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Aberdeen Fifty Years Ago: Being a Series of Twenty-One Engravings Of Buildings in and that were about Aberdeen; along with Wood Engravings of Some of the Wells, &c. &c.
by [Rettie, James]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Aberdeen: Lewis Smith, 1868. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. viii, 129, [1] + engraved title page and 22 plates (2 of them maps), plus double-page inscription printed in red and black. Other illustrations included in pagination. Original green cloth, boards bordered in blind, spine lettered vertically in gilt. Some light spotting, plates lightly mottled, one bifolium partly sprung. Some rubbing to extremities.
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- Bookseller
- McNaughtan's Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3873
- Title
- Aberdeen Fifty Years Ago: Being a Series of Twenty-One Engravings Of Buildings in and that were about Aberdeen; along with Wood Engravings of Some of the Wells, &c. &c.
- Author
- [Rettie, James]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lewis Smith
- Place of Publication
- Aberdeen
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- Travel & Topography Scottish
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