Author: Weck, René de [1887-1950] [ Hürlimann, Martin (1897-1984) ]
Title: Le Roi Théodore
Description: Paris, Librairie Plon, (1926). orig. wrappers. 20x13cm, 253 pages. Cover worn, soiled & stained. Without the portrait and map present in the trade edition [as issued?].. Unopened. Side page edges untrimmed. Worn. Good. ¶ Some chips & tears to spine. Fiction concerning baron Théodore-Antoine de Neuhof [1690-1756]. Copy nr. XV of 30 exemplaires sur papier Madagascar, inscribed by Inscribed by author on half-title to Swiss publisher Martin Hürlimann. [de Weck a Fribourg author and diplomat, appointed Plenipotentiary Minister for Switzerland in Romania, Yugoslavia and Greece in 1933, stationed in Bucharest] ["Hürlimann was a Swiss publisher, better known in the English speaking world as a photographer...In 1929 Hü rlimann founded the newspaper 'Atlantis', based in Berlin and specialising in international travel and related themes. In 1930 he founded 'Atlantis Verlag', a publishing house, taking over from Ernest Wasmuth publication of the ' Orbis Terrarum' series of books. In 1933 he married Bettina Kiepenheuer, the oldest daughter of Gustav Kiepenheuer, another publisher. In 1936 he founded a Zürich branch of 'Atlantis Verlag', and by 1939, with the outbreak of war, had relocated his head office to Zürich, while retaining German branch across the border at Freiburg im Breisgau..." - wikipedia].

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