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London: W.H. Allen & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Original brown cloth hardcover with gilt spine titles. A good-only copy. External description: corners and spine tips rounded and bumped with minor fraying at the extremities of the corners. Some bumping as well to the board edges where they extend beyond the textblock. Rubbed, lightened spot to the center of the spine column, and darkening ot the top of the boards and the top edge of the textblock. Interior description: Front pastedown with two erasure spots - brown papers lightened and scuffed from the erasure. Front hinge is split with paper exposing the binding web - still relatively solid. The rear hinge is starting but not as advanced as the front. Darkening to the edges of the back of the free endpapers from the dark brown endpaper coloring coming through. Some light soil at the half-title. Frontispiece, plates, graphs and maps intact, including two large folding maps bound in at rear and an extending graph in the… Read More