Life and Travels of Mungo Park: with a supplementary chapter detailing the results of recent discovery in Africa
by Mungo Park
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Wellington, New Zealand
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About This Item
Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1892. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth boards with red gold and black decorative front and spine. Bumps to corners and ends of spine and with gilt page edges. Ffep removed. A little foxing to edges but text pages appear to be free. Frontispiece "My worthy benefactress (pointing ..." shows park lying on a straw mat. 336 pages plus 16 page Nimmo catalogue to rear dark blue endpapers except as missing one described above. Numerous bhlack and white illustrations. No contents page or list of illustrations so possibly missing? Front board a bit loose. Owners name on first page.
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- Bookseller
- The Last Word (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1068
- Title
- Life and Travels of Mungo Park
- Author
- Mungo Park
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1892
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About the Seller
The Last Word
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Wellington
About The Last Word
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bumps
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- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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- 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...
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