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HISTOIRE DES REVOLUTIONS DE PORTUGAL Quatrieme Edition Revue & Augmentée
by VERTOT Abbe de
- Used
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- Seller
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Dulverton, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1729. 12mo (6½ x 4 ins). Contemporary full tree calf, spine with gilt diced tooling and contrasting label, boards gilt tooled at edges, blue sprinkled edges (light wear at corners and bottom edge of upper board chafed - otherwise VG). Pp. [xvi] + 190 + [96] + [2] blank, illus with engraved frontispiece and folding genealogical plate (small puncture at centre of title page and some neat inscriptions in contemporary hand on title and in margins; previous owner's engraved card on front paste-down).
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- Bookseller
- Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166608
- Title
- HISTOIRE DES REVOLUTIONS DE PORTUGAL Quatrieme Edition Revue & Augmentée
- Author
- VERTOT Abbe de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Hague: Henri Scheurleer, 1729
- Keywords
- Modern History
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About the Seller
Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd
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Dulverton
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
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