London: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1882. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. London:Longman's, Green, and Co. 1882. 1st edition. 289pp. Illustrated, with maps (by E. Weller), portraits, autotype and other full page plates, and numerous plans and woodcuts (by G. Pearson), chiefly from photographs by F. Duscher, Bucarest.. Hardcover, rebound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, with gilt decorations and title in gilt on leather labels on spine strip. Leather scuffed and worn along all edges with raised bands rubbed, spine ends worn and frayed and edge points worn to boards. Internally, a bookplate to inside front board with free end-pages, both front and rear, covered in newspaper articles and illustrations having to do with Roumana. Once past the half title page, pages clean and bright. The binding is tight with hinges intact. 

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Bookseller: Parnassus Book Service (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 26738
Title: ROUMANIA PAST AND PRESENT
Author: Samuelson, James
Format/Binding: Hard cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Longman's, Green, and Co.
Date Published: 1882
Keywords: ROUMANIA; HISTORY;

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