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Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtschreiber.
by RANKE, Leopold
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Leipzig: Bey G. Reimer, 1824. First edition. Octavo. xii, 202 pp. Contemporary (publisher’s?) German paste-paper boards with black sand-grain cloth spine and tips, paper spine label with manuscript lettering. Housed in a quarter calf over marbled boards clamshell case with gilt spine lettering. Light spotting and foxing but overall a very good copy Ranke was one of the great figures of nineteenth-century European scholarship and a founder of modern historical science. This book, published as an appendage to his Geschicheten der romanischen, contains his greatest innovation. Ranke established that the materials from which the historian should construct his history ought to be, wherever possible, documentary sources. The proposition that serious history ought to be based on archival research and the large-scale publication of documentary source materials have their origins in Ranke's adoption of a new critical method. “Ranke first applied to medieval and modern history the critical principles which Niebuhr [Printing and the Mind of Man 267] had established for ancient history. He thereby set up novel standards of scholarship which have since become accepted by historians of every nation…” (Printing and the Mind of Man ). Printing and the Mind of Man 286
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4569
- Title
- Zur Kritik neuerer Geschichtschreiber.
- Author
- RANKE, Leopold
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bey G. Reimer
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1824
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2012
Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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- Spine Label
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- Gilt
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