Italy : Third Part : Southern Italy and Sicily with Excursions to the Lipari Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu : Handbook for Travellers
by Baedeker, Karl
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leipsic: Baedeker, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Fourteenth Revised Edition with 27 maps and 24 plans. Soft red cloth binding with gilt title on front and spine, faded along the spine but otherwise neat clean and square, gilt bright on the front. Hinge firm except the front end paper with the frontis fold-out map is detached but present. Heraldic ex-libris paste-down inside the front. Pages yellowed but smooth and clean, maps and plans in very good condition. A nice, well preserved book.
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- Bookseller
- David's Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036108
- Title
- Italy : Third Part : Southern Italy and Sicily with Excursions to the Lipari Islands, Malta, Sardinia, Tunis and Corfu : Handbook for Travellers
- Author
- Baedeker, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Baedeker
- Place of Publication
- Leipsic
- Date Published
- 1912
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
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Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
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- 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....
- Cloth
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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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
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