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Gazette anecdotique du règne de Louis XVI. Portefeuille d'un Talon-Rouge. Avec préface par Georges d'Heylli
by Parnes, Roger de (Ãdouard Rouveyre)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Schenectady, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Edouard Rouveyre, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. xxx, 243pp + index. Contemporary blue half morocco over marbled boards, spine with five raised bands, gilt floral motifs, and gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Color title, frontispiece, title vignette, three inserted plates, and head-pieces. Some wear to extremities, a few light scuffs to leather, light chipping to front free endpaper. The spine panel is a bit faded. A very good copy. Text in French. ; Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28556
- Title
- Gazette anecdotique du règne de Louis XVI. Portefeuille d'un Talon-Rouge. Avec préface par Georges d'Heylli
- Author
- Parnes, Roger de (Ãdouard Rouveyre)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Edouard Rouveyre
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- non-fiction, ANTIQUARIAN, FRENCH LANGUAGE, FRENCH BOOKS, HISTORY, FRANCE, LOUIS XVI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; General Non-Fiction; History;
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About the Seller
Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
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Schenectady, New York
About Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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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