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Mauritius and Madagascar: Journals of an Eight Years' Residence in the Diocese of Mauritius, and of a Visit to Madagascar
by Ryan, Vincent W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday. Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, Riwaka Library (a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library, Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka, in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island.) Rebound in 19th Century half-leather library binding. Lacking the half-title page. Chipped paper library label on spine. Library number on title page and front endpaper. Moderate rubbing to boards. Joints rubbed. Superficial scrapes and losses to leather. 1/8" chips to leather at tips of lower corners of boards. No tears to folding map. Page margins trimmed a little during rebinding. A large 6" tear to one leaf (pages 71-72). A 1/2" tear to blank margin of one plate. Some light foxing to plates. Some light fingermarks to margins of some plates. ; Uncommon. ix, [3], 340 pages + 6 tinted lithograph plates + 1 folding map. Lacking the half-title page. Half-calf binding. Page dimensions: 181 x 119mm. The six plates are: The Cathedral, Port Louis; Port Louis, with the Pouce and Pieter Botte Mountains; Churches at Maheboug and Plaines Wilhelms; Creve Coeur, and the Pieter Botte Mountain; Travelling through a Forest in Madagascar; Antananarivo. ; Ex-Library; 8vo .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 11738
- Title
- Mauritius and Madagascar: Journals of an Eight Years' Residence in the Diocese of Mauritius, and of a Visit to Madagascar
- Author
- Ryan, Vincent W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1864
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Renaissance Books
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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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