A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean : Undertaken By the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : Performed Under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780. Volume One
by James Cook
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Philadelphia : Robert Desilver, 1818-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. I-XXXV, 37-445p. Volume I only of 2. Bound in contemporary full leather. Gilt lettering to red spine label. Good binding and cover. Minor rubbing to boards. 2 stains to back board leather. Crack to head of spine. Pages tanned with foxing throughout. All plates (30) present. Contemporary owners initials in ink to side page end. Tanning and slight foxing to page ends. Sabin 16259; Evans 30274
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- A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean : Undertaken By the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : Performed Under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780. Volume One
- Author
- James Cook
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Good
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- Philadelphia : Robert Desilver
- Date Published
- 1818-01-01
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- 0.00 lbs
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Rubbing
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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...
- 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...