VOLNEY'S RUINS; OR, MEDITATION ON THE REVOLUTION OF EMPIRES.
US: Charles Gaylord, 1835. Hardback. Good +. Item #66872
Quarter green cloth over light green paper-covered boards with black titling and illustration to front board, illustration to rear board, and paper compartment to spine. Pages have slight warping, scattered light to moderate foxing, and top corner folded at page 146 and 213-216. Folding and small tear to lower edge of page 216, pencil scribbles across frontispiece, and chip with creasing to top edge. Endpages have previous owner's markings in pencil and bookstore sticker to front pastedown, front endpages have moderate foxing, and rear endpages have heavy foxing. Text block has moderate sunning and soiling with light foxing to top edge and lower edge, and moderate foxing to fore edge. A few pages slightly stick out from binding at fore edge. Boards have scattered moderate to heavy soiling, very heavy wear to paper compartment at spine that is mostly removed, moderate bumping and light rubbing to ends of spine, and heavy rubbing and chipping to edges and corners where cardboard is exposed. Binding is sound, pages 82-92 slightly torn from binding, but still holds.
Price: $425.00