Book Details
| Author: | Kemble, John M. Latham, R.G & Franks, A.W. (editors): |
| Title: | Horae Ferales; or, Studies in the Archaeology of the Northern Nations. |
| Published: | London: Lovell Reeve and Co., 1863. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 15 - Art & Architecture |
| Description: | First edition. xii, 251 pp. Contents: General Preface by Dr R.G. Latham; Editor's Introduction; Lecture at the Opening of the Hanoverian Museum; Address to the President and Members of the Royal Irish Academy, at their meeting Feb 9, 1857; Burial and Cremation; Notices of Heathen Interment in the 'Codex Diplomaticus'; Description of the Plates by A. W. Franks. Followed by 34 tissue-guarded plates featuring bone and stone implements, bronze implements, bronze daggers & swords, bronze shields, bronze helmets, bronze trumpets, iron daggers & swords, enamelled horse trappings, bronze fibulae, collars & armlets, bronze personal ornaments, silver and bronze brooches, urns etc. Some spots of light foxing on prelims and occasionally in text. Plates clean. Hinges cracked internally but binding tight. Heavy brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt emblem on front board. blindstamp decoration on both boards. Cloth at top and bottom of spine chipped but present. Corners bumped. One small deep dent on front board which has also dented first few pages but without tearing. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #8276 |
| Price: | € 450.00 |
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