A NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN JAMES COOK: With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods
by Kippis, A
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates (No Date) 424+8 pp. Original decorative purple cloth covers, lightly soiled and rubbed. Corners bumped; light fraying to spine ends. Ex-library w/ minimal expected markings. Edges of leaves age toned. Illust. w/ a b/w frontispiece.. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Seller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 23312WHEUR
- Title
- A NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN JAMES COOK: With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods
- Author
- Kippis, A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- Porter & Coates
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Keywords
- WORLD HISTORY TRAVEL EUROPE GREAT BRITAIN BIOGRAPHY COOK JAMES 1728 1779 CAPTAINS ENGLISH EXPLORERS EXPLORATION DISCOVERY VOYAGES AROUND THE WORLD PACIFIC AREA NAUTICAL HISTORY MARITIME NONFICTION GENERAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical; Exploration;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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