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Antiquities Of The Orient Unveiled, Containing A Concise Description Of The Ruins Of King Solomon's Cities, Together With Those Of Forty Of The Most Ancient And Renowned Cities Of The East, Including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, And Shushan
by Redding, M. Wolcott
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Redding & Co (1872), 1873. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. Color And B/W Illustrations Throughout, Plates And In Text. 421 Pp. + 3 Pp Publisher's Catalog At Rear. Copyright 1872, This With 1873 Date On Title Page So Apparently A Second Printing. Bound In 1924 By J. B. Shippam (Hand Signed), In Full Pebbled Leather, Five Bands, Spine Stamped (Probably Once Gilt But Now Just Slightly Yellow), Surreal Red And Black Marbled Endpapers. Map At Front And At Least One Plate Neatly Reinforced At Edge And Tipped In With Paper Mounts But Undamaged Otherwise. Pages With Original Red Publisher's Color. Contents Clean, No Foxing, Page Block Square, A Few Blue Pencil (Erasable) Marks. Very Large Bookplate Of Edward T. Guynon Jr., With Photograph Of Their Living Room; In The 1890S, Edward T. "E.T." Guymon, President Of The Inter-State Land And Town Company, Purchased A Section Of Land West Of The Beaver River, Also Known As The North Canadian River. The Site Grew Very Rapidly After The Chicago, Rock Island And Pacific Railway (Rock Island) Built A Line From Liberal, Kansas To Texhoma, Texas In 1901. Inscribed Christmas 1923; Later Bookplate Of "The Heathcotes".
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- Title
- Antiquities Of The Orient Unveiled, Containing A Concise Description Of The Ruins Of King Solomon's Cities, Together With Those Of Forty Of The Most Ancient And Renowned Cities Of The East, Including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, And Shushan
- Author
- Redding, M. Wolcott
- Illustrator
- Color And B/W Illustrations Throughout, Plates And In Text
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Redding & Co (1872)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1873
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian Books and Leather-Bound Books; Archaeology and Grave Robbing;
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