Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources
by Beecher-Stowe, Harriet
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- g
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: J. B. Ford and Company, 1873. Hardcover. g. 4to. Three-quarter gilt-decorated leather and spine over brown cloth. Raised bands. Wear to parts of leather and spine. Scuffing and some staining to boards. All gilt edges. Gutters have been expertly reinforced with binders tape at front-and rear endpapers. Ex-libris of Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin of Hebrew Union College to inside of front board. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece missing. Tissue-guard on title-page torn. Perforated library stamp on margin of title-page. Few pages and plates loose but complete. Usual age browning to pages. "Illustrated with twenty-five Chromo-Lithographs after paintings by Raphael, Batoni, Horace Vernet, Goodall, Landelle, Portaels, Vernet-Lecomte, Baader, Merle, and Boulanger and others; printed by Monroco from Stones executed by Jehenne, Paris." Stunning color lithographs. The author is best known for her masterpiece "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Overall good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17206
- Title
- Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources
- Author
- Beecher-Stowe, Harriet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. B. Ford and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- Women in the Bible, Mary Magdalene, Women of the Christian Era, Jezebel, Queen Esther, The Sistine Madonna
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Edges
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- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
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- G
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