Description:
Quality:Good quality sewn binding.
Fine paper of fair quality.
Regular quality hard covers.
Condition: Good
Description of contents:
- The book, written in Spanish, is an illustrated exposition of the history of Spain in its facts and civilisation.
- The book is profusely illustrated, both with illustrations and lithographs. The illustrations and figures are mostly interspersed in the text, while the colour lithographs are outside the text.
- There are a total of 13 colour lithographs. Chapter Letters at the beginning of each Chapter.
Parts of the Contents:
- Single volume. Spanish copy, with the complete text.
- Plain cover. Respect leaf. Title page. Title page. Legal page. Our Work. Chapter I: Early Spain. Chapter II: Roman Spain. Chapter III: Visigothic Spain. Chapter IV: Muslim Spain. Chapter V: Christian Spain. Chapter VI: Castilian Spain. Chapter VII: Aragonese Spain. Chapter VIII: United Spain. Chapter IX: Imperial Spain. Chapter X: Decadent Spain. Chapter XI: Neoclassical Spain. Chapter XII: Liberal Spain. Table of contents. Guidelines for the placement of the plates. Respect sheet. Plain flyleaf.
Description of the book:
- Sewn binding of good execution, with guillotined cuts, from the First Half of the 20th Century.
- Text in single-colour black printing, very good ink, well centred and with good margins.
- Book printed on tan paper, fine and of regular quality.
- Publisher's half leather hard covers, of fair quality.
- Blue and red hard covers, somewhat deteriorated, stained, with rubbing and creases.
- Smooth front and back covers. No dust jacket.
- Stamped on spine: España Histórica. J.C.
- Full red editorial cloth spine, remarked with title and three lines stamped in gilt.
Conservation and Damage:
- General Condition: Good.
- Sewn binding in good condition, although rubbed and somewhat worn.
- Cuts well preserved, with minimal soiling and minimal rubbing.
- The leaves are in good condition, with no tears. Some of them have small rust stains, without affecting the text or the images.
- The pages are slightly darkened at the edges due to age.
- The book has not suffered from external aggressions such as humidity, insect attacks, rodents, etc.
- The book shows wear and tear typical of it
Comments:
- Both the measurements and the weight are approximate.
- In order to take the photos of the inside pages, they have been held with tweezers.
- Very interesting book as a collector's item and curiosity.
- The tones of the colours of the photos are not exactly the same as the tones of the real colours.
- The book for sale is the one that corresponds to the photos. The description is not a detailed exposition of the book.
- The data provided here are personal opinions not contrasted.
3281 - Historical Spain. Antonio de Cárcer. 1934.