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The FALLS OF NIAGARA: being A Complete Guide to all the points of interest around and in the immediate neighborhood ...
by 07b
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG book. 12 tissue guarded color plates. Early ed. 4"x6", 64pp.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London, Edinburgh, NY, Tor.: Nelson & Sons,James Campbell. VG book. 12 tissue guarded color plates. Early ed. 4"x6", 64pp.. 1866. Early edition.. Hardcover. VG book. Tight. FINE inside. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Pristine frontis & 11 plates in color lithography. . 6"x4", (i-v)vi(7)8-64pp. Tight. Superb contents. No aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Plates with captions and tissue guards. Plates bright as new and based on Canadian artist Washington Friend's sketches and photos. There is no separate plate index. In text woodcut on page 11 'The Rapids Above the Falls' & 21 'View Below Table Rock'. Earlier editions had a frontis of a map of the area and a 'Rapids' title page woodcut. This edition's frontis is a color plate titled 'Terripin Tower ......' and the tp has no woodcut. There is no map nor is there any sign a map was ever bound in. Zero aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. Minor cover flaws. (1) Front upper tip bumped. (2) Extrems lightly scuffed. (3) Sunned spine. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001016
- Title
- The FALLS OF NIAGARA: being A Complete Guide to all the points of interest around and in the immediate neighborhood ...
- Author
- 07b
- Illustrator
- Friend, Washington sketches
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG book. 12 tissue guarded color plates. Early ed. 4"x6", 64pp.
- Edition
- Early edition.
- Publisher
- Nelson & Sons,James Campbell
- Place of Publication
- London, Edinburgh, NY, Tor.
- Date Published
- 1866
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- VG book. Tight. FINE inside. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering., Pristine frontis & 11 plates in color lithography.
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- New
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- 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...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marginalia
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- VG
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- Fine
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