Anbieter: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Tan cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows price clipped front flap, 1" closed tear with tape repair at head of spine, otherwise essentially as issued, now in mylar. 398 pp., 410 color illustrations. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.
Anbieter: J. W. Mah, Burnaby, BC, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. (USA) 3rd printing of the first American edition. No markings Fine in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with a 1/2" tear to the bottom corner of the front flap. Hardcover, patterned end papers, 398pp, 410 colour photos and illus.This is an excellent book on the Vatican buildings and palaces including the Borgia apartments, the library and secret archives, St. Peter's, the Sistine chapel, the Stufetta, Raphael's Loggetta, the Etruscan Museum, the Lateran Museum, the Gregorian-Egyptian Museum, and the ancient sculptures and renaissance paintings. Anyone who has visited the Vatican knows how much there is to see and how tiring it is to wait in line let alone walking around the vast halls and galleries. This book gives you a visit in your armchair. (6.5 JM LVR 202/0 Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" Tall.