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Visits to Monasteries in the Levant
by Robert Curzon
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
5th edition. Very Good HC. Full dark blue polished morocco over boards; covers gilt stamped with thin single rule frame enclosing double rule frame with floral spandrels; spine with 5 raised bands; 4 panels with large fleurons, 2 with titles; 'London 1865' at spine tail; turn-ins decorated in very fine fleuron and vine pattern; marbled endpapers in rich red double comb wave pattern; all edges gilt; ribbon marker. Bright, clean covers and spine; very slight rubbing wear at fore corners, boards just exposed at lower corners; short light scrape on front cover at inner edge; some rubbing at spine cover joints with short partial cracks - still tightly bound (endpapers firm, not cracked; book plate on front pastedown 'George Raymond Bunker'; bright, clean interior - no foxing or darkening; fold-out plan of Holy Sepulchre intact and Fine condition; ribbon marker intact, probably fragile. 'Numerous woodcuts.' From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker (U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, South Vietnam, and Organization of American States). 12mo, 367 pp; no publisher's adverts.
Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M00463
- Title
- Visits to Monasteries in the Levant
- Author
- Robert Curzon
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Full leather
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- CURZON, MIDDLE EAST, SYRIA, ISRAEL, JEWS, TURKS, TURKISH, JEWISH, JUDAISM, ISLAM, FINE BINDINGS
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
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
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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