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Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including researches and discoveries on the east coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool
de Scoresby, William Junior
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Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd. 1823. Octavo Size. Good++ condition. Half leather, marbled boards, title patch to top of spine. Bookplate to front paste-down. Leather lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Rear board has a small chip to leading edge. Plate 1 - the general map, is a copy (sympathetically copied) tipped in as original plate torn out. All other maps/plates are present and original. Some foxing throughout. A very clean, tight copy of this important work. 472 pages. An account of a voyage in which several weeks were spent in whaling and in the exploration of the Scoresby Sound region, in a search for Eskimo settlements and in quest of magnetic and other scientific observations. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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- Adelaide Booksellers
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- BIB202791
- Título
- Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including researches and discoveries on the east coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool
- Autor
- Scoresby, William Junior
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado -
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Archibald Constable & Co Ltd
- Lugar de publicación
- Edinburgh
- Fecha de publicación
- 1823
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- Catálogos del vendedor
- Nautical;
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Adelaide Booksellers
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Sobre Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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- Octavo
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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