HERVEY, Thomas KABAA
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1836réf. 021959London: William Spooner 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine darkened a bit so to top of front cover. Near Fine example of a scarce book beautifully bound. Robert Seymour . Small octavo 4" x 6-3/8" beautifully bound by Riviere and Son in full red morocco with triple gilt rules spine with five raised bands and gilt decorations and lettering gilt dentelles all edges gilt; original cloth spine and covers bound in at rear; iv viii 344 pages. Original endpapers and half-title present. Illustrated with numerous hand-colored plates by Robert Seymour. "Thomas Herveys THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS is remembered today for the wonderful illustrations by Robert Seymour 1798-1836 one of the most successful caricaturists of his time. Herveys text gives an exhaustive historical account of old English Christmas customs: some -- like the feasting on roast beef and turkey plum pudding and mince pies -- still flourishing; others -- like waits carol singing at night and mumming -- almost forgotten. Seymours illustrations completed just a few months before his suicide as he was working on Dickenss PICKWICK PAPERS capture the spirit and joy of the season. From the coach load of Norfolk turkeys to the sleepy waits singers in the light of the street lantern to the merry old gentleman enjoying Christmas by his fire he provides a delightful selection of holiday scenes. THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS first published in 1836 and reprinted the following year was an early attempt to record and preserve the old customs. As the Victorian revival of the holiday gathered pace during the 1840s many more histories of Christmas festivities and practices were published. They were often bound and illustrated as attractive gift books and so helped to establish a new tradition of the Christmas publishing season BRITISH LIBRARY. William Spooner hardcover books
1776réf. 802001776. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. In Original Wrappers Trial. Kingston Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Duchess of 1720-1788 Defendant. The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers In Westminster-Hall In Full-Parliament On Monday the 15th Tuesday the 16th Friday the 19th Saturday the 20th and Monday the 22d of April 1776; On the Last of Which Days the Said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston was Found Guilty. Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Printed for Charles Bathurst 1776. iv 176 pp. Title page preceded by imprimatur leaf. Folio 15" x 10"; 38 x 25.4 cm. Original wrappers untrimmed edges. Light soiling to exterior light wear to spine ends moderate soiling to edges light toning to interior. A very good copy uncommon in wrappers. $450. Only edition. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband Augustus Hervey later Earl of Bristol who wanted a divorce so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored she took an oath that she was unmarried and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew Mr. Evelyn Meadow brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. Famous because of this trial Kingston was often depicted directly or indirectly in popular and serious literature. She is believed to have been the inspiration William Makepeace Thackeray's character of Beatrix Esmond Baroness Bernstein in The History of Henry Esmond and The Virginians. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. English Short-Title Catalogue T92941. unknown books
1776réf. 784871776. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. London: Charles Bathurst 1776. The Colorful Duchess of Kingston Trial. Kingston Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Duchess of 1720-1788 Defendant. The Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy Before the Right Honourable the House of Peers In Westminster-Hall In Full-Parliament On Monday the 15th Tuesday the 16th Friday the 19th Saturday the 20th and Monday the 22d of April 1776; On the Last of Which Days the Said Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston was Found Guilty. Published by Order of the House of Peers. London: Printed for Charles Bathurst 1776. iv 176 pp. Title page preceded by imprimatur leaf. Folio 13-1/2" x 8-1/2". Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards rebacked retaining spine endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing light gatoring to spine small chip to head of spine corners bumped and somewhat worn small later bookseller ticket to front pastedown front hinge cracked another crack in text block between p. 176 which is lightly soiled and following leaf. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places owner name Horace Witner "1906 or 7" to front endleaf 19th or 20th-century annotations in pencil to endleaves some leaves have marks to margins in same hand lower corner lacking from leaves I4 pp. 35-36 and Ss2 pp.159-160 with no loss to text. $650. Only edition. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband Augustus Hervey later Earl of Bristol who wanted a divorce so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored she took an oath that she was unmarried and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew Mr. Evelyn Meadow brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. Sowerby Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 1957. English Short-Title. unknown books
