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Venezuela; or, Two Years on the Spanish Main.
by Wood, Walter E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Middlesbrough: Jordison & Co., Ltd., 1896. The author, a British military engineer, went to Venezuela to oversee the construction of a railway in 1888/9; includes a brief history of the country; shipboard life on the way there; conditions & incidents in the country; various difficulties. Hardcover, full brown cloth, gilt titling, black palm tree decoration. Some wear, corners bumped, couple of dents on the edges of the rear boards, front inner hinge a bit cracked; INSCRIBED/initialled on the title page: "With the Author's kind regards | W.E.W."; page edges foxed. Text clean; xxxii, 196 pages; 18 b/w vignettes, map.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 6" by 9".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- u3017
- Title
- Venezuela; or, Two Years on the Spanish Main.
- Author
- Wood, Walter E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jordison & Co., Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Middlesbrough
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Venezuela, South America, Travel, Adventure, Exploration, Railroads, Engineering
- Size
- 6" by 9"
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Hinge
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- Inscribed
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- Foxed
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- Gilt
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