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L'Histoire, La Vie, Les Moeurs et la Curiosité par l'Image, le Pamphlet et le Document (1450-1900) -- vol. 3
by Grand-Carteret, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vol. 3 only: [2], 474, [2] p., color frontispiece, 28 leaves of plates (some in color, some folded): 450 in-text and full-page illustrations; 32 cm. Full leather; boards are dark green; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Gilt-stamped decoration on spine and illustration on front board; blind-stamped decoration on front board. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tri-color ribbon bookmark. Title page printed in red and black. This is no. 357 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. Entirely in French. This volume contains material from the 17th century. Includes an index of artists. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper of Doris Ryer Nixon (1893-1948). A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be shipped by priority/expedited shipping. In Very Good+ Condition: joints, spine ends, and corners are rubbed; front board lightly soiled; pages and plates are clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010251
- Title
- L'Histoire, La Vie, Les Moeurs et la Curiosité par l'Image, le Pamphlet et le Document (1450-1900) -- vol. 3
- Author
- Grand-Carteret, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Librairie de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1928
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Bookplate
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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