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1883 Half Hours in the Far South: The People and Scenery of the Tropics
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Prize Binding, Rebound, Scarce
In a full red calf prize binding for Presbyterian Ladies College.
Part of The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature, and Science for Young Readers.
An engaging Victorian travel book for young readers, offering vivid descriptions of distant lands, their landscapes, and peoples, including Madagascar, New Guinea, the Andaman Islands, Fiji, and Trinidad.
Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and twenty-six plates, alongside numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.
Condition
In a full red calf prize binding. Prize plate to front paste down of Presbyterian Ladies College, awarded to Isabella Copeland, Christmas, 1888. Externally, very smart. One or two very slight handling marks to boards. The odd slight scratch to boards. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, more so to joints. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to first and last few leaves.
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