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The Nile Boat; or, Glipses of the Land of Egypt
by Bartlett, W. H
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. vii, 218pp, [8pp] ads. Original pale brown cloth with gilt decorated boards and spine, gilt spine lettering, ads to the yellow endpapers. Rebacked, with the original spine mostly preserved. Light wear to the board edges and corners. Bookplate of Thomas W. Lockwood to front paste-down. Complete with 35 engravings, including title-page, map, and folding view, with numerous wood engravings throughout. A small brown stain to the margin of one plate, else the text and plates very clean, the guards present, and just about no foxing.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44462
- Title
- The Nile Boat; or, Glipses of the Land of Egypt
- Author
- Bartlett, W. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1849
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- 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...
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