RECOLLECTIONS of ITALY, ENGLAND AND AMERICA with essays on various subjects in MORALS AND LITERATURE
by Chateaubriand, F.A. de (Francois) 05c
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD book. FAE. Covers detached BUT text block still tight.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Phila: Carey. GOOD book. FAE. Covers detached BUT text block still tight.. 1816. 1st Am ed. Hardcover. GOOD book. 8vo, (xvii),364pp. Full sheep. Gilt lettered black leather spine label. Text moderately foxed but quite clear. . Howes 326. No loose pages. Library name embossed on tp & preceding two blank prelims. 4 digit library # inked on both sides of tp. Library's check out slip on last postlim blank with NO ENTRIES, which accounts for the relatively decent condition of the text. With armorial bkplt of Edward Iggulden, which is listed in the 1898 bookplate book given Harvard U, Frank's Bequest. .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001220
- Title
- RECOLLECTIONS of ITALY, ENGLAND AND AMERICA with essays on various subjects in MORALS AND LITERATURE
- Author
- Chateaubriand, F.A. de (Francois) 05c
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD book. FAE. Covers detached BUT text block still tight.
- Edition
- 1st Am ed
- Publisher
- Carey
- Place of Publication
- Phila
- Date Published
- 1816
- Keywords
- GOOD book. 8vo, (xvii),364pp. Full sheep. Gilt lettered black leather, spine label. Text moderately foxed but quite clear.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Bookplate
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- Foxed
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- Spine Label
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- Text Block
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- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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