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The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea With Notices of Formosa, LiuKiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago - 2 Volumes
by Guillermard, F HH
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London : John Murray , 1886 . First Edition . Fair . 8VO . Illustrated with attractive wood engravings, many full page. Each volume has a striking ornithological hand-coloured engraved frontis. There are a number of maps, mostly two colour, some folding in each volume. Bound in half calf, marble boards. All covers are detached as well as the spine on volume 2 ; the spine on volume 1 is half detached. The text blocks are in very good condition although the colour frontispieces are foxed. All plates and maps are present.
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- Bookseller
- Neil Williams, Bookseller
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32946
- Title
- The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea With Notices of Formosa, LiuKiu, and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago - 2 Volumes
- Author
- Guillermard, F HH
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1886
- Pages
- 284,389 pp.
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- Voyages and Exploration;
- Size
- 8VO
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Neil Williams, Bookseller
Safe delivery guaranteed. All books returnable for any or no reason within 30 days of receipt. If misdescribed we will pay return postage.
About the Seller
Neil Williams, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2003
Victoria, British Columbia
About Neil Williams, Bookseller
We have been buying and selling on the Internet since 1992, full- time since 1998. We started as collectors of children's and illustrated books and this is still our largest specialty. We pride ourselves on the quality of our stock and our commitment to the contentment of our customers.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
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