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Seller's Description:
Good. No dust jacket as issued. wonderful for a 160 year old book. Binding and all pages tight, minor discolorations on covers and leather is rubbed on vert. edges of spine of both vol., corners are remarkably unbumped. 2 volume set. Includes illustrations. illustrated with 10 woodcuts. Contemporary half morocco bindings, page edges and end papers decorated, 3 edges of covers are gilt, title is gilt on black dye and vol. no. is on red field, gilt designs cover spine vol 1 is 296 pp, vol 2 is 288 pp Full title is "A Tour in Sutherlandshire with extracts from the Field-books of a Sportsman and Naturalist" with woodcuts-[10 in all] There is a partial receipt from Meiers & Frank department store [possibly in Portland, Oregon] in vol 1, and a tiny sticker in the rear end papers of Vol 2 with the Meiers & Frank name. This book was possibly sold to the seller's inlaws in the 1950s in Portland.