SIAM: The Land of the White Elephant, As It Was And Is/Illustrated Library of Travel
by Bacon, George B. (Compiled and Arranged)/Williams, Frederick Wells (Revised)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. 296 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine ends a bit bumped. Light soiling to edges of text block and endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w plates.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22045WHAS
- Title
- SIAM: The Land of the White Elephant, As It Was And Is/Illustrated Library of Travel
- Author
- Bacon, George B. (Compiled and Arranged)/Williams, Frederick Wells (Revised)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- WORLD HISTORY TRAVEL ASIA SIAM THAILAND DESCRIPTION FOREIGN RELATIONS GEOGRAPHY OLD SIAM MODERN SIAM PHRABAT SOMDETCH PHRA PARAMENDR MAHA MONGKUT AYUTHIA PHRABAT PATAWI BANGKOK CHANTABOUN MISSIONARY JOURNEY 1835 MOUHOT HILL-COUNTRY PECHABURI P'RIPP
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
Biblio member since 2007
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages 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...
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