Manual of the Birds of Ceylon
by WAIT, W.E
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Ceylon: The Director, Colombo; London: Dulau & Co. Ltd., 1931.. Second edition. 8vo. xxxiv, 494 pp. Publisher's green cloth, black lettered to the spine and upper board, some neat contemporary underlining and marginalia. Folding map of the island. Rebacked preserving much of the original spine, some discolouration and marking to the cloth, else a sound copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26549
- Title
- Manual of the Birds of Ceylon
- Author
- WAIT, W.E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ceylon: The Director, Colombo; London: Dulau & Co. Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1931.
- Keywords
- Natural History NATURAL HISTORY Birds / Ornithology Ceylon
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About the Seller
Bow Windows Bookshop
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Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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- Spine
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- Marginalia
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- Cloth
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- Rebacked
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