A Spring in the Canterbury Settlement
by Adams, C. Warren
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition. Half-Leather. (viii) , 96, xi, (1) pages + frontispiece + 4 folding plates + 32 pages advertisements. Rebound in half-leather with 4 raised bands on the spine. 3" head section of half-title page replaced, not affecting text. Frontispiece has been bound in facing page 1. Owner's signature on title page and page 1. "Impressions of Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula, Christchuch and North Canterbury, Motunau stations, sheep farming etc, based on 10-week stay in 1851." - Bagnall 41. "Account of a few months' travel, and impressions formed. " - Hocken.; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001507
- Title
- A Spring in the Canterbury Settlement
- Author
- Adams, C. Warren
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1853
- Keywords
- New Zealand Spring Canterbury Regional History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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