Architectural Books in Early America: Architectural Treatises and Buildings Handbooks in American Libraries and Bookstores through 1800
by SCHIMMELMAN, Janice G
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 188471899X
- ISBN 13
- 9781884718991
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About This Item
First edition, second printing, revised and expanded, octavo, pp. ix, 221. Very good in the publisher's blue cloth with spine lettering gilt. Illustrated dust jacket very good and ensconced in a sheet of protective Brodart.
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- T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000970
- Title
- Architectural Books in Early America: Architectural Treatises and Buildings Handbooks in American Libraries and Bookstores through 1800
- Author
- SCHIMMELMAN, Janice G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 188471899X
- ISBN 13
- 9781884718991
- Publisher
- New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999
- Place of Publication
- New Castle, De
- This edition first published
- June 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography/Reference;
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About T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA
Thomas Brennan was established professionally as a Bookseller in 1998 and still exhibits annually at several antiquarian book fairs. He has 25 years full-time experience in the Book Trade and is a member in good standing of The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB); The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA); The Ephemera Society of America; and The Manuscript Society.
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- Octavo
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