Le Bougainville de la Jeunesse: Nouvel Abrégé des Voyages dans l'Amerique
by Riccous
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Paris: D. Belin, 1834. Hardcover. Good. 4th edition. 12mo. 322pp. Original leather boards rebacked retaining the original leather lettering label. Illustrated with 3 full page plates as well as an engraved title page. The title page vignette shows Bougainviille landing in Tahiti. Another plate depicts Montezuma. The voyages of Bougainville, Cook, etc., retold for children. In French.
Gumchian, 815.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thorn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23682
- Title
- Le Bougainville de la Jeunesse: Nouvel Abrégé des Voyages dans l'Amerique
- Author
- Riccous
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Belin
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1834
Terms of Sale
Thorn Books
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Tucson, Arizona
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...