Burchardus de Bellevaux: Apologia de Barbis
by Burchardus de Bellevaux, E. Ph. Goldschmidt (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good +/very good
- Seller
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Pleasanton, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1935. Dust jacket in very good condition with price of 17s 6d net intact, some discoloration, especially to the spine, some loss near top of spine and minor edge wear. Green cloth over boards with crisp gilt lettering on cover and spine, limited to 350 copies, bookseller label (B.H. Blackwell Ltd., Oxford) on front paste-down endpaper, browning to endpapers, text in Latin, some tanning to page edges due to rough cut, in very good plus condition. Sub title: A Twelfth Century Treatise on Beards and their Moral and Mystical Significance. Edited by Goldschmidt from the only known Manuscripts at the British Museum, this book also covers the medieval manners and customs of the time
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- Bookseller
- The Book Lair, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BL-002489
- Title
- Burchardus de Bellevaux: Apologia de Barbis
- Author
- Burchardus de Bellevaux, E. Ph. Goldschmidt (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, UK
- Date Published
- 1935
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