comte a de la garde (5 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good (ex-library). Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. 428 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Chapman Hall, London, 1902. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have moderate edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Edges of pages are reasonably browned. Pages are lightly creased. Foxing on end pages. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; Inventory No: 21100149.

First edition. The journal of a nobleman visiting Brighton. With four full page engraved lithographs by Engelmann. Later half leather binding, with marbled boards. Gilt titles to the spine. The spine and gilt is somewhat rubbed, but the binding is sound. New end papers. Original green soft covers are bound in. These are slightly darkened, and there is the loss of a corner to the front cover. Half title. Frontis engraving of the Brighton pavillion (This was a relatively new building at the time, having been completed in the form presented by John Nash in 1822. The frontis engraving is moderately foxed. The rest of the book is lightly foxed / darkened, but the plates are clean. Plates are: Brunswick Terrace, (completed 1826 - curiously, the plate is attributed to Edward Finden after William Westall, c.1830 by the Regency Plates collection); Kemp Town. (the structure shown was begun in 1823 and not completed until 1855); and Brighton pier (This is the suspension chain pier, opened in 1823, and destroyed in a storm in 1896). 408 pages. 22cm x 15cm. Comte A. de La Garde refers to Auguste Louis Charles, le Comte de la Garde (1783?), a French aristocrat, author, poet, translator, lyricist, and man of letters. He survived the French Revolution and the subsequent wars, traveling extensively across Europe and keeping detailed diaries of his experiences. In 1827, he visited Brighton, England, and wrote a series of insightful and often humorous articles about his stay, which were published anonymously in the Athenaeum magazine and later compiled as Vignettes of a trip to Brighton (Brighton; scènes détachées d'un voyage en Angleterre). .

Couverture rigide. Condición: Bon. Pas de jaquette. 3 volumes In12 reliés en bon état, 287, 292 et 301 pages, 1843, ensemble bien complet, la table des matières du 3ème volume indiquant fin de la table du troisième et dernier volume (intérieurs frais en dépit de quelques quelques rousseurs sur les pages de garde et les toutes dernières pages, reliures robustes, première et quatrième de couverture conservées, quelques traces de taches sur les plats, pourtour vertical gauche du second plat du tome 1 décoloré). Envoi soigné.

First edition. Octavo (21 x 13.5cm). pp. [iv],407. With a frontispiece & three plates, all lithographed by de Thierry. Some foxing, not uncommon with this work, more so to the plates. However a pleasant copy bound in 1/4 French calf with label, marbled boards, gilt, lighty rubbed. Vg. [Ford p.360; Querard, Louandre & Bourquelot IV, 540].

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1834 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 431 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 431.