Trenck Frederick Baron (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo in publisher's cloth. 279 pp. Light wear. Binding is sound. Text is clean. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Hardcover. No Dust Jacket. Previous owner name inside front cover. Cover is; This book contains the stories of Baron Fredrick Trencks life and his trials, hardships, and sufferings during his ten years of imprisonment at the Fortress of Magdenbrg.; 4" x 6" Fair a little loose but still hanging on. Back cover, however, is missing. The front cover has some black smudges and rubbing along the face, edges, and corners. Pages are browning but still Overall fair condition, especially considering the book's age (1818). …

Hard Back. Condition: Poor. A little book with heavily aged green boards. Spine missing and rear board only just attached. P/o inscription of feps. The fascinating story of the life of Baron Trenck, a member of the Frederick the Great's army, imprisoned unjustly for being a spy, Was finally executed by guillotine by the French when we was tasked to report on the revolution. His execution took place only 2 days before the fall of Robespierre and the end of the Terror! Please contact for images.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition in English, from the original in German in 1787. Two volumes, small octavo. [I - iii] iv - xiii [1] 2-222 and [i] [1] 2 - 222. Contains a dedication by the translator, not named but giving his initials as T.D., to Lord Heathfield, and the Author's dedication to the ghost of Frederick the Great. Trenck had been an orderly officer to Frederick the Great of Prussia during the Silesian War. At one point, after nearly being captured by Trenck's first cousin, the Austrian Baron Franz von der Trenck, the king decided that his orderly was a spy and had him imprisoned. Trenck's dedication here is an impassioned denial that he was ever a spy. Since King Frederick had died the previous year, the dedication is to his ghost. Trenck's memoirs became widely read. He was sent by the Austrian monarch to Paris to be an observer of the French Revolution. While there, he was accused by the French of being a spy, and was guillotined in July 1794. The bindings for this work are half brown calf over marbled boards by Mansell. Spines with raised bands, two morocco title labels and gilt in compartments. Bookplates on the front pastedowns and endpapers. Light scuffing to the spines, else a near fine, clean set.…