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The Dominion of Australia an Account of its Foundations 1st Edition 1874
by Ranken, W.H.L
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/no dustwrapper
- Seller
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Camira, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. 1st Edition. leather. Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. frontispiece map 1st Edition of Ranken's account of pastoral and agricultural industries, and trade and banking in 19th-Century Australia, with chapters on commerce, banking, mining, politics, climate; Ferguson 14720; frontispiece fold-out map; this copy bound in three-quarter calf with marbled boards, raised bands, maroon title labels to spine with gilt titling; former owner's name to front endpaper, glue marks (binder's) around edges of endpapers, medium foxing to prelims, very occasional minor ink emendations in text, tape repair to one page of contents, o.w. Good throughout; boards lightly rubbed, leather a little rubbed, worn at corners, loss to title label (some loss of titling).
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- Bookseller
- Gotcha By The Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23290
- Title
- The Dominion of Australia an Account of its Foundations 1st Edition 1874
- Author
- Ranken, W.H.L
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- no dustwrapper
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1874
- Pages
- 356pp
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About Gotcha By The Books
Gotcha By The Books is an online bookshop, working from home, in Camira, Queensland, Australia. The owner has been selling books in Brisbane since 1985, and Gotcha By The Books has been online since 2001. We specialize in Poetry, Australian Poetry, Literature, Art, Australiana, Aboriginal Australia, Rare and Antiquarian Books. We buy books on any subject (so long as we know we can re-sell them!). We are open by appointment.
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- 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...
- Dustwrapper
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- Spine
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
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