The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
by Osler, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1835. Hardcover. Very Good +. xvi, 448 p.: frontispiece and 5 additional leaves of plates (including 1 folded map); 23 cm. Contemporary full polished calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Black leather label in second spine compartment with gilt-tooled title: Life of Ld. Exmouth. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments and on raised bands. Double gilt-ruled borders on both boards; gilt-tooled decoration on board edges and turn-ins. All page edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Brown ribbon bookmark (separated from binding). The frontispiece portrait of Admiral Viscount Exmouth was engraved by W. Finden from a painting by W. Owen. The life of Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833), a British naval officer who fought during the American Revolution (when he was taken prisoner at Saratoga), the French Revolutionary wars, and the Napoleonic wars. He is familiar to fans of C. S. Forester's Captain Horation Hornblower series. In Very Good+ Condition: edges lightly rubbed; loss of less than 1 cm. of leather at head of spine; foxing on plates and minimally on facing pages of text; otherwise clean and tight. A very attractive copy of this military biography.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003186
- Title
- The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
- Author
- Osler, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1835
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; Militaria; European History; Maps;
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Good+
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- Leaves
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- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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