L'Europe et L'Amerique Comparees
by Drouin de Bercy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
$580.00$290.00
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About This Item
Paris: Rosa, 1818. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two volumes in marbled boards with brown leather spines, gilt titles and decoration to spines. 5" x 8" (14 x 21 cm), 432 and 452 pages. Illustrated with 5 [of 6] very well-done hand-coloured plates. Vol. 1 plates: "Boa de Surinam / Pont de Roches naturel de Quito" (frontispiece, two images in one plate), "Jardins flottans de Mexico", "Grande Chute du Niagara / Petite Chute du Niagara" (two images in one plate). Vol. 2 plates: "Vue de la Ville de Mexico" (frontispiece), "Pont de Corde de l'Apurimac au Perou / Maniere de passer les Rivieres au Mexique" (two images in one plate), Lacking one plate, very scattered spotting, overall very good +. Scarce..
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- Bookseller
- Alan Foljambe, Bookseller [ABAC/ILAB] (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003529
- Title
- L'Europe et L'Amerique Comparees
- Author
- Drouin de Bercy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Rosa
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1818
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- natural history, French
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Alan Foljambe, Bookseller [ABAC/ILAB]
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. 5% GST applies to all orders shipped within Canada.
About the Seller
Alan Foljambe, Bookseller [ABAC/ILAB]
Biblio member since 2015
Kingston, Ontario
About Alan Foljambe, Bookseller [ABAC/ILAB]
Alan Foljambe, Bookseller specializes in illustrated books from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particular interests include natural history, French Modernism, Japanese craft and aesthetics, early anatomy books, fine press and bindings.
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- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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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...
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