Rev Render (5 results)

Condition: leido. 8ª edición. Incluye CD. Rústica. 571.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Volume I only Printed by A. Strahan . for T.N. Longman and O. Rees (1801) hardback original leather gilt title and bands to spine, 367 pages, from the private library of Thomas Braun the well respected Oxford Don, Academic, Linguist and Classicist with his Signature and date to fep, split to spine edge, inner hinge loose, private label and inscriptions to feps but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch via tracked. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Suede. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Some bumping to spine, extensive ink inscip. to f-fep, front gutter about to crack. Clean and tight - a nice copy. Size: 24mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Second edition, with an elegant frontispiece. vi,[2],205,[3]pp. With the half-title and final three pages of adverts. In a later sage green cloth-case binding, gilt titled to spine. The German playwright and novelist August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819) worked as a consul in Russia and Germany. One of his books was burned during the Wartburg Festival's gathering of Protestant student activists in 1817. Two years later Kotzebue was assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant student member of the Burschenschaften. His murder led Metternich to issue the Carlsbad Decrees, cracking down on the press and restricting academic freedom. In generally good condition with some age-toning and scattered spotting. ESTC T60524.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first edition of this descriptive guide to Germany, inclusive of a handy phrasebook for readers. The first edition of the work.Very scarce.Collated, bound without the 'Music of the Songs' to the rear of volume one.Published in 1801, William Render"s A Tour Through Germany details his travels along the Rhine, Main, and Palatinate regions. Blending cultural observations, landscape descriptions, and local customs, it also includes a German-English phrasebook for practical use by travellers.Written by Dr. William Render, a German native who settled in England. He was a translator, tutor, and travel writer. In half calf with marbled boards. Externally very smart with rubbing to extremities and boards resulting in slight loss to leather. Hinges very slightly strained but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot, slightly heavier to first and last few pages. Ink spill to page 167 of volume 1, not impacting the text. Very Good. book.