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Description of Hindostan, and the Adjacent Countries
by Walter Hamilton
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
John Murray, London, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. WALTER HAMILTON, ESQ. Description of Hindostan, and the Adjacent Countries, in 2 volumes, London: John Murray, 1820. Quartos, first editions, pp. xlii, large folding map, 766; iv, 830, 1 (addendum), gray cloth boards half-bound in brown sheep with black morocco labels on spines, folding map measuring about 31x25 inches or 79x64cm, drafted and engraved by Sid. Hall for John Murray. Covers what we know as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan. As author of this work and the East-India Gazetteer, Hamilton created for the British reader a detailed view of distant parts of the Empire. Condition of these books: Overall very good and clean, short tears in preliminary leaves and in lower center of map, hinges cracked in V1, V2 has been rebacked with neat tape repairs to hinges. Moderate wear and bumping to covers. Size: Quarto. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; India; 19th century; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53707. . This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53707
- Title
- Description of Hindostan, and the Adjacent Countries
- Author
- Walter Hamilton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Half Leather)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1820
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Antiquarian & Rare; India; 19th century; Travel & Places. Walter Hamilton Description of Hindostan, and the Adjacent Countries
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cracked
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- 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...
- Leaves
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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