Sintram and his companions: a romance
by LA MOTTE-FOUQUE, [Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr] de
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: C. and J. Ollier..and William Blackwood, 1820. [4], xiv, 267pp, [1]. With half-title. Contemporary navy half-morocco, marbled boards, gilt, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, lightly foxed. The first edition in English of German author Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de la Motte-Fouque's (1777-1843) enduringly popular romance, originally published as Sintram und seine Gefährten in Vienna in 1715. . First edition in English. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ18052
- Title
- Sintram and his companions: a romance
- Author
- LA MOTTE-FOUQUE, [Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr] de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition in English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- C. and J. Ollier..and William Blackwood
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1820
- Keywords
- German Literature
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
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Antiquates Ltd was established by Tom Lintern-Mole in 2007; we travel far and wide to buy, sell, and advise on rare books and manuscripts.
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
Biblio member since 2008
Wareham, Dorset
About Antiquates Ltd
Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...