PRINTED 1779 OEUVRES DU SEIGNEUR DE BRANTOME FRENCH HISTORY WAR RARE BOOKPLATE

Description

Up for auction is an interesting  set of books that belonged to
Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, M.D
. The title of the four volumes:
Oeuvres Du Seigneur De Brantome. Nouvelle Edition, confiderablement augmetee, revue, accompagnee de Remarques histories & critiques, & distribute dans un meilleur ordre.
Tome Dixième A Londres, Aux Dépens Du Libraire. 1779.
Pierre de Bourdeille (c. 1540 – 15 July 1614), called the seigneur et abbé de Brantôme, was a French historian, soldier and biographer.
All volumes contain the bookplate of Sir Thomas Charles Morgan (1783 – 28 August 1843
) " He was an
English physician and writer with an interest in philosophical and miscellaneous subject matter.
His wife was the novelist Lady Morgan.
He was the eldest son of John Morgan, esq., of Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury. After a sound preparatory education at Eton and the Charterhouse, he was entered at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and as a member of that college proceeded M.B. 1804, M.D. 1809.He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1809, and a Fellow 1st October, 1810. As a young man, he was given an annual income of £300.
He studied at Eton and Cambridge and graduated from Peterhouse in 1809. He established a medical practice in London where the focus of his work was the study of cowpox and smallpox. He was a friend and supporter of Edward Jenner He was accepted to the
Royal College of Physicians of London in 1810.
He married a Miss Hammond but she died in childbirth in 1810. Their daughter, Anne Hammond Morgan, survived.  With his daughter, he moved to Ireland after his wife's death where he took a post as physician to John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn.
Abercorn's wife, the Marchioness Lady Anne Jane Gore, engineered an introduction to the Irish novelist Sydney Owenson (1776–1859) who had become famous for The Wild Irish Girl (1806). She was several years his senior.
He was knighted in Ireland in 1811
and in January 1812 he married Miss Owenson, who would henceforth be known as Lady Morgan. "
Condition : Acceptable - Four volumes from a much larger set in original leather boards. Two volumes with cover boards detached remaining volumes boards weak, but holding. One volume shows damage to fore edge of paper  spine shows significant to head and heal with minor loss of leather. significant rubbing to corner and along the edges of boards. As always any questions feel free to ask.