RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES: WITH GENERAL AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS OF THEIR RISE, FALL, AND PRESENT CONDITION [CT IN 2 VOLS]
by Charles Bucke
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
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About This Item
NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Fine with no dust jacket. 1867. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; Charles Bucke was an English writer who, despite being poor most of his life, still managed to produce roughly eleven different works, each varying in number of volumes and topics. Width: 4.25" Height: 6.5". Width: 4.25" Height: 6.5". Set is bound in blind-stamped dark brown cloth with bright stamped gilt lettering to the spines. These small-format books show light shelfwear. The bindings are firm. The endpapers display traces of the removal of attachments. The pages are clean and without markings. This work contains frontispieces and a small number of plates. .
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- Title
- RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES: WITH GENERAL AND PARTICULAR ACCOUNTS OF THEIR RISE, FALL, AND PRESENT CONDITION [CT IN 2 VOLS]
- Author
- Charles Bucke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1867
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