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Denkwürdigkeiten des Generals und Admirals Albrecht von Stosch , ersten Chefs der Admiralität . Briefe und Tagebuchblätter
by STOSCH, Ulrich v
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Stuttgart und Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. 275pp., [4pp.] advertisements. Frontispiece portrait of Albrecht v. Stosch. Text in German. Decorative mauve cloth stamped in gilt, black and two-tone gilt, gray marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Front hinge cracked, spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, a very good copy with embossed stamp and name penned on preliminary pages of a well-known American military historian and collector, Jay Luvaas. Also, being Hans Joachim von Loebell's copy with his name neatly inked on the half-title page. Hans Joachim von Loebell was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (with his letter contribution on page 251) who was a German politician and from 1914 to 1917 Prussian Minister of the Interior. This is a biography in letters of Albrecht von Stosch, the Prussian minister of state from 1872 to 1883, and was the first chief of the newly founded imperial admiralty as general of the infantry. A nice association copy.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 417034
- Title
- Denkwürdigkeiten des Generals und Admirals Albrecht von Stosch , ersten Chefs der Admiralität . Briefe und Tagebuchblätter
- Author
- STOSCH, Ulrich v
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
- Place of Publication
- Stuttgart und Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Biography, Military, History, AssociationCopy, DecorativeCloth
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
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