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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
See below listing of SOME of these famous (and infamous) people (to name but a mere few)
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
***Some of the famous (and infamous) people contained in this book (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
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