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An Essay on the Roman Senate
de CHAPMAN, THOMAS
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very good. Heavy edgewear; endpapers excised. Small, unobtrusive previous ownership signature in contemporary hand on title page
- Librería
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University; and sold by W. Thurlbourn and T. Merrill; J. Whiston, R. Dodsley, and M. Cooper; J. Fletcher; and J. Hildyard, 1750. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Heavy edgewear; endpapers excised. Small, unobtrusive previous ownership signature in contemporary hand on title page. Binding square & tight, text otherwise clean & bright. Zeuxian Society (Caldwell Institute) bookplate to front pastedown, with the motto nunc adbibe puro pectore verba (Hor. Ep. 1.2.67 'now drink up words with a bright, undefiled mind'). The Caldwell Institute, named after Joseph Caldwell, the first president of the University of North Carolina, was a short-lived, early 19th-century Presbyterian school in North Carolina designed to provide a classical education imbued with Christian principles.. 8vo. 5.25 x 8.25 in. viii, [1] contents, [1 blank], 398 pp. + 16 pp. index. Text in English, with notes in English, Latin & Greek. Contempoary brown calf, with five raised spine bands & four compartments, ornamented in gilt, tiled in gilt on leather spine label. Cambridge churchman Thomas Chapman's first and only book. Chapman was a master of Magdalen College. A rather scarce title.
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- Librería
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 343
- Título
- An Essay on the Roman Senate
- Autor
- CHAPMAN, THOMAS
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good. Heavy edgewear; endpapers excised. Small, unobtrusive previous ownership signature in contemporary hand on title page
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Printed by J. Bentham, Printer to the University; and sold by W. Thurlbourn and T. Merrill; J. Whiston, R. Dodsley, and M. Coope
- Lugar de publicación
- Cambridge
- Fecha de publicación
- 1750
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Irving Book Company
Miembro de Biblio desde 2021
Asheville, North Carolina
Sobre Irving Book Company
Classical, Catholic, Southern, Photographic, Poetic, Scholarly, and early Modern Library Editions, &c.
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
