Töchter=Album: Unterhaltungen im häuslichen Kreise zur Bildung des Verstandes und Gemütes der heranwachsenden weiblichen Jugend.... XXXIX. Jahrgang
by GUMPERT, Thekla von
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Berlin: Verlag von Carl Flemming, 1893. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with ornate gilt lettering and elaborate gilt and grey decorative and pictorial stamping. xvi, 576pp. Color frontispiece, numerous full-page color plates, small illustrations, decorative endpapers. Very good. Internally fine, with just a touch of binding edgewear, mainly at head of spine. A wonderfully tight, handsome 39th volume of this annual anthology of prose and poems on a borad array of topics, entirely in German. Title translation: "Daughter Album: Conversations in the Domestic Circle for the Formation of the Heart and Mind of the Adolescent Female Youth." Gumpert (1810-97) was an influential German children's writer and this her best-known work, the first volume of which was published in 1855.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40334
- Title
- Töchter=Album: Unterhaltungen im häuslichen Kreise zur Bildung des Verstandes und Gemütes der heranwachsenden weiblichen Jugend.... XXXIX. Jahrgang
- Author
- GUMPERT, Thekla von
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Verlag von Carl Flemming
- Place of Publication
- Berlin
- Date Published
- 1893
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Children's; German Language;
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