A Description of British Guiana Geographical and Statistical; exhibiting Its Resources and Capabilities together with the Present and Future Condition and Prospects of the Colony
by SCHOMBURGK, Robert H.;
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Bookseller
- Horizon Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- J13811
- Title
- A Description of British Guiana Geographical and Statistical; exhibiting Its Resources and Capabilities together with the Present and Future Condition and Prospects of the Colony
- Author
- SCHOMBURGK, Robert H.;
- Format/Binding
- Later cloth-backed boards, spine title label, short tear at stub of map, barely perceptible foxing at outer edge of text block,
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Simpkin Marshall, and Co., 1840, First edition.
- Size
- 8vo [22 x 14 cm]; [iv], 155 pp,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel - South America;
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