'TWIXT BEN NEVIS AND GLENCOE: The natural history, legends, and folk-lore of the West Highlands
by ALEXANDER STEWART
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
EDINBURGH: WILLIAM PATERSON , 1885 Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, dark blue blocked decoration to front, 205 x 150 mm approx. xvi + 384 pp. Portrait frontis photograph laid onto heavy card with tissue guard. 1885. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Fair (Book - heavy shelf rubbing to cloth - colour rubbing only, corners bumped. Offset browning to front free end paper with mild foxing spots to paste downs and reverse of frontis, fly spotting to top edge of book block. No previous owner name or insc. No other notable defects).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133132
- Title
- 'TWIXT BEN NEVIS AND GLENCOE: The natural history, legends, and folk-lore of the West Highlands
- Author
- ALEXANDER STEWART
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- WILLIAM PATERSON
- Place of Publication
- EDINBURGH
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe, Rev. Alexander Stewart, Folk Lore, Legend, Natural History, Superstitions, Meteorology, Ornithology,
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- Fair
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- Gilt
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