Pagan and Christian Rome
by Lanciani, Rodolfo
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. Hardcover. fair. 8vo. ix. 374pp. 1/2 gold decorated vellum over red cloth with gold lettering to cover and spine. Head and tail of spine worn. Corners slightly rubbed. Scuffing, rubbing and staining to boards. Top page edge gilt. Owner's signature to inside of front board and front endpaper. Some browning to pages, not affecting text. Frontispiece, protected by tissue guard. REcolored b/w photograph laid in to p. 85. Great historical work. Magnificently illustrated with 26 full-page b/w paintings (including frontis) and throughout with b/w in-text paintings and sketches. In English. In overall good- condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15329
- Title
- Pagan and Christian Rome
- Author
- Lanciani, Rodolfo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston, New York
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Archeology, Christianity, Paganism, Religion
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Cloth
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- New
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