Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers. Good with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn, library bookplate on front . pastedown, pages toned, spine cracked.. 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Green pebbled cloth with titles stamped on spine in gilt. viii, 558 pp. An exuberant 19th century travelogue of a European Grand Tour by the journalist author. His descriptions of the typographical wonders viewed at the British Museum are rhapsodic: "Besides these [incunabula Guild witnessed], and hundreds of other old books, enough to drive a bibliomaniac out of his remaining senses, were specimens of fine and sumptuous printing, some of which, in the fifteenth century, on vellum, were a little short of marvellous in execution, and unsurpassed by anything I ever saw in modern printing." (p. 239). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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Bookseller: Old Saratoga Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 36648
Title: Over the Ocean: Or, Sights and Scenes in Foreign Lands
Author: Guild, Curtis
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards heavily worn, library bookplate on front pastedown, pages toned, spine cracked.
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Lee and Shepard Publishers
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1871
Keywords: Antiquarian Travel, 1879s Travel Writing
Bookseller catalogs: Travel and Adventure;

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Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Vellum: Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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...
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