Peter will trans (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents, bookplate front pastedown, 358pp (4 volumes).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Hardcover Octavo no dust jacket. blue papered boards, silver lettering, 159 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. blue papered boards, silver lettering, 184 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First American Edition. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 368 pages; 1805 Penniman & Bliss, Lansingburgh NY. 1st American edition, after the London edition of 1799. Xxxvii; 368 pp. Full period speckled calf appears to have been artfully rebacked with original leather spine. Replaced red leather title label. Soundly bound and clean with a period prior ownership of a David Smith penned to front pastedown and a later 1860 penciled gift inscription to the front flyleaf. Occasional mild spotting or offset toning from vegetal material that had been laid in. E8 (pp 47/48) has had a piece of the page that was torn away mended with a quite old sewn/threaded repair; no loss of text or margin. Adolf Franz Knigge (1752-1796) studied Law, admitted to Court and served as a Civil Administrator in Frankfurt-on-Main. This is his chief literary work in which he lays down rules to be observed for attaining a peaceful, happy and useful life. Under the name "Philo" he was a very active member of the "Illuminati" Society founded by Adam Weishaupt, which later evolved in part to the Free Masons. Solid and well preserved copy and uncommon thus. VG. …