The Drummond Books No. I [One] -- An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland
by Lunardi, Vincent
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 090515200X
- ISBN 13
- 9780905152004
- Seller
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1976 Light blue cloth; gilt spine lettering. Facsimile of the 1786 work, with an Introduction by Alexander Law. Limited and numbered 226, one of four hundred numbered copies and twenty lettered copies published by the Friends exclusively for their members. Spine sunned. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn in a lightly worn, clear acetate jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Curiosity Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14192
- Title
- The Drummond Books No. I [One] -- An Account of Five Aerial Voyages in Scotland
- Author
- Lunardi, Vincent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited.
- ISBN 10
- 090515200X
- ISBN 13
- 9780905152004
- Publisher
- Friends of Edinburgh University Library
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1976
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- Facsimile
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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