Search Results: the history of charles xii king by de voltaire

First Barnes & Noble hardcover edition with complete print line. Tight, clean, unmarked. Minor surface wear to the dust jacket.

Folio Society, GB, 1976 VG/VG slipcase is clean and tidy, without blemish. sharp-cornered. inner volume is in sharp clean condition all pages present. no inscriptions or marginalia. the spine is sunned.

GB: Folio Society, 1976. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. In sound slipcase whcih is a bit marked. . 1st Thus. Hardback. nrFine/No DW.

Folio Society, 1976. hardcover. Very Good. . Former owner's nameplate inside front cover. Pages are clean and intact.

Morpeth: S. Wilkinson, 1808. A late translation from the Best Paris edition. Covers very scuffed and worn. Both front and back covers detached from the pageblock. Backstrip disintegrating. Pages badly dampstained and brownspotted. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. in poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:

Folio Society, 1976. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, octavo, bound in elephanthide parchment, lettered gilt on red to spine, dust jacket not called for. A tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text. Housed in a markedly faded slipcase. Illustrated, 285pp.

London: The Folio Society, 1976 Book. Very Good. Decorated Boards. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Voltaire's biography of Charles XII of Sweden first published in 1731, translated by Antonia White with an introduction by R M Hatton. 285pp with index, illustrated with black and white reproductions and maps to endpapers. Red and gilt crest to top board and gilt lettering on red panel to spine. Top edges tinted. Slight crushing to base of spine and tiny crease to one corner, otherwise very good/near fine copy with no inscriptions. Orange slipcase has slight fading to edges and small spot to one edge, otherwise very good..

London, UK: The Folio Society, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 286pp. Cream cloth-covered boards; gilt and red design on front, gilt titles on red spine label, peach coloured slipcase. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Slipcase sun faded. 8vo. Translated by Antonia White and with an introduction by R M Hatton, as Voltaire focuses dramatically on one main character.

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The Folio Society 1976. Folio hardcover (nr fine) in slip case (VG) illus; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

London: The Folio Society, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. London, The Folio Society, 1976 (first thus). Octavo, 286 pages plus 14 plates and endpaper maps. Decorated papered boards slightly sunned; an excellent copy in the slipcase (sunned and a trifle worn). Translated by Antonia White; introduction by R.M. Hatton.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: Folio Society, 1976. 1st edition thus in the 1976 Folio Society edition, 8vo, 288pp, photo reproductions of contemporary illustrations; with an introduction by R M Hatton, translated by Antonia White, cream-flecked paper-covered boards lettered and decorated red and gilt; VG Copy in VG Slipcase with very light wear to corners. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

D. Lathrop and Company, 1884. Hardcover. Acceptable. 9x6x1. NOTE: This is NOT the Folio edition. It is the 1884 edition published by D. Lathrop. Hardcover with green decorative front board and spine. Has some color loss due to insect damage on the spine and back board. The fore edges and pages are age-toned but clean, unmarked and the binding is sound. nice, solid overall copy that has a bit of character. Prompt shipping.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-01. Paperback. Good.

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1816. No Edition Remarks. 292 pages. No dust jacket. Brown paper covered boards with green cloth to spine. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have medium tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper Creasing to pastedowns. Paper worn away to rear pastedown. Water staining to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Staining overall.

Place_Pub: London: The Folio Society, 1976. very good in very good box. 285, illus., endpaper maps, appendix, index, slight soiling and wear to box. Introduction by R. M. Hatton. This biography of Charles XII was first published in 1731. Voltaire broke with the tradition of the biography genre of the period to focus dramatically on one main character, cutting ruthlessly all information which he judged irrelevant, tedious, or not fitting his conception of the central figure.

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