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A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, A Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883
by Forbes, Henry O
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- Hardcover
- first
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. 1885. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt illustration, pp. xx, 536, pp 32 adverts, colour frontis plate, numerous b&w engraved illustrations (full-page and text illus) six maps of which four are folding colour maps. Previous owner's signature. Hinges cracking. Offsetting from tape marks endpapers. Heavily rubbed to head of spine with some loss, markings to rear board. Good condition Travels through Timor, Cocos Islands, and Sumatra. Copiously illustrated. Henry Ogg Forbes (1851 - 1932) was a Scottish explorer, ornithologist, and botanist. 1st Edition. Cloth Boards.
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- Bookseller
- Muir Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102561
- Title
- A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, A Narrative of Travel and Exploration from 1878 to 1883
- Author
- Forbes, Henry O
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- Animals, Asia, Botany, Cocos Islands, Exploration, Fauna, History, Illustrated, Indonesia, Java, Natural History, Naturalists, Nature, Ornithology, South East Asia, Sumatra, Timor, Travels, Voyages
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About the Seller
Muir Books
Biblio member since 2006
Perth, Western Australia
About Muir Books
MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Cloth
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