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The Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars: The Concert of Europe - An Experiment
by H .G. Schenk
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. First Edition. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Black and white plates. Black and white frontispiece. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1695368635ALK
- Title
- The Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars: The Concert of Europe - An Experiment
- Author
- H .G. Schenk
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1947
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Acceptable
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- Cloth
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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