OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN THE COURSE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE, ITALY AND GERMANY - volume 1 (of 2) only
by Piozzi, Hester Lynch
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Glen Head, New York, United States
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About This Item
London 1789 first edition. A. Strahan. 437p. Full leather with gilt decorated backstrip with mounted black spine label (one corner of mounted label chipped.) Text clean and bright; binding secure. Some cover wear; small bit of backstrip chipped away. Old engraved bookplate (of EDC with encircled lion). near VG. some toning on end papers. Hinges not cracked in or out. .
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- Bookseller
- Xerxesbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- a93459
- Title
- OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN THE COURSE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE, ITALY AND GERMANY - volume 1 (of 2) only
- Author
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- travel europe eighteenth women woman
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...