'The Book of Fate', Its Origins and Uses
Rare and modern books
Deacon, Richard
Frederick Muller Ltd,
1976
'The Book of Fate', Its Origins and Uses
Rare and modern books
Deacon, Richard
Frederick Muller Ltd,
1976
11.50 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1976
- ISBN
- 058410216X
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Deacon, Richard
- Publishers
- Frederick Muller Ltd
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.5 inches
- Edition
- First Edition
- Keyword
- Napoleon, I Ching, Supernatural
- Cover description
- Good (+)
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, bump to lower front edge, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with smll tear to lower front edge, rubbing to corners and light indenting to rear. Fold-out charts in excellent condition. 238pp. Supposedly found by Napoleon in Egypt around 1798, used by him to make any important decision and subsequently lost again, the Book of Fate turned up again in 1822 as a translation from the German.
