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Book Condition: Used .
Seller: Librarium of The Hague

Netherlands
About Item: Berlin, Mittler, 1894. Hardcover. .. Crown quarto. Pp. x, 396. Plus fine aquatint heliogravure portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II, with his facsimile signature, as frontispiece. Plus engraved portrait of Friedrichs des Großen. Plus 6 superb chromolithograph plates, finished by hand, all printed on heavy paper, each with facing tissue guard, bound-in. Plus 10 folding lithograph maps and battle plans, mostly printed in two colours, some large, tipped-in or bound at rear. Approbation leaf with the Kaiser's facsimile signature. Footnotes, 7 appendices. Set in Gothic type. HARDCOVER, bound in the original attractive full cloth, cover elaborately decorated, royal regiment's crest gilt-stamped within gilt border, 4 large ornate corner-pieces, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; lower board blind stamped, foliage endpapers; minute signs of wear to spine ends. In fine condition. Handsome copy in a fine state of preservation. ~ Second, revised edition; the first published in 1889. A very impressive… Read More
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