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MES PRISONS, SUIVI DES DEVOIRS DES HOMMES (1844)
by Pellico, Silvio
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Paris: H. L. Delloye, Garnier Freres. Very Good. 1844. Hardcover. Clean marbled boards, brown leather corners & spine with gilt lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Marbled endpapers. Engraved illustrations by Seguin, D'Aubigny, Steinheil, etc.. Red stamp on verso of title page "Suscipere et finere, ex Bibliotheca Ernesti Aug. Hannov. Regis" (from the library of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover [1771-1851]). Also, round armorial bookplate inside front cover "LE COMTE LOUIS TASCHER DE LAPAGERIE". Internal front hinge with paper tear, cover firmly attached. Some pages lightly foxed. A account of Italian patriot Silvio Pellico's Austrian imprisonment (1820-1830) on charges of being a revolutionary & the suffering he endured. Italy, Text in French. ; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 335 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9291
- Title
- MES PRISONS, SUIVI DES DEVOIRS DES HOMMES (1844)
- Author
- Pellico, Silvio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- H. L. Delloye, Garnier Freres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1844
- Keywords
- Foreign Language
- Bookseller catalogs
- Language French;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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