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The Land of Bondage; Its Ancient Monuments and Present Condition: Being the Journal of a Tour In Egypt
by Wainwright, J. M
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 4to, xix, 190pp. Full brown calf with gilt lettering to the boards, borders to front and rear board stamped in blind, rebacked in closely matching leather with gilt spine lettering. All edges gilt, new endpapers, binders initials GS stamped to the rear endpaper, likely the work of Toronto binder George Schmidlechner. Complete with 26 illustrations, 1 map and 1 folding view. Frontispiece is water stained along the edges and foxed, with light foxing to the prelims and some of the plates, the folding view has a piece roughly 1-3 inches detached at the fold, but present. The binding a little rubbed and scuffed at the corners and edges but overall, a clean and tight copy.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44461
- Title
- The Land of Bondage; Its Ancient Monuments and Present Condition: Being the Journal of a Tour In Egypt
- Author
- Wainwright, J. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1852
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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