Everard Thornton (5 results)

From original texts and contemporary engravings by the author. This edition is limited to 960 copies for the United Kingdom. Large folio ed.with hand-coloured plates and b/w illust.XII+331pp. Some foxing to f.e.p., otherwise VG++;slight bump to upper cover. In cardboard slip-case, worn at corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Author Illus (illustrator). 1st. red c; 329 pages; Limited edition of 960 copies. small folio [29.5 x 23 cm]; xii, 331, [1], many illus, plates, including 5 colored by hand, colored vignette on title page, bibliography, a very good clean copy. Translated by Everard Thornton, from Besson's original which was based on early texts, the book contains numerous illustrations from contemporary sources. Illust rated by Illus By Author. F Limited Edition. Binding is H Hard Cover. 4to.

Hardcover. Maurice Besson (illustrator). Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering; 330 pp.; Profusely illustrated with 5 color plates and numerous bw figures. Missing dust jacket. From the original texts by Maurice Besson; Also includes engravings by the author; Includes writings about Montbars the Exterminator, Peter Legrand of Dieppe, Montauban of Bordeaux, Chevalier de Grammont, and others; One of only 960 copies in this edition. VG (Rebound) contents, clean and tight but with mild age toning to pages; darkening to end papers, likely from a paper laid in and removed; covers VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Red cloth binding with gilt spine lettering, virtually pristine. (2 blank leaves + half-title with trans. name to verso + t.p. with with brown subtitle and brown & red central ill. signed 'R. Grosser' and verso statement that this limited ed. of 960 for United Kingdom, with small pub.logo beneath + small tipped in note regarding colour ill. printing method+ col f/piece (XVIth cent map)+ 2 pp. Introduction with header and footer ills, verso number p.X, so previopus pp. inc.in pagination+331, 5 col plates ex-pagination (inc. f/piece and a further map), numerous text ills throughout on various sizes, inc. many full page, with headers and footers, these are un-numbered but fr. of jacket says 140, top edge orange. The only fault I can see is tanning to outer sides of endpapers off-set from jhacket, so probably common to all copies. Brown jacket with title to front similar to internal title-page with same brown (but not yellow) lettering and ill., not price-clipped but all wraparound corners diagonally cut as issued, minimally worn, 5 cm. tear from top back spine corner + associated top edge nicks now internally closed, otherwise no edge-wear, generally very clean, slight variation in intensity of colour but no obvious fading, trivial scatter of white pigment loss spot bottom fr corner and hints of slight spine rubbing, all this adds up to very little and given age it must be considered near-Fine, will add protective sleeve when ordered. 23 cm x 29.5 cm Weighs over 1.5 kg. so allow for extra postage & packing especially outside UK.

Hardcover. Condition: g to vg. First UK edition. 1/960. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 9 1/4"). XII, 330, [4]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Illustrated title page in red and black lettering. Book housed in its original paper covered slipcase. This handsomely produced translation of Besson's "Les frères de la côte. Flibustiers et corsaires," is a captivating account of the lives and adventures of the most famous French buccaneers in the West Indies. Maurice Besson tells us the kind of life the Filibusters led, of the women among them, and relates the exploits of such men as the Chevalier de Grammont, Nau l'Olonnais, and Ravenau de Lussan (whose diary of a voyage to the Southern Seas he reproduces in great part). Then the author leaves the West Indies and gives us a contemporary account of François Thurot who, at the end of the 18th century, caused considerable trouble and alarm to the English by his corsair expeditions in the seas around Great Britain. "The Scourge of the Indies" ends with the interesting story of d'Albarade, a corsair who became Minister of Marine in the French Revolution. This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with five full-page color plates and 140 half-tone illustrations in the text. One of 960 unnumbered copies for the United Kingdom. Slipcase age-toned and partly rubbed along edges. Some offsetting to endpapers. Dust-jacket somewhat darkened along spine. Slipcase in overall good- to good, dust-jacket in good+, binding and interior in very good condition.