The living past : the great civiliszations of mankind / Ivar Lissner ; translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn
Lissner, Ivar, 1909-
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3225459
Summary
Bibliographic description
462 p., plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Various loose inserts: front opening: correspondence on health issues, publication of Lady Londonderry's book: autograph letter signed from Adsa [?] Horner to Lady [Edith] Londonderry, 14 June 1958; in envelope addresssed to '24 Hertford Street'; autograph letter signed from Ethel Jackson (of Donag'hadee, Co. Down) to LL, June 9th, 1958; autograph letter signed from Shane Leslieto LL on RMS Mauretania headed paper, June 8, 1958; 2 empty envelopes addressed to LL account bill of Helena Rubinstein Ltd, dated 30/5/58, for 9.18.0; leaf torn from May 1958 diary; (p.53) printed compliments card of Philip Antrobus Ltd ; (p.451) broken piece of tortoise-shell plastic ; four blotter leaves at rear. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: publisher's quarter white cloth, with black cloth on boards; illustrated, with spine lettered in black.
Makers and roles
Lissner, Ivar, 1909-