Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made under Direction of the Navy Department
by Herndon, Wm. Lewis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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East Lansing, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Washington: Robert Armstrong. Fair with no dust jacket. 1853. Cloth. Spine and board edges fading, bumped. Pages waterstained at edges throughout. Some foxing & ink. Bookplate fep. ; octavo; 414 pages pages .
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- Bookseller
- Curious Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8615
- Title
- Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made under Direction of the Navy Department
- Author
- Herndon, Wm. Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Robert Armstrong
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1853
- Keywords
- Amazon, Brazil
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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