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The Toledo Museum of Art: Early Ancient Glass
by Grose, David Frederick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg
- ISBN 10
- 093392092X
- ISBN 13
- 9780933920927
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 454pp. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. A fine book on "early ancient glass, core-formed, rod-formed, and cast vessels and objects from the late Bronze age to the early Roman Empire, 1600 B.C. to A.D. 50. The Toledo Museum of Arts has one of the world's foremost collection of glass, documenting the artistic, historical, and technological evolution of this medium over the course of thirty-five hundred years". Profusely illustrated with color and b/w plates of which one is a fold-out. In near fine condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12696
- Title
- The Toledo Museum of Art: Early Ancient Glass
- Author
- Grose, David Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 093392092X
- ISBN 13
- 9780933920927
- Publisher
- Hudson Hill Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Ancient Glass, History of Glassmaking, Cast Vessels, Ancient Glassmaking, Museum Catalog, Pre-blown Ancient Glass
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- 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...
- Fine
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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