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1877 1st Ed: Illustrated Toronto:  Past and Present, being an Historical  and Descriptive Guide-Book: Its Architecture, Manufacture,Trade; its  Social, Literary, Scientific and Charitable Institutions; its Churches,  Schools, and College; and other Principal Points of Interest to the Visitor

1877 1st Ed: Illustrated Toronto: Past and Present, being an Historical and Descriptive Guide-Book: Its Architecture, Manufacture,Trade; its Social, Literary, Scientific and Charitable Institutions; its Churches, Schools, and College; and other Principal Points of Interest to the Visitor

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1877 1st Ed: Illustrated Toronto: Past and Present, being an Historical and Descriptive Guide-Book: Its Architecture, Manufacture,Trade; its Social, Literary, Scientific and Charitable Institutions; its Churches, Schools, and College; and other Principal Points of Interest to the Visitor

by Timperlake, J., Compiler

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Toronto: Peter A. Gross. Good with no dust jacket. 1877. First Edition. Leather. Xvi, 17-384 pp. " together with A Key to the Publisher's Bird's-Eye View of the City. Illustrated with over sixty Pages of Colored Lithographs." Full dark green leather with blind ruling and brilliant gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, polished marble edges, original blue endpapers (rear endpaper replaced) with old owner bookplate. Text and plates within ruled borders, each plate has a tissue guard. A very nice copy of this look at Toronto nearly 150 years ago. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages .

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Leaf and Stone Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
1877 1st Ed: Illustrated Toronto: Past and Present, being an Historical and Descriptive Guide-Book: Its Architecture, Manufacture,Trade; its Social, Literary, Scientific and Charitable Institutions; its Churches, Schools, and College; and other Principal Points of Interest to the Visitor
Author
Timperlake, J., Compiler
Format/Binding
Leather
Book Condition
Used - Good with no dust jacket
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Peter A. Gross
Place of Publication
Toronto
Date Published
1877
Keywords
Toronto
Bookseller catalogs
History: U.S. & North America; Canadiana;

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