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The Tourist in Italy
by Roscoe, Thomas; illustrated from drawings by J. D. Harding
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Jennings and Chaplin. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1832. First Edition. Hardcover. 40mm split to leather at tail end of rear joint. Small shaved piece of leather on front board, and small 3/8" leather rubbed away from corner of front board. Front hinge broken, split at the gutter between the frontispiece and the extra engraved title leaf. 30mm split to gutter at rear hinge. Plates all in very good clean condition, with tissue guards present. ; [iv], ii, [2], 296, [2] pages + [7] pages advertisements + frontispiece + extra engraved title + 24 plates. Green full leather binding. All page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 195 x 122m. The extra engraved title is for "The Landscape Annual for 1832". Provenance: engraved heraldic ex-libris bookplate of Thos. Teschemaker on front endpaper. Spine title: "Landscape Annual. 1832."; 8vo .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17217
- Title
- The Tourist in Italy
- Author
- Roscoe, Thomas; illustrated from drawings by J. D. Harding
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jennings and Chaplin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1832
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- The heel of the spine.
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- Bookplate
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- Hinge
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- Gilt
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