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Bailliere's South Australian Gazetteer and Road Guide. Containing the Most Recent and Accurate Information as to Every Place in the Colony
by [South Australia]. WHITWORTH, Robert Percy (compiler)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Adelaide: F.P. Bailliere, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Adelaide, F.P. Bailliere, 1866. Octavo, ii (recto of the front free endpaper)-viii, [i] (blank)-viii, 296, xxxvii (advertisements), [i] (advertisement on the recto of the rear free endpaper) pages plus a large folding extensively hand-coloured map (755 × 620 mm, dated 1867) and a small blue-paper advertising sheet for 'Companion Works' to this volume (respectively, after page vi, and at the end, of the advertisements at the front of the book), a small octavo 16-page publisher's catalogue dated January 1866, and a full-page blue-paper advertisement (the bottom half announcing that Landsborough's journal is 'Just Published', verso blank) (respectively, after page xvi, and after page xxxii, in the advertisements at the end of the book), and endpaper advertisements front and rear. Publisher's half morocco and stippled cloth, lettered in gilt, in compartments, on the spine (with the date '1867'); leather lightly rubbed at the extremities; early shelf number at the foot of the spine (originally in black ink over a white patch) now greatly softened in impact by our conservator; a few short splits along map folds expertly sealed; as attractive a copy in original condition as one might hope to find. The map is a beauty; it is easy to understand why it is rarely found in copies of this book.
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Details
- Seller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 110170
- Title
- Bailliere's South Australian Gazetteer and Road Guide. Containing the Most Recent and Accurate Information as to Every Place in the Colony
- Author
- [South Australia]. WHITWORTH, Robert Percy (compiler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- F.P. Bailliere
- Place of Publication
- Adelaide
- Date Published
- 1866
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Australia;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- First Edition
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- Morocco
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- Spine
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- Recto
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- Octavo
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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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
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