Pictorial New Zealand
by PERCEVAL, SIR W. B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cassell & Co 1895. First edition (Bagnall P586), super octavo, brown textured cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt illustration to spine & front board, blind-stamped motif to rear board, aeg, frontispiece with tissueguard, xvi + 301pp + xiv pp publication list, illus, VG+ (some bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, bookseller's label to front pastedown, owner's name & date in ink to fep, some tanning & foxing)
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- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 152443
- Title
- Pictorial New Zealand
- Author
- PERCEVAL, SIR W. B
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Co 1895
- Keywords
- Sir WB Perceval New Zealand scenery travel geography pictorial record
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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...
- 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....
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- First Edition
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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
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