JOURNEY TO CENTRAL AFRICA: OR, LIFE AND LANDSCAPES FROM EGYPT TO THE NEGRO KINGDOMS OF THE WHITE NILE
by Bayard Taylor
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1854. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 8 in. 522 pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt scene. Frontis with tissue, 4 plates with tissue, folding map at rear. Condition is GOOD ; rear inner joint is pulled with spine deatched - holding at front joint fine. Covers have some pale water staining and sunning, bumps and wear to corners. Text binding very solid. Text is foxed but quite readable, plates have mild foxing. Rear map is deatched but present, with a closed tear on left, a little foxing. Expl. Stax.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51719
- Title
- JOURNEY TO CENTRAL AFRICA: OR, LIFE AND LANDSCAPES FROM EGYPT TO THE NEGRO KINGDOMS OF THE WHITE NILE
- Author
- Bayard Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1854
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- E.P.
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- G
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- Foxed
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- Bumps
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- Cloth
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