The Art of Writing 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D. [Catalogue 542]
por Maggs Bros
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Livreiro
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London: Maggs Bros. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1930]. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine leather faded from green to beige. Some small abrasions/chips to leather on front board. ; [1-2 (title)], 1-510, (511), [1-3 (Index)] pages + frontispiece "Seated Figure of Gudea, Governor of Lagash". Bound into papered boards with green quarter leather spine. Red leather lettering piece on spine. Original printed card wrappers (front and rear) bound in. Page dimensions: 262 x 191mm. Bookseller catalogue. 290 items, all illustrated and priced. Title continues: "Illustrated in a collection of original documents written on vellum, paper[,] papyrus, silk, linen, bamboo, or inscribed on clay, marble[,] steatite, jasper, haematite[,] matrix of emerald and chalcedony - exhibiting forty styles of scrips in the languages of Europe, Asia and Africa". .
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 23204
- Título
- The Art of Writing 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D. [Catalogue 542]
- Autor
- Maggs Bros
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Maggs Bros
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- [1930]
- Palavras-chave
- Antiquarian Books
Termos da venda
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
Sobre o Vendedor
Renaissance Books
Membro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...