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French Books: Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries (Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, Volume I)
by Wiebenson, Dora & Claire Baines, Robin Middleton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0807612812
- ISBN 13
- 9780807612811
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
National Gallery of Art, Washington & George Braziller Inc. Used - Very Good. 1993. Illustrated. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Folio. xxv & 512 pp. Illustrated. Moderate shelf wear to dust jacket. Some smudging to edges of text block. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C57200
- Title
- French Books: Seventeenth Through Nineteenth Centuries (Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, Volume I)
- Author
- Wiebenson, Dora & Claire Baines, Robin Middleton
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0807612812
- ISBN 13
- 9780807612811
- Publisher
- National Gallery of Art, Washington & George Braziller Inc
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.c.
- This edition first published
- 1993
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