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Britons and Muscovites or Traits of Two Empires, presentation copy to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
de Guild, Curtis
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very good overall
- Librería
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Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Author's signed copy to "Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, with the kind regards of his obliged friend, the author. Curtis Guild, Boston Feb 27, 1888". The engraved bookplate of Oliver Wendell Holmes's son with a nautilus shell and motto, "Per Ampliora Ad Altiora" indicating that the book was from his father's library, at the front of the volume.
The work includes wonderful detail on what to expect when traveling in Russia: "... no one is allowed to cross the frontier without proper authority ... it may be more difficult to get out of the country than to get in (p228). Also descriptions of St. Petersburg, the Winter Palace, Peter the Great, Moscow, Siberia, Nijni Novgorod, and Russia's power & possibilities.
8vo, xii, 230 pp. Green gilt cloth, private library paper label at base of spine, and handsome engraved library plate of the Berkshire Athenaeum at rear.
The work includes wonderful detail on what to expect when traveling in Russia: "... no one is allowed to cross the frontier without proper authority ... it may be more difficult to get out of the country than to get in (p228). Also descriptions of St. Petersburg, the Winter Palace, Peter the Great, Moscow, Siberia, Nijni Novgorod, and Russia's power & possibilities.
8vo, xii, 230 pp. Green gilt cloth, private library paper label at base of spine, and handsome engraved library plate of the Berkshire Athenaeum at rear.
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- Librería
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 25472
- Título
- Britons and Muscovites or Traits of Two Empires, presentation copy to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Autor
- Guild, Curtis
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good overall
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Lee and Shepard
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1888
- Catálogos del vendedor
- RUSSIA;
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