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A JOURNEY TO CENTRAL AFRICA, or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile (1st ed)
by Taylor, Bayard 07b
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD book. Spine ends chipped.Tips worn. Orig embossed red cloth
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Putnam. GOOD book. Spine ends chipped.Tips worn. Orig embossed red cloth. (1854). 1st edition.. Hardcover. GOOD book.Gilt vignette of North African (Arab) on front cover, gilt obelisk on spine. Neatly inked name, Dec 25, 1854 inside. . Light foxing throughout. 8vo, 522pp. BAL 19646 with the BAL type "T" cloth. Backstrip attached only at front hinge. Tight binding. Lithographed frontis & (4) full page illus with tissue guards. Many in text woodcuts. Frontis from a Matthew Brady daguerrotype. A dozen or so in text wood cuts. Map at back unfolds once vertically & twice horizontally. Map's central folding point, next to the spine, has a 2" tear. Other than the 2" tear, a flawless map. .
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- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001921
- Title
- A JOURNEY TO CENTRAL AFRICA, or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile (1st ed)
- Author
- Taylor, Bayard 07b
- Illustrator
- Taylor's map & illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD book. Spine ends chipped.Tips worn. Orig embossed red cloth
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Publisher
- Putnam
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1854)
- Keywords
- GOOD book.Gilt vignette of North African (Arab) on front cover, gilt, obelisk on spine. Neatly inked name, Dec 25, 1854 inside.
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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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- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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