Peter the great (37 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. With remainder mark. Slightly dampstained. (Literature).

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Q5.

XV, (3), 285 pp. + 16 plate-pages. Publisher's hardcover, dust-jacket.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHY. Fine copper engraved portrait with a valuable 500 word biography of the eminent personage. Each plate is 8.5 x 5 ins, 22 x 12 cms. and will be mounted (matted) and ready to frame. The portrait is in an oval with biography underneath. Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov (1672 - 1725) ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from 1682 until his death. Engraved By Rothwell (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original duck-egg blue cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine, end paper maps. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 279 pp ISBN 0002116448. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book, in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).…

505 pp. + 8 plate-pages. Publisher's cloth. Dust-jacket mounted inside front and back cover.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait. From a print by J Smith after a picture by Kneller. Engraved By Holl (illustrator).

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved biographical portrait in the style of a miniature. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original steel engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. ca 1850. An excellent opportunity to purchase this splendid portrait of this famous personage. Published "under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge". From a print by J. Smith after a picture by Kneller. Engraved By Holl (illustrator). …

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine stipple engraving. Mounted and ready to frame, mount size approx, 13 x 11 ins, 33 x 28 cms. An excellent opportunity to purchase this delicate stipple portrait. ca 1840. From a print by j. smith after a picture by kneller. Engraved By H. B. Hall (illustrator).

Utrecht, 1996. 136 pp. B./w. ills. Softcover.

Bussum, 1996. Col. and b./w. ills. Stiff softcover.

Zustand: Fine. Second Folio edition hard back binding in publisher's original full venetian red Jacquard silk cloth woven by Van Heek-Scholco, with gilt lettering over black morocco label to the spine. Quarto 10'' x 6½''. Contains [xxiv] 532 pages, colour frontispiece and 29 colour and monochrome plates, 4 maps, genealogical table. Fine condition book in Fine pictorial slipcase showing Catherine the Great astride her horse, 29th June 1762, from an oil painting by Vigilius Erichsen, 1765. Member of the P.B.F.A. FOLIO SOCIETY.…

Zustand: Fine. First Folio edition hard back binding in publisher's original full scarlet Jacquard silk cloth woven by Van Heek-Scholco, with contrasting black morocco label. Quarto 10'' x 6½''. Contains [xxiv] 532 pages, colour frontispiece & 29 colour and monochrome plates, 4 maps, genealogical table, printed on Balmoral Laid paper. Fine condition book in Fine pictorial slipcase showing Catherine the Great astride her horse, 29th June 1762, from an oil painting by Vigilius Erichsen, 1765. Member of the P.B.F.A. RUSSIAN & SOVIET HISTORY.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual. C. 1790.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Fine original engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. An excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Attractive and decorative.

Stipple engraving, from Knight's "Portraits".

Hilversum, Verloren, 2006. 350 pp. Col. & b./.w ills. Softcover. (Amsterdamse Historische Reeks, Grote Serie, Deel 34).Academic dissertation to obtain the degree of doctor at the University of Amsterdam.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original engraved portrait. Mounted and ready to frame, circa 1820 A splended opportunity to purchase an original antique engraving.depicts Peter the Great , on horse.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid engraved portrait, printed in circa 1880. Mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraved portrait.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original antique engraved portrait . Mounted (matted) and ready to frame . Engraved portion approx. 5 x 5 inches, 13 x 13 cms. Very good condition. Printed in 1833. Rather attractive and a fine likeness of Turgot.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Attractive, decorative and unusual. C. 1860.

[Groningen, Instituut voor Noord- en Oost-Europese Studies, 2013]. 319 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (pictorial boards). - Sl. discol. (Baltic Studies 13). Tsar Peter's second journey to the Netherlands (1716-1717) is a neglected episode in our national history. During his maiden voyage, the Great Legation of 1697-1698, Peter was the "unsavory Muscovy bear", but in 1717 he was the powerful ruler who defeated Charles XII of Sweden. The western powers now had to take him into account. This book describes in scents and colors Peter's stay in the Republic and brings many spicy and sometimes spicy details of eyewitnesses to light. The book makes extensive use of material from Dutch, French, English, Belgian and Russian archives. - Dutch text. …

Amst., 1924. 14 pp. 3 b./w. ills. Hardcover. - With exlibris of the Scheepvaart Museum Amsterdam, spine slightly worn.

