Oriental Customs: or an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded to. Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics
by BURDER, Samuel
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- Hardcover
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed by C. Whittingham... and sold by Williams..., Button and Son..., [et al], 1802.. First edition. 8vo. (iii)-xvi, 400, (24) pp, bound without the half title. 19th century pink half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered maroon spine label, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper with a later pencilled one underneath. Spine faded to tan, some light wear, generally very good.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
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- 44330
- Title
- Oriental Customs: or an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, and Especially the Jews, Therein Alluded to. Together with Observations on Many Difficult and Obscure Texts, Collected from the Most Celebrated Travellers, and the Most Eminent Critics
- Author
- BURDER, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed by C. Whittingham... and sold by Williams..., Button and Son..., [et al]
- Date Published
- 1802.
- Keywords
- General
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About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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- 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...
- Marbled boards
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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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...