The Land of Bondage; Its Ancient Monuments and Present Condition: Being the Journal of a Tour In Egypt
de Wainwright, J. M
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good
- Librería
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 4to, xix, 190pp. Full brown calf with gilt lettering to the boards, borders to front and rear board stamped in blind, rebacked in closely matching leather with gilt spine lettering. All edges gilt, new endpapers, binders initials GS stamped to the rear endpaper, likely the work of Toronto binder George Schmidlechner. Complete with 26 illustrations, 1 map and 1 folding view. Frontispiece is water stained along the edges and foxed, with light foxing to the prelims and some of the plates, the folding view has a piece roughly 1-3 inches detached at the fold, but present. The binding a little rubbed and scuffed at the corners and edges but overall, a clean and tight copy.
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- Librería
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 44461
- Título
- The Land of Bondage; Its Ancient Monuments and Present Condition: Being the Journal of a Tour In Egypt
- Autor
- Wainwright, J. M
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- D. Appleton and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1852
Términos de venta
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
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Sobre el vendedor
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2012
Toronto, Ontario
Sobre Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
- 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...