A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. (COMPLETE SIX VOLUME SET - NO MAPS)
by Raynal, Abbe; [Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal]; Translated by J. O. Justamond
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London and Edinburgh : Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. Second Edition. . Leather Bound. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. 451; 490; 487; 473; 388; 540, [1] pages. [LACKS ALL MAPS]. Hardcovers bound in original full leather. The bindings are worn and scuffed and a bit dry. Volume I has been rebacked in leather with the original spine laid down. New endpapers in all of the volumes. Although worn, the set is fairly sound. Headcap of the spine on Volume II is chipped. Text is toned and foxed. The text blocks are sound. The leaf for pages 245-246 in Volume one has a 3 1/2 inch tear running from the fore edge straight into the text. Lacks all of the maps, although it appears they were never bound in (no plate marks or sign of cut pages).
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049865
- Title
- A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. (COMPLETE SIX VOLUME SET - NO MAPS)
- Author
- Raynal, Abbe; [Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal]; Translated by J. O. Justamond
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies
- Place of Publication
- London and Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1798
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 9.90 lbs
- Keywords
- 1798; Abbe Raynal;Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal; J. O. Justamond; History; West Indies; Leather Binding; Set; 18th Century; Rare; Collectible.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- 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
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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