1937réf. 021133Mt. Vernon: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Spines a little faded. Near Fine in a Good slipcase with neatly repaired split at the top edge. Edward Wilson. Three octavo 6-1/2" x 10" volumes bound in orange linen. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #473 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1788réf. 747801788. The Colorful Duchess of Kingston Kingston Elizabeth Chudleigh Hervey Duchess of 1720-1788. An Authentic Detail of Particulars Relative to the Late Duchess of Kingston. A New Edition. London: Printed for G. Kearsley at Johnson's Head No. 46 Fleet-Street 1788. ii ii 178 pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece. Octavo 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Later quarter morocco over marbled boards gilt fillets and title to spine. Wear to spine ends and joints and corners which are bumped front board partially detached but secure small armorial bookplate Carlingford to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior soiling and smudges to a few leaves heavier soiling to p. 178 light soiling to title page and frontispiece which has light edgewear and a short tear to its fore-edge with no damage to image. A good copy. $650. Second edition published the same year as the first. A final edition designated the third was published in 1790. Kingston was well-known for a colorful life of romantic entanglements and scandals. When she determined to marry the Duke of Kingston Elizabeth feared the scandal of divorce from her first husband Augustus Hervey later Earl of Bristol who wanted a divorce so she instituted a suit of jactitation against him. His negative response ignored she took an oath that she was unmarried and the court so declared her. She married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 and he died in 1770 and left her a substantial estate on the condition that she remain a widow. The duke's nephew Mr. Evelyn Meadow brought suit against her for bigamy shortly after the duke's death while she was traveling in Italy. She returned to England to stand trial. Found guilty she would have been "burned on the hand" but she claimed the privilege of her peerage which served to exempt her from corporal punishment. She continued a life of travel and adventure until her sudden death in Paris in 1788. The likely previous owner of this copy was the British nobleman and politician Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford 1823-1898 who served as President of the Board of Trade and also served on the Privy Council as Lord President of the Council. Dictionary of National Biography IX:730. English Short-Title Catalogue T93420. unknown books
1850réf. 62375Washington D.C.: Senate 31st Congress 1st Session Doc. No. 12 1850. Disbound pamphlet. 8vo. 25 pp. Four folding maps at rear. Very good. A descriptive account of the route pursued by US troops from Fort Smith Arkansas to Santa Fe New Mexico via the south side of the Canadian river in 1849 while escorting a party of Californian emigrants. GRAFF 3790 HOWES S-500 WAGNER- CAMP 192 WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 640. Senate, 31st Congress, 1st Session, Doc. No. 12 unknown books
1937réf. 018407Mt. Vernon: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Spines somewhat darkened. Near Fine in an intact Very Good slipcase. Edward Wilson. Three octavo 6-1/2" x 10" volumes bound in orange linen. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #540 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1878réf. 59495New York: Wheat & Cornett Printers 1878. First ed. 12mo. 63 pp. Mohawk River Valley New York romantic fiction. Wright III 3082a. Fine. Orig. illus. red wrappers. #6923. Wheat & Cornett, Printers unknown books
1933réf. 9016509New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1933. Hardcover. near fine. Decorations by Allen McNab. Rebound in half blue morocco with marbled boards and marbled end papers. Five raised bands on lightly faded spine. Spine stamped in gilt. Minor wear to extremities. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
1797réf. 004958Wilmington DE: Peter Brynberg 1797. New Edition. Hardcover. Paper darkened. One page torn with no loss; rear blank and endpaper partially present. Very Good. Duodecimo 4" x 6-3/4" bound with the half-title page in original sheep leather with a gilt-lettered red morocco label; 226 6 pages. Evans 32249. Hervey a popular and bombastic Divine had an influence on William Blake who painted "Epitome of James Hervey's Meditations among the Tombs." Two of the works in this collection--MEDITATIONS AMONGST THE TOMBS and THERON AND ASPASIO--decisively influenced the imagery in Blake's well-known poem "The Tyger." Peter Brynberg hardcover books
1937réf. 003888Mt. Vernon: Limited Editions Club 1937. Hardcover. Spines just a trifle dull. About Fine in an about Fine slipcase. Edward Wilson. Three octavo 6-1/2" x 10" volumes bound in orange linen with "The Artist's Note Upon the Lithographs" laid in. This important historical romance is here published a few years after its first publication with a new introduction by the author. Copy #1377 of 1500 numbered copies illustrated with 9 striking lithographs drawn on the stone by Edward Wilson and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1972réf. RVOGMOU00kwSierra Club 1972. Very Good. Voge Hervey H. Mountaineer's Guide to the High Sierra. Smatko Andrew J. San Fancisco: Sierra Club 1972. 356pp. Indexed. 16mo. Flexible cardboard covers gilt lettered. Book condition: Very good with some creasing near the spine. Sierra Club unknown books
1988réf. UHERSOL00twMichael Joseph 1988. Very Good. Hervey Albert. A Soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign 1833-43. Allen editor Charles. London: Michael Joseph 1988. 224pp. Illustrated. Glossary. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1988réf. UHERSOL00afMichael Joseph 1988. Very Good. Hervey Albert. A Soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign 1833-43. Allen Charles. London: Michael Joseph 1988. 224pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped spine ends. Subtly rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently bumped edges. Michael Joseph hardcover books
