Stael Holstein, Baroness De (19 results)

Condition: Good. 1968. Reprinted. 434 pages. White jacket over light brown cloth. Black and white frontispiece. Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Heavier to endpapers & paste downs. Text is clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Slight sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket. Panels have light edge wear with tears and creasing. Visible tanning to spine.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 148.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 148.

Facsimile reprint. Faint wear, still fine in fine, faintly toned dust jacket, in mylar cover.

pp.xxvi+434. 21.5cm. Hard cover in dust jacket. A good clean copy.

hardback, 8vo, xxvi,424pp, a scuffed patch on endpaper, some page corners creased, text clean and tight, brown cloth, Good condition / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 0900000074.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy, usual markings. 280pp., contents toned. Good for reading/reference.

First published by her son from the original manuscript in 1812. This new edition is introduced by Margaret Crosland. Pp. [iv]+xxvi+434, frontispiece portrait; demy 8vo; black boards, spine blocked in white and lettered in gilt, the boards slightly canted, top fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed and split, the backstrip lightly browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves slightly soiled and foxed; Centaur Press Ltd., Fontwell, Sussex, 1968. *In 1802 Napoleon decided that there was no room in France for both himself and Madame de Stael, and he therefore sent into exile the woman whose intelligent liberal views were potentially dangerous for him. At first she was banished from Paris, and later, after the suppression of her book on Germany, from France.' [wrapper blurb].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition (Facsimile). *** BOOK in very good clean tight and unmarked condition. Black boards with gilt tile in white oval panel on spine. xxvi pages original preface and modern introduction by Margaret Crosland, 434 pages. The book was writen during the years1810-1813, and was first published by the baroness's son in 1812. This edition, the second, is introduced by Margaret Crosland. The dust jacket is in good conditon, no chips or tears, the spine and upper part of front is sunned. Price clipped and now Trimsleeve protected. In 1802, Napoleon saw Mme de Stael as a political threat and banished her to the far flung capitals of Europe for ten years. This is a fascinating document of the times. Size: 220x145mm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 vols. in one. 7.75 x 5", gilt-dec green cloth, 408pp; 439pp, covers rubbed and abraded, extremities bumped and fraying, spine ends chipped, MISSING TITLE PAGE from first volume, pp well toned and chipping at edges. Probably the 1883 edition (see NUC).

New York: A.C. Armstrong, 1884. Original brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, 396 pages. Moderate wear to most edges and tips, a Good, sound copy.

First edition in English. Medium 8vo (235 mmm); xvi, 434, [2] pp. Trade binding of grey boards backed in green, sand-grained morocco, paper label to spine, rubbed, spine split and heavily chipped, edges very rubbed and well bumped in places. Pages untrimmed. Binding tatty but holding well. Book.

Full-Leather. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Translated from the French by D Boileau. Volume I. Book Condition. Both front and rear boards are detached. Internally some foxing. Pages are clean and page binding is good.

9 March [1817 in another hand]. Hedvig Gustava Albertina, Baroness de Staël-Holstein or simply Albertine (17971838), was the daughter of Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein and Madame de Staël, the granddaughter of Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, wife to Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, and mother to Albert, a French monarchist politician. Her biological father may have been the author Benjamin Constant. Albertina, still very much part of the de Staël circle, shared her grandfather's anglomania, and introduced her husband to the "erudite society that centred around that family". Victor de Broglie Souvenirs recall their married life and the political storms that surrounded it. Her letters were collected and edited by her son Albert and published in French and in English by Robert Baird as Transplanted flowers, or memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq. and the Duchess de Broglie, daughter of Madame de Stael (1846).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First U.K. Edition. Large octavo, 416pp. A very good copy, bound by Bradstreet's in turn-of-the-century 3/4 black morocco and marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. Outer joints scuffed, and the front hinge a bit tender, but holding. Mild even rubbing to the boards. Stately armorial bookplate of Robert and Mary Amory on the front paste-down. Early owner's name on the title leaf, partly perished due to trimming by the binder. Contents clean and bright. Bound without half-title, if there was one. Scarce volume by this early French feminist writer, in a signed binding.

First American edition. Two vols. bound as one. Full 18th century calf. A good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. First Edition in English. SCARCE. xvi, 416 pages. Introduction by Benjamin Constant. The First French edition was published in 1804. From the collection of Hiram Scofield, who in the 1800's held one of the largest private libraries in America, his bookplate front paste down. In contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red morocco label with gilt lettering and rules. Very Good, moderate toning, light rubbing at the tips. Baroness de Stael-Holstein was an avid opponent to Napoleon and an early feminist best remembered for her many affairs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

First edition in English. 2 vols, 8vo, original drab boards rebacked with tan paper spines and new printed paper labels, untrimmed. The first English translation of Madame de Stael's impressive survey of literature in historical perspective, De la Litterature Consideree dans ses Rapports avec les Institutions Sociales, a work that touches on pretty much all of Western literature from the Greek and Latin classics to Elizabethan literature and theatre, including a lengthy section on Shakespeare and the English novel and poetry of the 18th century. French writer and novelist Madame de Stael (1766-1817) was an admirer of England and made numerous literary friends there on her extended visits. Early round embossed stamp of a Boston church library on the title-pages; tear in the upper margins of the title-pages, to remove an early signature. Boards slightly stained; a few clean tears in the margins; very good copy.