Moeurs, Usages et Costumes au Moyen Age et à l'époque de la Renaissance
by Lacroix, Paul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. F. Kellerhoven. Quarto. 599 pages. Hardback bound in quarter red leather with red cloth-covered boards. Elaborate gilt embossing on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. The front hinge is rubbed, but the binding and the text block are sound. Illustrated with full-page plates in color and in sepia as well as with black and white text illustrations. There are 15 plates either in Chromolithographs or monochrome (tan or blue). The color plates have tissue guards, which are foxed. The front pastedown has a bookseller's ticket reading, "J. W. Kolckmann, / Foreign Library / I Princes Street. / Cavendish Square / London." Signed on the second front flyleaf, "William Lanier Hunt / Chapel Hill, N.C." William Lanier Hunt (1906-1996), the 1950s owner, was the "Dean of Southern Horticulture." He donated land along the Morgan Creek in southern Orange County, NC to the North Carolina Botanical Garden and is now known as the Hunt Arboretum.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045206
- Title
- Moeurs, Usages et Costumes au Moyen Age et à l'époque de la Renaissance
- Author
- Lacroix, Paul
- Illustrator
- F. Kellerhoven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, Fils et Cie
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1871
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 7.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1871; Paul Lacroix; F. Kellerhoven; Costumes; Middle Ages; Renaissance; Moyen Age; 19th Century; Rare; Collectible; Color; Plates; Chromolithographs; William Lanier Hunt; Hunt Arboretum; Orange County; North Carolina; NC;
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Art; Fashion;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
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