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Macmillan and Co , 1899. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Medium green cloth 8vo with gilt illustration and decorative black border on front board. Border mirrored in blind on back. Large gilt motif on backstrip. A little shelf worn on corners and edges with lightly bumped corners. Minor fraying on backstrip. Cocked. Black end papers. Illustrated title page with torn tissue guard. Interior is secure, clean and clear except for one plate which is detached and a few pages with faint staining. Trimmed. Contains several plates. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:
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The Rifle And The Hound In: Ceylon by S.W. Baker - 1967
The Rifle And The Hound In: Ceylon by S.W. Baker - 1967
by S.W. Baker
The Rifle And The Hound In: Ceylon
by S.W. Baker
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- very good
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Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Clean Tight And Square. With Little Shelf Wear. Inscribed In By Previous Owner No Other Markings. Nicks And Bumps To Jacket Now In Protective Mylar. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1967.
- Bookseller Jen's Books (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Abercrombie & Fitch Co
- Date Published 1967
- Pages 409
- Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾.
Cast Up by the Sea
by Baker, S.W
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- Hardcover
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- Used
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- Hardcover
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Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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CA$8.67
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The Rifle & the Hound in Ceylon
by Baker, S.W
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- 1st, This Edition
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- Hardcover
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truth or consequences, New Mexico, United States
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CA$89.86
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New York: Abercrombie & Fitch/Arno Press, 1967. 1st, This Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Baker, S.W.. 409pp.; HB quarter-bound; green&white w/blk.&gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ green w/bk.,white&red; rubbed w/lt.wear &sml.chips&tears. "An account of Elephant Shooting, Elk Hunting, Deer Coursing, &c. in the 1850s" illus.
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Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia.
by Baker, S.W. (Sir)
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- very good
- Hardcover
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- Used - Very Good
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truth or consequences, New Mexico, United States
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CA$138.25
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Hartford: O.D. Case & Co., 1868. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 624pp.incl.index; HB burgundy w/gilt; heavy rub w/wear on edges&corners; spine sunned&frayed; cracked at pg.402/403 & detaching; bookplate; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. except where noted. "The sources, supply, and the overflow of the Nile; the country, people, customs, etc. Interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author. Among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc.. Accompanied by expert native sword hunters. Illustrated. With a supplementary sketch relative to the captivity and release of English subjects and the career of the late Emperor Theodore. by Rev. W.L. Gage.
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The Albert N'yanza great basin of the Nile (etc.)
by Baker, Sir S.W
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1st edition
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- Hardcover
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Holywell, Flintshire, United Kingdom
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Macmillan, 1872. 1st edition. Hard covers, impressed design. Good/No Jacket. Bookplate of Robert Newton. Front hinge frayed internally, edgewear to extremities of spine. Illustrated with full-page and in-page steel engravings and with an extensive appendix listing other books from the same publisher.
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Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; The Country, People, Customs, etc. Interspersed with Highly Exciting Adventures of the Author. Among Elephants, Lions, Buffaloes, Hippopotami, Rhinoceros, etc. Accompanied by Expert Native Sword Hunters. With A Supplementary Sketch Relative to the Captivity and Release of English Subjects and the Career of the Late Emperor Theodore. By Rev. W.L. Gage
by BAKER, Sir S.W
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- very good
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- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- Hardcover
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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CA$207.38
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Hartford: O.D. Case & Co, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Thick octavo. 624pp. Illustrated with plates and one color map in the preliminary and a folding map of the Nile tributaries in Abyssinia in rear. Brown cloth, bind-stamped and ruled on boards, gilt-stamped spine. Page edges faintly dampstained, lacking half-title page, front hinge cracked, spine sunned with short tears on ends, about very good without dustwrapper as issued.
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Eight Years in Ceylon
by BAKER, S.W
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- near fine
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- Used - near fine
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New York, New York, United States
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London: Longmans, 1891. hardcover. near fine. 376 pages. small 8vo, polished brown calf school prize binding, ornately gilt spine with red leather spine label, marbled edges and endpapers. London: Longmans, 1891. Near fine.<br/> <br/> Baker notes Ceylon's great natural resources and relics of former prosperity, contrasting this past grandeur with the colonial era.<br/> <br/>
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Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia; The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; The Country, People, Customs, Etc.
by Baker, Sir S.W. (Samuel White Baker)
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- First American edition
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- Hardcover
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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CA$266.82
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Hartford (CT): Published by O.D. Case & Co, 1868. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-xx, [3], 24-608 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece with 15 additional engraved plates, based on original sketches by the author; one fold-out map and a full-page map. Brown pebbled cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Concluding the title page: "Interspersed with many highly exciting adventures of the author, among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopatmi, rhinoceros, antelopes, and other great game of the country; accompanied by expert native sword hunters." Baker provides an account of Eastern Africa: its animals, its peoples, its rivers, its lakes, and its landscapes. He completed the European discovery of the source of the Nile, naming the Albert Nyanza, with help from Sir John Speke. His account of Eastern Africa would greatly influence the common person's attitudes and perceptions of the Nile basin and the peoples who lived there. The plates in the volume depict Baker's penchant for big…
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