THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORER IN TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA
by Galton, Francis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
John Murray. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 314 pp; Book has been re-cased with the original boards and the original spine laid down. Bound in red pebbled fabric with gilt cover and spine illustrations. Book has no names, pages unmarked, endpapers foxed but very little in the book block, corners bumped, binding tight. Map folded neatly at rear. .
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- Bookseller
- Glover's Bookery, ABAA, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A799062
- Title
- THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORER IN TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA
- Author
- Galton, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1853
- Keywords
- World, Africa
Terms of Sale
Glover's Bookery, ABAA, LLC
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About the Seller
Glover's Bookery, ABAA, LLC
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Lexington, Kentucky
About Glover's Bookery, ABAA, LLC
Glover's Bookery, ABAA has been buying and selling used and rare books since 1978. We have a large bookstore in Lexington, KY open to the public on Weds. to Sat. from 12pm - 5pm eastern.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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....