Social Life In Egypt - A Description of the Country and Its People
by Poole, Stanley Lane
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued
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About This Item
London: J.S. Virtue & Co. Full tooled leather. Published London: J.S. Virtue & Co., n.d. (c.1880's) Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 1/2". 136 pp.+2pp index, title page printed in black and red, all edge gilt, illustrated with 5 full-page steel engravings on heavy card stock, one vignette, and over 100 wood engravings. Bound in tooled full leather, covers with center panel bordered by intricate, Middle-Eastern gilt cross design; paneled spine with gilt designs and raised bands. Some foxing to endpapers, but text pages are clean and bright, old, amusing bookplate of "ne obliviscaris", beneath a wing-eared boar head, on pastedown, covers scuffed along the edges with a few chips, outer front hinge cracked, but cover remains tight. All plates present, internally very good, Very good minus.. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio.
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- Title
- Social Life In Egypt - A Description of the Country and Its People
- Author
- Poole, Stanley Lane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Publisher
- J.S. Virtue & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- EGYPT ETHNOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Middle East; Anthropology;
- Size
- Folio
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