XVIIIME SIÈCLE : INSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE, 1700-1789
by Jacob, P. L. (Paul Lacroix), 1806-1884
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, 1875. Hardcover. Quarto; Poor; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold print, raised bands; Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners and brown marbled paper to boards, worn spine caps, hinges, edges and corners, tears to hinges, scuffing with surface tears and cracking to leather, paper with rubbing, scratches, and surface tears; Text block has gilt top edge and marbled endpapers, text block is detached from boards, loose front endpapers, intermittent spine breaks breaking text block into sections, loose pages; Text in French; "Ouvrage illustré de 21 chromolithographies et de 350 gravures sur bois d'après Watteau, Vanloo ... etc."- title page; viii, 520 pages, illustrated (b&w and color plates).
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1365280
- Title
- XVIIIME SIÈCLE : INSTITUTIONS, USAGES ET COSTUMES, FRANCE, 1700-1789
- Author
- Jacob, P. L. (Paul Lacroix), 1806-1884
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Librairie de Firmin-Didot Frères, Fils et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1875
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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