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The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails
by Coleman, A. P
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Original pictorial blue cloth, embossed gilt title on spine and front board, (9 x 6.25 inches). First Edition. 383 pages with Index; illustrated with 4 maps (3 folding, 2 in color, the fold-out Canadian Pacific Railway map at rear is not called for in plate list) and 32 b&w plates (including tissue-protected frontis). Considered to be one of the most interesting accounts of Canadian mountain exploration and climbing. Provenance: armorial bookplate of William C. Ferguson on front pastedown. Some light general wear to exterior and typical scattered foxing. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Octavo.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Canadian Rockies: New and Old Trails
- Author
- Coleman, A. P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1911
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Travel & Exploration
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- Octavo
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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