Quebec:Recueil Iconographique/A Pictorial Record by de Volpi, Charles P
- Bookseller: Old Goat Books
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 1010220
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: VG.
- Jacket condition: VG. Very slight wear to DJ: slight scuff to DJ front, small nicks by corners and spine top.
- Edition: 1st
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Longman
- Date published: 1971
- Pages: 188+ pages.
Description
Longman, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. VG./VG. Very slight wear to DJ: slight scuff to DJ front, small nicks by corners and spine top.. Quarto. Attractive bilingual, iconographic history of the city of Quebec. 188 full-page reproductions of wood, copper and steel engravings, aquatints and lithographs, ranging in time from 1608 to 1875. Blue cloth boards. Heavy book may require more postage. Hardcover
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