A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526 - 1918 (Second Printing, with Corrections) by KANN, Robert A - 1977

Berkeley: University of California Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0520024087 . Stated second printing, with corrections, 1977. A history of southeast Europe's Habsburg Empire from its beginnings with the merger of German Alpine hereditary lands with the Bohemians and Hungarian-Croatians. Though not a traditional "empire" with a single ruler, the Habsburg Empire was more an affiliation of neighboring kingdoms, eventually extending to the Romanian border and to present-day Bosnia and Herzagovina. With a section of black & white maps at rear of volume and with two pages of errata, correcting the first edition of 1974. --- In mustard linen-finish paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with unattributed photographic portrait of the author to back flap. --- With blacked-over information to front free endpaper, rippling to cloth at spine, else a sound, bright, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped, unpriced jacket with partially-removed sticker to back panel and a little rubbing, else bright and undamaged.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xiv, 647 pages .