Australian Rare Books, 1788-1900
by WANTRUP, Jonathan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Dust Jacket Included
- Seller
-
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Hordern House, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, Hordern House, 1987. Quarto, xii, 468 pages with numerous illustrations plus a tipped-in colour frontispiece and endpaper maps. Cloth; a fine copy with the excellent very slightly sunned dustwrapper. With an extensive bibliographical checklist detailing the 260 major printed sources discussed in the text; a mine of information and an essential reference book for any serious collector. Loosely inserted is a small group of promotional materials for the book, including a copy of the original prospectus.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126805
- Title
- Australian Rare Books, 1788-1900
- Author
- WANTRUP, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hordern House
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1987
Terms of Sale
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
If found to be incorrectly described, goods may be returned, provided notification is given within seven days of receipt. Postage and insurance are extra; uninsured parcels are sent at the purchaser's risk.
About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...