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Abrege du Traite des Etudes a L'usage Des Colleges
by Rollin, Charles
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Aumont, 1821. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 276 pages. Hardcover in full tan leather with black label pastedown on spine. Binding is rubbed, has scuffing on boards and spine. There are gilt decorations on the spine. All edges of text block are marbled. Fore-edge of text block has scuffing. Endpapers are foxed. Hinges are secure. Text is toned, has occasional foxing. The white ribbon bookmark is still attached to the text block. Text is in French. A rough translation of the title into English is, "A Summary of Rollins' Treatise on Studies, for the Use of Colleges and Houses of Education.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048233
- Title
- Abrege du Traite des Etudes a L'usage Des Colleges
- Author
- Rollin, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chez Aumont
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1821
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1821; Charles Rollin; French language; Leather binding; Antiquarian; 19th Century.
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- Leather Bindings; Languages;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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