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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
by Speke, John Hanning
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1864. Hardcover. Rebacked, with most of original spine cloth laid down. Spine cloth rubbed and with some ripples. 1/2" chips to cloth along edges of corners of boards. Later endpapers. The title leaf with creasing and tears up to 1" at blank margins. Some foxing to title leaf. The folding map at rear with a large 4" tear at upper left, running through the caption and scale bars. Chips to blank margin of advertising leaf at rear. All illustrations and maps present. Binding a little shaken, with pages 419-430 loosened and standing a little proud from the text block. ; Stated "Second Edition" on title page. One volume edition. xxxi, [1], 658 pages + [2] pages advertisements + frontispiece + 24 plate leaves + 1 large folding map (with colour details). Green cloth boards with gilt illustration on spine and front board. Rebacked. Page dimensions: 222 x 139mm. The illustrations are mostly wood-engravings. Besides the full page plates, there are many more smaller wood-engraved illustrations in the text. The frontispiece and the plate facing page 420 are steel engravings. John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) attempted to establish Lake Victoria as being the source of the Nile. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19338
- Title
- Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- Author
- Speke, John Hanning
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1864
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
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