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The Eastern, or Old World: Embracing Ancient and Modern History. Volume II
by Henry Howard Brownell
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
American Subscription House, 1856. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 396 pages + 96-page appendix which is "A Description, statistical and geographical of the countries of Europe". Volume II ONLY of a two-part history, published for American readers "by subscription only". Vol. II covers France, England, Australia, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal, and Italy after the fall of Rome. Forty illustrations on single-sided plates, many in color, are engravings from drawings by Felix Darley and others; pull-out map of the world. Medium 8vo, marbled paper over boards (worn along edges) with leather quarter and corners, worn at corners and along spine, gilt lettering and gilt-embellished hubs and other decoration on spine; all edges marbled, top and fore-edge faded, ripples along a streak on fore-edge as if scratched; marbled end papers, stiff stock of ffep and rfep vertically cracked but not torn through; pages age-toned, chips to fore-edge of front free end papers and frontispiece plate; a few spots of foxing and two stray pen or pencil marks observed on pages.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-755
- Title
- The Eastern, or Old World: Embracing Ancient and Modern History. Volume II
- Author
- Henry Howard Brownell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- American Subscription House
- Date Published
- 1856
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- EUROPEAN HISTORY, FRENCH REVOLUTIONS, AUSTRALIA, SCANDINAVIA, FELIX DARLEY, ILLUSTRATIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- European History; English History; Art;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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- Jacket
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- Cracked
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- Spine
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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