The History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time derived from Native Annals
by Haverty, Martin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Dublin: Thomas Kelly, 1881. Very Good. quarto. 1/2 leather xxii + 862 + 12pp., frontis., colour plates, engravings, index, Nicely bound in 1/2 brown leather over emerald green cloth boards. Five raised bands at spine & green spine label. Some minor faults; some pages at rear silver-fished at edges, occasional chipping in text & verso of frontispiece rather foxed o/w a very good copy & very nicely bound
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145758
- Title
- The History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time derived from Native Annals
- Author
- Haverty, Martin
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Kelly
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1881
- Size
- quarto
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About the Seller
Andrew Barnes Booksellers
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MELBOURNE, Victoria
About Andrew Barnes Booksellers
We are a general, Internet only bookseller with 25 years experience, specialising in Military & Russian material. We have operated on-line for 9 years
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Cloth
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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