Flowers and Views of the Holy Land
by [Copyright M. Weisman, Jerusalem]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Jerusalem: publisher not stated, no date). Cloth-backed, small oblong quarto, bevelled wooden covers, with palm tree and camels silhouette to upper board, and decorative marquetry device to lower board; unpaginated, but twelve colour scenes, with eleven facing specimens of pressed flora from Palestine. Spine frayed; binding slack, with archival tape reinforcing to upper hinge; front free endpaper somewhat fishmothed; some foxing. An early souvenir for travellers in Israel. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6219
- Title
- Flowers and Views of the Holy Land
- Author
- [Copyright M. Weisman, Jerusalem]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (Jerusalem: publisher not stated, no date)
- Keywords
- Palestine. Flora. Botany. Israel. Middle East. Bible Lands. Souvenirs Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....