Peter Will Trans (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents, bookplate front pastedown, 358pp (4 volumes).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover Octavo no dust jacket. blue papered boards, silver lettering, 159 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. blue papered boards, silver lettering, 184 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American Edition; First Printing. Full leather with faded titles in gilt on spine. Edge and corner wear along with some scuffs to the leather. The covers have been reinforced but seem secure though care is recommended. Book is square and complete. Interior toning. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; This is the stated First American Edition of Baron Knigge's sociological/philosophical work on human relations. Knigge's book was often viewd as a manual of etiquette so that the term "Knigge" in German came to mean something like "good manners." The book , however, is more on the ways that humans should interact to live a morally good life. This English translation may be more of a free interpretation by Peter Will since it says "after the German" rather than "translated from the German. " This volume was published in Lansingburgh New York which is now a part of Troy. Interesting early New York imprint. …

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 368 pages; 1805 Penniman & Bliss, Lansingburgh NY. 1st American edition, after the London edition of 1799. Xxxvii; 368 pp. Full period speckled calf appears to have been artfully rebacked with original leather spine. Replaced red leather title label. Soundly bound and clean with a period prior ownership of a David Smith penned to front pastedown and a later 1860 penciled gift inscription to the front flyleaf. Occasional mild spotting or offset toning from vegetal material that had been laid in. E8 (pp 47/48) has had a piece of the page that was torn away mended with a quite old sewn/threaded repair; no loss of text or margin. Adolf Franz Knigge (1752-1796) studied Law, admitted to Court and served as a Civil Administrator in Frankfurt-on-Main. This is his chief literary work in which he lays down rules to be observed for attaining a peaceful, happy and useful life. Under the name "Philo" he was a very active member of the "Illuminati" Society founded by Adam Weishaupt, which later evolved in part to the Free Masons. Solid and well preserved copy and uncommon thus. VG. …