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India Historical and Descriptive - Revised and Enlarged from "Les Voyages Celebres" - with an Account of The Sepoy Mutiny in 1857-8
by Eden, Charles H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Marcus Ward & Co.. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth rubbed at edges of boards, small 3/8" chips to cloth at tips of corners of boards. Some splitting to gutters at endpapers. Christchurch, New Zealand bookseller's blindstamp on front endpaper "A. Simpson Late J. Hughes". Binding a little shaken.; [vi], (9)-290 pages + 34, [2] pages advertisements + colour frontispiece + black-and-white plates + black-and-white folding map. Green cloth boards with black illustrations featuring elephants on spine and front board. Gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 173 x 120mm. Numerous illustrations, some full page, some in-text. .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19164
- Title
- India Historical and Descriptive - Revised and Enlarged from "Les Voyages Celebres" - with an Account of The Sepoy Mutiny in 1857-8
- Author
- Eden, Charles H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Marcus Ward & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1876
- Keywords
- India Travel History
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Renaissance Books
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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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