THE HISTORY OF EGYPT
by Samuel Sharpe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- G/no DJ
- Seller
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Roseville, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London:: Edward Moxon,, 1852. G/no DJ. Handsome octavo size (8vo) 2-volume set is in original embossed dark brown leather bindings. The endpapers are yellow, with the original owner's name, James Brand, on a bookplate on the front endpaper. Volume 2 is complete with fold-out MAP and index. Volume 1 has a 2 inch and a 3/4 inch tear at top of spine and is starting. Volume 2 has a 3/4 inch tear at the bottom of the spine, a 1 inch tear on lower corner of fron board, and an erasure mark on the rear paste-down endpaper. Both volumes are foxed, show abrasion at the edges, are frayed and bumped at the corners and the pages are slightly warped. Third edition. Full title is: "THE HISTORY OF EGYPT: FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TILL THE CONQUEST BY THE ARABS A.D. 640.
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- Plum Books (US)
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- 1012
- Title
- THE HISTORY OF EGYPT
- Author
- Samuel Sharpe
- Book Condition
- Used - G/no DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edward Moxon,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1852
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...