HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE (12 VOL SET - COMPLETE): L'Histoire Ancienne, Romaine et du Bas-Empire, 5th edition, ornee de gravures
by Louis-Phillippe, Conte de Segur (1753 - 1830)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Furne Libraire / Fruger et Brunet, 1836. fifth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12 vol set, complete. Fifth edition.5 x 8 1/2 in. Text in French.Brown polished quarter calf, with marbled boards. 46 B&W engravings, and 20 fold-out, hand-colored maps. All illustrations tissue-protected. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine, with embossed motif. Marbled endpapers. Condition of book is VERY GOOD ; Spines very gently worn, leather remarkably good, corners and ends of spine very lightly worn. The maps colors are very fresh and the maps only have some faint foxing, if at all, while the B&W engravings vary as to foxing the busts of emperors more so, the full illustrations less. Upper text block slightly darkened. Foxing throughout, sporadic, with owner's name in ink on some half title pages, otherwise very tight, solid copies, uniformly aged.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2851
- Title
- HISTOIRE UNIVERSELLE (12 VOL SET - COMPLETE)
- Author
- Louis-Phillippe, Conte de Segur (1753 - 1830)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- fifth edition
- Publisher
- Furne Libraire / Fruger et Brunet
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1836
- Bookseller catalogs
- Text in French;
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- Spine
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- Calf
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- Gilt
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