Gragg Gabel (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. NICE as pictured, later printing, a good condition soft cover, gently read clean, 381 pages. worn spine short gift note.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Some edgewear, creasing and rubbing of covers, spine creases, light age toning of pages otherwise a good sturdy copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First thus. Crisp, bright, clean; no owners' marks; a tiny peel at the corner of the title pastedown on the spine; slipcase shows a broad, shallow abrasion and three small, dark smudges on the front, along with two faint gray lines on the rear, otherwise sound.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:

Paperback. Condition: Used - Acceptable. Ex-library, with stickers & stamps.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. In slipcase. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:

Tall 8vo. Original cream paper-laid boards with gilt lettered leather spine label (Fine), slipcase (Fine). Pp. 373, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Rubinstein, Ruth Olitzky (illustrator). Near fine condition red linen boards with gold spine lettering contained in a good condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Foreword by Leona C. Gabel, Smith College, June 1958; Notes on the Illustrations; Introduction; Preface to the COmmentaries and Index. Translation by Dr. Florence A. Gragg, Professor Emeritus of Latin of Smith College, following the Vatican manuscript. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates, black-and-white maps and map illustrated front and rear endpapers. Some small internal dust jacket closed tear repairs. "About the Book: In 1464, a German cleric in ROme was commissioned to make a copy of a manuscript. The copy made, he signed his name, John Gobellinus, and thereby unwittingly furnished the basis for a long-lived misunderstanding concerning the authoriship of the work. The error was perpetuated by Francesco Bandinin de Piccolomini, Archbishop of Siena, who had a printed edition of the manuscript. The Commentiries of Pius II, printed in 1584, and asserted Bobellinus was the author and that his own manuscript ws uniquely authentic. Thus the Commentaries appeared in printed for in a vesion incomplete and differing from the original. A second printing in Rome in 1589 and in Frankfurt in 1614 gave that version a practically difinitive character. But as early as 1630 the assumed authorship of the COmmentaries was questioned and belief was expressed that the author was indeed Pope Pius II. In the late 19th century, Pastory, the eminent historian, discovered the Vatican Codex Reginensis 1995, which he recognized as the true original Commentaries written partly in the hand of Pius himself, the rest dictated by him to his secretary." - excerpt from the rear outer jacket. "The only autobiography ever left by a pope, The Commentaries of Pius II constitute one of the revealing documents of the Renaissance. Its author was statesman, poet, humanist, incorrigible traveler and nature-lover, and, like its author, the work fits into no category, combining autobiography, memoir, diary and history. This abridgment preserves unimpaired the qualities which make the Commentiaries a vital human document setting forth the history of an era and portrait of one of its most eloquent spokesmen. FOur major themes wind their way through the Commentaries. There is first of all the kaleidoscopic Italian scene dominated by two conflicts, the Pope's protracted struggle with the vicious Sigismondo Malatesta of Rimini to recover lands wrested from the Church, and the exhausting war, astoundingly mercenary in character, waged with the aid of Francesco Sforza to support Ferrante of Naples against a French rival. The second major theme moves into the wider European arena and the diplomatic contest with that wiliest of fifteenth-century monarchs, Louis XI, over the crown of Naples and the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges. A third theme concerns the amorphous Holy Roman Empire whose disintegration poses problems serous to Eperor and Pope alike. The fourth theme is the one which Pius regars as pivotal for his whole pontificate - a crusade against the Turk in defense of Christendom. Struggling against European indifference to Pope and Turk alike, in the end only one course remained - to lead a crusade singlehanded, which, sick and disillusioned, he prepared to do. The volume is a vital human document, setting forth the history of an era and the portrait of one of its most eloquent spokesmen." - from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cream-color hardback bound in full elephant hide wiith decorative blind-stamp on front cover, red leather paste-on titling label with gold-color lettering on spine, 373 pp., 10 plates, housed in a tan slipcase. Book and slipcase in excellent condition.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. With original dust case in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1000grams, ISBN:

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:

Condition: As New. 1988. Hardback. Folio Society (3rd printing 1991). In publisher's slipcase, showing minor shelf wear. In original publisher's card covers, with gilt title on leather lozenge to spine, showing v. light shelf wear. Internally crisp and clear and remains a very fine copy. . . . .

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Folio Reprint. This folio Edition of ' Commentaries of Pope Pius II ' has cream textured boards with an impressed papal coat of arms on the front and back boards. which are lightly marked. The text is accompanied with a few sepia type plates in the centre of the book. This book is in an unread condition. The cardboard slipcase is covered in a dark red paper and is very good. Book price includes postage - UK only.

8°, OPp, gebundene Ausgabe. 373 S. Ungelesenes Exemplar im original Schuber. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1500.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover Octavo in slipcase. white papered boards, red label on the spine, gilt lettering, blindstamped design on the front cover, slipcase, 373 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Condition: As New. 1988. Hardback. Folio Society (3rd printing 1991). In publisher's slipcase, showing minor shelf wear. In original publisher's card covers, with gilt title on leather lozenge to spine, showing v. light shelf wear. Internally crisp and clear and remains a very fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.