Baudier Michael (5 results)

Written Originally in French.and Translated into English by W. Vaughan. [xxxii] 150 pp. 16mo, eighteenth century marbled paper boards, rebacked in calf. First edition. The frontispiece portrait is incomplete: the lower third is wanting, and the profile has been cut out in silhouette, as it were, and mounted to a new sheet. Small paper flaw to pp. 99-100 affecting four words on each page; old repair to title page affecing part of one letter; soiling and edge wear to first and last leaves; edges of boards worn.

First edition. xii, 192pp. Later half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints split, chipping to foot of spine. Book-label of James Dolman to FEP, scattered spotting. The sole English edition of French royal historian Michel Baudier's (c1589-45) moral biography of Margaret of Anjou (1430-82), Queen (and sometime regent) of England 1445-61 and 1470/1. As daughter of the Duke of Anjou and niece to the French King Charles XII, Margaret's marriage to Henry VI was arranged as part of peace negotiations during the later years of the Hundred Years' War. During her husband's later period of incapacitation, Margaret was the de-facto ruler of England during a period of immense civil instability. The culmination of the Wars of the Roses saw Margaret's only son - Edward of Westminster - killed at Tewkesbury in 1471, and with him any chance of success for the Lancastrian cause. As the preface to this work (reputedly by Thomas Carte) notes, the French original was one of 'two Histories of our Author still preserved in Manuscript in the Library of the Abbey of St. Germain des Prez at Paris', and had languished unpublished owing to 'the French' being 'generally little curious of any thing that doth not concern their own Country'. The closing sentences of the work neatly set out the intention of the author in his survey of her tumultuous life: 'The Calamities of her Life gave Warning then to the Princesses of her Time, that Fortune takes a Pride in attacking Crowns, and that the Grandeurs of the World are not a sufficient Protection to any Body from the Strokes she gives in her Fury'. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, A very good copy in contemporary full calf, the spine has been neatly rebacked. Small 8vo, [48], 150, [2] pp. and complete with the portrait frontis, early name on the title page. Covering an important period on the history of the golden age of Spain. Scarce.

First Edition in English. First Edition in English. Frontispiece portrait engraving by Thomas Cross. [48], 150, [2] pp. 1 vols. see pp. 100 for Peter Martyr; p. 102 for Peru; p. 91 for Columbus. Bound in full contemporary calf. Bookplate. Fine copy Frontispiece portrait engraving by Thomas Cross. [48], 150, [2] pp. 1 vols.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1625 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: 465 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: 465.