Bookplate: Ex libris La Rocefoucauld, duc de Bisaccia. No. 5 of 8 titles in v. with ms. table of contents and spine title: Mélanges historiques. Marine et colonies.
Publisher:
De L'imprimerie de Crapelet,
Subject (Name):
La Rochefoucauld,--duc de Bisaccia--Bookplate. and Vigilante (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Euro tracts--1823., Slave trade--Africa--History--Sources., Slave trade--France--Nantes--History--Sources., Slave traders--France--Nantes--History--Sources., Slavery--History., and Trials--France--History.
A coat of arms with a sort of scepter at the center with a star above and eight crosses in the border edge of the shield. Above the crest, situated in a crown, is the head of a lamb. A bundle of leaves and flowers surround the shield, and top center is the motto I Avance.
Subject (Name):
Bertram, Alex
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Armorial, Crown, Heraldic bookplates, Physicians, Shield, and Shields
A coat of arms, done up in red and dark green ink, featuring a lion at center, three triangles beneath the lion, and three scallop shells above. A knight's helmet is at the helm, and elaborate mantling surrounds the entire crest, with a second, smaller lion at the top of the image. Beneath the image is the motto Je Endure Pour Durer.
Subject (Name):
Burritt, Alice, b. 1888
Subject (Topic):
Amorial, Heraldic bookplates, Lion, Physicians, Scale, Scarab, Scholars, Medieval, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Seal, Shells, Shield, and Shields
"A masonic feast: in the centre of the room on a platform is an empty armchair decorated with a masonic symbol. Below it and on the right is a table with punch-bowl, glasses, candles, &c, behind which are the English members of the Lodge, some seated, others standing. On the left sit the French members, the most prominent being Cagliostro; all wear masonic aprons. ... "--British Museum online catalogue.
Alternative Title:
Masonic anecdote
Description:
Captions in French and English etched under each title, respectively., CtY-LW, Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, and imprint statement mostly erased from sheet; imprint from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdressers: Mr. Barker, King Street, Bloomsbury -- Opticians: Mr. Mash -- Interior of the Freemasons' Lodge of Antiquity -- Freemasons' symbols -- Furniture: dining table -- Upholstered chair -- Lighting: candlesticks -- Glass decanter -- Glass bottle -- Wine glasses -- Punch bowls., Thirty lines of verse in English below image on right, under the heading, "Abstract of the Arabian Count's memoirs": Born God knows where, supported God knows how ..., Thirty lines of verse in French below image on left, under the heading, "Abregè de l'histoire du Comte Arabe": Nè Dieu sait où, maintenu Dieu sait comme ..., and Titles in English and French etched above image.
Publisher:
H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Cagliostro, Alessandro,--conte di,--1743-1795--Caricatures and cartoons., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.