egon caesar count corti (19 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Good with wear and markings. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.3.

Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. New edition (first published in 1931). Binding tight & square; slight wear to cover.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. (europe, history, rothschild family) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Small stain to base of spine and foxing to edge of text block. Ex-Libris sticker to inside cover from the library of Desmond Morris, renowned Biologist, Author & Broadcaster. Jacket has general wear and sunning to spine but is intact.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers. Paperback is lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges soiled, spine lean.

Zustand: Fair. 1928. No Edition Stated. 976 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Vol.2From the personal library of previous owner, with expected ownership plates and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have been moderately rub worn. Noticeable shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are bumped and a little frayed Spine ends are crushed, with noticeable splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.55.

First edition. Reading Copy. Book shows foxing around fine edges, binding coming loose, and the cover is worn.

Zustand: New. In.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. A good hardcover copy without dustjacket. Slight rounding to corners. A tan to page edges. Contents are otherwise clean and unmarked. Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. First English edition (first printing). 8vo. 295pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with a double blind border to the upper board. Illustrated with sixty-four captioned plates. Spine ends very lightly rubbed and with a little spotting to edges and occasional text leaves, but in the main confined to the margins. Some light partial browning to endpapers. A very crisp copy housed in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped, but a little spotted, tanned and soiled and with some unsightly internally repaired tearing and creasing to the head of the spine panel, but no loss of any significance. An interesting account of the history of tobacco. "Pope, Emperor, and Tsar fulminated against smokers, who were punished by imprisonment and excommunication, while the Sultan of Turkey slew them by the hundred" - an extract from the blurb which will be all too familiar to those of us who still delight in partaking of the leaf in the face of political and social condemnation.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. US First edition, translated from the original German by Brian and Beatrix Lunn. Royal octavo, pp xii, 432, illustrated. Bound in green cloth covered hard boards, gilt and black title box to spine. Book plate of Nathaniel Tarn, poet, translator and anthropologist, to the front paste-down. There is a black name stamp to the bottom edge of the page block ( "ERSKINE" ), otherwise the book is clean and is in Near Fine condition.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine binding. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good dust jacket. Second Printing. Two large 8vo volumes; in the publisher's gray cloth with titling and decoration in light blue to the spines, with dustjackets; the two volumes are through paginated;xix, [2], 3-406; x, 407-967 including the Appendix and Index; there are no marks in either book; an attractive set.~~The headline in the New York Times when the book came out in 1928: "Maximilian Was the Catspaw of European Ambitions; Count Corti Unravels the Sordid Intrigue which Led to his Fatal Mexican Adventure."~~The headlines in the New York Times are rather different today. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.

First edition in England. First edition in England. Illustrated. 1 vols. 296 pp., 8vo. "An excellent popular work"--Arents. Arents No. 2859 Publisher's gray cloth, near fine. Very Good Illustrated. 1 vols. 296 pp., 8vo.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First American Edition. 456 pages. Bibliography. Family tree diagram. Frontis illustration of Baron Lionel de Rothschild. ". Carries on the history of the House of Rothschild as revealed by the relevant documents up to the Peace that concluded the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. My aim has been to portray without prejudice or partiality the tremendous part which the House played in the events of the nineteenth century." - from Foreward. Prior owner's name upon decorated front free endpaper. Narrow two-inch opening between top of back board and backstrip else average wear.

Softcover. Zustand: vg. Later printing (Tenth Thousand). Quarto. XII, [2], 432, X, 457, [1]pp. Uncut. Original decorative wrappers over green cloth, with gold lettering on spines and blind-stamped armorial on front covers. Top edges red. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece in each volume. This work is a mighty canvas of turbulent, scheming, warring Europe and of that family of golden Titans who pulled the strings on which kings, generals and whole nations danced. Count Corti carries on the career of the great banking firm of Europe. During a century of revolutions the Rothschild family played a dramatic and leading financial part in the fate of nations. Dynasties changed, thrones toppled, rival houses fell, but their sway continued. This captivating work is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w photographic reproductions of portraits, views and documents. Slight soiling and minor creasing on wrappers. Wraps in overall good to good+, binding and interior in very good condition.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). pp.296. Publisher's original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 64 full-page plates including frontispiece. Some light occasional spotting mainly just to prelims., generally a very good copy. Translated by Paul England. Egon Caesar Conte Corti alle Catene (from 1919 Egon Caesar Corti) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army who, after the dissolution of the empire, became an author of biographies and histories, most notably about the Habsburg dynasty in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Reliure. Zustand: Très bon. 2 volumes reliures pleine percaline bleue de l'éditeur, 976 pages, pagination continue, avec de nombreuses illustrations hors texte, dont fac-similés. Translated from the German by Catherine Alison Phillips. Maximilien, Empereur du Mexique, 1832-1867. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) Size: in 8 (24x18,5).