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Tibet & Nepal Painted & Described --- 1905 FIRST EDITION
by A. Henry Savage Landor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: A. & C. Black, 1905. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. FIRST EDITION 1905. Original blue cloth with black title and decorations front & spine, gilt decoration front & spine, TEG. The book is in better than average condition for this title with light rubbing spine ends and spine edges (= loss of some color), slight sunning to spine, clean, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding, no foxing, no restorations, The book measures 226mm tall x 168mm, and has 233 pages, 75 illustrations drawn by Landor (about half of them colored), folding map, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.
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- Bookseller
- JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003107
- Title
- Tibet & Nepal Painted & Described --- 1905 FIRST EDITION
- Author
- A. Henry Savage Landor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- A. & C. Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Mountaineering, Mountain Climbing, Bergsteigen, Alpinismus, Alpinism, Alpinismo, Alpinisme, Arrampicata, Central Asia, Tibet, Lhasa, Himalaya, younghusband expedition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Central Asia;
Terms of Sale
JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS
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Portland, Oregon
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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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
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