Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries
by KNIGHT, E. F
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Longmans, Green and Co. 1894. Octavo, beige buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, brown lettering to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map to front, xv + 528pp + 24pp ads to rear, illus, VG- (moderate to heavy chipping & bruising to extrems, moderate tanning & staining to spine & boards, 3cm crack to front hinge, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light to moderate foxing to prelims, light foxing to pages throughout, light cracking to some gutters throughout)
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- Title
- Where Three Empires Meet: A Narrative of Recent Travel in Kashmir, Western Tibet, Gilgit, and the Adjoining Countries
- Author
- KNIGHT, E. F
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co. 1894
- Keywords
- travel exploration history culture Kashmir west Tibet Gilgit E F Knight
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
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- Chipping
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- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Buckram
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