A supplement to a book entituled Travels, or observations, &c. Wherein some objections lately made against it are fully considered and answered with several additional remarks and dissertations
by By Thomas Shaw DD FRS. Principal of St Edmund Hall, and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
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Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: Printed at the Theatre, 1746 Book. Poor. Hardcover. [ii], xvi, 112 pages + 2 plates. ESTC T114253. Here though just one plate is bound in between pages 84 and 85. The plate is titled Lithostrotum Praenestinum. The other plate which shows 5 maps and an image of Ibis bones is loosely inserted, it is clearly from another copy as it is trimmed and has old blue paper remains to the rear where it was once pasted into a scrap album. In old paper covered boards with a replacement cloth spine. Pages i/ii are almost detached. There is damp staining to the inner margins of pages at the start and rear. Original stabholes to the inner margins are clearly visible. Binding splitting internally. ESTC shows that this was a supplement to Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant, published in 1738..
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- Bookseller
- Stephen Rench (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012483
- Title
- A supplement to a book entituled Travels, or observations, &c. Wherein some objections lately made against it are fully considered and answered with several additional remarks and dissertations
- Author
- By Thomas Shaw DD FRS. Principal of St Edmund Hall, and Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Publisher
- Printed at the Theatre
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1746
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Travel + foreign topography;
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Stephen Rench
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Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire
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