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The Romance of Exploration and Emergency First-Aid from Stanley to Byrd
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1934. First Edition. Small Octavo. Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. 160pp. Illustrated catalogue in color and in black and white, with photographs of many famous explorers, their signatures in facsimile, and short sketches of their first-aid supplies, and includes emergency first aid kits for the home, mine, factory, camp ,garage, etc. provided exclusively by the Burroughs Wellcome Company. A very nice copy bound in pictorial gilt red cloth lettered in gilt, spine plain, top edge gilt, silver endpapers with raised stars,
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000509
- Title
- The Romance of Exploration and Emergency First-Aid from Stanley to Byrd
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Burroughs Wellcome & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Africa, North Pole, South Pole, Chicago Century of Progress Exposition First Aid Catalogue
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medical; Travel and Exploration;
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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