Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement
by PURCHAS, H. T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. 1903. First edition, octavo, green cloth boards, black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 241pp, illus, VG- ( light soiling to boards, light brusing & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, previous owners name in ink to reverse of frontispiece, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, rear gutter cracked)
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- Title
- Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement
- Author
- PURCHAS, H. T
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd. 1903
- Keywords
- biography Bishop Harper New Zealand history
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