cairo to day practical guide nile de reynolds ball e a (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Fifth Edition (Revised to date). GOOD/ NO DUST JACKET. Former library book. Bound in dark green boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. Also, on the covers are interesting designs and lettering in black. Front cover has 1" crease at bottom. Spine has some small creases. Interior pages are clear, clean and complete. Includes three folding maps which feature some color. The third map is enclosed in a pocket inside the back cover and is in pristine condition. Signature of former owner is on the title page in pencil. Some black & white illustrations. Published prior to WWI and the discovery of Tut's tomb. Part of coveted Black's Guide Books. 264 pages. Also, includes bibliography of "recent popular works on Egypt" and fascinating pages of advertising material to appeal to the traveler.

Flexible Boards. Etat : Good. No Jacket. A well-used copy that perhaps knapsacked through the markets of Cairo or rucksacked along the Nile more than 100 years ago. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. Embossed in black with symbols from exotic Egyptian climes. Front and rear boards moderately soiled and/or damp stained. Raised bubble-like 'puckers' on front and rear covers. Front hinge cracked but holding. First two pages (ads and half title) loose but still connected to textblock. Rear hinge starting but still tight. Page edges darkened. Previous owner notation in pencil on rear pastedown. Two foldout maps. B & W photos throughout. In mylar.

Cloth. Etat : Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). The fourth edition of Eustace Reynolds-Ball's delightfully detailed guide to turn of the century Cairo. The fourth edition of this work, which was first published in 1898.Illustrated with a folding map in a pocket to the rear, alongside two further folding maps, and seven further plates. Collated, complete.Reynolds-Ball discusses Cairo, the Nile, Heliopolis, the Pyramids, and further monuments in this informative and engaging work.With advertisements to pastedowns and free endpapers, and with twenty pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Rear joint starting, with board a touch tender. Minor loss of cloth to head of rear board. Front hinge strained and lightly tender. Front free endpaper and one page detached and loosely inserted, otherwise firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Good. book.