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Evelyn, John; edited by William Bray Memoirs Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. Author of the "Sylva," &c. &c. [Two Volumes (complete)]
London Printed for Henry Colburn 1818 First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Cloth bindings. Rebound. Volume II has faded and worn green cloth boards. Volume I has a faded green cloth spine, but black cloth boards after a second rebinding. Remnant of leather spine labels on cloth spines. 1/4" missing or frayed at spine ends on both volumes. Internally very good. Text leaves clean. Moderate foxing to plates. Hinges broken. Pencil marginalia on rear endpapers. Headbands missing or detached. ; Volume I: xxiii, [1], 620 pages + portrait frontis + 2 plates (1 folding) + 1 genealogical table (folding) + 1 plan of Deptford (folding). Volume II: viii, [4], 366, [1], [1], 335, [1] pages + portrait frontis + 3 plates. Title continues: "Comprising his Diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, The Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, Whilst his Majesty was in Scotland, 1641, and at other times during the Civil War; also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France, in the time of King Charles I. and the Usurpation. The whole now first published, from the original mss. in two volumes. Edited by William Bray, Esq. Fellow and Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries of London." Page size: 11 3/4" by 9 3/8". All edges gilt. Wide margins. A very readable account, taken from John Evelyn's diary. "I was brought acquainted with a Burgundian Jew who had married an apostate Kentish woman. I asked him divers questions; he told me, amongst other things, that the world should never end, that our soules transmigrated, and that even those of the most holy persons did pennance in the bodys of bruits after death, and so he interpreted the banishment and salvage life of Nebucodnezer; that all the Jewes should rise againe and be lead to Jerusalem; that the Romans only were the occasion of our Saviour's death [...] He was a merry drunken fellow." - Volume I, page 19. Weight: 6.0 kilograms. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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470.00 NZD
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Broad, John Evelyn Poor People Poor Us: Poveri Gen' - Poveri Noi
Wellington Harry H. Tombs [1946] First Edition Hardcover Good with no dust jacket Illustrated by Broad, Allen
Ex-library, "Invercargill Public Library". Library binding of green cloth on spine. Binding loose. A complete reading copy. No missing or detached pages. Library stamps and markings. Rear hinge broken. Some splitting to gutter at front hinge. ; [viii], 277 pages + 5 illustrations on 4 plate leaves + 1 double page map. Page dimensions: 176 x 118mm. World War II history. The story of a New Zealand who was captured by the Germans at Ruweisat Ridge and kept as a prisoner of war. "He tells unflinchingly, in grim detail, of the senseless barbarities of Fascist prison camps in North Africa, but the book also illumines the devotion of the Italian peasantry, and the love, loyalty and service given to the refugees by noble-hearted Italian men and women." - from the Preface. ; 12mo
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25.85 NZD
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