HEEREN, Arnold Hermann Ludwig.
A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and its Colonies,
A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and its Colonies,
from its formation at the close of the fifteenth century, to its re-establishment upon the fall of Napoleon.
Stock Code 124997
London, Henry G. Bohn, 1846.
Heeren was professor of philosophy and history at the University of Göttingen, where this account of the European state system was first published in 1800. This copy was presented to the Conservative politician Michael Hicks Beach whilst he was at Eton Colle in 1853. Hicks Beach would go on to become Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Salisbury administration, and was later raised to the peerage first as Viscount St Aldwyn in 1909, and later 1st Earl St Aldwyn in 1915.
8vo (22.5 x 15 cm); presentation inscription to front fly-leaf; contemporary tan calf, covers ruled in gilt, gilt spine in 6 compartments, contrasting brown morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges, slightly rubbed with the odd abrasion, very good; xxxii, 540pp.
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