Master Builders of Sixty Centuries
by Miller, John Anderson
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. The author has written a fascinating and informative account of certain particularly interesting engineering achievements. The story of some of the great engineering, architectural and design triumphs of the ages: the Great Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Great Wall of Chine and more. 315pp., illustrated by Chichi Lasley, bound in beige pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in black and brown as is spine, in a nice bright unclipped pictorial dust with tiny chip to top edge of front panel and chip to edge of rear panel and spine ends. An exceptionally clean, very bright copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015639
- Title
- Master Builders of Sixty Centuries
- Author
- Miller, John Anderson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Architecture Chichi Lasley Dust Jacket First Edition 1st
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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