Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance
by GRAFTON, ANTHONY
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Hill and Wang 2000. FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering & illus to black buckram spine, gilt illus to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xi + 417pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
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- Title
- Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance
- Author
- GRAFTON, ANTHONY
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang 2000
- Keywords
- first editions history architecture Italian renaissance Leon Battista Alberti historical buildings design art 15th fifteenth century
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Buckram
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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