The City of the Caliphs: A Popular Study of Cairo and Its Environs and the Nile and Its Antiquities
by Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1897. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1897. First Edition [1897]. 8vo, pp. [8], 335; 20 photogravure plates with printed tissue guards. Publisher's red silk binding with elaborate decoration in gilt, fancy lettering, two sphinx heads, pyramid, Islamic intertwined motif. Spine similarly decorated, top edge gilt. Beveled edges, red silk ribbon marker. A couple of pages badly cut (does not affect text), spine quite faded. Nice example of the binder's art. Very good condition..
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- Bookseller
- Rose's Books, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006238
- Title
- The City of the Caliphs: A Popular Study of Cairo and Its Environs and the Nile and Its Antiquities
- Author
- Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- EGYPT TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHS ANTIQUE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Egyptology;
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- Beveled
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- First Edition
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- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- 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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