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THE HABITATIONS OF MAN IN ALL AGES. Trans. By Benjamin Bucknall., Architect.
by Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugene
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston:James R. Osgood Co, 1876. hard cover. Good/No jacket. Boston:James R. Osgood Co. 1876. 394pp. Illustrated. Ex-library. Small ex-library book-plate pasted down inside front binding, as well as pocket and flap on rear end-pages and number in white at foot of spine. Front and back boards mottled. Beveled edges. Gilt image of home on front cover. Colored frontispiece. Binding is tight, rear hinge intact, front hinge starting. Light foxing scattered throughout. Altogether a very good copy.
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- Seller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 17654
- Title
- THE HABITATIONS OF MAN IN ALL AGES. Trans. By Benjamin Bucknall., Architect.
- Author
- Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugene
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Boston:James R. Osgood Co
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- HOMES, HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE,
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
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