ALBUM with handpainted coats of arms on vellum, cut out and

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ALBUM with handpainted coats of arms on vellum, cut out and mounted
on stiff paper. With 4 pen-and-ink drawings and 52 coats of arms, some
smaller drawings interspersed. 1 leaf, 23 leaves with contents, 13 blank
leaves. 12mo. Contemp. calf, gilt fillets and gilt inner dentelles, all edges
gilt (rebacked old spine laid down).
N. pl., 1865.
CHF 1250.-
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Charming gift album of delicately painted coats of arms, arranged two to seven on a
page. On first flyleaf, there is the handwritten dedication “Rosa Moilliet from her loving
sister E. Sophie Moilliet September 11th, 1865”, with the drawing of a dog and two
fowls. On the first leaf, another drawing shows a fantasy coat of arms made for the dog,
flanked by two gentlemen, with a gilt banderole “Cave Canem” and the picture of the
same dog above; underneath the text “Granted for deeds of valour done on the first of
September 1865”, in a different hand. Most of the colorful coats of arms are identified
above in brown ink, i.e. Barclay, Trussell, Beauchamp, the See of Canterbury, the See of
Worcester, Douglas, etc. The painter of these and of the drawings in between them was
more than an amateur, they are exquisite, in brilliant colors and gold. They are possibly
earlier than the date of the dedication suggests.
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ALEXANDRE, A(aron). Encyclopédie des Échecs, ou résumé
comparatif en tableaux synoptiques des meilleurs ouvrages écrits sur ce
jeu par les auteurs français et étrangers, tant anciens que modernes, mis
à l’usage de toutes les nations par le langage universel des chiffres. Title,
3 leaves, 51 tables, 1 leaf. Large 4to. Folded sheets, loose as issued. In
custome-made half calf box, spine gilt.
Paris, d’Urtubie & Worms, Causette, Café de la Régence; London,
Thomas Hurt, 1837.
CHF 1650.An early encyclopedic work on chess by a famous French chess master (1780-1847).
The introduction to the present work is in English, French, Italian, and German. Somewhat browned, some folds splitting. - Van der Linde, Geschichte und Literatur des
Schachspiels, II, p. 11; Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 1790; Hoefer I, 934.
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(ALLONVILLE, Armand-François d’, Alfonse de BEAUCHAMP,
and Alexander SCHUBART). Mémoires tirées des papiers d’un homme
d’Etat, sur les causes secrètes qui ont déterminé la politique des cabinets
dans la guerre de la Révolution, depuis 1792 jusqu’en 1815. 13 vols. 8vo.
Slightly later three-quarter tan leather, spines richly gilt with two green
lables (by Young & sons, Liverpool).
Paris, Ponthieu, 1828 (I-II); L.-G. Michaud, 1831-38 (III-XIII).
CHF 880.First edition of this detailed account of the campaigns against France from 1792 until
1815, published anonymously. They are not real memoirs, but a compilation from
historical sources. The Revolution occupies the first seven volumes. It is sometimes
assumed that copied parts of the unpublished memoirs of the Prussian statesman Karl
August von Hardenberg (1750-1822) were incorporated in this work. Hardenberg’s
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