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Touring Club Italiano. Italy
by Hachette World Guides. Under the Directtion of Francis Ambriere
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Hachette, 1956.
Thick 12mo. 155 x 100 mm., [6 1/4 x 4 inches]. civ, 723 pp. Illustrated with 8 large folding maps in the text and 95 city maps and a map of country bound at the end of the volume. Original blue cloth in very good condition, dust jacket, with chips a the corners and head and tail of spine, back wrapper scrapped. This copy with the signature of "Kenneth Love/Florence/April 1959" on the front free endpaper. With faults a good to very good copy.
First edition of the Hachette guide to Italy. Includes historical and practical information for the contemporary traveler, including information on rail travel, banking, the economic condition of Italy post-War, and a geographical guide to the country. Each city and town is described, highlighting the cultural points of interest as well as information on hotels, restaurants and transportation. Very well illustrated with maps of over one hundred towns and cities in Italy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- De Simone Company, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1026
- Title
- Touring Club Italiano. Italy
- Author
- Hachette World Guides. Under the Directtion of Francis Ambriere
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hachette
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1956
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers
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Washington, District of Columbia
About De Simone Company, Booksellers
De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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- 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...
- First Edition
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- 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....
- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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