Curiosities of London : Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis; With nearly Fifty Years' Personal Recollections
by Timbs, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
David Bogue, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Good, clean, tight and sound copy. Usual browning to page edges. Original cloth covered boards with a modern spine in binder's plain brown buckram, gilt lettered. New endpapers. viii + 800 pages, portrait frontispiece, indexed. Approx. size 7" by 5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 26912. .
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- Bookseller
- Steve Liddle
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26912
- Title
- Curiosities of London : Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis; With nearly Fifty Years' Personal Recollections
- Author
- Timbs, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- David Bogue
- Date Published
- 1855
- Keywords
- BZDB28 London England English westminster History; Curiosities of London Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis With nearly Fifty Years Personal Recollections Timbs John
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Steve Liddle
Biblio member since 2009
Bristol, Avon
About Steve Liddle
Full time bookseller since 1982. Bookshops in Bristol and Bath ( as Patterson & Liddle )1982- 2006. Member ABA ILAB PBFA. Regular exhibitor at major UK bookfairs.
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- Buckram
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- Gilt
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- New
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- Tight
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