ARMS AND ARMOUR In Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons
by BOUTELL, CHARLES
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
Reeves and Turner, 1874. 1st English Language Ed. Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book No Jacket. 296 pp. sepia brown cloth bdg. with gilt and black-stamped design and titling on front board, design and titling in gilt on spine, bevelled boards, teg, fore edge deckled. Illustrated with frontispice and 70 wood engravings throughout, all on paper plates. (scuffed and worn through in few places edges bdg., hinges were repaired and fortified, owner inscribed top title page, paper lightly yellowed, with repairs book is tight and pages clean)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.
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- Bookseller
- Odyssey Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2280
- Title
- ARMS AND ARMOUR In Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Also a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons
- Author
- BOUTELL, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st English Language Ed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reeves and Turner
- Date Published
- 1874
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾&quo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- HISTORY OF WEAPONRY. ARMS. ARMOUR
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY;
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Odyssey Books
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Pointe Claire, Quebec
About Odyssey Books
We have been an established bookstore since 1986 but are operating from home now as we have closed the store for retirement.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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