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Price: US$148.83 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Only volume II; first edition; whole leather binding of the time, strongly rubbed at edges and corners, small piece lacking at upper part of the spine, spine worn on the side, old number on spine, cut out leather piece to remove a stumpage on first board, and small piece cut out of title page to remove a name or stampage; frontispice view of Tiberiade with a scratched place in the sky; inside is the book in very good condition; no stains or foxing; XI, 291, pp.
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Price: US$987.79 + shipping
Description: Adventures during a Journey Overland to India by way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land by Major Skinner 31st Regiment. Published in London 1836 by Richard Bentley. 2 volume complete set in 3/4 leather and marble boards.Clean pages with minor toning, binding solid with weakness at hinges, 3/4 leather shows bumping and rub wear Clean pages with minor toning, b
Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1653.61 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 2 vols. XI, (1), 324 pp. XI, (1), 291, (1) pp. With 2 engr. frontispieces (portrait and view of the Lake of Tiberias). Contemporary calf with triple giltstamped cover fillets and blindstamped ornamental borders, leading edges gilt, inner dentelle gilt, spines rebacked to style with giltstamped label. Marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. First edition. - An account of a journey made in 1833 through Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia (Baghdad, Babylon and Basrah), Persia, down the Arabian Gulf (stopping at Muscat, "the hottest place on earth") and thence to India. - Corners bumped; frontispieces foxed. Attractively bound copy; armorial bookplates ("Gadsden", motto "decrevi") to pastedowns; contemporary ownership "C. J. Wilton" to flyleaf. - Blackmer 1547. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 237. Röhricht 1808. OCLC 4255403. Cf. Atabey 1142 (1837 second ed.).
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria