Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography. Being the Catalogue Raisonne of the Mendelssohn Library of Works Relating to South Africa, including the Full Titles of the Books, with Synoptical, Biographical, Critical, and Bibliographical Notes on the Volumes and their Authors. [ 2 vols, complete set ]
by Mendelssohn, S
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ownership stamp on each front pastedown endpaper, covers slightly dulled perhaps from old waterstaining, otherwise near Very Goo
- ISBN 10
- 1578980305
- ISBN 13
- 9781578980307
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About This Item
Maurizio Martino, New York, [1993] reprint of 1910 first edition. Reprint "strictly limited to 175". 2 vols, cloth, 8vo,. lxxii, 1008 + 1139 pp. Approximately 7,000 entries. Musiker: "The Bibliography contains about 7000 items and is arranged alphabetically by author or by title when the author is not known. The entries are very full, with full author's name, title, imprint and descriptive annotations which are in themselves unique. It is a work. Of far greater scope than its title indicates, including as it does South African and foreign periodical articles, Imperial Blue Books, a list of autograph letters in his collection, a list of maps and a chronological and topographical subject index to the titles listed in the bibliography. Ownership stamp on each front pastedown endpaper, covers slightly dulled perhaps from old waterstaining, otherwise near Very Good.
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- Title
- Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography. Being the Catalogue Raisonne of the Mendelssohn Library of Works Relating to South Africa, including the Full Titles of the Books, with Synoptical, Biographical, Critical, and Bibliographical Notes on the Volumes and their Authors. [ 2 vols, complete set ]
- Author
- Mendelssohn, S
- Format/Binding
- 2 vols, cloth, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Ownership stamp on each front pastedown endpaper, covers slightly dulled perhaps from old waterstaining, otherwise near Very Goo
- Edition
- Reprint "strictly limited to 175"
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1578980305
- ISBN 13
- 9781578980307
- Publisher
- Maurizio Martino, New York, [1993] reprint of 1910 first edition
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- [1993] reprint of 1910 first ed
- Pages
- lxxii, 1008 + 1139 pp
- Keywords
- south africa south african Mendelssohn Library transvaal swaziland boer war 1578980305
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- Places & Travel (Bibliographies);
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