Commines phillip de (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1892. No edition remarks. 399 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Book has slight forward lean.…

Zustand: Fair. 1894. No Edition Stated. 444 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Vol. II. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a prominent forward lean. Moderate water marks to boards and spine. …

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Complete in two volumes (early parts of the memoirs not being issued in this series). Two stapled booklets in printed light card wraps, with two maps. 8vos. Covers are a little rubbed at extreme edges and slightly faded in margins. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Pallas Armata (literally Armed Athena, and also the title of a 1639 treatise on rapier fencing) was a series of reprints of important period memoirs and historical works published specifically for members of wargaming societies during the 1990s. It was intended to make rare and valuable works widely available at reasonable cost. The series was published by Gareth Simon, himself a wargamer, of Tonbridge in Kent. …

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition thus. VG : in Very good condition without dust jacket. Cover edge-worn and scratched. 220mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). xl, 327pp; xii, 383pp. Danett 1596 translation. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Red/gilt hardback cloth spine over red boards.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Xliii, 397, (Vii); (Vii), 444, (Vii). Original Elaborately Blind Stamped Blue Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt. First Edition Thus. An Almost Impossibly Fresh Set, Bright And Clean, Gilt Brilliant, Slight Bumping To Spine Ends, Pencil Notations That Books Are From The Library Of Sir J. Gladstone, Books Entirely Unopened (Leaves Still Attached Along Upper And Fore Edges. ). "Philip De Commines Has Been Called The Father Of Modern History". (Scoble, In The Introduction). "His Memoirs Almost Make An Epoch In Historical Literature. He Is The First Modern Writer Who In Any Degree Has Displayed Sagacity In Reasoning On The Characters Of Men And The Consequences Of Their Actions, Or Who Has Been Able To Generalize His Observations By Comnparison And Reflection" (Hallam).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good or better. Later edition. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xlvii, [2], 2-399, [1], [3], 4-10, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements); [3], iv-vii, [2], 2-444, [3], 4-10, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with the Bohn's device on each front board, gold lettering and publisher's device in gold on the spines. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece. A contemporary bookplate on each front pastedown and an ink name from 1955 on the free front endpaper of volume one.…