A square solid tight over-all clean copy. This copy has light bumps to the corners with no damage to the boards and some veryyyyyyyyy light soil to the pagedges. The DW show some rubbing wear,edgewear and chipping in one spot on the back panel. A world tour from Aargau to Zygouries including 40 color plates and over 600 black and white illustrations. This is actually a pretty nice book. This is a re-release of the French Edition released in 1969. This edition has been translated from the French by Anne Ward.