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The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
by Burton, Richard F
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts. Fair with no dust jacket. 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Rebound in utilitarian library binding, blue cloth boards with black cloth spine. Page edges dyed blue. Library stamps and markings. Library rubber stamps on several leaves and plates. This copy is lacking the folding sheet of maps and the frontispiece. The half-title leaf is also lacking. All other illustrations present, including the folding plan of Salt Lake City. One text leaf has a 40mm tear, without loss (pp.387-8). Foxing to the title leaf. ; (iii)-x, [2], 707, [1] pages + 8 plates ( 1 folding). Lacking the frontispiece and the 3 maps on 1 folding sheet. Rebound. Page dimensions: 211 x 130mm. ; 8vo .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 20595
- Title
- The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
- Author
- Burton, Richard F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- Richard Burton
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Library Binding
- A type of reinforced binding designed for libraries, schools, or other applications where a book might experience high...
- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First Edition
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