Description
Up For Sale Today is
The Behring Collection
A Representative Selection
by
Rob Haeseler
Hardcover. 4to. Behring Educational Institute Press, Blackhawk, CA. 1988. 324 pgs. Illustrated in color. Deluxe Limited edition #572 of 3000 copies.
Bound in green padded leather boards with gilt design present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
This magnificent oversize volume illustrating & describing some of the most fascinating cars in this important collection.
The beautiful Behring collection features only classic cars as strictly defined by the Antique Automobile Club of America. Many are one of a kind, "one-off", cars that were made for royalty or custom made automobiles for movie stars like Rudolph Valentino.
Visitors will enjoy such beautiful cars as a 1908 American Underslung Model 50, a 1910 Mercer Model 30 Speedster, a 1920 Pierce Arrow Model 66-A-4 Touring specially commissioned for Fatty Arbuckle, a 1926 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Chassis, an extensive collection of prewar Mercedes Benz’, and one of 2 1966 Ferrari 365 P Guida Centrales (with the steering wheel in the center so one "wife" could sit on each side).
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Book formats and corresponding sizes | ||||||
Name | Abbreviations | Leaves | Pages | Approximate cover size (width × height) | ||
inches | cm | |||||
folio | 2º or fo | 2 | 4 | 12 × 19 | 30.5 × 48 | |
quarto | 4º or 4to | 4 | 8 | 9½ × 12 | 24 × 30.5 | |
octavo | 8º or 8vo | 8 | 16 | 6 × 9 | 15 × 23 | |
duodecimo or twelvemo | 12º or 12mo | 12 | 24 | 5 × 7⅜ | 12.5 × 19 | |
sextodecimo or sixteenmo | 16º or 16mo | 16 | 32 | 4 × 6¾ | 10 × 17 | |
octodecimo or eighteenmo | 18º or 18mo | 18 | 36 | 4 × 6½ | 10 × 16.5 | |
trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo | 32º or 32mo | 32 | 64 | 3½ × 5½ | 9 × 14 | |
quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo | 48º or 48mo | 48 | 96 | 2½ × 4 | 6.5 × 10 | |
sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo | 64º or 64mo | 64 | 128 | 2 × 3 | 5 × 7.5 | |
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