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Vita et gesta Karoli Magni [edited by Hermann von Nuenar]
Cologne, Johannes Soter, 1521First printing of the earliest memoir of Charlemagne (742–814), written perhaps a decade after his death by a former courtier adopting the literary model of Suetonius’ Vita Augusti. The fine title-page illustration, depicting Charlemagne and Charles V together within a border charged with imperial insignia, and also the printer's device, and woodcut initials, were designed and cut by Anton Woensam von Worms (circa 1493/1500–1541).
Bound with San Giorgio, Benvenuto da, conte (1450–1527). De origine Guelphorum, et Gibellinorum. Basel, Andreas Cratander, [January 1519]
Bound with Buonaccorsi, Filippo, called Callimaco Esperiente (1437–1496). Historia de rege Vladislao, seu clade Varnensi. Augsburg, Sigismund Grimm & Marcus Wirsung, [30 May 1519]
Bound with Basse, Heinrich (fl. 1519) Panegiricos genealogiarum illustrium principum domiorum de Anholt. Leipzig, Wolfgang Stöckel, 1519 -
Wie vnd in wellicher gestalt Kay. May. Võ[n] Bruck auß gen Lunden in Engeland gezogen ankõm[m]en vnd Empfangen worden ist
[Augsburg], [Melchior Ramminger], [1522]A rare newsletter providing a day-to-day account of the visit of Charles V to London in June 1522, to confirm the recent alliance made between him and Henry VIII against Francis I of France. -
From my private diary, by Daisy, princess of Pless; edited with an introduction and notes by Major Desmond Chapman-Huston
London, John Murray, [1931](23 cm), xxiii (3), 346 (4) pp., frontispiece, [27] plates. Publisher’s cloth. - Memoirs of the society beauty Mary Theresa Olivia, née Cornwallis-West, consort of Hans Heinrich XV, Prince of Pless, châtelaine of Fürstenstein Castle and Pless Castle in Silesia. First edition. The American edition was entitled Better left unsaid (New York: Dutton, 1931). ¶ Front endpaper lightly offset from an insertion (since removed); inkstain in advertisements printed at end. -
George III and the historians
New York, Macmillan, 1959(21.5 cm), 304 pp. Publisher’s blue cloth binding. - Revised, 1st American edition (first edition 1957). ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
George III and the mad-business
New York, Pantheon Books, [1969](25 cm), xv, 407 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - First American edition. ¶ Hinges cracking; otherwise a well-preserved copy. -
King George III… With a foreword by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales
New York, McGraw-Hill, 1972(26 cm), xix (1), 411 (1) pp., colour frontispiece and [8] leaves of plates, folding genealogical table. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Very good, unmarked copy. -
The royal griffin: Frederick, Prince of Wales 1707-1751
New York, Stein and Day, 1972(24 cm), 232 pp., [4] leaves of plates. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - Biography of the colourful rake, son of George II and father of George III. ¶ Small defects to dust jacket. Good, unmarked copy. -
Sophie Dorothea : a biography
New York, George Braziller, 1972(22 cm), xii, 292 pp., frontispiece, [4] leaves of plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. - Biography of the consort of George I, King of Great Britain, 1666-1726. “The story of her life reads like a seventeenth-century scandal sheet” (publisher’s advertisement). ¶ Good, unmarked copy. -
Lines of Succession : Heraldry of the royal families of Europe. Tables by Jiri Louda. Text by Michael Maclagan
London, Orbis Publishing, 1984(30 cm), 308 pp., illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - An immensely useful work presenting the heraldic shields as well as the genealogy of all the royal families of Europe, from the eleventh century to the present. Detailed family trees, country by country. Revised edition of a work first published in 1981. ¶ Fine copy.
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