The Sack of Rome
by E.R. Chamberlin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0880290676
- ISBN 13
- 9780880290678
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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CA$13.90CA$9.73
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About This Item
New York, NY: Dorset Press, 1985 Dorset Press, New York. 1985. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine; DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($25.00); sunfading to spine; bump to rear upper tip; bump to rear panel near gutter. Gold paper over boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with bright gold lettering on the spine. 218 pp 8vo. This is the author's account of the tragedy of Rome through the personalities of the people whose miscalculations brought it about: Charled, Duke of Bourbon, Francois I, Frundsburg, Charles V, and Pope Clement VII. This book recounts the collection of mercenaries and their great march on Rome, the assault itself, and the events and people involved in the looting, vandalism, and rape that followed. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013219
- Title
- The Sack of Rome
- Author
- E.R. Chamberlin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0880290676
- ISBN 13
- 9780880290678
- Publisher
- Dorset Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1985
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Rome, Italy, Middle ages, Emperor Charles V, Rape of Rome, Fall of Rome, Pope Clement II, King of France, Francois I, Charles the Duke of Bourbon, Frundsburg,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medieval Times;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
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