London: Longmans, Green, And Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1892. Hardcover. Owner's signature. Some bumping to ends of spine. 3/4" tear to blank margin of folding map. 3/8" tear to margin of folding map. Some spotting to page edges. Rubbing to cloth at corners of boards with up to 1/8" loss of cloth. ; viii, 387 pages + plates + frontis + one folding map + 32 pages advertisements. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Illustrated. Page dimensions: 180mm x 125mm. Selected contents: The Atlantic; The St. Lawrence; Manners And Customs; Preparations; By Steamer; The Rockies; Mosquito Camp; Canyon Creek; The Sinclair Pass; Mutton; The Kootenay; The Indian Rising; Charr; Skookumchuck; Lake Mooyie; Elk River; Bread And Honey; The Flatbows; Dick Fry's. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7429
Title: B. C. 1887 A Ramble In British Columbia
Author: Lees, J. A and W. J. Clutterbuck
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Publisher: Longmans, Green, And Co
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1892

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...