Agatocle [Agathocles]

Pichler, Carolina [Caroline or Karoline]

Verlag: G. Truffi, Milan, 1831

Beschreibung

Four volumes, Milan, G, Truffi, 1831. Small 8º (150 x 90 mm.), pp. 256, 248, 282, 315, copper-engraved frontispiece to each volume. Bound in 19C. dark blue calf, flat bands to spines decorated in gilt and between gilt rules, blind decoration between, red morocco lettering-pieces, covers bordered with single gilt fillet, pale yellow endpapers, marbled edges. A little light foxing to title-pages, otherwise clean, crisp and largely unopened. The bindings with very minor wear to extremities, but still about fine. Karoline Pichler (1769-1843), Austrian novelist whose Agathocles was first published in 1808 as a rebuttal of Gibbon's judgement on that historical tyrant. The novel became widely read and was translated into several languages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1110BC

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Agatocle [Agathocles]

Verlag: G. Truffi, Milan

Erscheinungsdatum: 1831

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine