Japanese Fragments, with Facsimiles of Illustrations by Artists of Yedo
by Osborn, Captain Sherard, C.B
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- Hardcover
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: Bradbury and Evans: 1861) Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 139 (188 x 145 mm). Illustrated, including Coloured Plates additional to pagination. The fourth plate, View of a waterfall is missing; the plates are bright but with some foxing; one has some paper at the edge of its image from old over-gluing. Cloth worn, shabby and discoloured; front inner hinge split; lacks rear free endpaper and corner of front free endpaper; scattered marks internally; a fair copy.
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exPB
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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