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In Savage Australia. An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land
by DAHL, Knut
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Philip Allan & Co., Ltd, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., 1926. Octavo, xii, 326 pages with 2 maps, and 28 illustrations plus 20 pages of plates (from drawings and photographs by the author). Burgundy cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; covers very slightly bumped and marked; edges a little foxed, with a small stain to the top edge; occasional light foxing internally; an excellent copy. Foreword by Fridtjof Nansen.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138500
- Title
- In Savage Australia. An Account of a Hunting and Collecting Expedition to Arnhem Land and Dampier Land
- Author
- DAHL, Knut
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Philip Allan & Co., Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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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...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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