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Splendid Legacy - The Havemeyer Collection
by Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney and Others
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0870996649
- ISBN 13
- 9780870996641
- Seller
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Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Metroploitan Museum of Art, 1993 First edition. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from March 27, to June 20, 1993. Folio 12 1/4" x 9 1/2". Dark cloth stamped in gilt on spine. 432 pages. 800 illustrations including 176 in full color; chronology; appendix; biblio.; list of exhibitions; index. 107 text figures. 279 plates. 525 numbered items in checklist. Clean. Sharp. Dust jacket. Like new/ Like new..
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- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020685
- Title
- Splendid Legacy - The Havemeyer Collection
- Author
- Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney and Others
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0870996649
- ISBN 13
- 9780870996641
- Publisher
- The Metroploitan Museum of Art
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- General #1;
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- Biblio
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- Spine
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- Folio
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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