The Voyage of the "Vivian": to the North Pole and Beyond.
by Knox, Thomas W
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper, 1885.. 8vo. 297 pp. Very Good, Grey Pictorial Cloth with sun-fading, stains, rubbing & edge wear; shelf wear; spine somewhat slanted; a few pages & edges of text block with minor stains. Provenance: John Ruyle; signed, dated inscription to previous owner inked on FFEP. Illustrations, including maps on end papers, chromolithograph frontispiece with tissue guard, and over 160 steel engravings.
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- Bookseller
- Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15-3755
- Title
- The Voyage of the "Vivian": to the North Pole and Beyond.
- Author
- Knox, Thomas W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Harper, 1885.
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- Literature & Linguistics;
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Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
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San Francisco, California
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