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Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl Fishing Origins to the Age of Discoveries
by Donkin, R. A
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0871692244
- ISBN 13
- 9780871692245
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 1998 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto. xxii + 448 pp, acknowledgments,list of 40 maps,72 figures, 12 tables, preface, 10 chapters with endnotes, bibliography of works cited, indices. Spine tail cloth with wrinkle to tip & 1/32" verticle tear to rear hinge cloth, else Fine.HC. DJ front side with surface scrathes - 3/4" vertical from bottom edge & 4" from top edge DJ & slight wrinkling along edges here & there, else Near Fine in removable mylar protector. Glossy paper clean and unmarked. Binding tight. . 8.75" x 11.3" quarter bound blue, three qtr gray cloth boards, gilt design & lettering, in shaded blue-gray DJ.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002530
- Title
- Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl Fishing Origins to the Age of Discoveries
- Author
- Donkin, R. A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0871692244
- ISBN 13
- 9780871692245
- Publisher
- American Philosophical Society
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- World History - Pearls
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY;
- Size
- Quarto
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- Hinge
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- Fine
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