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Les Modes Parisiennes sous le Directoire. Dessins Inedits.
by Compte-Calix, [Francois-Claudius]
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Item Price
€175.31€140.25
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About This Item
Paris: Des Modes Parisiennes, et al. 15 plates of colored engravings. 32 x 23 cm. White stiff paper wrappers with blue titling to cover; undated but presumed c. 1871. Moderate to heavy soil to covers, with chipping to edges. Spine has almost completely chipped away, and leaves are disbound with only fragments of the binding string remaining. Top corner (12 x 7 mm) of both title page and first plate have torn away. Small bump to bottom corner of text block, resulting in some very small diagonal creases to bottom corner of some plates. All 15 plates are present, clean, and in very good condition. . Disbound. Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Munster & Company, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 627317
- Title
- Les Modes Parisiennes sous le Directoire. Dessins Inedits.
- Author
- Compte-Calix, [Francois-Claudius]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Des Modes Parisiennes, et al.
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Munster & Company, LLC
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Corvallis, Oregon
About Munster & Company, LLC
Munster & Company is a family owned business with over twenty years of experience in buying and selling books. In October of 2017, we purchased Black Oak Books, originally in Berkeley, California, and moved it all to where we live in Corvallis, Oregon. Our inventory currently features a robust number of titles on mathematics, books about books, literature, poetry, and signed books. New arrivals are listed nearly every day.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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