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Through the Dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile - Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean
by Stanley, Henry M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Fair with no dust jacket. 1890. Hardcover. Binding poor. Hinges broken. Spine cloth with creasing, a 3/4" chip, fraying and 1/4" missing at head and tail. 1/2" chips to cloth at corners of boards. Dampstains to cloth.; One volume edition. "New and cheaper edition". xx, 658 pages + frontispiece + 11 plates + folding black-and-white map (route marked in red). Red cloth boards with gilt and black illustration on front board, gilt and black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 179 x 121mm. In-text illustrations. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20411
- Title
- Through the Dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile - Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean
- Author
- Stanley, Henry M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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