Decouverte de l'Albert N'Yanza: Nouvelles Explorations des Sources du Nil
by Baker, Sir Samuel White
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. Green leather covered boards, beveled covers with all text edges gilt; gilt decorated and lettered spine with raised bands; covers are worn to boards at corner tips and along the spine, wear to top and bottom of spine, overall good+; 6" x 9", text is overall very good; moderate spotting to preliminaries and back pages; spotting varies throughout the text from practically none, very light to moderate; illustrations are clear; engravings within the text and full page printned on one side only; the folding map, Le Nil au Sud de Gondocor d'apres Baker et Speke is spotted in the margins and is overall very good
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- Bookseller
- Mina Harrington (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004502
- Title
- Decouverte de l'Albert N'Yanza: Nouvelles Explorations des Sources du Nil
- Author
- Baker, Sir Samuel White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Librairie de L. Hachette
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- History of Nile River
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Mina Harrington
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- Beveled
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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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...