary accounts he was a well known dandy that had 'known domestic trouble and been rewarded by non-domestic success'. He was clearly closely associated with the Palmerstons and both wrote to him personally with the letters that have been bound in. A highly unusual Palmerston association volume most likely a commemorative memento put together by Montgomery. The result being a privately printed biographical text authorial presentation inscription and contemporary autograph correspondence of both Lady Palmerston and the Prime Minister himself preserved in a presentation binding. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1872. Privately printed hardcover

The Plantagenet King · Royaume-Uni575,00 £GB≈ 686,75 €

America - Ortelius, Abraham (1527 - 1598)Biblio.com

Culiacanae Americae Regionis Descriptio - Hispaniolae Cubae Aliarumqe Insualrum Circumiacientium Delineatio.

1579réf. 200024AG1579. Antwerp Ortelius 1579. Original hand-coloured engraving. Plate Size: 49.3 cm x 35.3 cm. Sheet Size: 53.1 cm x 42 cm. Original map. Very good condition with some signs of browning to the outer margins only. Slight creasing to the top right coner of map. Professionally repaired tear to lower centre fold barely noticeable given the quality of the workmanship. Latin text on reverse. Broecke 14ab.2; Koeman III 95299610:31; Wolff America S. 95; Lowery 65. A pair of stunning maps from the late 16th Century Theatrum Orbis Terrarum showing the northwest Pacific coast of Mexico and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean. All these regions were first explored and settled by the Spanish in the 1490s and still under Madrid's control when Ortelius produced his renowned cartographic work. Among the settlements shown on the Mexican map are Culiacan and the Spanish settlement of Villa S. Michaelis with its cathedral clearly marked. Reliefs are depicted pictorially with mountains and rivers identified and a large forest/grove also shown. A large but narrow island lies just off the coast. Large decorative cartouche with Ortelius's characteristic ornamental straps lies of the coast with explanatory annotations in Latin text. Smaller title cartouche in the top right corner of map also. The map below illustrates the Greater Antilles including the Cayman Magnus and the Caymanes Cuba 'Aity sive Spaniola' Hispaniola Jamaica the Bahamas 'St. Jois Insula' St. Johns Virgin Islands and the Barbados Islands all in fine detail. Havana is clearly identified along with other major settlements throughout the islands. St. Lucia is just about included lying within the map border. The section of South Florida also shows suggestion of the Florida Keys which was uncommon for this era. To the west Yucatan can be seen breaching the map boundary. A decorative title cartouche beautifully adorned with two birds lies at the lower part of the map. Unlike the waters of the Mexican map above it the seas of this map appear choppy for the two ships depicted. Valuably laden Spanish galleons would have traversed these stretches of water bringing the riches of the New World across the Atlantic to Spain. Making use of a knowledge of Greek Mythology two particularly perilous areas are designated: amid the Bahamas a treacherous stretch of water is labelled 'Carybdis Magna' while off to the west of Hispaniola lies the dangerous 'Scyila Magna.' An interesting cartographic error is evident on both maps: the Tropic of Cancer is mislabeled as the southern 'Tropicus Capricorni'. Abraham Ortelius was a Flemish cartographer and geographer conventionally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Theatre of the World. He was one of the most notable figures of the Dutch school of cartography during its golden age approximately 1570s-1670s. unknown

Inanna Rare Books Ltd. · Irlande680,00 €

Laboulaye, Edward (Edouard Rene de) [Edouard Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye] / [Lincoln, Abraham]Biblio.com

The Election of the President of the United States Professor Laboulaye the great friend of America on the Presidential Election.

1864réf. 23032AB1864. Washington Printed for the Union Congressional Committee 1864. 8°. 14 pages. Softcover / Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some foxing. Unopened. Extremely RARE ! "To vote for Lincoln is to vote for Union and for Liberty". This is how this pamphlet ends in which Laboulaye urges the americans to vote for Lincoln instead for McClellan. But Laboulaye was even more important to the american people in his overall favour of this country as a leading role for freedom and future. He suggested the present by France which was later erected as the "Statue of Liberty" "In the summer of 1865 a group of Frenchmen were gathered together one evening at the home of the well-known author Edouard Rene de Laboulaye in the village of Glavingny a suburb of Paris. Among those present were Oscar and Edmond de Lafayette grandsons of the Marquis d' Lafayette Masonic brother of George Washington; Henri Martin the noted historian and French Mason; and a young artist from Colmar in French later German Alsace by the name of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi who at the time was engaged in making a bust of Laboulaye called by one biographer "America's most ardent admirer in France." Laboulaye told the group that it would be a splendid gesture on the part of all liberty-loving Frenchmen to acknowledge their friendship to America by presenting a fitting memorial. Some have speculated that he had a second motive in mind to call attention to the contrast between the American way of life with its freedoms and that of the French under the repressive Second Empire. The 31-year-old Bartholdi became imbued with the idea and also the challenge it presented to his artistic talent. But the proposal lay dormant during the autocratic rule of Napoleon III and throughout the destructive years of the Franco-Prussian War. In 1871 Laboulaye the Brother Lafayette with their cousin the Marquis de Noailles and the Marquis de Rochambeau along with Henri Martin revived the plan for the as yet unnamed memorial. They suggested that Bartholdi visit America and make arrangements for the presentation of the monument on July 4 1876 the Centenary of the Declaration of Independence. Armed with letters of introduction and full of high hopes Bartholdi sailed for America although it is said that he did not have even a rough drawing of the proposed monument. Two weeks later while standing on the deck of the ship Pereire steaming up Lower New York Bay he caught a vision of a magnificent goddess holding aloft a torch in one hand and welcoming all visitors to the land of freedom and opportunity. Quickly obtaining paper and brush Bartholdi sketched in water-color the idea of the Statue of Liberty substantially as it appears today. It was his thought to have this symbolic structure tower over the steeple of Trinity Church then the tallest building on the New York skyline. He wrote to Laboulaye "these outlines may well aim beyond the mere monument at a work of great moral value." MasonicWorld - By R. W. Robert C. Singer Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye French pronunciation: edwa ne lfv d labul 18 January 1811 25 May 1883 was a French jurist poet author and anti-slavery activist. In 1865 he originated the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States that resulted in the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He got the idea thinking that this would help strengthen their relationship with the United States. Laboulaye was received at the bar in 1842 and was chosen professor of comparative law at the Collège de France in 1849. Following the Paris Commune of 1870 he was elected to the national assembly representing the departement of the Seine. As secretary of the committee of thirty on the constitution he was effective in combatting the Monarchists in establishing the Third Republic. In 1875 he was elected a life senator and in 1876 he was appointed administrator of the Collège de France resuming his lectures on comparative legislation in 1877. Laboulaye was also chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society. Laboulaye was president of the Société d'économie politique. Always a careful observer of the politics of the United States and an admirer of its constitution he wrote a three-volume work on the political history of the United States and published it in Paris during the height of the politically repressed Second Empire. During the American Civil War he was a zealous advocate of the Union cause and the abolition of slavery publishing histories of the cultural connections of the two nations. At the war's conclusion in 1865 he became president of the French Emancipation Committee that aided newly freed slaves in the U.S. The same year he had the idea of presenting a statue representing liberty as a gift to the United States a symbol for ideas suppressed by Napoleon III. The sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi one of Laboulaye's friends turned the idea into reality. Wikipedia paperback

Inanna Rare Books Ltd. · Irlande680,00 €

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