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Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
by Cohen, Kathleen
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0520018443
- ISBN 13
- 9780520018440
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover in Fine condition in dark red-maroon cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Dust jacket is Fine condition. Illustrated. 4to. 215 pp. including Appendix with list and categories of Transi tombs, selected bibliography, and index. Heavy for shipping outside the U.S.
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- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96265
- Title
- Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- Author
- Cohen, Kathleen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520018443
- ISBN 13
- 9780520018440
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- California Studies in the History of Art, 15; social history; history of death
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