ILLUSTRATED TORONTO PAST AND PRESENT, Being an Historical and Descriptive Guide-Book: Comprising its Architecture, Manufacture, Trade; its Social, Literary, Scientific, and Charitable Institutions; its Churches, Schools, and Colleges; and other Principal Points of Interest to the Visitor and Resident. Together with A Key to the Publisher’s Bird’s-Eye View of the City.
by Compiled by TIMPERLAKE, J
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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YORK, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Toronto: Peter A. Gross, 1877. . 8vo., pp.384, bevelled green cloth, gilt, 60 lithographic plates (including frontispiece) with tissue-guards, marbled edges; lacks spine, front board loose, with front free endpaper absent, bevelled edges of boards heavily rubbed, with wear to corners, internally clean, now in acetate jacket, REBINDING COPY
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- Bookseller
- MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22953
- Title
- ILLUSTRATED TORONTO PAST AND PRESENT, Being an Historical and Descriptive Guide-Book: Comprising its Architecture, Manufacture, Trade; its Social, Literary, Scientific, and Charitable Institutions; its Churches, Schools, and Colleges; and other Principal Points of Interest to the Visitor and Resident. Together with A Key to the Publisher’s Bird’s-Eye View of the City.
- Author
- Compiled by TIMPERLAKE, J
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Toronto: Peter A. Gross, 1877.
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