Publicado por Illustrated London News, London, 1903
Librería: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Unbound. Condición: Very Good. Photoengraving Ilustrador. 1st. full page portrait of His Excellency, Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India.lovely, and suitable for framing Size: 11'' x 16''.
Publicado por Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1984
ISBN 10: 0283991666 ISBN 13: 9780283991660
Librería: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Edited by Peter King. 192p., many colored and b/w illus., dj.
Publicado por No place or date. Before Lovat Fraser's death in, 1921
Librería: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Reino Unido
Manuscrito
On both sides of 16 x 12.5 cm leaf, with rounded edges, torn from an autograph album. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. Firmly and elegantly written on one side, just over the centre: 'Lovat Fraser.' Towards the head of the other side, in a large somewhat untidy hand, with intermittent underlining: 'Curzon of Kedleston'. Beneath this: 'Milner'. No other writing on either side.
Publicado por Undated but after and probably written early in 1922. On letterhead of The Priory Reigate, 1895
Librería: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Reino Unido
Manuscrito
See his long and sympathetic entry by David Gilmour in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Curzon acquired the Priory at Reigate after his marriage in 1895, and the letter probably dates from around March to July 1922, when, according to the Oxford DNB, 'he was laid low by a combination of phlebitis, thrombosis, and lymphangitis which kept him out of action for five months'. 4pp, 12mo. On bifolium. Written in pencil. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight spotting at foot of first page. One central fold for postage. Addressed to 'Dear Sir' (though the recpient is clearly the husband of the 'Mrs. Campbell' referred to at the end of the letter) and with large bold signature at bottom right of final page. The letter begins: 'Dear Sir / Had you given me earlier intimation I would have spared you the trouble of calling. I regret to say that I am ill in bed and unable to see any visitors[.] Moreover in any case it would be impossible for me to accede to your request since I do not wish to attend any meetings or to take any part in public affairs in the forthcoming summer . and have been compelled to refuse many Scores of invitations in consequence.' He regrets the trouble to which 'Mrs Campbell' and the recipient have been put, and concludes by thanking 'your Committees [?] for the honour that they proposed to confer upon me'.
Publicado por London, John Murray, 1909., 1909
Librería: C O - L I B R I , Bremen - Berlin ; Deutschland / Germany ., Berlin, Alemania
46 pages, 1 blank sheet. - Publisher's imprinted red softcover, bound in dark-red halclothbinding of the period with black, white and red marbled panels and additional blank endpapers; 8vo.(ca. 20 x 13,5 cm cm). *** [Endgültiger SOMMER-SCHLUSS-VERKAUF / Ultimate SUMMER-SALE: um über 35% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Montag 23.09.2024, 24 Uhr (PRICE REDUCTION of over 35% until Monday, September 23rd, 2024); ursprünglicher Preis / originally EUR 265,-] --- FISRT (and probably only) EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL OF THE RARE PAMPHLET by the then member in the House of Lords, between his well documented periods as Viceroy of India, 1899-1905, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1919-1924. In 1923 Curzon was denied the office of Prime Minister because because Lord Davidson and Sir Charles Waterhouse falsely claimed to Lord Stamfordham that the resigned Prime Minister Bonar Law had recommended that George V appoint Stanley Baldwin as his successor. - ''The following address was delivered by Lord Curzon at the inaugural meeting of the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh in the autumn session of 1909. . . As the whole of the address could not be given in the space of time available . . . a request has been made the the entire text should be made available for those who may desire to read it. . .''(Preface). --- Frontcover with slight vertical fold and old name-inscription 'Kolshon'(or so), slight offset of the red cover to the lower sharp-corner of the preceding and foollowing blank sheets, 1 sheet (pages 21/22 slightly frayed at upper foreedge), rearcover with smaller spot at bottom right; endpapers of the library binding with old stamps 'Bibliothek des Seminars für orientalische Sprachen, Berlin', inner panels with few archive-marks, cloth-spine with holograph titlelable at top and repeated Archive numer at bottom, the corners of the stiff panels slightly rubbed; OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY OF THE FRAGILE PUBLICATION, well preserved by the library binding.
Publicado por Longman's, Green, and Co., 1892., London:, 1892
Librería: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Suiza
Original o primera edición
London:: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1892., 1892. 2 volumes. 8vo. xxiv, 639, [1]; xii, 653, [1] pp. 43 plates, additional illustrations, 9 maps, and 1 folding map. Original black gilt-stamped cloth; neatly restored. Modern open-end sturdy box. Ownership signatures of Watson R. Sperry, 1892 (incl. title). Very good. FIRST EDITION. This is the most comprehensive assessment of Persia of its day. Curzon was responsible for establishing the prevailing view of the British of their on-going, pre-oil, interest in Persia, as a boarder state to India of the British Empire. / Curzon "travelled around the world: Russia and Central Asia (1888âÂÂ"89), a long tour of Persia (September 1889 âÂÂ" January 1890), Siam, French Indochina and Korea (1892), and a daring foray into Afghanistan and the Pamirs (1894). He published several books describing central and eastern Asia and related policy issues. A bold and compulsive traveler, fascinated by oriental life and geography, he was awarded the Patron's Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his exploration of the source of the Amu Darya (Oxus). His journeys allowed him to study the problems of Asia and their implications for British India, whilst reinforcing his pride in his nation and her imperial mission." "Those five long, arduous journeys did much to color his thinking and provide material for a succession of books." [Wikip.] / "Curzon's interest in Britain's eastern colonies and dominions had first been aroused while he was a schoolboy at Eton. It was an interest that never left him and was reflected in his lifelong concern for Persia as an outer bastion in the defense of India. His travels had instilled in him a profound belief in the civilizing virtues of the British empire in the East. He regarded British India as "the noblest fabric yet reared by the genius of a conquering nation" (Curzon, Persian Question I, dedication) and believed that "without India the British empire could not exist" (I, p. 4). The defense of India thus came to dominate much of his thinking in the years ahead. For him Persia and the waters of the Persian Gulf, no less than Afghanistan and Tibet, were borderlands that had to be protected from the expanÃÂsionist policies of czarist Russia. / "Contrary to what has often been written, Curzon spent little more than a total of three months in Persia, entering the country in late September 1889 and leavÃÂing it before the end of January the following year. On his return to London he took lodgings in a London suburb and concentrated on writing his magnum opus, Persia and the Persian Question, which was, by dint of hard, concentrated work, ready for publication less than two years later. By any standard these two volumes, totaling some 1,300 pages, are a remarkable achievement, the more so as Curzon knew no Persian and spent only a short time in the country, of which he saw only a small section. To prepare himself, he first read, either in the original or in translation, virtually everything that had been written about Persia in the West. On the journey itself, while writing articles for The Times, he had assiduously collected information, with considerable help from Albert Houtum Schindler, a naturalized British subject, German by birth, who had first gone to Persia as an employee of the IndoÃÂ-European Telegraph Company and was at the time of Curzon's visit adviser to the newly established ImpeÃÂrial Bank of Persia and recognized as the best-inÃÂformed European in the country. He not only provided Curzon with a wealth of detailed information but also, as Curzon freely acknowledged, "personally revised nearly every page" of the manuscript (Persian Question I, p. xiii). The two profusely illustrated volumes embrace almost the whole of Persia, describing in fascinating and profound detail its history, antiquities, institutions, administration, finances, natural resources, commerce, and topography with a thoroughness no single writer has achieved before or sin.