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Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement
by Purchas, H. T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1909. Second Edition. Hardcover. Spine faded. 25mm tear to cloth at tail end of front joint. revious owner's inscription dated April 1914. Later label "A gift to the English Department [. . .]". ; Second edition, revised and enlarged. ix, [1], 253, [1] pages + frontispiece + 11 illustrations on 9 plate leaves. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 190 x 123mm. [Reference: Bagnall P1093 - "An edition of 1,000 copies."] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25700
- Title
- Bishop Harper and the Canterbury Settlement
- Author
- Purchas, H. T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- Whitcombe & Tombs
- Place of Publication
- Christchurch
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- New Zealand Biography Canterbury
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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