German crown prince (14 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good to Fine. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Rebound, some wear to the leather and foxing to the endpapers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy in Green Cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover.There is some uneven colouring/fading to the green outer boards.With Green endpapers.Illustrated with some 40 plates including a colour frontispiece.Binding remains firm with no hinge weakness and the contents remain clean internally.A decent copy for the collector that was acquired from a hugely impressive library of books on Big Game Hunting and shooting in the UK Asia,The Far East,America,Canada,Africa and New Zealand,8vo 131pp First Edition [1912].…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. The first English edition of this hunting work by the Prince Crown of the German Empire and of Prussia, with original black and white mounted plates. The first English edition of this work, translated from the German by J. E. Hodder Williams. A record of the Crown Prince of the German Empire and of Prussia's own hunting diary, with accounts of nature and hunting experiences such as hunting elephants in Ceylon, tigers in India, shooting alpine ibex and grouse in Scotland.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece tipped in and twenty-eight mounted photographs in black and white on thick paper. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. With light damp marking to the boards. Alan Thornton's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Minor odd spotting to the fore edge, affecting the occasional leaf. With a tipped in frontispiece in colour and twenty-eight mounted photographs. Collated, complete. Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition with photographs mounted individually with color frontis of author with a freshly killed tiger. Big game hunting in various parts of India and on the mountains, for tiger and Ibex, in addition to elephant hunting in Ceylon. Edges lightly foxed, spine flat, binding slightly cocked but tight, 132 thick pages in the original olive green cloth with title printed in gold. A collectors' item in its original edition and with mounted photographs.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1912 (first edition in English). Octavo, xvi, 132 pages with 9 illustrations plus 28 plates (from photographs, mounted on thick card leaves) and a colour frontispiece (with a tissue guard). Gilt-lettered green cloth sunned and a little flecked; binding a little shaken; some light offsetting from the plates; old prices markings in blue pencil on the half-title; a very good copy. A memoir of hunting in Asia and Europe by the eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It includes elephant and tiger hunting in India and Ceylon, as well as ibex, deer, chamois, and game birds in Europe. Translated by J.E. Hodder Williams.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 131 pages. Cover lightly faded. Light foxing.

Both in black and white, and in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: Half-length portrait. 10 x 14 cm. A Seated Wilhelm, grey-haired and tight-lipped, with hands joined in front of him, wearing suit and tie and light-grey tweed jacket. On reverse, a typed note addressed to 'Mr. James Dandy / England.', and dated from 'Hechingen, Zezember 1949': 'Herzlichen Dank für Ihr liebes Paket, es hat mich sehr gefreut. / Beste Wünsche u. Grüse'. TWO: View of Hechingen Castle. 8.5 x 13 cm. Typed message on reverse, also signed by him: 'Herzlichen Dank für das freundliche Gedenken zu Weihnachten. Die guten Wünsche zum Neuen Jahre erwidere ich aufrichtig.' With envelope with German stamps and postmark, and typed address to 'James Dandy, Esq., / Brook Lane / Rixton/New Warrington / England'. See Image. …

All three in black and white. The first and third item lightly aged and creased; the first stained on reverse; the second item lightly aged. ONE: Half-length portrait. 8 x 12.5 cm. Stamped on reverse '4 JAN 1950'. A Seated Wilhelm, grey-haired and tight-lipped, with hands joined in front of him, wearing suit and tie and light-grey tweed jacket. TWO: Half-length portrait, apparently from the same shoot as One, with autograph signature. 8 x 11 cm. Written on reverse: 'HECKINGEN. / SEP. 7. 1951'. Same outfit as One, but with cigarette in right hand. Inscribed around the head: 'James Dandy / Crownprince Wilhelm'. THREE: View of Hechingen Castle. 8.5 x 13 cm. Typed message on reverse, dated 'Hechingen. / im Mai 1951.', 'Herzlichen Dank für das treue Gedenken und die guten Wünsche zu meinem Geburtstag.' Although Wilhelm's birthday was indeed in May, the signature to this note is not his. A fourth item (in good condition, lightly aged) is a card with a printed new year's message from 'Stuttgart-Frauenkopf, January 1954'. An autograph note in English, with the same signature as Item Three, reads: 'With kind thoughts and thanking you for the bulbs'. …

Vellum. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: good. Deluxe Edition. Octavo, xxi, [3], 265pp, [3]. Publisher's white vellum, title and illustrations in gilt. Top edge gilt. Uncut fore-edge. Closed tear on two leaves [199-202], with prior tape repair. Complete with frontispiece portrait and ten full-page illustrations by A.B. Frost, all with captioned tissue covers. Includes the publisher's white paper dust jacket, in delicate condition, title and printed illustrations. Both hinge flaps detached, chip from front cover, scarce in any condition, with only one other known example to appear at auction. (BAL 7131) (Grolier, 100 American) Housed in a custom beige cloth clamshell, marbled interior, title stamped in gilt on the spine. From a signed limited edition of 250 copies, this being number 109. Signed by the author after the dedication: "Joel Chandler Harris," with an excerpt from the book: "Han' me down my walkin' cane." This copy was a presentation copy from D. Appleton & Company to the 13-year old, German Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the last German Crown Prince and Crown Prince of Prussia, before the abolition of the monarchy. The first edition of Uncle Remus was published by D. Appleton in 1881. This New and Revised edition was issued in red buckram as a trade edition. (Provenance: Estate of Actor and Comedian, Arte Johnson, purchased in 2025). This work includes a letter from Freiherr von Lyncker, the Baron von Lyncker (Lieutenant Colonel and First Military Governor), regretting that the gifts for the Crown Prince cannot be accepted, and the book must be returned. Here is a full translation of the letter: "Plön in Holstein, 27 August 1896 / Dear Mrs. Franklin, I am honored to write to you in response to your letter of the 24th of this month addressed to General von Deines, and to express my sincere gratitude for sending the Uncle Remus book. At the same time, I have to inform you that gifts to His Imperial and Royal Highness the Crown Prince are not accepted as a matter of principle. I therefore regret to inform you that I am obliged to return this lovely book. / Yours sincerely, Freiherr von Lyncker / Oberstleutnant and Erster Militär-Gouverneur.". The Large-Paper, deluxe edition of Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, signed by Joel Chandler Harris. A presentation copy to German Crown Prince, Friedrich Wilhelm in 1896. (illustratore). Signed.…

Card by Gordon Fraser Fine Arts, Bedford, with nice colour reproduction of centre panel of the Master of Frankfurt 'Adoration' triptych. Signed by her 'Brigid', beside which, by him, '& Frederich.' In good condition, in worn stamped and postmarked envelope addressed to 'Mr. James Dandy. / Brook Lane, / Rixton, / Nr. Warrington. / Lancs.' See Image.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 394 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 394 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1922 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 410 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 410 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 340. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 9999 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 340.…