DATES AND DISTANCES, SHOWING WHAT MAY BE DONE IN A TOUR OF SIXTEEN MONTHS THROUGH VARIOUS PARTS OF EUROPE, AS PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1829 AND 1830
by Anonymous
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
John Murray, 1831. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. London: John Murray. 1831. First Edition. Hardcover in quarter leather. . 358pp + errata. Good condition. Boards and leather are well shelfworn, leather is worn through at edges, and peeling at top of spine. Foxing to endpapers only. Frontis map present but nearly loose from binding. Penned signature inside front cover and pencilled seller marks to ffep. Contents are clean, unfoxed and squarely/securely bound. A travel log with observations and anecdotes from the author's tour of early 19th century Europe and Russia. (cfm)
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25790
- Title
- DATES AND DISTANCES, SHOWING WHAT MAY BE DONE IN A TOUR OF SIXTEEN MONTHS THROUGH VARIOUS PARTS OF EUROPE, AS PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1829 AND 1830
- Author
- Anonymous
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1831
- Keywords
- EUROPE, RUSSIA, TRAVEL
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