LIFE OF ADMIRAL DEWEY AND THE CONQUEST OF THE PHILIPPINES: Containing a Complete and Glowing Account of the Grand Achievements of the Hero of Manila; His Ancestry and Early Life; His Brilliant Career in the Great Civil War; His Famous Victory...
by Young, Louis Stanley/Northrop, Henry Davenport
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia and Chicago: P. W. Ziegler & Company (1899) 552 pp. Original blue pictorial cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine a bit sunned w/ light fraying to ends. Edges of text block marbled. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; drawing of a boat on front endpaper. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ a color frontispiece, b/w maps, and a galaxy of phototype engravings.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 15213
- Title
- LIFE OF ADMIRAL DEWEY AND THE CONQUEST OF THE PHILIPPINES: Containing a Complete and Glowing Account of the Grand Achievements of the Hero of Manila; His Ancestry and Early Life; His Brilliant Career in the Great Civil War; His Famous Victory...
- Author
- Young, Louis Stanley/Northrop, Henry Davenport
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- P. W. Ziegler & Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and Chicago
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY DEWEY GEORGE 1837 1917 ADMIRALS U. S. NAVY NAVAL NAUTICAL MARITIME MILITARY HISTORY CIVIL WAR 1861 1865 SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898 BATTLE MANILA BAY 1898 PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINE AMERICAN WAR 1899 1902 WARFARE AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES WORLD H
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical; Military - Spanish-American War;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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