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Breaking the Confines: The Grand Tour
by Conti, Flavio
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0150037309
- ISBN 13
- 9780150037309
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusett: HBJ Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Hardback A Gorgeous, Lavishly Illustrated Book. First Edition. Now Out-of-Print. Translated by Patrick Creagh. Large Quarto Size Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket, Mylar jacket cover, jacket not price-clipped. Illustrations, photos, photo essay, with magnificent color.Text pages are in brown tones--paper, print, and illustrations. Binding of light brown cloth w/white titles on spine and on front panel. Very clean and unmarked, handsome volume, with light rubbing to bottom edge, otherwise in Fine Condition. The Grand Tour represents 100 of the greatest architectural achievements of all time, in twelve volumes. This is one of the volumes. The splendor and magnificence of each edifice is explored through spectacular, full color photographs, with authoritative and lively text. The buildings are united by a common cause: each is a concrrete expression of an abstract ideal, honoring or illuminating the democratic principle. The Great Pyramids at Giza, Egypt; The Great Wall of China; Jaipur Observatory, India; The Nubian Temples, Egypt; The Sugar Loaf of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Empire State Building, New York City; Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco; Sydney Opera House, Australia; 168 pages. 12 x 9.25". HBJ Press, Boston, MA 1978.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016592
- Title
- Breaking the Confines: The Grand Tour
- Author
- Conti, Flavio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0150037309
- ISBN 13
- 9780150037309
- Publisher
- HBJ Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusett
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 4to - over 9?" - 12" t
- Keywords
- TRAVEL; ARCHITECTURE; DEMOCRACY; THE NUBIAN TEMPLES, EGYPT; GREAT PYRAMIDS, AT GIZA, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, AUSTRALIA; WALL OF CHINA; SUGAR LOAD RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL; GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, SAN FRANCISCO; EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. World;
- X weight
- 0 oz
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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