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THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORER IN TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA
by Galton, Francis
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Winnetka, Illinois, United States
Item Price
£323.36£258.69
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Good. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xiv; [2]; 314; [2] publisher's advertisements. Publisher's brown mottled cloth with blind stamped borders, gilt titles to spine, gilt vignette to upper board, yellow endpapers. Illustrated with four colour lithographs, various other illustrations, and two maps in colour on a folding plate at the rear. Frontispiece plate repaired and laid onto a fresh leaf, occasional marks throughout but generally bright and clean. Binding rebacked with the original cloth laid down, some bumping to corners and rubbing to extremities, spine faded with the gilt dulled.
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- Bookseller
- Denominator Books (IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5372
- Title
- THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORER IN TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA
- Author
- Galton, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
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Denominator Books (IOBA)
Biblio member since 2007
Winnetka, Illinois
About Denominator Books (IOBA)
I am a book collector and Internet bookseller specializing in academic and scholarly books, especially modern first editions and classic monographs.
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- 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...
- Cloth
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- 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....
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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