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Histoire Des Flibustiers
by D'Archenholtz, J.W.; (Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz)
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- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Henrichs, Libraire, Rue de la Loi, 1804. 1st Edition . Leather Bound. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. xvi, 355 pages. Hardcover bound in full speckled calf leather with floral rules around the edges of the front and rear panels in gilt. Spine rules and tooling in gilt. Binding is rubbed and bumped. Top and bottom edges of the spine are worn away. Outer edges of the text block are speckled. Hinges are secure. Early bookplate on the front pastedown shows a pyramid surrounded by a globe, spyglass, books and lyre and with the name engraved below, "Ex Libris L A. A. B. de St. Maurice." The interior is toned and has some damping at the top edge towards the front of the book. Text is in French. A history of pirates and buccaneers in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Originally published in German.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049822
- Title
- Histoire Des Flibustiers
- Author
- D'Archenholtz, J.W.; (Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz)
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez Henrichs, Libraire, Rue de la Loi
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1804
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 1.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1804; J.W. D'Archenholtz; Pirates; Caribbean; Caribbean Sea; Maritime History; Caribbean History; French; French Language; Antiquarian; Rare; Collectible; Leather Binding; Buccaneers; West Indies; Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz; Jean Francois Bourgoin
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Maritime;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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