History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
by Prescott, William H.; Edited by John Foster Kirk
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 684 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth with spine titles in gilt. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Endpapers toned and foxed. Early owner's 1895 inscription on the front flyleaf. The text is toned but generally clean. Fore edge is untrimmed, and the text is partly unopened.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042712
- Title
- History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- Author
- Prescott, William H.; Edited by John Foster Kirk
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- 1892; William H. Prescott; John Foster Kirk; Ferdinand; Isabella; Catholic; Spain; Spanish; Europe; European; History; Columbus; 15th Century.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Europe; World History;
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...