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Histoire des Revolutions de L'Empire de Constantinople Depuis la Fondation de cette Ville jusqu'a l'An 1453. que les Turcs s'en rendirent maitres. THREE VOLUMES
by De Burigny, M
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Paris: De Bure, 1750. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 16mos. 391; 579; 559, (13) pages. Small books measuring just over 6 1/2 inches tall by 4 inches wide. Hardcovers bound in full tan mottled leather with red and brown label pastedowns on spines. Five raised spine bands. Bindings are scuffed, rubbed; headcaps are fraying. Gilt tooling on spines, which are worn and bumped. All edges of text blocks are red. Marbled endpapers. Prior owner's names on recto of front flyleaf and verso of second front flyleaf (includes an early owner's name of Gallatin Sellon and a mid-20th century signature of Algie Newlin, who was a professor of History at Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina). Ribbon bookmarks. Bumping to the fore edge of the rear of the text block of Volume II and with some bumping at the fore edge of the front of the text block on Volume III. Text is toned, occasional foxing. Text is in French. Publisher's book list (13 pages) at the end of Volume III.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050320
- Title
- Histoire des Revolutions de L'Empire de Constantinople Depuis la Fondation de cette Ville jusqu'a l'An 1453. que les Turcs s'en rendirent maitres. THREE VOLUMES
- Author
- De Burigny, M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- De Bure
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1750
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Weight
- 3.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1750; M De Burigny; Leather; French Language; History; France; Revolution; War; Empire; Constantinople; Istanbul; 18th Century; Rare; Bindings; Multi-Volume Set; Gallatin Sellon; Algie Newlin; Guilford College.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; World History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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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...
- Text Block
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- 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...
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