The Romance of Travel : Comprising Adventures in Foreign Countries, and Descriptions of Manners, Customs, and Places
by An Old Traveller
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: H.C.Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1857. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 299pp. Brown blind-stamped boards, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Chipping to head and tail of spine and edgewear to boards, endpapers missing, soiling to preliminaries and last, but text is otherwise quite clean, with only very occasional foxing. Heavily illustrationed throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002548
- Title
- The Romance of Travel : Comprising Adventures in Foreign Countries, and Descriptions of Manners, Customs, and Places
- Author
- An Old Traveller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- H.C.Peck & Theo. Bliss
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
- Keywords
- Damascus Spain Gold Greenland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Geography;
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About the Seller
Old Bookshelf
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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