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Librería: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Griesheim, Alemania
Arte / Grabado / Póster
0. Sprache: Deutschu.
Librería: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Griesheim, Alemania
Arte / Grabado / Póster
0. Sprache: Deutschu.
Publicado por Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1912., 1912
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
(Hardcover, 1912). (1912) 1912 2nd English language edition. 8vo (142 x 202mm). Ppxvi,131,i. Colour illustrated frontispiece and b/w photograph plates tipped-in, b/w illustrations. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt, bevelled edges. Cloth faded otherwise very good. Wilhelm, the final Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire, writes of his hunting experiences in Asia and Europe. Elephant, tiger, blackbuck, boar and buffalo in India and Ceylon along with ibex, roe, chamois, grouse, capercailzie and more in various countries across Europe. Illustrated with black and white photographs tipped on to thick card plates, a colour illustrated frontispiece and a hadful of black and white illustrations in the text. "In submitting this book to the reading public I confess to a certain sense of embarrassment. I should like from the first to warn my readers against harbouring any false illusions. I do not pretend to claim any literary merit for these plain, unadorned little sketches. There is nothing particularly striking about them; they do not bring to light any sensational revelations. They are just pages taken from the hunting diary of a man who loves open-air sport, and to whom Nature, grand and beautiful, is an inexhaustible source of delight and joy. I have a great admiration for Ganghofer, Perfall, Schillings, and many others who have written so admirably of sport and life in the open, both as hunters and as men of letters. But these pages ought not to be, and indeed must not be, compared with their works. My hand is more used to, and more skilled in the use of, bridle, rifle and alpenstock than the pen, and only the consciousness that I have enjoyed many hunting experiences which fall but to the lot of few has induced me to offer this little book to sportsmen." (From the author's introduction). Chapters include:- An elephant hunt in Ceylon; A tiger hunt in India; Pig-sticking; Shooting Alpine ibex; A fourteen-pointer; My first capercailzie; Stalking roe-buck in Silesia; Grouse shooting in Scotland; Two chamois hunts; The phantom stag; Blackbuck hunting; A drive at Mirzapur; A hunting expedition in the Ganges Delta; Conclusion. The first edition, published in 1912 by Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart and Berlin, was titled 'Aus meinem Jagd-Tagebuch'. This English language edition was translated from the German by J.E. Hodder Williams. .
Publicado por The portrait dated from 'Hechingen Zezember sic '. The other photograph without date or, 1949
Librería: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Reino Unido
Manuscrito Ejemplar firmado
Both in black and white, and in good condition, lightly aged. ONE: Half-length portrait. 10 x 14 cm. A Seated Wilhelm, grey-haired and tight-lipped, with hands joined in front of him, wearing suit and tie and light-grey tweed jacket. On reverse, a typed note addressed to 'Mr. James Dandy / England.', and dated from 'Hechingen, Zezember 1949': 'Herzlichen Dank für Ihr liebes Paket, es hat mich sehr gefreut. / Beste Wünsche u. Grüse'. TWO: View of Hechingen Castle. 8.5 x 13 cm. Typed message on reverse, also signed by him: Herzlichen Dank für das freundliche Gedenken zu Weihnachten. Die guten Wünsche zum Neuen Jahre erwidere ich aufrichtig. With envelope with German stamps and postmark, and typed address to 'James Dandy, Esq., / Brook Lane / Rixton/New Warrington / England'. See Image.
Publicado por One from and two from 1951 one of the latter from Hechingen, 1950
Librería: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Reino Unido
Manuscrito
All three in black and white. The first and third item lightly aged and creased; the first stained on reverse; the second item lightly aged. ONE: Half-length portrait. 8 x 12.5 cm. Stamped on reverse 4 JAN 1950 . A Seated Wilhelm, grey-haired and tight-lipped, with hands joined in front of him, wearing suit and tie and light-grey tweed jacket. TWO: Half-length portrait, apparently from the same shoot as One, with autograph signature. 8 x 11 cm. Written on reverse: HECKINGEN. / SEP. 7. 1951 . Same outfit as One, but with cigarette in right hand. Inscribed around the head: James Dandy / Crownprince Wilhelm . THREE: View of Hechingen Castle. 8.5 x 13 cm. Typed message on reverse, dated Hechingen. / im Mai 1951. , Herzlichen Dank für das treue Gedenken und die guten Wünsche zu meinem Geburtstag. Although Wilhelm s birthday was indeed in May, the signature to this note is not his. A fourth item (in good condition, lightly aged) is a card with a printed new year s message from Stuttgart-Frauenkopf, January 1954 . An autograph note in English, with the same signature as Item Three, reads: With kind thoughts and thanking you for the bulbs .