Count Cartrie (4 results)

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked red cloth boards, now somewhat dust-toned and with a uniformly sun-toned spine. Endbands rubbed. Edges, preliminary and final leaves foxed, with fainter scattered foxing to the margins throughout. Remains a strong and well-preserved copy overall. Physical description; lxxxi, 248 pages, plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes; With an introduction by Frédéric Masson. Appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot and other hands. Title vignette (coat of arms). Subjects; Cartrie, Toussaint Ambroise Talour, Count de 1768-1834. France History Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832 Personal narratives. France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Refugees. Royalists France Biography. Refugees England Biography. Gardeners England Biography. Gascoigne Collection. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked red cloth boards, now somewhat dust-toned and with a uniformly sun-toned spine. Endbands rubbed. Edges, preliminary and final leaves foxed, with fainter scattered foxing to the margins throughout. Remains a strong and well-preserved copy overall. Physical description; lxxxi, 248 pages, plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes; With an introduction by Frédéric Masson. Appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot and other hands. Title vignette (coat of arms). Subjects; Cartrie, Toussaint Ambroise Talour, Count de 1768-1834. France History Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832 Personal narratives. France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Refugees. Royalists France Biography. Refugees England Biography. Gardeners England Biography. Gascoigne Collection. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. All plates present: the frontispiece tissue guarded. Previous owner's signature to FEP. Some foxing to the endpapers but otherwise free. Gilt top to page block. Bound in red cloth with gilt inserts: top or the spine bumped, but binding sound; diagonal incised mark to the bottom of front board. Overall, a very good copy. All proceeds of ale go to LOROS, a Hospice Charity serving Leicestershire and Rutland. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lower half of spine cloth has come loose and has been roughly glued down along the rear joint. Moderate foxing. No signatures. A rough reading copy.; lxxxi, [3], 249, [1] pages + [6], 16 pages advertisements + frontispiece + 20 illustrations on 19 plate leavse. Red cloth boards with gilt crest on front board. Gilt illustrations to spine cloth. Page dimensions: 219 x 144mm. Top page edges gilt.; 8vo.…