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Day Dawn in Africa; or, Progress of the Prot. Epis. Mission at Cape Palmas, West Africa
de Scott, Anna M
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Very Good
- Librería
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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New York: Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 12mo. [9], iv-viii, [3], 12-312, [6] pp. Original dark brown blindstamped publisher's cloth with palm tree design stamped in gold on the front board, gilt decoration and lettering on the spine, yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by a frontispiece with tissue guard, eleven additional plates with tissue guards (back-to-back facing plates share one tissue guard), and a fold-out map of the Cape Palmas region. Ownership signature of W. W. Fowler, a missionary at the Santee Sioux Agency in the late 19th century, on the free front endpaper. An account of mid-19th century missionary work in the Cape Palmas region of western Africa in what is now Liberia. Near Very Good with gilt largely rubbed away on spine, rubbing and minor wear to boards, scattered foxing throughout, small chip to the bottom corner of one plate and the next leaf, and a few leaves with corner creases.
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- Librería
- Evening Star Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 00009612
- Título
- Day Dawn in Africa; or, Progress of the Prot. Epis. Mission at Cape Palmas, West Africa
- Autor
- Scott, Anna M
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1858
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
