Handbook for Travellers in Wilts and Dorset Fifth Edition, With Maps and Plans.
by MURRAY, JOHN:
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About This Item
London, John Murray, 1899 5th ed.. Hardback, 6.75 x 4.5 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine and front. Red speckled edges. In very good condition. Slightly chipped at top end of spine, split to cloth along top edge of front board. Pages clean and tight and maps clean and bright. No penned inscriptions. One or two occasional minor light foxing spots. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 712pp. Adverts 36pp (dated 1875.) + Adverts on endpapers. 6 folding colour maps, including two large maps in front and rear pockets. Illustrated with B&W Plans of Stonehenge and Avebury. This volume covers Wilts and Dorset. This edition has been revised and brought up to date in every respect.
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- Title
- Handbook for Travellers in Wilts and Dorset Fifth Edition, With Maps and Plans.
- Author
- MURRAY, JOHN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, John Murray, 1899 5th ed.
- Keywords
- ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY MURRAY, JOHN: Handbook for Travellers in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Map and Plans, John Murray, 1899, fifth edition, Stonehenge, Avebury,
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