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Historic Farms of South Africa
by Fairbridge, Dorothea
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, London, 1931. First Edition. Buckram Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illustrator: Prints,photos.,sketches & Maps. 'The wool, the wheat, and the wine of the 17th and 18th Centuries'.. With col. frontisp, 40 full-page plates, one of which is col, and one full-page map A sound copy with small mark on front and slight crushing of bottom corners. .) .A gift inscription (1946) written inside front cover in ink. 194 pp. including index. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Gilt titles spine. Illustrator: Prints,photos.,sketches & Maps. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Travel & Places; History; South African History; South Africa; 17th &18th centuries; Farming & Rural Life. Inventory No: SAF00001. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SAF00001
- Title
- Historic Farms of South Africa
- Author
- Fairbridge, Dorothea
- Illustrator
- Prints,photos.,sketches & Maps
- Format/Binding
- Buckram Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- BZDB227 South Africa/History/Farming/Rural Life/South African History/ Travel & Places; History; South African History; South Africa; 17th &18th centuries; Farming & Rural Life. Prints,photos.,sketches & Maps Unbranded Fairbridge, Doroth
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