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The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
by Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0226473244
- ISBN 13
- 9780226473246
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Paperback Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. (8) 407 (1) pp, illus. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer: First Paperback Edition, 1997. Only the slightest external wear, else, Pristine Interior. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.25". Illustrated wrappers. "From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, the author reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, he deepens and expands the historical contexts of these accounts and, in the process, brings to life the customs, perceptions, and character of an age poised at the threshold of modernity.".
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006240
- Title
- The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
- Author
- Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0226473244
- ISBN 13
- 9780226473246
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- HISTORY SWITZERLAND BASEL-STADT BIOGRAPHY PLATTER FAMILY THOMAS PLATTER 1499-1628
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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