A general account of all the rivers of note in Great Britain; with their several courses, their peculiar characters, the countries through which they flow and the entire sea coast of our island; concluding with a minute description of the Thames and its various auxiliary streams
by Henry Skrine
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
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Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street for P. Elmsley in the Strand, 1801 Book. Good. Full-Leather. [iii]-xx, 412 pages. Frontispiece and 17 maps. The maps are all bound together at the rear. Here bound without the half title page. There is a hole to the lower outer corner of the folding plate that serves as a frontispiece, but this does not affect either the text or the image. Paper repair to an old tear to the rear of the plate also. Title page browned, light browning to pages throughout, some staining here and there. In old full leather binding, but with a replacement lettering label to the spine..
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- Bookseller
- Stephen Rench (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012548
- Title
- A general account of all the rivers of note in Great Britain; with their several courses, their peculiar characters, the countries through which they flow and the entire sea coast of our island; concluding with a minute description of the Thames and its various auxiliary streams
- Author
- Henry Skrine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street for P. Elmsley in the Strand
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1801
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