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Saint - Simon: The memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, covering the years 1691-1723
by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Heritage Press, 1959. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, quarto sized volume bound in red cloth stamped in gold. 498 pages. Folding genealogical table of the Bourbon family laid-in. Selected, translated and edited by Desmond Flower. Illustrated with color plates. First edition thus. No previous ownership marks. Spine moderately darkened, as per usual. Slipcase present with split along bottom edge albeit still intact. Very good in a fair slipcase. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019566
- Title
- Saint - Simon: The memoirs of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, covering the years 1691-1723
- Author
- Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Heritage Press, Memoirs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Heritage Press;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fair
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- 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...
- Laid-in
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