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Villa Badoer at Fratta Polesine (007)
by Puppi, Lionello
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 027101203X
- ISBN 13
- 9780271012032
- Seller
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Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1975. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. 1975 Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, Pennsylvania), 9 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches tall red buckram cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt design to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, 110 pp. plus 56 unnumbered leaves of plates and 15 scale drawings. Slight staining, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Brief prior owner gift inscription to blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~RCL~ [5.0P] Villa Badoer in Fratta Polesine, in the Veneto region of northern Italy, was designed in 1556 by Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) for the Venetian noble Francesco Badoer, and built between 1557 and 1563 on the site of a medieval castle, which guarded a bridge across a navigable canal. This was the first time Palladio used his fully developed temple pediment in the façade of a villa. Villa Badoer has been part since 1996 of the UNESCO World Heritage Site 'City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto.'
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- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RCL-0342-14277
- Title
- Villa Badoer at Fratta Polesine (007)
- Author
- Puppi, Lionello
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 027101203X
- ISBN 13
- 9780271012032
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- University Park & London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 9x6x1
- X weight
- 80 oz
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About the Seller
Flamingo Books
Biblio member since 2011
Menifee, California
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gilt
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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