Dumbarton Oaks HIstory of Georgetown House Harvard Byzantine Pre-Columbian Art
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Dumbarton Oaks HIstory of Georgetown House Harvard Byzantine Pre-Columbian Art. Erasures and age spotting on the flyleaves. "The story begins in 1703 with the grant of a large tract of land to the Maryland Indian fighter, Colonel Ninian Beall . . . John C. Calhoun, who used the property as a summer home while he was Secretary of War . . . Honorable Robert Woods Bliss . . . ambassador to Argentina . . . remarkable collector of Byzantine art . . . landscape architect Beatrix Rarrand . . . Harvard University Center for Byzantine Art . . . collection of pre-Columbian art . . ." Dumbarton Oaks, HIstory of a Georgetown House and Garden, 1800 - 1966 Hardback with dust jacket, 7" x 10", 147 pages, 1967 Dust jacket has edge tears. Covers look nice. Erasures and age spotting on the flyleaves. Good overall condition.
