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Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 16. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Leather binding; gilt borders; raised bands; gilt on spine; spine splitting; marble edges; internally fair. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Condition: Fair
Description: Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Decorative gilt stamped binding on front and back boards, both edge worn with marks and slightly dog-eared. Spine has gilt lettering and raised bands and is worn at edges, tape at bottom. Top page edge dusty and all edges have marble effect.Front board and spine panel are paritally detached from binding. Inside boards is green with library stickers. Small pencil mark on title page. Internal pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume 15. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Decorative gilt stamped binding on front and back board, both edge worn with marks. Spine has gilt lettering and raised bands and is worn on edges with tape at bottom. Top page edges dusty and all edges in marble effect. Inside boards green with library stickers, end page is detached. Small pencil mark on title page. Internal pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The combination of two works by the historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books is a novel purporting to be commentary on the thoughts and early life of a German philosopher, Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as 'God-born Devil's-dung'). The work is said to be a parody of Hegel and of German Idealism. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent figures in history, laying out the importance of heroic leadership. These works are written by Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher who became a leading writer of the Victorian era and exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature and philosophy. In the original brown cloth binding with marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. The odd mark to the board and two small tears to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Contemporary ink inscription to front endpapers. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Thomas Carlyle. Works of Thomas Carlyle. Chapman and Hall 1858-1888, London, 1858.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A collection of works by British essayist and historian, Thomas Carlyle. In the original publisher's blue cloth binding. This is a collection of seven volumes comprised of Sartor Resartus - Lectures on Heroes - Chartism- Past and Present [1888]; The French Revolution - A History (1888); Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Four Volumes in Two [1888]; History of Friedrich II of Prussia called Frederick the Great, in three volumes, c1888. Sartor Resartus - Lectures on Heroes - Chartism- Past and Present was dated using Jisc, from copies held at the University of Oxford libraries. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays was also dated using Jisc, from copies held at the University of Cambridge. History of Friedrich II was dated in a similar way, referring to copies held at the British Library. Sartor Resartus contains many different essays covering a number of topics. The Lectures on Heroes chapter explores the idea of the Hero as King, Priest and Prophet. Carlyle also refers to Chartism, with the condition of England being brought into question, along with the new era. Within Carlyle's Critical Essays, we are presented with ideas on Goethe, Burns, as well as German Literature and Playwrights. This collection includes three volumes of work on Frederick the Great, or Friedrich II, split into twenty-one chapters, or 'books'. These books go from Friedrich's birth and parentage, to his illness and death, whilst exploring various battles and personal events as his life unfolded. With a frontispiece of Friedrich II to volume one.The French Revolution volume covers aspects including the death of Louis XV, the constitution and different parliaments during this period. With a frontispiece of Thomas Carlyle. Stamp of Sidney L. Oster to the front endpaper. In the original, blue, publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with light rubbing to the extremities and the occasional mark to boards. Slight bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Light fading to the spine. Light age toning, offsetting and spotting to endpapers. Stamp of Sidney L. Ostler to the front endpaper of The French Revolution. Internally, firmly bound. Pages mostly bright and clean, with light age toning and the odd spot. Pages occasionally unopened. Slight spotting to the fore edge of The French Revolution. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Thomas Carlyle. The History of Frederick The Great. Frederich II. Chapman and Hall, London, 1858.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. Complete in 6 volumes, with numerous engravings, maps and a frontispiece to each book, this is the first edition the first issue rare in the original crimson gilt cloth in a large 8vo tall 8vo format with all the plates and maps and frontis pieces fine. a very good set with some minor wear issues however, the other sets are either rebound are later issues such as the American from Harpers The first edition set comes up rarely in international auction houses, and less often in Very Good condition. A note on the author and his book: Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the Sage of Chelsea, he became "the undoubted head of English letters" in the 19th century. James Anthony Froude called his biography of Frederick the Great "the grandest of his works." Ralph Waldo Emerson considered it "Infinitely the wittiest book that was ever written." He also called it "a book that is a Judgment Day, for its moral verdict on men and nations, and the manners of modern times." James Russell Lowell wrote that "The figures of most historians seem like dolls stuffed with bran, whose whole substance runs out through any hole that criticism may tear in them; but Carlyle's are so real in comparison, that, if you prick them, they bleed."
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.