Voyage en Hollande et dans Le Midi de L'Allemagne, Sur Les Deux Rives du Rhin, dans l'Ete de 1806; Two volumes [ A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer of 1806 ]
by Sir John Carr, translated into French by Madame Keralio-Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +
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About This Item
Paris, France: Leopold Collin, 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 2 vols., French text. English edition 1807. Octavo, lxviii + 332 pages and 544 pages, full calf with elaborate gilt-decorated spines, previous owner's bookplates on front-end papers. A good + set overall, interior very good, clean, neat, internal binding tight, paper just moderately yellowed; but exterior leather binding dried, darkened at the spines, with chipping along the hinges, hinges cracked but holding.
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- Title
- Voyage en Hollande et dans Le Midi de L'Allemagne, Sur Les Deux Rives du Rhin, dans l'Ete de 1806; Two volumes [ A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer of 1806 ]
- Author
- Sir John Carr, translated into French by Madame Keralio-Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Leopold Collin
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1809
- Keywords
- Nineteenth Century; Travel; Europe; Holland; Germany, French Language
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
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