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Item Details
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| Author: |
Greenwood, James |
| Title: |
The Bear King: A Narrative Confided to the Marines |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Griffith and Farran |
| Date: |
1868 |
| Item # : |
170270 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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108 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 258 |
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| Description: |
| [8], 98 + 6 ad pp. Illustrated with 8 hand-colored full-page wood engravings by Ernest Griset; plus smaller drawings within the text. 8x6, period full treated calf, ruled in gilt, spine tooled in gilt, two gilt-lettered maroon morocco spine labels, inner gilt dentelles, blue-green endpapers; original gilt-decorative cloth bound in (covers and spine) in the back. First Edition. |
| Terrific illustrations of imaginative sporting and whaling adventure involving bears as the main characters. Armorial bookplate of David Banks, Jr. |
| Condition: |
| Light wear to joints and edges; contents a bit darkened, occasional light foxing; still near fine. Scarce. |
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