1944réf. 153282New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1944. First edition. Softcover. Advanced Reading Copy. Allens' second novel in his North American romance series. An about very good copy in wrappers with some fading and wear to the spine and with some edge tears and wear to the integral dust jacket. Uncommon in this format. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc unknown books
1929réf. 130837New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 168 pages. Copy 101 from an edition of 175. A clean very near fine partially unopened copy in a very good dust jacket that is moderately soiled and with some small edge tears and minor wear. Signed by Allen on the limitation page. Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated unknown books
1934réf. RALLANT00RJBFarrar and Rinehart 1934. Very Good. Allen Hervey. Anthony Adverse 2 volume set. Wyeth illustrator N. C. New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1934. 592 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Good with lightly rubbed and subtly bumped edges Light soiling on back covers and spines which are slightly sunned. Farrar and Rinehart unknown books
1883réf. 37287New York: Edward Schuberth & Co 1883. Hardcover. Good. Folio. 40 pp. 12 full-page plates reproducing thumbnail portraits of the musicians discussed. Worn; joints split; text block loose. Edward Schuberth & Co hardcover books
réf. 05781New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc. 1933. Publishers Weekly best-selling novel in the US for 1933 & 1934 ALLEN Hervey. Anthony Adverse. Decorations by Allan McNab. New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc. 1933. First edition first printing. Octavo 8 1/2 x 6 inches; 216 x 152 mm. xii 1-1224 pp. Title-page printed in blue & black. Publisher's blue cloth front cover bordered and titled in gilt spine lettered in gilt. Original printed dust jacket with $3.00 on front flap spine slightly darkened extremities of inside fold neatly strengthened. A good copy. The novel contains three volumes: The Roots of the Tree The Other Bronze Boy and The Lonely Twin and each volume contains three "books" making for nine books in total. The story follows the eponymous protagonist Anthony Adverse through several adventures around the world. This includes slave trading in Africa his business dealings as a plantation owner in New Orleans and his incarceration and eventual death in Mexico. The novel was the Publishers Weekly best-selling novel in the United States for two consecutive years: 1933 and 1934. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., 1933 unknown books
1955réf. acs243St. Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company 1955. Third Edition. Octavo navy blue cloth hardcover silver letters and illustration to upper cover 596 pp. Near Fine with darkened endpapers. From Preface: Since the last edition of this book was prepared many additional psychopaths have been observed pursuing their vivd patterns of maladjustment. A few encouraging reports of successful therapeutic measures have emerged. The number of patients concerned is however too small to furnish substantial evidence that a regularly effective means of dealing with the psychopath’s disorder has been discovered. It is my increasingly strong belief that the immediate and practical goal of all concerned with this problem should be to promote a general understanding that these people have a social disability that is real and extremely serious. Adequate means must be provided to control legally these severely disordered patients like those long ago provided and available today for far less incompetent patients of other types. Even if a truly curative therapy is never devised perhaps half the damage crime waste useless disorder and sorrow caused now by psychopaths could be eliminated by a reasonably wise use of such legal measures for control. The C. V. Mosby Company, 1955. Third Edition. hardcover books
1940réf. 555899New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Illustrated by Lyle Justis. 153pp. Edges with some fading else very good in a spine-sunned heavily worn good only dust jacket with splitting at the front folds. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1948réf. 463381New York: Rinehart & Company 1948. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate reproducing a painting by Andrew Wyeth. Publisher's beige cloth over boards. Front hinge is tender holding firm modest toning an attractive good or better copy. Rinehart & Company hardcover books
1929réf. 410231New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First regular edition. Gilt lettering on black cloth. Modest edgewear very good lacking the dust jacket. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
1924réf. 337918New York: The Century Company 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Rockwell Kent-illustrated bookplate else fine in near fine dustwrapper with some shallow chipping. Author's account of his search for romantic adventure mostly in the Orient. Many of the author's stories were made into successful movies including Shanghai Express. Lengthily Inscribed by the author in 1925. The Century Company hardcover books
1866réf. 281585London: Printed for private circulation 1866. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. Self-wrappers. 8pp. The Chamberlain Pedigree compiled by William Hervey Norroy King of Arms. Copied from the original roll in the possession of Joseph Chamberlayne-Chamberlayne includes coats of arms and royal descents of the Chamberlain family. Presumably prepared for the family. Horizontal and diagonal creases small ink stains on front wrap bottom left corner very good. OCLC locates no copies. [Printed for private circulation] unknown books
