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
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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
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Spine
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- Fine
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- 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.
- 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...