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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS; THREE (3) USGS Water Supply papers bound together; HARDCOVER; ex-library; in very good condition. Book.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Stapled-bound. 92 pages. Heavy, extra postage may be required if posted outside South Africa. Minor marks on page edges. It is in good condition, internally clean. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:1850650489.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Some fraying around the spine ends. Panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Lacking FFEP. Scattered foxing, mainly around prelim and plate margins. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 274 pages; xii, 274 p., 30 plates ; 23 cm. Subjects: Hunting -- Fishing. Highlands (Scotland) -- Description and travel. Norway -- Description and travel. 3 Kg.

[2]+68+20+xxxviiipp. 4to. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and decoration, some wear at extremities, a little darkened. Heavy foxing to endpapers, scattered intenally. Folding genealogical table. A very good copy. . Earldom of Mar - a history by a claimant to the title with legal wrangles.

First Edition. Signed and inscribed. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xi, [1], 228 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Subjects; Hunting Scotland Argyllshire. Fishing Argyllshire Scotland; history. Fishing Scotland Argyllshire. Argyllshire (Scotland) Description and travel. 3 Kg.

8vo. pp. xiv, 437. music in the text. modern half morocco, t.e.g. First London Edition (?). Sabin and NUC also cite a Chapman and Hall London edition of the same year with slightly different collation: pp. xii, 436. Including remarks on politics, carnivals, convents and churches, bull-fighting, gambling, servants, feasts and festivals, opera and theatre, leading men, volcanoes, Indian superstitions, &c. The author was the Scottish wife of the Spanish Minister to the United States, who was sent on a special mission to Mexico after Independence. "One of the classic writings of nineteenth-century travel.due to her position, [she] was able to become intimately acquainted with Mexican society and had access to any information she sought.This is probably the most important record of the social life of the country at that time" (Hill). "This is the earliest and most balanced first-hand account of Mexico to be written by a woman." (Robinson) According to Robinson, her book was so detailed that it was used by the American army as a guide during the campaign against Mexico in 1847. Hill p. 43. Robinson, Wayward Women, p. 233. cfSabin 9889.