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Three volumes in slipcase. pp: xxv + 452. xxii + 450. xxi + 537. Gilt titles: sp. Frontis. Illust. w/ color & b/w maps & photos. Red, burgundy & brown cloth boards w/ gilt designs. Decorative map endpapers. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Slipcase has been repaired after top separated from bottom, so I'd grade the case Good at… Read more about this item

First Edition thus, with frontispiece, colored plates and numerous technical illustrations in the text; green pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, green top, a near fine copy in a Good publisher's board slip-case - there was the beginning of some splitting to the edge near the bottom, but I repaired that.