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GERMAN BOOK-PLATES; AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF GERMAN & AUSTRIAN EXLIBRIS
by Karl Emich Count zu Leiningen-Westerburg
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Columbia, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
George Bell & Sons, 1901. Hardcover. Fine. Translated G. Ravenscroft Dennis. London: George Bell & Sons, 1901. 531pp., index, color frontis./tissue-guard, 4 full-page color, black and white plates/tissue guards, profusely illustrated throughout with some 240 examples of bookplates large and small 8vo. Neatly rebound in brown cloth with gold titles on front cover and spine, new endpapers, upper edge of textblock gilt. Attractive fine hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102066
- Title
- GERMAN BOOK-PLATES; AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF GERMAN & AUSTRIAN EXLIBRIS
- Author
- Karl Emich Count zu Leiningen-Westerburg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Bell & Sons
- Date Published
- 1901
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. BOOKPLATES
Terms of Sale
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Books are returnable for a refund
if not as described.
About the Seller
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Columbia, Missouri
About Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
30,000 books in stock, with special emphasis on gardening,
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
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- New
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- Fine
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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...
- G
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