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The FALLS OF NIAGARA: being A Complete Guide to all the points of interest around and in the immediate neighborhood ...
by 07b
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- NEAR FINE book. FINE inside. Early ed. 4"x6". 64pp.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London, Edinburgh, NY, Tor.: Nelson & Sons,James Campbell. NEAR FINE book. FINE inside. Early ed. 4"x6". 64pp.. 1866. Early edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book. Purple cloth. Gilt spine lettering. Pristine frontis & 11 plates, all in color & tissue guarded. . 6"x4", (i-v)vi(7)8-64pp. Tight. Superb contents. No aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Plates with captions and tissue guards. Plates bright as new and based on Canadian artist Washington Friend's sketches and photos. There is no separate plate index. In text woodcut on page 11 "The Rapids Above the Falls" & page 21 "View Below Table Rock". Earlier editions had a frontis of a map of the area and a title page woodcut. This edition's frontis is a color plate titled "Terripin Tower ......". Minor flaws are confined to the cover: (1) Front upper tip bumped. (2) Extrems lightly scuffed. (3) Sunned spine. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001016
- Title
- The FALLS OF NIAGARA: being A Complete Guide to all the points of interest around and in the immediate neighborhood ...
- Author
- 07b
- Illustrator
- Friend, Washington sketches
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NEAR FINE book. FINE inside. Early ed. 4"x6". 64pp.
- Edition
- Early edition.
- Publisher
- Nelson & Sons,James Campbell
- Place of Publication
- London, Edinburgh, NY, Tor.
- Date Published
- 1866
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- NEAR FINE book. Purple cloth. Gilt spine lettering. Pristine frontis &, 11 plates, all in color & tissue guarded.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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