Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as Related By Herself in Conversations With Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time. (3 volumes) [and] Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope Narrated by Her Physician. (3 volumes)(7 volumes total)

Description

Very good, light wear to joints, small scar to front cover of volume three of Travels, moderate foxing to endpapers and preliminaries, otherwise near fine, tight and unmarked. First editions. Uniformly bound in contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, spine is in 6 panels, gilt spine decorations and titles, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 12mo., 20×12.5 cm. The travels and memoirs of the famous eccentric English woman traveler in Syria, Palestine and Lebanon, in six uniformly bound volumes. Included is a good copy of the 1928 Viking edition of Martin Armstrong’s biography of Stanhope. Heavy set, will require extra shipping. weight: 7.8 lb. Henry Colburn. London. 1845 ; 1846. xviii, 394: vi, 384; vii, 361, [1] : xix, 372ix, 400, viii, 423 pp. Engraved frontispieces, frontis is hand-colored in volume one of Memoirs.