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in-8vo, qqs rares rousseurs, ex-libris en or sur cuir rouge ?John Roland Abbey? collé sur 1er contre-plat, magnifique reliure romantique signée ?Meslant? en plein maroquin rouge, dos à 4 nerfs avec titre et ornements en or et en noir, plats richement ornés en or avec aux milieux les initiales ?P. B.?, gardes et tranches marbrées. Meslant exerça durant toute la première moitié du XIXe siècle et ?uvra entre autre pour la famille d'Orléans dont Louis-Philippe. ?Colombat, Marc C. (genannt Colombat-de-l?Isère), zu Paris, war am 28. Juli 1798 zu Vienne (Isère) geboren, studierte zuerst die Rechte in Grenoble, musste, in politische Angelegenheiten verwickelt, nach Savoyen und in die Schweiz flüchten, wurde 1824 amnestirt und studierte darauf Medizin in Montpellier, Strassburg und Paris. Sein mechanisches Talent führte ihn zur Erfindung verschiedener Instrumente, z. B. eines solchen zur Amputation der Portio vaginalis uteri, das er in der folgenden Schrift: ?De l?hystérotomie.? beschrieb. [.] Lebenslang aber wendete er dem Stottern seine Aufmerksamkeit zu und indem er ganz richtig den nervösen Charakter des Leidens erkannte, suchte er dasselbe durch ein Verfahren zu bekämpfen, bei welchem besonders auf rhythmische Aussprache der Worte Werth gelegt wurde. Er hatte zur Aufnahme von Zöglingen ein orthophonisches Institut errichtet und erzielte in demselben solche Erfolge, dass ihm von der Akademie der Wissenschaften 1833 ein Preis von 50.000 Franken zuerkannt wurde? (Biogr. Lex.).Major John Roland Abbey (23 November 1894 ? 24 December 1969) was an English book collector and High Sheriff. He was the eldest of three sons of William Henry Abbey, a brewer. In November 1914, at the start of World War I, he was commissioned as a regimental officer in the Rifle Brigade, serving for two years on the Western Front in the 13th and 8th Battalions. He experienced a lucky escape as part of the 8th Battalion; while he was serving in reserve the battalion took part in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, losing all officers but one. He was gassed in November 1916 and spent five months recovering in hospital before being invalided out in October 1917 and demobilised in 1919. Abbey later rejoined the Rifle Brigade in November 1939, and served from 1941 to October 1943 as staff officer to the Admiral-Superintendent at Great Yarmouth. Although he left the army in 1943, he was awarded the honorary rank of Major in 1946.After leaving the army he became manager of the Kemp Town brewery, succeeding his father as chairman in 1943 and merging the company with Charringtons in 1954. On 7 June 1921 he married Ursula Cairns, with whom he had two daughters. In 1945 he was appointed High Sheriff of Sussex, a position he held for a year. His book collecting started in 1929 buying books from various Private presses, eventually gaining complete collections of books from the Kelmscott, Ashendene and Gwasg Gregynog presses. He also became interested in modern bindings, and in 1931 commissioned examples from Sybil Pye and, from R. de Coverley & Sons, a copy of Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer decorated with Abbey's coat of arms. He also collected antiquarian books, starting from the sale of Primrose's collection and building it up from 1936 to 1938 thanks to sales from the Mensing, Moss, Aldenham, Schiff, and Cortlandt F. Bishop collections, eventually holding over 1,300 books. He died on 24 December 1969 in London, and with the exception of manuscripts given to his family and a group of books donated to the Eton College Collections his remaining texts were sold for £993,509 between 1970 and 1975.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Haberling, Hübotter, Vierordt: Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker, II, p. 81; Relieur Resaut: Flety, Dict. des relieurs français . de 1800 a nos jours p. 128. ?Il fit également des reliures plus soignées et décorées et travailla pour. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 94006
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