Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-04
by LANDON, PERCEVAL
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Hurst & Blackett 1905. This Volume Only, Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, t.e.g., frontispiece, xix + 414pp, illus, VG (light soiling & light rubbing to boards, moderate fading to spine, moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, previous owner's name on label to fep, light foxing to eps, moderate tanning to page edges)
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- Title
- Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-04
- Author
- LANDON, PERCEVAL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hurst & Blackett 1905
- Keywords
- Travel Tibet China History sociology
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
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- VG
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- 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....
- 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...