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Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and beyond the Himalayas
by Macintyre, Donald (Major-General)
- 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
London: William Blackwood and Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1891. Hardcover. 2/3" stain to front board. 1/8" loss of cloth at tips of corners of boards. A few 1/8" splits to cloth at ends of spine. Moderate rubbing to joints. Heavy foxing to endpapers. Split to gutter at front hinge.; xviii, 362 page + photogravure frontis + 1 photogravure plate + 4 full page plates + 26 small in-text illustrations. Blue-green cloth boards with gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 202 x 129mm. The two photogravure plates show collections of game animal heads, both have an overlaying tissue paper guard with a printed key to the illustration. In the short preface to this new edition, the author notes that an index has now been added. "The bygone performances of an old 'muzzle-loader' may perhaps be considered rather obsolete by the young sportsman of the present with his double 'express.' But as human nature always has been, and, I opine, ever will be much the same, the pleasure of studying the habits of wild animals in their native haunts, the excitement of the stalk, and the charming influence of grand and beautiful scenery, must be little altered now from what they were years ago [...]" - from the opening paragraph.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6316
- Title
- Hindu-Koh: Wanderings and Wild Sport on and beyond the Himalayas
- Author
- Macintyre, Donald (Major-General)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Himalayas Hunting
Terms of Sale
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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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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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