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THE PEDESTRIAN: A SUMMER'S RAMBLE IN THE TYROL, AND SOME OF THE ADJACENT PROVINCES MDCCCXXX
by Latrobe, Charles Joseph
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: B. B. Seeley & W. Burnside. Very Good. 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. Sold by L. B. Seeley and Sons, Fleet Street, London. Sketches of Swiss Scenery and Manners 1825-1826 by Charles Joseph Latrobe. Contemporary brown half leather over pebbled cloth with gilt decorated raised bands. [2, 349pp]. Marbled endpapers, frontispiece is a map of the Tyrol. Vignette on title page. Double ruled border on covers. Text is tight, clean & intact. Spine head is lightly rubbed. Armorial book-plate & signature of E. Reginald Taylor F. S. A. , British Archaeologist ; and also book-plate of California mountaineer Vernon Howard. Tyrol, Switzerland; Tyrol Map; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17012
- Title
- THE PEDESTRIAN: A SUMMER'S RAMBLE IN THE TYROL, AND SOME OF THE ADJACENT PROVINCES MDCCCXXX
- Author
- Latrobe, Charles Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B. B. Seeley & W. Burnside
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1832
- Keywords
- Switzerland, Tyrol
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- First Edition
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- Raised Band(s)
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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....
- Cloth
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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