Bussum, 1996. Col. and b./w. ills. Cloth, d./j.Scarce hardcover edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Second edition, revised. Preface by A. Petrov. Small quarto. 44, [2 publisher's ads] pp. Text in Russian. With 34 monochrome illustrations. Half leather gilt and paper over boards. Leather heavily rubbed and boards a bit bowed, a very good copy. The text and illustrations are fine. A nicely produced volume, one of 600 copies printed.…

Zustand: Very good. London: Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge, MDCCXL [1740]., [1740]. Very good. - Octavo, 6-5/8 inches high by 4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in full calf with a black leather title label and decorations in gilt within raised bands on the spine. The covers are slightly rubbed and bumped with a minor chip to the head of the spine and a portion of the title label chipped off. [4], 346 & [14] pages, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece engraved by George Bickham the Younger (c. 1706â"1771), and an engraved head-piece, tail-piece and a formal decorated initial. There are two small pieces out of the front margin of page 3/4, without loss of text, and a small tear in the margin of page 65/66, without loss of text. Very good.Second edition, published in the same year as the first.From the library of Captain Colin Campbell of Kilberry, with his armorial bookplate with the motto "Ne Oublie Pas" signed "R.M." [R. Mountaine] on the front pastedown and the ownership names of "Kilberry" and "Minard" handwritten at the head of the title page."CAMPBELL, COLIN (d. 1782), of Kilberry, major of 100th foot, obtained an unenviable notoriety in consequence of a fatal assault committed by him on Captain John McKaarg (or Macharg), a brother officer, while stationed at the island of Martinico in 1762. The cause of difference is said to have originated at Jersey, where Campbell, at that time major-commandant of the 100th foot, was obliged to take the payment of McKaarg's company out of his hands, owing to the latter's pecuniary difficulties. On the arrival of the regiment at Martinico, McKaarg took every opportunity of vilifying Campbell, who demanded in writing an explanation. McKaarg replied in a curt letter. Campbell immediately proceeded to McKaarg's tent armed with a bayonet and a small-sword, and demanded satisfaction. McKaarg, having a broad sword only, endeavoured to evade a meeting. Thereupon Campbell struck him several times with his sword. McKaarg was compelled by his antagonist to beg for his life, and immediately expired. He had received eleven wounds, two of which were mortal. Campbell was arrested, and on 6 April 1762 was tried for murder by a general court-martial held at Fort Royal. He endeavoured to prove that McKaarg had fallen in a fair duel. On 14 April the court adjudged Campbell to be cashiered, and declared him incapable of serving his majesty in any military employment whatsoever. Pending the king's consideration of the sentence, Campbell escaped from the island. Owing to some informalities the proceedings were not confirmed, but he was immediately dismissed from the army. . The relatives of Captain McKaarg subsequently brought an action of assythment against Campbell, and ultimately damages. were awarded to them. Campbell chiefly resided in Edinburgh, where he attracted notice by his foppery, and was well known as an antiquated old beau. In the summer he visited Buxton and the other fashionable watering-places of the day. He died unmarried at Edinburgh in 1782, and his estate at Kilberry in Argyllshire descended to his nephew." [Quoted from the Dictionary of National Biography, volume 8, page 349]. The Oxford Dictionary of Biography gives Campbell's death date as 1798."The action of assythment is now no more than a legal antiquity, but in 1767 we find its scope and character were the subject of much discussion in the Court. It appears that while the 100th Regiment of Foot had been fighting the French in Martinique, Captain Colin Campbell of Kilberry had killed Captain Macharg, a brother officer, in a quarrel. For this offence he was cashiered by sentence of court-martial. Captain Macharg's relatives brought an action of assythment in the Court of Session. In the defence of Captain Campbell it was pled that assythment was a proceeding for infliction of a fine and not for payment of damages, and that Captain Campbell having already been tried and punished could be liable to no further legal procee.…

First edition of this comprehensive account of the Tsar who transformed Russia from a medieval autocracy into a major European power through military conquest, sweeping administrative reform, and his legendary personal pursuit of Western technical knowledge. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt numbers and ruling to the spines in six compartments within raised bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, red speckling to the edges, turn-ins stamped in blind, frontispiece, illustrated with engraved portraits, decorations, and a folding map of the Russian Empire. In very good condition. The History of the Life of Peter I, Emperor of Russia (London, 1739) is a three-volume biographical and historical work by John Mottley (1692-1750), the English playwright, biographer, and historian whose literary career encompassed dramatic works for the London stage alongside historical compilations of considerable scope and industry. Published in the year that marked the centenary of Peter the Great's birth, the work stands as the most comprehensive English-language life of the Russian emperor produced in the eighteenth century, drawing on the accounts of European diplomats, military officers, and travelers who had direct access to Peter's court, as well as on the growing body of continental European scholarship on the Russian empire that had accumulated in the decades following the Tsar's death in 1725. Peter I (1672-1725), who transformed Russia from a backward medieval state into a major European power through his military campaigns against Sweden and the Ottoman Empire, his administrative and ecclesiastical reforms, his founding of St. Petersburg as a western-facing imperial capital, and his personal expeditions to the workshops and shipyards of Western Europe in search of technical knowledge to bring home, was a figure of enormous fascination to eighteenth-century European readers, and Mottley's work met a genuine appetite for a comprehensive and accessible account of a reign that had altered the geopolitical landscape of the continent.…