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Francis Mortoft: his Book. Being his Travels through France and Italy 1658-1659. Edited by Malcolm Letts. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING
by MORTOFT Francis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hakluyt Society,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition, with large folding plate as frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and 2 large folding maps, free endpapers mildly browned; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 57. Bridges & Hair, p.276.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33993
- Title
- Francis Mortoft: his Book. Being his Travels through France and Italy 1658-1659. Edited by Malcolm Letts. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING
- Author
- MORTOFT Francis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hakluyt Society,
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- travel, hakluyt society, mortoft, francis mortoft, france, italy
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About the Seller
Island Books
Biblio member since 2004
Thakeham, West Sussex
About Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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- Plate
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Cloth
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