History of ancient pottery
by BIRCH, SAMUEL
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1858. First edition, 8vo, 2 vols., pp. xii, [2], 415; xii, [2], 437, [2] ads; color lithograph frontispieces, vignette title-pp., and 10 lithograph plates (9 colored), plus numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; slight dampstain to upper cover of vol. I, else a fine, bright set in orig. pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spines.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27412
- Title
- History of ancient pottery
- Author
- BIRCH, SAMUEL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1858
- Keywords
- Ceramics , Antiquities , Pottery , Archaeology
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- Fine
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