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C. Cornelii. Taciti Historiarum, Libri Quinque: Ad Fidem Optimarum Editionum Expressi Cum Notis Barbou
by Tacitus, Cornelius
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1808. In Latin. Full calf leather with red spine label, 256 pages. Fair to good with a couple of pinholes near the spine head and some old insect damage internally visible along the front hinge, sound text block, upper corners of pages 27 to 38 charred with minimal loss of a couple of letters to two of those leaves, contents clean with some light to moderate foxing, names in ink and pencil. . Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045967
- Title
- C. Cornelii. Taciti Historiarum, Libri Quinque: Ad Fidem Optimarum Editionum Expressi Cum Notis Barbou
- Author
- Tacitus, Cornelius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- M. Carey
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1808
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- CLASSIC LATIN
- Bookseller catalogs
- World History, World Wars and Militaria;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
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Glossary
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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