Cavour Count (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis Portrait (illustrator). 1st. First American Edition; Trans By Ian F.D. Morrow & Muriel M. Morrow;307 clean, unmarked pages; grey c w/paper label.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Pound (illustrator). A splendid antique engraved portrait, Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Italian Statesman and restorer of Italian nationality.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original engraving, printed ca. 1890. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Pound (illustrator). A fine original engraved portrait, with name printed underneath. c. 1870. Very attractive and decorative. Mounted and ready to frame. A excellent opportunity to purchase a splendid original antique portrait.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Pound (illustrator). A splendid antique engraved portrait, Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Italian Statesman and restorer of Italian nationality.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By Pound (illustrator). A splendid antique engraved portrait, size 10.5 x 7 ins, 27 x 18 cms. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Italian Statesman and restorer of Italian nationality.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, size 10.5 x 7 ins, 27 x 18 cms. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Italian Statesman and restorer of Italian nationality.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Engraved By D.J.Pound (illustrator). A fine original steel engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An Italian statesman, premier of the newly-constituted kingdom of Italy. The main objects of his life were the unification of Italy and the spoliation of the Christian Church.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Green Binding. Spine damaged top and bottom. Title page detached but present with previous owner's name, John MacNaughten inscribed in ink.Bookplate of Charles Lesley Ames and Linda Baker Ames on front pastedown.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1890. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1860. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Description: Green cloth with gilt titles to front. Language: English. Book Condition> Very Good: Light wear to lightly bruised corners, edges and spine ends. Tightly bound with lightly soiled lower edges. Intact endpapers with strong hinges. Prev owners name to front paste down. Lightly age toned unmarked pages and text block edges. DJ Condition> No DJ. 110pp. Size: 8vo 19.5cm by 12.5cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small 8vo. Pp, xi, 110. Original cloth, gilt. A sound, tight copy from the library of Tarradale House with bookplate to front paste-down endpaper. Signed and dated (Dec.1868)presentation copy from the translator to Prof. William Blackie , who has appended on a rear fly leaf a rough index of points of interest to him.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition (in English). 157 pp. Black cloth binding, gold titles, rough-cut pages. Adolphe-Marie-Pierre de Circourt (1801-79), married Anastasie de Klustine in 1830. On their return from foreign travel to Paris in 1836 they established a successful salon at 11 rue des Saussaies until the death of Madame de Circourt in 1863. The Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman, who worked with Napoleon III to eventually roust the Austrians from Lombardy. These are the intimate letters, translated from the French by Arthur John Butler, between the Count of Cavour and Mme. de Circourt, published posthumously. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. Frontispiece portrait of Mme. de Circourt. Very good condition. Scarce.

1p, 12mo. On the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium, the rest being blank. In good condition, lightly aged, with a hole on a blank part of the paper at the foot of the first leaf. Neatly written and signed 'C. Cavour'. Cavour begins by taking up an offer by the unnamed recipient, by asking him to convey a letter to his rival Massimo Taparelli, Marquess of Azeglio (1798-1866), Prime Minister of Sardinia. He hopes that on the recipient's return from London he will employ his pen ' con quell'efficacia che le e propria' in the service of the cause of unification of Italy, by writing in the most powerful 'organo de' pubblicita' which has ever existed [The Times?]. He ends with good wishes for the journey. The letter reads: 'Preg. Sig. | Approfittando della gentile Sua profferta le mando que' compriegata una lettera pel Marchesa d'Azeglio. | Spero che al tuo ritorno da Londra [?] la penna per patrocinare con quell'efficacia che le e propria la causa dell'unificazione d'Italia nel piu potente organo de' pubblicita che abbia mai esistito | Le auguro bouon viaggio e le [?] gli atti della distinta mia Stima.'.