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Tales and Traditions of The Eskimo With A Sketch of Their Habits, Religion, language and Other Peculiarities. Translated from The Danish by The Author. With Numerous Illustrations, Drawn and Engraved by Eskimo.
Rink, Dr. Henry and Brown, Dr. Robert (Ed.) · Edinburgh and London
- Author
- Rink, Dr. Henry and Brown, Dr. Robert (Ed.)
- Date
- 1875
- Place
- Edinburgh and London
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.25" x 7.75") 472 pp + Errata. Full brown cloth with blackstamp fancy rule framing a gilt illustration of Eskimo in canoe centered to the upper board. Gilt lettering to spine. Brown endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Head and foot of spine ruffled with small closed tears. Gilt somewhat faded, covers soiled, stained. Both gutters starting with mesh visible. Spine lightly cocked. Large printed label to front pastedown of the Hull Subscription Library, Royal Institution, Albion Street. Faded manuscript to first free endpaper. A neat 3-line inscription in old ink to head of half-title page, an embossed stamp "With The Publisher's Compliments" to head of the title page. Illustrated with 26 illustrations, 10 full page, 15 in-text, and 2 folded, one as frontispiece. A very interesting set of first person accounts of life among the Eskimo, drawn by Eskimo artists.
- Category
- Religion & Theology
- Record
- S.I.9618
Tales and Traditions of The Eskimo With A Sketch of Their Habits, Religion, language and Other Peculiarities. Translated from The Danish by The Author. With Numerous Illustrations, Drawn and Engraved by Eskimo. Rink, Dr. Henry and Brown, Dr. Robert (Ed.). 1875. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. 8vo.(5.25" x 7.75") 472 pp + Errata. Full brown cloth with blackstamp fancy rule framing a gilt illustration of Eskimo in canoe centered to the upper board. Gilt lettering to spine. Brown endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips. Head and foot of spine ruffled with small closed tears. Gilt somewhat faded, covers soiled, stained. Both gutters starting with mesh visible. Spine lightly cocked. Large printed label to front pastedown of the Hull Subscription Library, Royal Institution, Albion Street. Faded manuscript to first free endpaper. A neat 3-line inscription in old ink to head of half-title page, an embossed stamp "With The Publisher's Compliments" to head of the title page. Illustrated with 26 illustrations, 10 full page, 15 in-text, and 2 folded, one as frontispiece. A very interesting set of first person accounts of life among the Eskimo, drawn by Eskimo artists.
Condition
Good
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