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Historians' Guide to Early British Maps
by WALLIS, Helen, ed.; Anita McConnell
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1994. Octavo. Cloth boards titled in gilt on front cover and spine; ix, 465pp. Trivial shelf wear to boards, including some mild bumping to top and bottom edges of boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Near Fine. In publisher's series "Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51085
- Title
- Historians' Guide to Early British Maps
- Author
- WALLIS, Helen, ed.; Anita McConnell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Offices of the Royal Historical Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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