The General Gazetteer: or Compendious Geographical Dictionary
by BROOKES, R
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FC & J Rivington, Wilkie & Robinson, W Lowndes et al 1812. Fiftheenth edition, super octavo, full brown leather boards with diamond-shaped stamped decoration to boards and (probably) gilt lettering to leather spine, frontispiece map, xvi + unpaginated, illus with 8 maps, G+ (bruising & fraying to board edges, corners & spine exterms, heavy chaffing to spine with loss of lettering & colour, front board only attached at stitching, sellotape-residue staining to feps, heavy browning & some staining to page edges, some browning to pages & to maps, sellotape repairs to two maps, stain to front board fore-edge)
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- The General Gazetteer: or Compendious Geographical Dictionary
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- BROOKES, R
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- Hardcover
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- FC & J Rivington, Wilkie & Robinson, W Lowndes et al 1812
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- R Brookes gazetteer geography geographical dictionary DOES NOT MENTION ANY NZ CITIES OR TOWNS AS THERE WERENT ANY
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