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VIE DES ENFANTS CELEBRES
by Anne Francois Joachim Freville
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near FINE/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris: Didier Libraire-Editeur, 1836. VIE DES ENFANTS CELEBRES- 2 Volumes- nouvelle edition, revue, corrigee, et considerablement augmentee- par Anne Francois Joachim Freville- Illustrated- Didier Libraire-Editeur- Paris- 1836- Hardcover:- 12mo- Near FINE/ no jacket as issued.- A fine period French tooled red leather binding with single line fillet on front and back, gilt ornamentation and fillets on spine, and intricate gilt edging and on interior of covers- brown marbled endpapers.- All page edges gilt- Vol. I: blank, 1/2 title, frontis, illustrated title page, title page, 1-408, table des matieres, blank. Complete. Vol II: blank, 1/2 title, frontis, illustrated title page, title page, 1-371, table des matieres, blank.- Complete.- Illustrated with fine gravures. Clean, no writing, some slight foxing, but certainly the finest set available on the net.- SEE PHOTOS- A very desireable set of historical books on the children of royalty of the time, presented in a fine classical binding.- World Cat has none of the 1836 available as there are none on the net.- TEXT IN FRENCH- Non-fiction-biographical-historical-France-children-royalty-illustrated (3586) . New Edition. Fine Binding. Near FINE/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Illustrated. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- jakoll
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3586
- Title
- VIE DES ENFANTS CELEBRES
- Author
- Anne Francois Joachim Freville
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near FINE
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Didier Libraire-Editeur
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1836
- Keywords
- Non-fiction-biographical-historical-France-children-royalty-illustrated
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
jakoll
Payment must be received within 7 working days. Payments by cheque will be held 10 working days to clear. Full refund of purchase price only if item has been misdescribed as pertains to condition. Mailing costs non-refundable. Item must be returned in the same condition as it was originally sent out for refund conditions to apply.
About the Seller
jakoll
Biblio member since 2007
Mansonville, Quebec
About jakoll
We specialize in Modern 1st Edition, Children's books, Vintage classics, vinyl records, original movie posters, sports cards, comics, postage stamps and coins.We only sell online at this time and have been doing so for over 30 years.
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- New
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- Fine
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- A.N.
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- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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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