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Histoire de Venise
by Valentine, F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Tours: Ad. Mame et Cie, 1862. Neuvième édition, 12mo, pp. 283; engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title page, 2 plates; contemporary pictorial paper binding printed in gilt, green, red, and orange, cut-out panel on upper overlaid on hand-coloured lithographic plate, cloth and paper spine labels; spine ends chipped, small loss to spine, extremities rubbed; ffep and front flyleaf partially glued together, else interior good and sound. Contemporary Southampton bookseller ticket on front pastedown. A very nice example from "one of the biggest printers and publishers in France...and [specializing] in decorative paper bindings" (McLean, p. 27). This edition in Lyon only in OCLC.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42770
- Title
- Histoire de Venise
- Author
- Valentine, F
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ad. Mame et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Tours
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- Paper , French , Venice ,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bindings;
Terms of Sale
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- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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