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HEROES OF DISCOVERY IN NORTH AFRICA
by N BELL (N. D'ANVERS)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, 1899 Blue Victorian decorative cloth on bevel edged boards, 210 x 150 mm approx. Publisher's green floral end papers, all edges gilt,414 pp + 20 of publisher's adverts. Frontis + 42 other b/w engraved illustrations mainly full page all as called for. Revised edition 1899. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Heavy bump to tail of spine which had caused cloth to split - repaired with new cloth under, moderate general shelf wear with tips of boards exposed at corners, no previous owner name or insc. The binding of the book block is by staples through each signature to tapes, a revolutionary form of binding during the latter half of the 1800's and which has not stood the test of time. The last signature being part of the calalogue at rear had pulled from the binding and we have tipped in with p.v.a. No other notable faults).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131048
- Title
- HEROES OF DISCOVERY IN NORTH AFRICA
- Author
- N BELL (N. D'ANVERS)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- WALTER SCOTT
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Heroes of Discovery in North Africa, N.Bell N D'Anvers, Lord Kitchener, James Bruce, George William Browne, Ledyard, Lucas, Houghton, Hornemann, Nichols, Roeutgen, Mungo Park, Burton, Speke, Emin Pasha, Victorian Decorative cloth bindings,
Terms of Sale
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- 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....
- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Shelf Wear
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tipped In
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- New
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