By Geo. D. Bayley
London and New York   Dulau & Co.; J. H. Stark
8.5" by 5.5" xxv, [1], 607, xxxvipp
The scarce first edition of this guidebook to Guiana in the early twentieth century with plates and maps.
By Geo. D. Bayley

1909 Handbook of British Guiana

London and New York   Dulau & Co.; J. H. Stark
8.5" by 5.5" xxv, [1], 607, xxxvipp
The scarce first edition of this guidebook to Guiana in the early twentieth century with plates and maps.
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Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

First edition of Handbook of British Guiana edited and compiled by Geo. D. Bayley in the original publisher's pictorial cloth binding. 

Comprising general and statistical information concerning the colony. 

Published under the authority of the Permanent Exhibitions Committee. 

A scarce work with only ten copies held in libraries. 

Illustrated with fifty three plates and a large folding map to the front. Collated, complete. 

With thirty six pages of advertisements to the rear.

Prior owner's ink inscription from 1967 to the first pastedown.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externallysmart. There is some bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. The hinges are strained but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription from 1967 to the first pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with a few spots throughout.

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