History and Present Condition of the Barbary States: Comprehending a View of Their Civil instiutions, Antiquities, Arts, religion, Literature, Commerce, Agriculture, and Natural Productions

Russell, Rev. Michael

Verlag: Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1835

Beschreibung

1835. Second edition. 456pp., vignette title-page in addition to the plain title-page, a folding map as a frontispiece and and 10 engravings by Jackson (3 full-page). Michael Russell (1781-1848) was the first Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway, from 1837 to his death. He was also a prolific author, contributed to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana and the British Critic, and he was for some time editor of the Scottish Episcopal Review and Magazine. To the Edinburgh Cabinet Library he contributed several volumes, including this work on the Barbary States. The book is bound in the original red cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and blind stamped designs on both boards. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling and a little staining on the boards. The cloth on the corner tips is worn with a small bit of loss and the spine ends are bumped with damage to the cloth and loss of about 1/8" from the bottom of the spine and and small piueces from the top of the spine. There is a split of about 1/2" in the cloth at both ends and a split of about 3/8" near the middle of the front spine edge. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing on the first few pages, including some marks on both title-pages. There is a little scattered light foxing elsewhere within the book. The frontispiece map has some mis-folding together with creasing. There is a hand-written prize label dated 1847 on the front fixed endpaper. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers gVIAfrica06

Bibliografische Details

Titel: History and Present Condition of the Barbary...

Verlag: Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh

Erscheinungsdatum: 1835

Einband: Red Cloth Hardback

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: Second Edition