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Portuguese Plain Architecture: Between Spices and Diamonds, 1521-1706
by Kubler, George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0819540455
- ISBN 13
- 9780819540454
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 4to. xvi, 316, [2] pp. Bound in full lime green cloth, title stamped in gilt on red on spine. Black and white frontispiece photograph, black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Very Good, spine very slightly cocked, light foxing to spine, top edges of boards, heavier foxing on top edge of text block, not affecting interior which remains clean, photographs and illustrations sharp, in Very Good dust jacket with 1/2" tear on front cover near tail of spine, wear to top edge.
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- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000801
- Title
- Portuguese Plain Architecture
- Author
- Kubler, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0819540455
- ISBN 13
- 9780819540454
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Place of Publication
- Middletown, CT
- Date Published
- 1972
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
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- Cocked
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Jacket
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