Eleanor castile (7 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Category: Archaeological Journal; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine original engraving with name printed underneath. Very attractive. Mounted and ready to frame. A excellent opportunity to purchase a splendid original antique portrait of a distinguished personage. Daughter of Ferdinand III, in 1254 married Edward I of England. She accompanied him to the crusades and is said to have saved his life by sucking poison from a wound. Engraved By Egleton (illustratore).…

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A fine original steel engraving, beautifully finished. Mounted and ready to frame, this is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Engravd By Egleton (illustratore).

Amberley Publishing, Chalford 2015. 412 pages. Illustrated in colour. Orig. soft cover. Near fine.

Amberley Publishing, Chalford 2014. 415 pages. Illustrated in colour. Orig. boards in dust wrappers. Near fine/ near fine.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. A splendid antique engraved portrait, circa 1870. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive and decorative.

1p., landscape 12mo. On aged and lightly-creased laid paper ('PRO PATRIA' watermark), with chipping to extremities. On reverse, in another hand: 'At Northampton a Monument at the Inn'. The note reads: 'This ancent Mounement was Erected to perpetuate the memory of Queen Eleon [sic] Consort to Edward the First Who in an Expedition against the Scots was Shot with a Poison arrow the Queen Extracted the poisen from the wound By Sucking it out By which means she saved the Kings Life But Lost her own - This Being almost Come to Decay By age was Rebuilt and Beutified By the worshipfull the Justices of Peace for this County in that Memorable Year 1712 when the Arms of England was Crownd with Succes under the Conduct of Brave and Renownd John Duke of Malbrow'. The poison-sucking story, popularised by William Camden, has no basis in fact, and the present document is an interesting example of how stories are distorted in folk memory. As perpetuated by Camden, the incident is supposed to have occurred at Acre, not in Scotland, and the poisoning is supposed to have involved a dagger, not an arrow; nor is Eleanor supposed to have died as a result of her intervention.…