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Missions Belges de la Compagnie de Jésus. Congo - Bengale - Ceylan
by Anon
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Bruxelles: Imprimerie Scientifique Ch. Bulens, 1902. Leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 460 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in red quarter leather with red cloth-covered boards. Light to moderate rubbing to the binding. A sound copy with secure hinges. Marbled endpapers. Prior owner's mid-20th century bookplate on the front pastedown. Text is clean. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and with a few color plates. Text is in French. An attractive copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049851
- Title
- Missions Belges de la Compagnie de Jésus. Congo - Bengale - Ceylan
- Author
- Anon
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Imprimerie Scientifique Ch. Bulens
- Place of Publication
- Bruxelles
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 3.90 lbs
- Keywords
- Missions; Missionary Work; Report; Company of Jesus; Compagnie de Jesus; Belges; Belgian; Belgium; Congo; Africa; Begnale; Bengal; Ceylan; Ceylon; India. Asia; Travel; Ethnography; Christianity; Chirstian; Catholic; Leather Binding.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bindings; Africa; India;
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
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