A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
by Butler, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the map. Dampstain to cloth on rear board. Moderate rubbing and a couple of superficial scratches to boards. A few small 1/8" chips to cloth at ends of spine and at tips of corners of boards. Gutters intact at hinges. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Lacking the folding map, but otherwise a nice original copy. ; x, 162, [2 (blank)] pages + 32 pages publisher's advertisements. Lacking the folding map. Purple blind-stamped cloth boards. Page dimensions: 195 x 120mm. Small binder's ticket on rear endpaper "Westleys & Co. London". An essential classic for the collector of New Zealand history.; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12635
- Title
- A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
- Author
- Butler, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1863
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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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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- New
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
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- First Edition
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