Newton, CT C TBiblio.com
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Travels & Discoveries in the Levant. With Numerous Illustrations. In Two Volumes.
réf. 100052London Day & Son Ltd. 1865 1st. 2 vols.; Tall hardback 8vo. approx 10 x 6.5 inches. In dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spines and blind embossed decorations to boards. Vol. 2 in pebbled cloth. In very good condition. Volume 2 has professional repair to spine with spine relaid. Bumps to corners and edges. Repairs to inner hinges between endpapers. Neat inscription to endpaper in vol.1 “Cornwall Library January 13th 1868.” Embossed WH.Smith stamp to corner. Some minor foxing spots to title page in vol.1. with Cornwall Library stamp to top edge. Some rubbing to edges of contents pages in vol.1. Some light foxing to engraved plates in vol.1. Else a very good clean and tight set. 360pp./275pp. Illustrated with 16 & 23 plates mostly B&W engravings maps and plans including 12 photo plates by F. Bedford from drawings by C.T. Newton and 9 & 29 B&W woodcut figures within text. Very scarce esp. in the original cloth binding. No.284 in Gernheim: Incunabula of British Photographic Literature. London, Day & Son Ltd., 1865 (1st.) hardcover
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