Picturesque Ceylon [Volume I: Colombo and the Kelani Valley; Volume II: Kandy and Peradeniya; Volume III: Nuwara Eliva and Adam's Peak]. [AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY]

Language: English

Published by London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited, 1893-95, 1893

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FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes; author's presentation copy [volumes I & II bearing the author's presentation inscription on the front endpaper addressed to 'E. R. T. Croxall'; leather-bound; hardcovers; quartos (28.5 x 21.5 cm); pp. [8], 69; [4], [6], 91; [4], [6], 85. English text. Handsomely bound in publisher's original full leather gilt; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; 103 full-page plates with captioned tissue guards; decorative initials; tail-pieces; printed footnotes. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Downs Park Road, Hackney. Provenance: E. R. Tongue-Croxall's armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Bindings tight and secure. Covers rubbed to the spine ends and points. Interiors very well-preserved. Scarce thus.

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Title
Picturesque Ceylon [Volume I: Colombo and the Kelani Valley; Volume II: Kandy and Peradeniya; Volume III: Nuwara Eliva and Adam's Peak]. [AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY]
Author
CAVE, HENRY W.
Publisher
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited, 1893-95
Publication year
1893
Condition
Very Good
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Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
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Fine Bindings, First Edition, Travel & Exploration

MFR RARE BOOKS

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