Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Elliots Leben nebst practischen Bemerkungen aus Dessen Leben gezogen zur Bildung junger Krieger und anderer Personen vom Stande (Elliot's Life with Practical Notes from His Life to Educate Young Warriors and Other Persons)

Hamburg: Möllerische Buchhandlung, 1783. New enlarged edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo. (10), xxiv, 182pp, 6 plates, including frontispiece, four of them folding. Original mottled calf with gilt lettering on red leather label of spine, gilt tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. Hand-colored frontispiece etching of Georgius III. Additional hand-colored etching of Georg August Elliot, and four folding panorama plates in color. Decorative head and endpieces. With a Soldiers-Homily for the brave garrison at Gibraltar and an appendix containing the outline of the history and geography of Gibraltar. Second unchanged edition of 2,000 with the exception of a few songs and poems by Sined and Stühner added here; first edition of 1,500. The four hand-colored panoramas depict various attacks of Gibraltar from the sea and one outlining the geography of Gibraltar. Text in German, Gothic script. Binding with light wear along edges, light chipping at head of spine and scuffing along joints, else lightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with 1 x 2 1/2" rectangle cut out at bottom foredge corner. Block lightly age-toned. Good to very good condition. Item #48705

Price: $575.00

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