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Turin 1564-1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital
by Pollak, Martha D
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0226673421
- ISBN 13
- 9780226673424
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Gilt stamped red cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of shelfwear to bottom edges of boards, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has edgewear that includes a few small tears and their related creases.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B60382
- Title
- Turin 1564-1680: Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital
- Author
- Pollak, Martha D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0226673421
- ISBN 13
- 9780226673424
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Italy, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Urban Studies
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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