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Libros antiguos y modernos

Baker, S. W.

Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon

1855

573,40 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1855
Lugar de impresión
London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Autor
Baker, S. W.
Edición
First edition.
Materia
Travel - Asia
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [23 x 15 cm]; xii, [i, list of plates], 423 pp, 6 color plates (chromolithographs) including the frontis, illustrations in text. rebacked with cloth preserving the original pictorial boards, loss of one letter on spine, gilt decorated spine and endpapers, all edges gilted, corners slightly worn, spine lightly faded, early inscription on endpaper but a clean solid near fine copy. A British Museum of Natural History Catalogue 89 (which copy has only 4 plates). The author, who is most famous for his exploration in search of the Nile, traveled extensively in Ceylon and describes the natural history, villages, peoples, agriculture, etc. The plates are mainly of hunting scenes and wildlife, from the author's paintings. The later editions did not have color plates.