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The Career of Don Carlos, Since the Death of Ferdinand the Seventh: Being a Chapter in the History of Charles the Fifth
by Baron de Los Valles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Richard Bentley. Poor with no dust jacket. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Joints and hinges broken. Front board nearly detached. Cloth split along entire length of front joint and along most of rear joint. Chips and splitting to cloth along edges of boards. Lacking the portrait frontispiece. Text complete. A rough reading copy. Contemporary owner's signature on title page: "Lt. Col. Wynne Auby[?] Royal Hussars". The signature is cropped a little along the upper edge of the leaf. ; xviii, 384 pages + 1 plate + "Directions to the Binder" slip. Lacking the frontispiece. Early binding of green cloth boards with gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 134mm. "The great events of which Spain has, for the last three years, been the theatre, rivet the attention of Europe to the heroic struggle of legitimacy, calm in its strength, against a furious and a dastardly usurpation." - the opening sentence of the Preface. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12304
- Title
- The Career of Don Carlos, Since the Death of Ferdinand the Seventh: Being a Chapter in the History of Charles the Fifth
- Author
- Baron de Los Valles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1917
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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