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The English at the North Pole.: With 129 Illustrations by Riou.
de VERNE, Jules
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London: George Routledge and Sons,, 1875. The British debut of Captain Hatteras First edition in English. It prints Part I of the adventure novel first published as Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras (1864). Part II was published in English separately as The Field of Ice (1875). Routledge issued the present edition in many binding variants and under two titles, the other being A Journey to the North Pole. These are all dated 1875 and there is no established priority. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover pictorially blocked with North Pole scenes in gilt and black, rear cover ruled in blind, coated endpapers, edges gilt. Frontispiece, title page vignette, 24 wood-engraved plates, many engravings in the text. Ticket of Swedish bookshop named after Nathan Jacob Gumpert (1805-1854), Gothenburg, on front pastedown. Bright binding with cocked spine, bumped ends, and slight corner wear, book block a little shaken, half-title and frontispiece carefully reinserted, contents clean. A very good copy.
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- The English at the North Pole.
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- VERNE, Jules
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- London: George Routledge and Sons,
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- 1875
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Peter Harrington
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Sobre Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
