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A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: Including an Account of Magindano, Sooloo, and Other Islands; And Illustrated with Thirty Copperplates. Performed in the Tartar Galley, Belonging to the Honourable East India Company, During the Years 1774, 1775, and 1776
by Thomas Forrest
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
'Second Edition with an Index'. Fair condition. Contemporary tree calf over boards, gilt stamped nautical designs and titles on spine. Front cover lacking; rear cover separating; spine leather intact is somewhat brittle with some chipping; text block is tightly bound; interior is generally clean and good to very good condition; some faint staining and some offsetting from plates. 33 plates present in total, including frontispiece and preliminary fold-out general map. Apart from offsetting, all plates in Good to Very Good condition but one fold-out has a 2 inch closed tear at fore edge. 4to (27 cm), 411 pp; index; illustrated. See, OCLC #220097721; Cox, ii, p. 301.
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- Bookseller
- Madden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19686
- Title
- A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: Including an Account of Magindano, Sooloo, and Other Islands; And Illustrated with Thirty Copperplates. Performed in the Tartar Galley, Belonging to the Honourable East India Company, During the Years 1774, 1775, and 1776
- Author
- Thomas Forrest
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed by G. Scott
- Date Published
- 1780
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- BRITAIN; BRITISH; ENGLISH; EXPLORATION; MAPPING; MAPS; ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY; IMPERIALISM; COLONIALISM; SPICES; MERCHANTS; SHIPPING; TRADE; SOUTH PACIFIC; PHILIPPINES; MALAYS; MALAYSIA; INDONESIA; BORNEA; SARAWAK; DUTCH; INDIGENOUS; TRIBES; CUSTOMS; WARFA
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About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Calf
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