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Major W E Frye; Salomon Reinach [editor]Biblio.com
After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819
1908réf. 944T19London: William Heinemann 1908. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6.5". None. A smart first edition of this scarce history of life in Europe after the Battle of Waterloo. First edition. Scarce work. Written as though it were a series of letters home this work explores European travel in the early nineteenth century following the Battle of Waterloo. Frye did not fight at Waterloo but visited there soon after the battle including a detailed perspective on life in Brussels and on the attitudes of the inhabitants in the aftermath. His European tour lasted four years through France Switzerland and Italy providing a record of Europe rebuilding after the Napoleonic Wars. Written by Major W. E. Frye. Edited with a preface by Salomon Reinach a French archaeologist religious historian and was a major figure in the Franco-Jewish establishment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the original full cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or pencil annotation. Minor age toning to the page edges. Further age toning and light spotting to the endpapers. Very Good William Heinemann hardcover
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