This auction is for an original 1867 edition of "Joan of Arc, a Biography" Translated from the French of Alphonse de Lamartine by Sarah M. Grimke. Published by Adams & Co., Boston, 1867. First Edition. 108 Pages, including appendix and index. Measures 4 5/8 x 6 7/8" tall. Hardcover. Original brown cloth, gilt titles. Frontis Portrait and Map. Brown coated endpapers. All edges red. "A free translation, greatly condensed, of Lamartine's 'Jeanne d'Arc".
A scarce copy for the collector.
Saint Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc; ca. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII. She was captured by the Burgundians, sold to the English, tried by an ecclesiastical court, and burned at the stake when she was nineteen years old. Twenty-four years later, on the initiative of Charles VII, who could not possibly afford being seen as having been brought to power with the aid of a condemned heretic, Pope Callixtus III reviewed the decision of the ecclesiastical court, found her innocent, and declared her a martyr. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She is, along with St. Denis and St. Theresa of Lisieux, one of three patron saints of France.
Sarah Grimke (1792-1873); was an American abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. Daughter of an aristocratic slave-holding family, she became the first woman along with her sister who dared to speak in public for the Black slave and then for women's rights. Sarah wrote An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States 1836, urging abolition, and Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman.
Early reports of abolitionist meetings show the futility of their attempt and it wasn't until 1840, when Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were denied representation at the world abolitionist meeting in London that these two decided on the need for an independent woman's movement.
This copy is in good condition. The boards are solid and tight. Corners are rubbed, spine ends have a small chip with some loss. Some wrinkling on the cloth. The pages are clean and tightly bound. An occasional smudge mark. There is no writing or markings of any kind. No torn or missing pages.
An excellent addition to a library or collection.
NOT Remainder, not Ex--Library.
Clean, Tight, Bright & Very Gently Treated from Private Collection!!
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