Rerum Scoticarum Historia
by Buchanan, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Utrecht: Petrum Elzevirium. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1668. Hardback. White vellum boards, somewhat grubby, but largely unworn. Title inked by hand on spine. Front joint partially exposed, but text block itself intact -- no loose pp. pp fairly supple and very lightly spotted for a 350-year-old book. Latin text. Some previous owner actually used this copy as a reference book, with the result that there are occasional light pencil marks in the text, and pencil notes on the rear endpaper. ; 8vo (5" x 8"); 750 + index pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39456
- Title
- Rerum Scoticarum Historia
- Author
- Buchanan, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Petrum Elzevirium
- Place of Publication
- Utrecht
- Date Published
- 1668
- Keywords
- scottish history, latin
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walden Books
Biblio member since 2010
London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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....