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This item SOLD at 2006 Nov 25 @ 14:02UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT
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TRAVEL. A Group of 5 Volumes as Listed. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Fair to Good condition. ***A Residence at Sierra Leone. Described From A Journal Kept on the Spot, and From Letters Written to Friends at Home - by a Lady (Mrs. Elizabeth Helen Melville) [edited by Mrs. Norton] (1849) London: John Murray. 12mo in original red cloth binding showing bumped corners & light backstrip wear, front hinge cracked. ***The Awakening of a Nation - Mexico of To-Day by Charles F. Lummis (1898) NY: Harper & Brothers. Illustrated, 8vo bound in marbled paper over boards, cloth tape over backstrip, hinges taped, covers worn, binding tight. ***Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa and Other Pacific Islands by Maturin M. Ballou (1888) Boston: Ticknor and Co. 12mo in a library binding, with binding & hinges tight. ***Mexico of the Twentieth Century by Percy F. Martin - 2 Volumes (1907) NY: Dodd, Mead & Co. 8vo in original bindings. Illustrated, fold-out MAP has crease tears, lacks plan of Manzanillo Harbor. Covers show backstrip wear, cracked or taped hinges, binding tight.
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