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Aborigines of South America. Edited by an Old Friend, Clements R. Markham.
by CHURCH, Colonel George Earl:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Chapman & Hall, 1912 1st. Hardback, approx 9 x 5.5 inches. Light green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners, minor bump to bottom end of spine, a couple of small nicks to cloth at top end. Free endpapers darkened. No penned inscriptions. Some mild/moderate foxing spots to pages nr front, some neat pencil notes within text. Map clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 314pp. Illustrated with a frontis plate and folding colour map at rear.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86647
- Title
- Aborigines of South America. Edited by an Old Friend, Clements R. Markham.
- Author
- CHURCH, Colonel George Earl:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Chapman & Hall, 1912 1st
- Keywords
- FOREIGN TRAVEL CHURCH, Colonel George Earl: Aborigines of South America, Edited by an Old Friend, Clements R. Markham, Chapman & Hall, 1912, 1st, colour map, natural history, history of man, tribes, amazon, brazzl, andes, peru, Bolivia, inca,
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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