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A GRAMMAR of the IBERNO-CELTIC or IRISH LANGUAGE
by Vallancey, Charles 06d
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG book. FINE text. 1st ed. Text block edges tinted a light red.
- Seller
-
Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Dublin: Faulkner, Ewing, Moncrieffe.. VG book. FINE text. 1st ed. Text block edges tinted a light red.. 1773. 1st edition. Hardcover. VG book. FINE text. Modern rebind in black leather. Tight. (8),(i),ii-li,(1)-7,plt 1,8-148,plts 2-8,149-192pp. . Leaves are 227mm high. Collated complete. Leaves as bright as new. No aging or foxing. A few leaves with a spot of very light soiling. There are two bits of relevant marginalia. Page 28, titled "Of the Modern Alphabet" lists 17 letters, numbered 1-17. Letters numbered 13 and 14 have a pencilled note between them: "omitted R". After the number 17 is the pencilled note: "eighteen". The first plate stands by itself after page 7. At the top of the 2nd plate, which is positioned just after page 148, is a pencilled note about plate 1's exact location. About 6 leaves with short closed margin tears, one of which with an associated 1/2" chip. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001680
- Title
- A GRAMMAR of the IBERNO-CELTIC or IRISH LANGUAGE
- Author
- Vallancey, Charles 06d
- Illustrator
- (8) plates of music & text.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. FINE text. 1st ed. Text block edges tinted a light red.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Faulkner, Ewing, Moncrieffe.
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1773
- Keywords
- VG book. FINE text. Modern rebind in black leather. Tight., (8),(i),ii-li,(1)-7,plt 1,8-148,plts 2-8,149-192pp., hmfitzpa
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Fine
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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marginalia
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