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A Circumstantial Narrative of the CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA embellished with plans of the battles of Moskwa and Malo-Jarosla
by Labaume, Eugene 03b
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- FAIR book. Full sheep, gilt lettered black leather spine label.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Hartford & Rochester, NY: Silas Andrus & E. Peck. FAIR book. Full sheep, gilt lettered black leather spine label.. 1817. Early reprint. Hardcover. FAIR book. 21x12cm, 356pp, followed by 2 fold out plans for Moskwa & Malo-J. Cover worn & stained. Moderate foxing thruout. . Front hinge only holding by the cords. GOOD-VG text block. Frontis, maps & all leaves moderately aged, foxed & type offsetting. P 250 with 2" chip in lower margin, and p266 with long tear up most of gutter margin, with old repair. Neither with loss of text. Binding very tight. Book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. "MOSKWA" map with closed tear most way up outer fold easily repaired with archival tissue. . .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001877
- Title
- A Circumstantial Narrative of the CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIA embellished with plans of the battles of Moskwa and Malo-Jarosla
- Author
- Labaume, Eugene 03b
- Illustrator
- Frontis & (2) fold out maps.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FAIR book. Full sheep, gilt lettered black leather spine label.
- Edition
- Early reprint
- Publisher
- Silas Andrus & E. Peck
- Place of Publication
- Hartford & Rochester, NY
- Date Published
- 1817
- Keywords
- FAIR book. 21x12cm, 356pp, followed by 2 fold out plans for Moskwa &, Malo-J. Cover worn & stained. Moderate foxing thruout., 03b
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
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