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Paseo por Europa, O Escenas Instructivas y Pintorescas Proprias para Dar Conocimiento a los Jovenes ...
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Pillet Aine, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 240pp. Contemporary full marbled sheep. Spine tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Neat ownership name on the half-title. The final three pages constitute the publisher's catalogue. Edges well worn as is the text block, but still a good copy. The guide takes the reader from France through the Scandinavian countries, Russia, Turkey, Italy, Swizerland, across the German countries, the Low Countries, British Isles, Portugal and ends in Spain. Rare. OCLC finds only one record. In Spanish.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thorn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50168
- Title
- Paseo por Europa, O Escenas Instructivas y Pintorescas Proprias para Dar Conocimiento a los Jovenes ...
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Pillet Aine
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1838
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Books;
Terms of Sale
Thorn Books
All books returnable for any reason within seven days, providing only that they are received in the same condition as shipped. Shipments to an Arizona address must add appropriate sales tax. Libraries billed.
About the Seller
Thorn Books
Biblio member since 2003
Tucson, Arizona
About Thorn Books
Thorn Books offers antiquarian, rare and out-of-print books. Frequently updated catalogues are available online in our specialty areas: King Arthur; Early Britain; Western Americana; California; Literature; and Rare Books. We are open by appointment only. Thorn Books is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers of American (ABAA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), and the Independent League of Online Booksellers (IOBA).
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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