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Basiléia" Les Césars, Les Rois d'Orient et les "Mages
by Gagé, Jean
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Société d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres", 1968. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. [4], 392pp. Original red cloth, with gold lettering on spine and printer's device in gilt on front board. Printer's device on title-page. Fascinating work on magic, magi, oracles and divination in Antiquity, illustrated with 2 plates of b/w photographic reproductions. Very minor soiling on binding. Text in French. Binding in overall good+ to very good, interior in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26307
- Title
- Basiléia" Les Césars, Les Rois d'Orient et les "Mages
- Author
- Gagé, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Société d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres"
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Oracle, Astrology, Magic, Magi, Reference, First edition
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.
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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....
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