De Commines Philip (33 results)

Condition: Good. 1892. No edition remarks. 399 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free end…

Condition: Fair. 1894. No Edition Stated. 444 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Vol. II. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. vii 399p burgundy cloth, fresh and tight copy, very good, full title: "The Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lord of Argenton. Containing the Histories of Louis XI and Charles VIII, Kings of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, To Which is Added the Scandalous Chronicle. Language: Engl…

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book offers an intimate look at the life of a prominent figure in fifteenth-century France: Philip de Commines. A nobleman who rose to serve as a key advisor to the powerful Duke of Burgundy, Commines was a man of considerable political acumen and ambition. The book recounts his l…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Xliii, 397, (Vii); (Vii), 444, (Vii). Original Elaborately Blind Stamped Blue Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt. First Edition Thus. An Almost Impossibly Fresh Set, Bright And Clean, Gilt Brilliant, Slight Bumping To Spine Ends, Pencil Notations That Books Are From The Library Of Sir J. Gladstone, Bo…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 4th edition (corrected with annotations), [xv1] 348pp, contemporary calf with blindstamped ruling and motifs in corners, rebacked in lighter calf with raised bands and gilt lettered spine label, corners bumped, inner hinges cracked, a few light stains and otner marks, small folio (300x190mm),…

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 4th edition (corrected with annotations), [xv1] 348pp, contemporary calf with blindstamped ruling and motifs in corners, rebacked in lighter calf with raised bands and gilt lettered spine label, corners bumped, inner hinges cracked, a few light stains and otner marks, small folio (300x190mm),…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good or better. Later edition. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xlvii, [2], 2-399, [1], [3], 4-10, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [3], iv-vii, [2], 2-444, [3], 4-10, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with the Bohn's device on each front board, gold lettering and publ…

Condition: Very Good. 3rd English Edition. Third Edition from, Philip De Commines (1447-1511), considered the first truly modern writing and the first significant historian since classical times. The author spent time in multiple French courts including that of Louis XI and Charles VIII. His Histories was written with exceptiona…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH. 1 vol., folio, 11-3/8" x 7-3/4", (viii)364pp. genealogical table in rear, complete, title page within large historiate woodcut border bearing the royal arms and motto ("Honi soit qui mal y pense"), the crest of Burghley, and the printer's beehive device, bo…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 30 cm. Folio. Full contemporary calf. Rebacked and restored. Good binding and cover. Handsome woodcut title.[16], 366, [2] p. : geneal. tables. STC 5604. Philippe de Commines was an important writer and diplomat during the reign of Louis XI and Charles VIII of France. His Memoires provide a valuable p…