habitations man ages de eugene viollet le duc translated benjamin bucknall (3 résultats)

Hard Cover. Etat : Near Fine. First Printing of this facsimile reissue of a work first issued in London in 1876, in silver-stamped full black cloth, no markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, small stain rfear endpapers, else Fine unread copy (no dj, as issued); 8vo;

Tissue-guarded coloured frontis, xvi, 394pp incl 103 illustrations, plans etc, some hors-texte. 22x14, glt embossed patterned green cloth, bevelled edges. Cloth a little rubbed and marked, bookplate on fep, one signature slightly loose, plates nice and bright, fair to good copy thus. English translation of 'Histoire de l'Habitation Humaine'; one of a number of English translations done in a somewhat similar style to the French Hetzel editions.

Hardcover. Etat : Good+. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. First British Edition. This ex-library cpy has a special pedigree. It was withdrawn in 1923 from the Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny PA, which is now the North Side of Pittsburgh. This was one of the first two Carnegie Libraries in the United States (the first was in Scotland and the other original American one was in Braddock PA, followed later by many others). The library markings have a certain charm. The book is bound in plain brown library buckram, stained with age, but it has an elegant new gold-tooled label, and a sweet little paper call number on the base of the spine. The colorful front plate is present, and the book is replete with black and white illustrations. The pages are toned to a creamy beige, The bottom corner of the first three pages has been snipped, with no loss to the text. A nice copy for the historian of library science. Fast shipping, with tracking number provided. ; Ex-Library; 6"x9"x1"; 394 pages.