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Haiti: Monuments Historiques et Archeologiques
by Pressoir, Catts
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Tacubaya, Mexico : Insituto Panamericano de Geographia e Historia , 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 32 pages, indexed, plus illustrations. Hardcover rebound in black buckram (NOT ex-library) with original wrappers bound in. There is minimal wear to the binding. Prior owner's bookplate on the verso of the title page and partially obscured in the gutter. (Bookplate of George Breathett, a professor at Bennett College in Greensboro, NC in the 1950s-1960s). The text is toned but clean and sound. Text is in French. The title translates to, "Haiti: Historical and Archaeological Monuments." Contains 16 illustrations as well as a fold out map in the rear.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050642
- Title
- Haiti: Monuments Historiques et Archeologiques
- Author
- Pressoir, Catts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Insituto Panamericano de Geographia e Historia
- Place of Publication
- Tacubaya, Mexico
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1952; Catts Pressoir; Haiti; Haitian History; Haitian Archeology; Archaeology; Haitian Monuments; Haitian Artifacts; French Language; Illustrated; George Breathett; Bennett College; Greensboro, North Carolina.
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American; Archaeology; Languages;
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Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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