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Un an au Congo Belge (Les Grandes Enquetes de la "Nation Belge")
by Chalux
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Bruxelles: Librairie Albert Dewit, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Royal Octavo. 725 pages. Hardcover bound in dark green buckram with spine titles in gilt. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Prior owner's mid-20th century bookplate on the front pastedown. Text is toned but clean. Illustrated with some reprints of photographs. Large foldout map at the rear appears tender (browned) and shows some tears at the folds. Text is in French.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049852
- Title
- Un an au Congo Belge (Les Grandes Enquetes de la "Nation Belge")
- Author
- Chalux
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Librairie Albert Dewit
- Place of Publication
- Bruxelles
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.90 lbs
- Keywords
- 1925. Chalux; Belge; Belgian; Congo; Africa; Travel; Exploration; History; Geography; Ethnography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Travel; Languages;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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