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Oriental and Occidental, Northern and Southern Portrait Types of the Midway Plaisance. A Collection of Photographs of Individual Types of various nations from all parts of the World who represented, in the Department of Ethnology, The Manners, Customs, Dress, Religions, Music and other distinctive traits and peculiarities of their Race, with Interesting and Instructive Descriptions Accompanying Each Portrait
by Putnam, F.W.; World's Colubmian Expedition
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
St. Louis: N.D. Thompson Publishing Co, 1894. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half morocco, burgundy cloth over board. Marbled endpapers and edges. [2 pp.], 80 ff. half-tone portraits. Recently professionally rebacked, new leather spine and spine label. Light wear to original leather corners. Spots of scuffing and staining to cloth. Gold paint to ffep. Damp stain to lower corner of text block. Several short marginal tears, mostly at tail edges. Else a nice copy of a fascinating collection of portraits from various ethnic backgrounds, including American and Mexican cowboys, Egyptian cowherds, German military leaders, several Javaneese people, and French peasant women.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013931
- Title
- Oriental and Occidental, Northern and Southern Portrait Types of the Midway Plaisance. A Collection of Photographs of Individual Types of various nations from all parts of the World who represented, in the Department of Ethnology, The Manners, Customs, Dress, Religions, Music and other distinctive traits and peculiarities of their Race, with Interesting and Instructive Descriptions Accompanying Each Portrait
- Author
- Putnam, F.W.; World's Colubmian Expedition
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- N.D. Thompson Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- St. Louis
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- ethnology, portraits, World Columbian Expedition, culture studies, social studies, F.W. Putnam, Harvard
- Bookseller catalogs
- Culture Studies; Ethnography;
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All prices listed in Canadian dollars. We guarantee that all items are properly packaged and handled with care. Please allow one to two business days for your order to be shipped. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. All sales will be shipped with a tracking number for your convenience.
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Minotavros Books
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Whitby, Ontario
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- Jacket
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- Text Block
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- Spine Label
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- FFEP
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- Folio
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- Rebacked
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- Edges
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- New
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- Spine
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- Tail
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