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A Huguenot Family 1536-1889: Des Bouverie, Bouverie, Pleydell-Bouverie
by Radnor, Jake
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0946053057
- ISBN 13
- 9780946053056
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2001. * Publisher: Foxbury Press. * Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title & armorial bearing to face & title only to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: B/w textually illustrated dust wrapper with coat of arms to face, title to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. No shelf wear to edges or to head or tail of spine. Seems little used if at all. FINE * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear. Illustrated end papers, (early print of Longford Castle.) No marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 78 pp. text. xi pp. epilogue, family tree, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: From their start with Laurens Des Bouverie who was born a Catholic near Lille (a part of the Spanish Netherlands) in the sixteenth century through to the death of the fourth Earl in 1889, this record of the amazing family history of the family Pleydell-Bouverie, details the rise from humble beginnings as an apprentice to a silk merchant up to the Governership of The Bank of England and ennoblement into the House of Lords in 1765, this volume is succeeded by "From A Great Grandmother's Armchair," written by the fifth Earl's wife Helen Matilda Chaplin. * A FINE UN-USED copy of the 1st./1st. with n visible faults. Fine dust cover now in clear un-attached protective jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9626
- Title
- A Huguenot Family 1536-1889: Des Bouverie, Bouverie, Pleydell-Bouverie
- Author
- Radnor, Jake
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0946053057
- ISBN 13
- 9780946053056
- Publisher
- Foxbury Press
- Place of Publication
- Winchester UK. 87
- Date Published
- 2001-04-13
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