Buy this book on-line CHARLES WHYMPER : Egyptian Birds. For the Most Part Seen in the Nile Valley. With illustrations by the authorAdam & Charles Black, London, 1909
First Edition (first printing). Royal 8vo. x, 221pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Decorated cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. With a captioned tissue-protected colour frontispiece, 50 colour plates each with a captioned tissue-protector, and 11 line drawings in the text. The cloth soiled and a little rubbed, with some wear to the backstrip ends and the lower joint cracked but firm. The rear hinge cracked, and with some moisture staining to the endpapers margins. Edges lightly spotted, encroaching a fraction to the fore edge margins of occasional text leaves. Handsome Egyptian-style bookplate to the front pastedown. A good copy, with the magnificent plates all in super state.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of CHARLES WHYMPER : Egyptian Birds. For the Most Part Seen in the Nile Valley. With illustrations by the author. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, fine bindings, antiquarian books, livres anciens and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |