FRANCIS GALTON'S ART OF TRAVEL (1872)
by Galton, Francis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0715351397
- ISBN 13
- 9780715351390
- Seller
-
Stratford upon Avon, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
David & Charles Reprints. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Hardback; heavy foxing to edge of yellowed pages, otherwise good in heavily faded and foxed dustjacket. ; A reprint of the (Fifth Edition) of The Art of Travel; or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries; first published 1872. With New Introduction by Dorothy Middleton. Reprint of the handbook used by nineteenth-century explorers. Practical advice and tips on subjects including medicine, climbing and mountaineering, clothing, rafts and boats, harness and carriages, bedding, huts, making fire, food and water, hints on shooting, and the management of savages...; 366 pages .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Paul Meekins Military & History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75067
- Title
- FRANCIS GALTON'S ART OF TRAVEL (1872)
- Author
- Galton, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair in Fair dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0715351397
- ISBN 13
- 9780715351390
- Publisher
- David & Charles Reprints
- Place of Publication
- Newton Abbot
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Travel & Exploration, Social History, Colonial History
Terms of Sale
Paul Meekins Military & History Books
All payments must be in � sterling. We accept Paypal, Visa, Mastercard & Maestro (N.B If you wish to pay by Maestro, please provide the start date and issue no.). Other forms of payment (e.g. cheques, bank draft) by arrangement. Returns are dealt with on an individual basis and must be by prior arrangement.
About the Seller
Paul Meekins Military & History Books
Biblio member since 2005
Stratford upon Avon
About Paul Meekins Military & History Books
Established in 1990, we have over 20,000 military & history titles in stock. Mail order only unless by prior arrangement. Visit our website at www.paulmeekins.co.uk for further listings and details of bookfairs and other shows which we attend.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...