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The Ocean, the River, and the Shore: Part I: Navigaition
by Willcock, J.W. & A. Willcock
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. Scarce original edition of this book on the history of navigation and the British Law of the Sea; including salvage, slave trade, smuggling, laws of war, prizes. Published during the American Civil War and no doubt of interest to British mariners involved with Rebel blockade runners. All that wasa published of a larger planned set. Hardcover, full green cloth with gilt lettering and blind-stamped decoration. General wear, some loss to spine ends, stains from old tape, hinges tender with splits, pencil name & date on free endsheet, some foxing; some sections unopened. Text clean; xii, 471 pages; index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 997780
- Title
- The Ocean, the River, and the Shore: Part I: Navigaition
- Author
- Willcock, J.W. & A. Willcock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1863
- Keywords
- Navigation, Maritime History, War, Military History, Piracy, Letters of Marque, History of Law, Salvage, Smuggling, Slave Trade
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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