Memoria a Respeito da Peste
by Paris, Jean-François ; Andrade, Filippe José (trans)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1788. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf, worn at edges, old library label to spine and title page, stain to last few pages not obscuring text. Translated from the French edition published in 1778r. Details a major outbreak of rinderpest, cattle plague, in 1775. 166pp.
Rinderpest was a major disease of cattle and is believed to have been wiped out in 2011 making it one of two infectious diseases to have been eradicated (smallpox being the other). Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 048102.
Rinderpest was a major disease of cattle and is believed to have been wiped out in 2011 making it one of two infectious diseases to have been eradicated (smallpox being the other). Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 048102.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048102
- Title
- Memoria a Respeito da Peste
- Author
- Paris, Jean-François ; Andrade, Filippe José (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Full Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Regia Officina Typografica
- Place of Publication
- Lisbon
- Date Published
- 1788
- Keywords
- Medicine & Health; NOISBN
Terms of Sale
Pazzo Books
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About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...