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Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Seventeenth Century with Illustrations from Contemporary Monuments, Complete in Three Volumes [3 Vol. Set]
by Hewitt, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker, 1860. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Published in 1860 and complete in three volumes, this handsome set, with gilt shields gleaming from each front cover, displays the range of armory and weaponry of European warfare from the Iron Age all the way to the 17th Century, following progress in military science and knightly equipment, swords and shield bosses and bowmen, musquets and pikemen, chain-mail and archery and so much more, all fully armed with and illustrated in more than 230 engravings throughout.
8 7/8" X 6 1/8". xxv, 387pp; xviii, 343pp; vi, [iii], 348-764pp. All three volumes bound uniformly in royal blue cloth over boards, with decorative device stamped in gilt, within a Celtic knot border, to upper boards, with spines lettered decoratively to spines in gilt. Mild wear to bindigns, with bumping to corners and spine tips, small tears to heads and tails of sun-darkened spines, light scattered rubbing to cloth, and slight lean to spines. Brown coated endpapers. Binder's ticket of Burn & Co. to rear pastedown and bookseller's ticket of sporting book specialist E. Chalmers-Hallam, dated 1954, to front pastedown of Volume I. Small tears to interior hinges. Bindings are firm and sound. Occasional light scattered foxing to pages throughout, else unmarked. Illustrated in a total of 237 engravings.
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8 7/8" X 6 1/8". xxv, 387pp; xviii, 343pp; vi, [iii], 348-764pp. All three volumes bound uniformly in royal blue cloth over boards, with decorative device stamped in gilt, within a Celtic knot border, to upper boards, with spines lettered decoratively to spines in gilt. Mild wear to bindigns, with bumping to corners and spine tips, small tears to heads and tails of sun-darkened spines, light scattered rubbing to cloth, and slight lean to spines. Brown coated endpapers. Binder's ticket of Burn & Co. to rear pastedown and bookseller's ticket of sporting book specialist E. Chalmers-Hallam, dated 1954, to front pastedown of Volume I. Small tears to interior hinges. Bindings are firm and sound. Occasional light scattered foxing to pages throughout, else unmarked. Illustrated in a total of 237 engravings.
THIS SET IS OVERSIZE AND HEAVY AND WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE TO SHIP INTERNATIONALLY. PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A SHIPPING QUOTE TODAY.
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13275
- Title
- Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Seventeenth Century with Illustrations from Contemporary Monuments, Complete in Three Volumes [3 Vol. Set]
- Author
- Hewitt, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Henry and James Parker
- Place of Publication
- Oxford and London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- junedrop23 publishers cloth binding giftable
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
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Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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