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Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire
by Thomas, Hugh
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0297645633
- ISBN 13
- 9780297645634
- Seller
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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. First U.K. Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xix, 604pp. Illustrated 24 plates, illustrations, maps. Mapped endpapers. Brown cloth w crisp gold lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear, preserved in BroDart cover. Octavo. 1.15kg
Synopsis
HUGH THOMAS is the author of numerous histories, including The Spanish Civil War , for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award, Conquest, and The Slave Trade . His A History of the World won him the Arts Council Prize for History. Made a Lord in 1981, Lord Thomas was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne.
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- Post Horizon Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046760
- Title
- Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire
- Author
- Thomas, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.K. Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0297645633
- ISBN 13
- 9780297645634
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 16th century. Spain -- History -- Charles I, 1516-1556. Spain -- History -- Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516. Spanish colonies. Discoveries in geography -- Spanish. America Discovery and exploration Spanish. NO
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Brodart
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- Cloth
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
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