LIFE OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE, FIRST WIFE OF NAPOLEON
by Headley, P. C. [Phineas Camp]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: C. M. Saxton, 1859. 384 pp. Original brown cloth covers stamped in blind w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. Spine sunned. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ a frontispiece of Empress Josephine.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 519BIO
- Title
- LIFE OF THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE, FIRST WIFE OF NAPOLEON
- Author
- Headley, P. C. [Phineas Camp]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- C. M. Saxton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY DE BEAUHARNAIS JOSEPHINE EMPRESS 1763 1814 DE LA PAGERIE MARIE JOSEPHE ROSE DE TASCHER EMPRESS FRENCH REIGNED 1804 1810 CONSORT BONAPARTE NAPOLEON I 1769 1821 DI BUONAPARTE NAPOLEONE EMPEROR FRENCH REIGN 1804 1814 1815 WORLD HISTORY FRANCE EUROP
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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