Roumania Past Present by Samuelson James, Used (4 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hard cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. London:Longman's, Green, and Co. 1882. 1st edition. 289pp. Illustrated, with maps (by E. Weller), portraits, autotype and other full page plates, and numerous plans and woodcuts (by G. Pearson), chiefly from photographs by F. Duscher, Bucarest. Hardcover, rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, with gilt decorations and title in gilt on leather labels on spine strip. Leather scuffed and worn along all edges with raised bands rubbed, spine ends worn and frayed and edge points worn to boards. Internally, a bookplate to inside front board with free end-pages, both front and rear, covered in newspaper articles and illustrations having to do with Roumana. Once past the half title page, pages clean and bright. The binding is tight with hinges intact. .

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Rear board detached. Spine cloth very worn and peeling away from spine along upper half of rear joint. 1/4" missing to cloth at tail of spine. Moderate foxing. Creasing to the first folding map. ; "Cheap Edition". No date (preface dated 1882). xiv, 289 pages + 3 autotype photographic plates + 31 in-text woodcut illustrations + 2 folding colour maps. Brown cloth boards with gilt illustration on frontboard. The autotype frontispiece plate of the Cathedral of Curtea D'Ardges occurs after the title page, rather than facing it. "There is no country in Europe which at the present time possesses greater interest for Englishmen than does the Kingdom of Roumania, and there is none with whose present state and past history, nay, with whose very geographical position, they are less familiar." - from the preface.; 8vo.