A Guide to the Collections in the British Museum
by British Museum
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Printed By Order of the Trustees, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo [tall]. Original paperboards, quarter bound with later spine. xiv, 325 p.p., [2] ads. Features a preface by E.A. Wallis Budge, prolific scholar and author on Egyptology, who worked in the Department of Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum. With [53] full page illustrations, and numerous in-text, showing artifacts, statues, papyri, and other treasures held in the British Museum at the beginning of the 20th century. Light rubbing and wear to boards, edges. Small tear at spine-head. Light foxing to pages. Glue markings to front inner hinge. Else a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001752
- Title
- A Guide to the Collections in the British Museum
- Author
- British Museum
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed By Order of the Trustees
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Ancient Egypt, British Museum, E.A. Wallis Budge
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Ancient Egypt; Archaeology;
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.