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London: Thames & Hudson, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. Faint blind stamp in front. 184pp. Index. Many illustrations. Size: Large 8vo

New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. (1981). First American Ediciton, 184pp, index, forty eight illustrations, four in color. Very light wear, else VG+ in VG+ dj. A hitherto unpublished eyewitness account. Baron Waldstein, 1581-1623, of Moravia was a well educated, wealthy young man when he traveled throughout England in the summer of 1600 keeping detailed notes in Latin of everything he saw at every place he visited. The numerous annotations by the translator and the interesting illustrations give one a Baedeker like view of Elizabethan England..

London: Thames and Hudson, 1981. Hardcover. Book: Very Good. 8vo.. 184 pp. 6 1/2 x 9 3/4. Brown cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on front and spine. Orange glossy dj, sun-faded at spine. No interior damage or markings noted.

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in gilt. Remnants of address label on main title, slight binding lean, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows very slightly sunned spine panel, slight shelf wear. 184 pp., 47 illus. including 4 color plates, map..

Thames & Hudson, 1981-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.0000 9.7000 6.2000. Dust jacket and edges shows minor shelf wear. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Pages are clean and intact.

London: Thames and Hudson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 1981. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0500012547 . Annotated and with an introduction by G. W. Groos. Many illustrations. Index. A previously unpublished account of a summer 1600 trip to England by the Moravian aristocrat, which included an interview with Queen Elizabeth. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages .

Thames & Hudson, 1981. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket with a faintly sunned spine, in mylar cover..

London, England: Thames & Hudson, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Jacket has light wear, binding sound, internally clean. Here, astonishingly after almost four hundred years, is a hitherto unpublished witness account of Elizabethan England. Describing a visit in the summer of 1600, it is part of the Latin diary which young Baron Waldstein, from Moravia, kept during his grand tour of Europe.

London; Thames & Hudson; 1981.. First UK Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. 184; illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, text with 48 illustrations of which 4 are in colour, 1 text map, index, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration on upper board, dustjacket, fine copy.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1981. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 16cm), 184pp. 48 illustrations, including 4 in colour. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 0500012547

Thames and Hudson 1981. Super octavo, hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

London, Thames & Hudson Ltd. 1981. Original publisher's brown paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, gilt ornament frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, 184pp., 48 illustrations [4 coloured], map og the tour, authors note, index. Very fine copy., from the Latin diary (in the Vatican library) of this Moravian baron who visited England in the summer of 1600 while doing his Grand Tour.

London England: Thames & Hudson. Hardback. First Edition. The Diary of Baron Waldstein. Slightly sunned spine to D/J. Here, astonishingly, after almost four hundred years, is a hitherto unpublished eye-witness account of Elizabethan England. Describing a visit in the summer of 1600, it is part of the Latin diary which young Baron Waldstein, from Moravia, kept during his grand tour of Europe. The high point of Waldstein's visit was an interview with Queen Elizabeth herself, who, 'glittering with the glory of majesty and adorned with jewellery and precious gems, entered into the view of the whole assembly and stretched her arms out wide as it to embrace everyone present'. It needed considerable charm and address (as well as his noble birth) to make so obviously good an impression upon her that 'she promised then and there that all the doors of her kingdom should be open to me'. The Diary, now in the Vatican Library, has been translated by G. W. Goos, who also provides full notes:… Read More

London England: Thames & Hudson. Fine/Very Good. 1981. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0500012547 Hardback Hardback. First Edition. The Diary of Baron Waldstein. Sunned spine to D/J. Here, astonishingly, after almost four hundred years, is a hitherto unpublished eye-witness account of Elizabethan England. Describing a visit in the summer of 1600, it is part of the Latin diary which young Baron Waldstein, from Moravia, kept during his grand tour of Europe. The high point of Waldstein's visit was an interview with Queen Elizabeth herself, who, 'glittering with the glory of majesty and adorned with jewellery and precious gems, entered into the view of the whole assembly and stretched her arms out wide as it to embrace everyone present'. It needed considerable charm and address (as well as his noble birth) to make so obviously good an impression upon her that 'she promised then and there that all the doors of her kingdom… Read More

London, England: Thames and Hudson, 1981. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling, and some sun fading.. Text in Czech, English. 184 p. 48 Illustrations (4 in color). Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. From an on-line posting: "The Diary of the Young Czech, Baron Waldstein, admirably translated and annotated, describes the tour he made in England in 1600. It describes Canterbury Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Old St. Paul's (with Hatton's recent tomb the most spectacular); Whitehall, the Tower, Greenwich; Oxford and Cambridge; Theobalds, Burghley House, Holdenby; above all the Queen herself, to whom Waldstein was presented and upon whom she made the usual impression. Greatly impressed by the wealth of England, the young man thought the colleges much richer than they were, The book has been enabled to be published by a grant from Saudi Arabia.

Thames & Hudson, 1981-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!