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THE WHITE LILY OF THE GREAT SAHARA: A Romance of the Algerian Arabs Under Abd-el-Kader.
de EDEN, Charles H.:
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1879.. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial cloth decorated in black and gilt, with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 further black and white full-page wood-engraved plates. Contemporary ownership inscription in ink to the front free endpaper. 356pp. A good copy, the binding secure although with some cracking in places and a couple of small marks to the lower board. The contents a little shaken with the final gathering slightly loose and with foxing to the endpapers and edges of the textblock are otherwise in good order. An uncommon novel set in Algeria during the period of Emir Abdelkader's leadership of the struggle against French colonialism, by the author and traveller Charles Henry Eden (1839-1900), best known for his writings regarding his life and experiences in Queensland, Australia.
LibraryHub records four institutional copies in the UK (BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, Nat. Lib. Scotland). WorldCat does not record any copies held in overseas institutions.
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- Título
- THE WHITE LILY OF THE GREAT SAHARA:
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- EDEN, Charles H.:
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- London: Marcus Ward & Co.
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- 1879.
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- History & Military|Literature|Travel & Exploration
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Sobre Sky Duthie Rare Books
We carry a wide-ranging stock of fine and rare books, unique manuscripts, original artwork, photographs and ephemera. Placing a strong emphasis on the unusual and the visually stimulating, our areas of focus include travel and exploration; natural history; science and medicine; art and design; history; politics, philosophy and economics; literature and poetry; and children's and illustrated books.
Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
Following a period in academia focusing on the history of ideas and after several years working for a prominent rare bookseller, the business was established in 2022 by Dr Sky Duthie.
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Worldcat
- Worldcat is a collaborative effort produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and supported and used by 72,000 libraries...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
