LETTERS FROM THE LEVANT; CONTAINING VIEWS OF THE STATE OF SOCIETY, MANNERS, OPINIONS, AND COMMERCE OF GREECE...
by John Galt
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813. first edition. Fair. 6 x 9 in. xv, 386 pp. map frontis. Condition is FAIR ; of the original calf binding only the front boards remains, and is detached. Marbled endpapers with matching marbled text edges. The binding of the text block istself is very good, minus the ffe, blank, map and frontis, which are detached but all adhereing and present. Text has a smattering of light foxing, map is clean and undamaged. Trav. Stax.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52116
- Title
- LETTERS FROM THE LEVANT; CONTAINING VIEWS OF THE STATE OF SOCIETY, MANNERS, OPINIONS, AND COMMERCE OF GREECE...
- Author
- John Galt
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Cadell and W. Davies
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1813
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- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....