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Costumes Anciens et Modernes, Habiti Antichi et Moderni di Tutto il Mondo (VOLUME ONE)
by Vecellio, Cesare
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair (Boards are heavily worn and show some discoloration; bottom portion of the spine strip is missing; inner hinge is broken;
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1859. Hardcover. Fair (Boards are heavily worn and show some discoloration; bottom portion of the spine strip is missing; inner hinge is broken; text block edges is heavily foxed and shows shelfwear; pages are lightly age-toned and foxed.). Quarter-bound brown leather boards with five raised bands and gilt lettering; green cloth bookmark; 234, 18 pp.; richly illustrated in bw. Text in Italian and French. This is Volume I in a two-volume set.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 192473
- Title
- Costumes Anciens et Modernes, Habiti Antichi et Moderni di Tutto il Mondo (VOLUME ONE)
- Author
- Vecellio, Cesare
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair (Boards are heavily worn and show some discoloration; bottom portion of the spine strip is missing; inner hinge is broken;
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- European Art ; Clergy clothing ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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