The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall from original sources
by MUIR, SIR WILLIAM
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About This Item
Religious Tract Society 1892 (2nd edition). Super octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, decorative panel to spine & front board lower edge, black coated eps, xv + 612pp, illus with 3 folding maps, VG- / poor (heavy browning to page edges, some staining to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, front hinge cracked, rear hinge completely detached, paper to rear pastedown torn, internal gutter cracked at page 208/209, some annotation in pencil throughout, owner's name & address in ink to half-title page)
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- Title
- The Caliphate: Its Rise, Decline, and Fall from original sources
- Author
- MUIR, SIR WILLIAM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Religious Tract Society 1892 (2nd edition)
- Keywords
- history Caliphate Bahrain Oman Medina Syria Mesopotamia Palestine Egypt
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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