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Item/Description: Vintage 1936 German-language Cigarette Tobacco Cards Miniatures Album-Slipcase Book entitled “Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte”: “ZeitgenÖssische Miniaturen BerÜhmter PersÖnlichkeiten Aus Vier Jahrhunderten” (loosely translated means “Shapes of the Weltgesche - Contemporary Miniatures of Famous Personalities Out of Four Centuries”) ***Contains 198-200 Color Plates (we counted these a few times, and there are at least 198, if not 200 total, but “just in case”) Miniatures as well as countless Artistic Black & White (B&W) Line Drawings Illustrations depict Famous Persons-Personages (Men and Women, Male and Female) throughout four (4) centuries of history: Some of these famous (and infamous) people (to name but a mere few) are: Kaiser Maximillian I; Martin Luther; Katharina von Bora; Erasmus von Rotterdam; Beatrice Cenci; Galileo Galilei; King Henry VIII; Cardinal Thomas Wolsey; Jane Seymour; Thomas More; Hans Holbein the Younger; Sir Walter Raleigh; Francis Drake; Saint-St. Ignatius von Loyola (of Loyola); Peter Paul Rubens; Rembrandt Harmensz van Ryn; Friedrich Wilhelm; Cardinal Richelieu; Henri de la Tour d’ Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne; King Louis XIV; Marie Therese von Spanien; Jean Racine; Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere; Jean de Lafontaine; Oliver Cromwell; John Milton; Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury; Sir Isaac Newton; John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough; Sarah Churchill Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough; King George II; Robert Walpole; Jonathan Swift; Benjamin Franklin; Warren Hastings; George Washington; Lady Emma Hamilton; Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount of Nelson; Philippe II, Duke of Orleans; Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise & Duchessa de Pompadour (Madame Pompadour); Francois Boucher; Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great); Hans Joachim von Zieten; Augustus III of Poland; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Immanuel Kant; Peter I of Russia; Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Charlotte von Stein; Ludwig von Beethoven; Karl Friedrich Schinkel; Maria Anna Angelika-Angelica Katharina Kauffmann; King Louis XVI; Marie Antoinette; Charlotte Corday; Maximilien (Maximilian) Marie Isidore de Robespierre; Napoleon (Napolean) I (Napoleon Bonaparte); Empress Josephine de Beauharnais; Charles XIV John of Sweden (Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte); Michel Ney; Charles Maurice Herzog von Talleyrand; Marquis de La Fayette-Lafayette (Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier); George Lord Byron;Friedrich Wilhelm III; Carl Theodor Korner; Jean (Johann) Paul Friedrich Richter; Johann Ludwig Tieck; Bettina von Arnim; Heinrich von Kleist; Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich; Robert Schumann; Eugenie de Montijo; Queen Victoria; Ludwig I of Bavaria; Franz Joseph I of Austria; Olga Nikolaevna of Russia Keywords/Descriptive Terminology: Acti; Heinng-Actors; Admiralty-Admirals; Architecture-Architects; Aristocracy-Aristocrats, Art-Artists-Painters; Diplomacy-Diplomats; Influence-Influential; Mathematics-Mathematicians; Militaria-Military-Militarists-Soldiers; Mistresses-Court Courtesans-Consorts; Music-Musicians-Composers; Navigation-Navigators; Philosophy-Philosophers; Politics-Politicians; Religious-Religion-Theology-Theologians; Royalty-Nobility (Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, Counts-Countesses, Dukes, Duchesses, Earls, Ladies...); Science-Scientists-Astronomers; Statesman-Statesmen; Writing-Writers-Authors-Poets-Playwrights-Dramatists-Novelists Age/Period: Vintage - dated 1936 Total Numbered Pages: 111 Manufacturer/Identification/Markings: Herausgegeben Vom Cigaretten-Bilderdienst - Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, 1936 Material(s)/Format: Softbound, Soft Paper Covers; Slipcase-style Cardboard Sleeve Protector Size/Measurements: 9 1/4"W x 12 1/4"H Condition: *Book - Excellent and odor-free! Covers remain vibrant, crisp and sharp, and raised-embossed gold lettering is pristine on both the front cover and along the spine; interior pages also remain crisp and predominantly clean, exhibiting no writing, and with Plates retaining like-new color vibrancy. A slight handful of pages evince “smudge marks,” and a few have tiny “dot specks” in their margin areas. *Cardboard Slipcase - technically present but less-than-Fair condition
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: 1936_German_Cigarette_Tobacco_Cards_Album_Book |
| Condition:
Excellent - Refer to Condition Details within Listing |
Year:
1936
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| Country:
Germany |
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| Height:
12.25 in. (31.11 cm) |
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Width: 9.25 in. (23.49 cm)
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| Title:
Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte |
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