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Building The Suez Canal
de Burchell, S. C
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
- Librería
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Modesto, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: American Heritage Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1966. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color and B&W illustrations and Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has several small edge nicks and tears, some rubbing and edge wear. "In 1858, Ferdinand de Lesseps formed the Suez Canal Company for the express purpose of building the canal. Construction of the canal lasted from 1859 to 1869. The canal officially opened on 17 November 1869. It offers vessels a direct route between the North Atlantic and northern Indian oceans via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans and reducing the journey distance from the Arabian Sea to London by approximately 8,900 kilometres (5,500 mi) , or 10 days at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) to 8 days at 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph). " (from Wikipedia) .
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Detalles
- Librería
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- A43520
- Título
- Building The Suez Canal
- Autor
- Burchell, S. C
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edición
- 1st Edition; 1st Printing
- Editorial
- American Heritage Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1966
- Palabras clave
- Science, S. C. Burchell, Suez Canal, Canals, Ships & Sailing, Engineering, Trade Routes, Egypt
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Science;
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Sobre el vendedor
S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Modesto, California
Sobre S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 30 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
