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‎The Percy Society. Three publications bound in one ‎

‎London T. Richards for the Percy Society 1843 ‎

‎An attractive volume of Percy Society tracts bound together. Half leather with black label and gilt titles. Marbled boards. Contains; Edward F. Rimbault (Editor). Cock Lorrell's Bote: A Satirical Poem. From an unique copy printed by Winkyn de Worde. No 30 of the Percy Society's publications. Feb. 1843. Original paper cover (quite darkened and stained). The rest is in very good condition. 15 pages. James Orchard Halliwell (Editor). Westward for Smelts, an early Collection of Stories. Number 78 of the Percy Society's publications. September 1848. Cover, half title, title, list of Percy Society patrons, preface, original title, introduction, 63 pages. A little darkening but overall in very good condition. Edward F. Rimbault. A knight's Conjuring: Done in earnest, discovered in Jest by Thomas Dekker from the original tract printed in 1607. Percy Society publication number 21. May 1842. Original paper covers, half title, title, list of Percy Society patrons, preface, original title, introduction, xvi, vi, 100 pages. A little darkening to the title, otherwise in very good condition. 200 x 130 mm (7Ÿ x 5 inches). The Percy Society was a short lived British text publication society. It was founded in 1840 and collapsed in 1852. The Society was a scholarly collective, aimed at publishing limited-edition books of rare poems and songs. The president was Lady Braybrooke, and the twelve founding members of the committee included John Payne Collier, Thomas Crofton Croker, Thomas Wright, James Orchard Halliwell (treasurer), Charles Mackay, Edward Francis Rimbault (secretary) and William Chappell. Later members included William Sandys, and Robert Bell.‎

‎Old Norse Poetic Translations of Thomas Percy A New Edition and Commentary,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2002 Hardback, XIV+290 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503510774.‎

‎This study comprises a facsimile of the Old Norse poetic translations of Thomas Percy, with facing-page notes to allow the modern reader to situate Percy's work in its intellectual context. Thomas Percy was the first serious translator of Old Norse-Icelandic poetry into English. He published his Five Pieces of Runic Poetry in London in 1763 and in 1770 published his translation of Mallet's very influential work on early Scandinavian literature and culture as Northern Antiquities (with extensive annotations and additions by Percy himself). In publishing Five Pieces, Percy was influenced by the success of Macpherson's first volume of Ossian poetry (1760) and his own wide-ranging interest in ancient, especially 'gothic' poetry. Five Pieces had a mixed reception and was never republished as a separate work, but reappeared as an appendix to the second edn. of Northern Antiquities. Nevertheless, it was a seminal work in the history of reception and understanding of Old Norse poetry in Britain and it also has more general significance in our understanding of the development of the discipline of Old Norse-Icelandic studies. This work makes available to the modern scholarly community the work of one of the pioneers of the discipline and produces in easily accessible format a text that is currently only available as a rare book. The study comprises a facsimile of the 1763 edition, with facing-page notes to allow the modern reader to situate Percy's work in its intellectual context, together with an introduction on Percy himself, his work on Old Norse-Icelandic studies, and the contemporary context of the reception of Old Norse poetry in Britain (and to some extent in the rest of Europe). In addition, this study publishes eight other poetic translations (one from Old English and the others from Old Icelandic) that Percy completed about the same time as the translations now in Five Pieces of Runic Poetry, but did not then publish, due to the restrictions of contemporary tolerance for demanding or difficult 'ancient' poetry. This publication reveals his full range as a translator for the first time. Languages : English.‎

‎Reliure factice de trois ouvrages: 1) Manuel du Chirurgien d'Armée, ou instruction de chirurgie-militaire. XVI + 272 p. + 1 planche dépl. / 2) Pyrotechnie chirurgicale pratique, ou l'art d'appliquer le feu en chirurgie. 1811, 311 p., 1 planche dépl. / 3) (PERCY): Reponses du citoyen Percy, Chirurgien-en-chef de l’armée de la Moselle, aux questions épuratoires qui lui ont été proposées par la commission de Santé séance à Paris. A Metz, IIIe année répupluque,‎

‎Paris, chez Méquignon, 1792, 1811,1794/95 in-8vo, XII + (première série:) 41 p. (+ 1 blanche); (troisième série:) 34 p.; (seconde série:) 30 p. ((les réponses aux questions de la seconde série et de la troisième série ont été inversée par le relieur), rousseurs, reliure en d.-cuir du XIXè, dos avec titre et filets dores.‎

‎Titre au complet du Manuel de Chirurgien d’Armée.. .ou instruction de chirurgie-militaire sur le traitement des plaies, et spécialement de celles d'armes à feu; avec la méthode d'extraire de ces plaies les corps étrangers et la description d'un nouvel instrument propre à cet usage. Paris, Méquignon l'aîné, 1792, in-12 d'un, et 1 planche dépl. représentant des instruments. Édition originale. Percy insiste sur les premiers soins à donner aux blessés sur le champ de bataille. "One of Napoleon's leading surgeons, Percy laid down his principles of the practice of military surgery in the same year he was appointed médecin consultant of the Army of the North. He divised his own instrument for bullet extraction, the tribulcon. He was responsible with Larrey, for the invention of special ambulances and squads of litter-bearers." (Garrison & Morton). Garrison & Morton 2158.1 / V. Rozier 3346. ‎

‎Le Mans, vers 1830, vu par une artiste anglaise Elizabeth-Suzan Percy (Peintures, exemplaire augmenté d'un envoi autographe de l'auteur)‎

‎Presses de Jean Vilaire au Mans et chez l'Auteur Paul Cordonnier Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1970 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur blanche, illustrée d'une vignette grand In-8 1 vol. - 40 pages‎

‎Cahier de 54 planches en fin d'ouvrage avec des tableaux d'Elizabeth-Suzan Percy en noir (complet) 1ere édition, 1970 Contents, Chapitres : Présentation, 10 pages - Notices détaillées des 54 tableaux, pages 21 à 40 - Cahier de 54 planches - Lady Elizabeth-Suzan Percy, 1747-1847 est une peintre britannique couverture en bon état, à peine jaunie, avec des rousseurs aux coins des plats, intérieur propre, papier à peine jauni, cela reste un bon exemplaire, augmenté d'un envoi autographe signé de Paul Cordonnier, bien complet des 54 planches hors-texte‎

‎Madeira, Percy C, HUNTING IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA, 1909, Philadelphia, rare book‎

‎Short description: HUNTING IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA. Madeira, Percy C. Published by Lippincott. 1909 1stedition 1909 A detailed account of a classic 1907 hunting expedition in East Africa with many illustrations. Describes the hunting of buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS000919‎