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A JOURNEY TO CENTRAL AFRICA: OR, LIFE AND LANDSCAPES FROM EGYPT TO THE NEGRO KINGDOMS OF THE WHITE NILE
by Taylor, Bayard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam & Co.. Very Good. 1854. Hardcover. Bound in original brown cloth with lightly faded gilt lettering & decoration on spine & front cover. [iv], 522pp. Hinges and text tight & intact. Leaves clean without foxing. Illustrated with 5 tinted, lithographed, tissue protected plates including engraved frontispiece portrait after daguerreotype by Matthew Brady; engraved head-pieces and text illustrations and folding map at rear. Small tear in map repaired with archival tape on verso. Some rubbing to spine ends & corners. Ink stamp of C. S. Schultz who was a 19th century financeer & world traveller from Montclair, N. J. Africa; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 522 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17833
- Title
- A JOURNEY TO CENTRAL AFRICA: OR, LIFE AND LANDSCAPES FROM EGYPT TO THE NEGRO KINGDOMS OF THE WHITE NILE
- Author
- Taylor, Bayard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1854
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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