LE SOLITAIRE
by Arlincourt, Charles-Victor Prévôt (Vicomte d')
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Paris & Rouen: Chez Béchet, 1821.. Two volumes. vi,228;[4],238pp. 12mo. Quarter calf and marbled boards, spines stamped in gilt, in contemporary style. Modest foxing and offsetting early and late, old repair to blank area of first half-title, otherwise a very good set. Third edition, revised and corrected, of the author's most widely read work, published in the same year as the first edition. It was quickly translated into English, and subsequent 1821 impressions published by Béchet added frontispieces by Chasselat (not present here) and vignettes by Tardieu.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCLIT65185
- Title
- LE SOLITAIRE
- Author
- Arlincourt, Charles-Victor Prévôt (Vicomte d')
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez Béchet
- Place of Publication
- Paris & Rouen
- Date Published
- 1821.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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About William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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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