Voyages and Travels or Scenes in Many Lands
by Colange, Leo De (Editor)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Sudbury, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
E. W. Walker & Co., 1887. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two volumes with 850 illustrations on wood and steel. Green cloth over boards. Heavily decorated with gilt red and black stamped on cover and spine. All edges gilt. Fantastic full-page and partial page wood and steel illustrations. Vol 1 hinge has just started. Gift inscription in pencil on volume 1 endpaper. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Edges are bumped.
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- Bookseller
- Bearly Read Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010293
- Title
- Voyages and Travels or Scenes in Many Lands
- Author
- Colange, Leo De (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- E. W. Walker & Co.
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Bearly Read Books
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Sudbury, Massachusetts
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
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