Pre-Historic Remains of Caithness with Notes on the Human Remains
by Laing, Samuel and Huxley, Thomas H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- near Very Good
- Seller
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Montmorillon, France
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About This Item
London & Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. near Very Good. First printing. 8vo. Pp 160 illustrated with line drawings throughout + 54pp printed recto only in line showing drawings of the skulls and other human remains. Original green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket. The cloth is a little rubbed and the bottom corner of the upper board is lightly bumped.
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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92611
- Title
- Pre-Historic Remains of Caithness with Notes on the Human Remains
- Author
- Laing, Samuel and Huxley, Thomas H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Williams and Norgate
- Place of Publication
- London & Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1866
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology;
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