Down the Great River; Embracing an Account of the Discovery of the True Source of the Mississippi (First Edition)
by Glazier, Captain Willard
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1887. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full decorative (map-like) designed front cover and spine, heavily worn, with fraying of the cloth at the extremities, top & bottom of the spine chipped. Decorative endpapers, the gutter behind the front cover has been reinforced with archive tape. pages slightly age-toned. 443pp. Numerous full page plates. Overall in FAIR condition only. . First Edition. Full Cloth. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015862
- Title
- Down the Great River; Embracing an Account of the Discovery of the True Source of the Mississippi (First Edition)
- Author
- Glazier, Captain Willard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hubbard Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Fair
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.