Through Gasa Land and the Scene of the Portuguese Agression: The Journey of a Hunter in Search of Gold and Ivory
by Parker Gillmore ("Ubique")
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Harrison and Sons Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 150mm x 220mm. Cloth has heavy general wear and some moderate pale stains. Gilt lettering to spine still quite bright. Edges of page-block browned. Three small ink stamps of former owners to front pastedown. Heavy foxing to preliminaries and rear endpapers. Some other scattered light foxing mainly to page margins. A moderate loss to top corner of rear fep. Fold out map in good order but moderately foxed to the back. The text is really very clean and bright. Binding tight. Undated (1890?) 349pp 0.
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- Bookseller
- Lectioz Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016860
- Title
- Through Gasa Land and the Scene of the Portuguese Agression: The Journey of a Hunter in Search of Gold and Ivory
- Author
- Parker Gillmore ("Ubique")
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harrison and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 150mm x 220mm
- Keywords
- **
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration & Travel;
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About the Seller
Lectioz Books
Biblio member since 2009
Gloucester, New South Wales
About Lectioz Books
Welcome to Lectioz. We are an internet-based bookseller located in Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia.The majority of our inventory is non-fiction, with a bias towards the Arts - in all its forms. In addition we stock books on Australian History, Natural History, Transport, Exploration, Science and many other subjects
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