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Henry T. Coates, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Henry T. Coates, 1897-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Full of photos/drawings and a large fold-out map. Covers (red boards with gilt decoration/lettering) show light edge wear with rubbing. Rear hinge cracked but binding intact. COVER MAY NOT MATCH THE PICTURE ON THIS SITE. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

UsedGood. Red and gold 1897 edition hardcover; brief inscription and date inside front; no writing in text; map at back is torn; binding starting to loosen but pages intact

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Book. 8vo - over 7¾. VG, x, 510 pp. Wey was a standard architecture and art tour guide -- or travelogue --to Rome in the latter part of the nineteenth century. This book was not so much used while traipsing around the Eternal City as much as before and after seeing the sights to get more in the spirit of what was to be seen or was seen and to heighten the reader's appreciation of the sights. It was profused illustrated with full page photo plates, 30 in all. This copy is in full leather and was obviously intended to be lovingly held onto long after the visit. Condition is very good. Interior is clean, with only some light foxing on frontis plate, rest clean. Gilding of foreedges bright. Binding is tight. Contemp. calf of boards relatively healthy. On spine it is somewhat dry, and gilded decoration faded. Shelfwear and chippping to upper tip. Thus interior fine condition, binding overall good. Photos can be… Read More

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1898. Gilt decorated covers and top edge. Tissue-guarded frontis and text illustrations, large color fold-out map at rear. Clean and bright with crisp text. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1897. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, green with gold print; DJ has light edgewear, slight shelfwear, inscription in ink inside front panel, else clean and bright; Boards in green cloth with gold print, light wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has has gilt top edge, red ribbon marker (detached), clean and tight; x, 510 pages, frontispiece, illustrated (b&w plates), folded color map tipped in at rear. 1362920. FP New Rockville Stock.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., The International Press, [1897 (ca. 1900)]. 16mo. x, [2], 510 pp. Title in red & black. Photogravure frontisp., numerous photogravure plates, 1 large folding colour map. Decorated red cloth, gilt ornament on front cover & spine, t.e.g., w/ red linen open-backed slipcase (slight darkening, shelfwear), NF/NF copy. Early Winston edition of this nicely illustrated travelogue and history of the city of Rome, first published by Coates in 1897 as part of their extra-illustrated series.