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NOTES AND SKETCHES OF AN ARCHITECT, Taken During a Journey in the North-West of Europe
by Narjoux, Felix and Peto, John (translator)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. hard cover. Good. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1876. xviii+403pp. Hardcover, no jacket. Heavily illustrated with b/w drawings. Good condition. Stamped and decorated brown cloth boards are a bit rubbbed, bumped and grimed. Gilt decoration to cover and spine remains bright and attractive. Interior is clean, unmarked, and unfoxed. Binding is secure, but cracked at hinges and p272. Overall a pretty nice copy. "...a new and interesting journey which the reader may make with us - a novel excursion among peope and through countries, of whose buildings he knows nothing, or, which having once seen, he may be glad to visit a second time." (cfm)
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23681
- Title
- NOTES AND SKETCHES OF AN ARCHITECT, Taken During a Journey in the North-West of Europe
- Author
- Narjoux, Felix and Peto, John (translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE, EUROPE
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- Gilt
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