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Memoires Touchant La Vie et Les Ecrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Dame de Bourbilly, Marquis de Sevigne (Madame De Sevigne): (Complete 6 Volume Set)
by Baron Walckenaer [Charles Athanase Walckenaer]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, Fils, 1856. 3rd Edition . Very Good. 4.5 x 7 inches (11.5 x 18 cm). Complete six volume set. The first five volumes are 3rd editions issued in 1856, Volume VI is the 1865 1st Edition. Half bink calf leather bindings with marbled boards, all page edges gilt. Spines have five raised bands and gilt lettering. Fading and a few marks to spines. Good solid bindings with no cracking to joints. A few occasional patches of foxing, text is otherwise in very clean condition throughout. French language. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £18.85; USA £35.40; Oceania £37.55; Rest of World £30.85. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 4.5 x 7 inches (11.5 x 18 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 544 + 517 + 483 + 388 + 470 + 481
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- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1159E310
- Title
- Memoires Touchant La Vie et Les Ecrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Dame de Bourbilly, Marquis de Sevigne (Madame De Sevigne): (Complete 6 Volume Set)
- Author
- Baron Walckenaer [Charles Athanase Walckenaer]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Firmin Didot Freres, Fils
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1856
- Size
- 4.5 x 7 inches (11.5 x 18 cm)
- Keywords
- French language, Madame De Sevigne, Biography, Auto_Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings; Biography & Autobiography;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
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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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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