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Scenes In Africa, For The Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers. Third Edition.
by TAYLOR, Rev. ISAAC:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Harris and Son, 1821 3rd. Small hardback, approx 7 x 4 inches (17 x 10.5 cm.) Half bound card boards with red leather spine. B&W illustration and lettering to boards. Gilt banding and lettering to spine. Blue speckled page edges. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor darkening to boards, corners rubbed and bumped, small chips to bottom corners of boards and top end of spine. Small nick to edge nr. top corner of front board. Some minor darkening to endpapers, neat inscription to top edge of title page “From Aunt Sarah to Joseph Barnard, May 1826.” Some tanning to pages and some small minor light foxing spots here and there, minor crack between p60, else plates overall very clean and bright and pages clean and tight. 127pp + 1pp advert. Illustrated with a folding B&W engraved map, and 84 scenes over 28 B&W engraved plates (3 scenes per plate.)
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87260
- Title
- Scenes In Africa, For The Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers. Third Edition.
- Author
- TAYLOR, Rev. ISAAC:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Harris and Son, 1821 3rd
- Keywords
- FOREIGN TRAVEL::Africa Scenes In Africa, Rev. ISAAC TAYLOR,For The Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-At-Home Travellers, Harris and Son, 1821, 3rd, map, engraved plates, illustrated, Egypt, Barbary, Guinea, Slaves, Slave trade, congo, madagascar
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The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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