The Ancient World : A Historical Sketch
by Du Pontet, Clement
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Edward Arnold, 1912. Red bds with dulled Gilt title, tanned spine and rubbed tips, light soiling with Black ink spot to front, pp 388 with 3 maps, clean text block with some underling mainly in pencil, sl. loose, not inscribed, eps browned.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8925
- Title
- The Ancient World : A Historical Sketch
- Author
- Du Pontet, Clement
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Arnold
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1912
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Ancient History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- BDS
- Common term for the covers of a hardbound book. The term 'boards' refers to the thick cardboard under the paper or cloth...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- SL.
- slight
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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