Joseph Doblado (5 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover (rebound). Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Rebound in red cloth covers with gold lettering on spine. A basic rebinding job typical of library books; however, this is not an ex-library copy. The covers are worn and scuffed. The original text is tight and complete. The page edges are soiled, a bit stained and some of the fore edges are slightly nicked. , two of the blanks have tape residue stains where a 8 1/2" by 7" 1964 bookseller's receipt was taped to the papes by a previous owner, and there is moderate foxing and soiling throughout the text, and on the title page and a few other pages is stamped "Merchantile Library Phila." Despite the stated flaws, this still a good, tightly bound copy. ; The author is Jose Maria Blanco y Crespo who wrote "Letters From Spain" under the pseudonym "Don Leucadio Doblado". Joseph White was an Anglo-Spanish (his father was a British Viceconsul and his mother was Spanish) writer and theologian who left Spain to live in England in 1810. "Letters From Spain" is a collection of White's observations of late 18th and early 19th life in Spain, including his perspective on culture language and especially religion. Scarce first printing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xii, 483 p. pages. Illustrated by No Illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. 194x118 mm. XXIV, 423 S. Halblederband mit vergoldetem Rückentitel. Leicht berieben. - Erste dt.Ausgabe (Weller, Pseud. S.150; Goedeke VII,434, 19.,11 [Domeier]). Leicht stockfleckig. - Die Übersetzerin der Briefe, die das Spanienbild in England fundamental beeinflussten, E.L.Domeier (Breslau 1770 - nach 1830 London), frühere Schülerin Tiecks, war als Frau des Leibarztes des Prinzen Eduard nach England gekommen. Sie hatte sich der doppelten Diskriminierug als geschiedene Jüdin durch Taufe und Heirat entzogen, blieb aber ihren Überzeugungen, die sie als "Maskila" (C.Schulte, "Esther Gad, eine aufgeklärte Jüdin", S.134, in: Aschkenas 2024, H.34) in Breslau vertreten hatte, treu und zeigte dies dadurch, dass sie auch nach ihrer Heirat in ihren Veröffentlichungen das geb. Gad beidrucken ließ.…

Second edition. Revised and Corrected by the Author. xii, 432 pp. Letters written by a fictitious clergman "Leucadio Doblado" but with factual subject matter portraying sketches of Spanish manners, customs and opinions and giving an insight into the moral state of the country at a period immediately preceeding and in part coincident with the French Invasion. Other topics include: Cadiz, Seville and its Devotion to the Virgin Mary, Catholicism, Bull Fighting, Monks and Friars, Nuns, Andalusian Customs and Festivals, The Court of Madrid, The French Invasion etc. Written in the form of 13 letters + Appendix - An Account of the Suppression of the Jesuits in Spain. Text very clean throughout. Hinges cracked internally. Previous owner's small nameplate on fep. Tan half leather with marbled hard paper boards. Gilt lettering on maroon spine label. Overall condition VG.…

Madrid, Don Joseph Doblado, 1789, format small in-4° (192 x 140 mm) (8)nn pp (blank, engraved general title, typographical title, licencia) + 654 pp. Bound in contemporary half leather, smooth spine without title, boards covered in marbled paper. The book shows signs of extensive usage; resulting in a slight bulging of the central quires, thumbing at some pages and even papeer restoration of the margins of some much used pages. In general however, still an acceptable copy with a fine stainless engraved title with no ex-library markings. Second parft of a rare Spanish edition of this liturgical book for use by the Carmelite brothers and sisters.…