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Unknown Switzerland
by Victor Tissot
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1889. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 12mo - between 6¾ - 7¾" tall. x + 361pp. Binding firm, spine cocked and faded, with chips and loss to top and base. Top 5cm of rear joint split and coming away from rear board. Rear joint split in a couple of other places with slight loss. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Edges browned. Covers marked. Translated from the Twelfth edition by Mrs. Wilson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Switzerland; 19th century; Travel & Places. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 20814. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20814
- Title
- Unknown Switzerland
- Author
- Victor Tissot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Language Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- BZDB243 history, local, travel, sports, leisure, exploration, Switzerland, C19th Genealogy & Local History; Switzerland; 19th century; Travel & Places. Victor Tissot Unknown Switzerland
- Bookseller catalogs
- Genealogy & Local History; Travel & Places;
Terms of Sale
Dreadnought Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Dreadnought Books
Biblio member since 2013
Bristol
About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
Glossary
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- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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