Oban to Fort William & Banavie by Ballahulish and Glencoe
by KEDDIE, William
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Glasgow: Maclure and Macdonald, [1871]. 46pp. 26 leaves of advertisements. With a lithographed frontispiece, a further five lithographed plates, and an engraved folding map. Original publisher's pictorial green wrappers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Booksellers ticket of James Miller of Oban to verso of upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. A Victorian travel guide, preserved in crisp original state, charting a route from Oban to Glencoe via Fort William, the third issue of Glasgow-based lithographers and publishers Maclure & Macdonald's 'Illustrated Guides to the Highlands' series, compiled by Scottish journalist and newspaper editor William Keddie (1809-1877). . 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ31251
- Title
- Oban to Fort William & Banavie by Ballahulish and Glencoe
- Author
- KEDDIE, William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Maclure and Macdonald
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- [1871]
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Travel
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
About the Seller
Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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Mail Order and Internet, but in normal times we have an antiquarian bookshop in the Dorset countryside.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...