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Sotheby's the Wardington Library Bibles, London 12 July 2006
by Sotheby's
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Sotheby's, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format quarto size volume bound in red cloth with pictorial color paste-down of front cover. 285 pages. Auction catalog containing 257 lots, richly illustrated with color photographs, full textual descriptions and price estimates. Absentee bidder page extant. First edition. An important sale held by Sotheby's dispersing the Wardington Library, which also contained Atlas's and Incunabula. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy, Near fine..
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020882
- Title
- Sotheby's the Wardington Library Bibles, London 12 July 2006
- Author
- Sotheby's
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Publisher
- Sotheby's
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Rare Books, Bibles, Auction Catalog
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books About Books;
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Incunabula
- Incunabula (incunable or incunabulum) refers to a book printed before 1501 - a pamphlet, a book or document that was not...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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