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Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts
by Ruth Mortimer
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Two volumes in Fine minus condition, Quality Harvard University Press publication, Books are 11.75 inches in height by 9 inches in width, very comprehensive look at 16th Century Italian books, heavily illustrated with hundreds of plates, title pages and detailed information on hundreds of titles, total 840 pages with index and chronology. Vol 1: Aaron to Lusitano, 265 books. Volume 2: Maggi to Zuallart 293 books, 558 titles in total with detailed bibliographic information. Books are ultra clean rust brown cloth with black titles blocks to spines with gilt titles, just the very lightest sunning to spine else Fine, No previous owner bookplate or writing, Original slipcase present in at least Very Good Plus condition with one bruised corner else near Fine. Ultra clean and most presentable set in never read condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002257
- Title
- Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts
- Author
- Ruth Mortimer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- Harvard College Library, Italian 16th Books, Books on Books
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
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About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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