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MEMOIRS OF CELEBRATED NAVAL COMMANDERS Illustrated by Engravings from Original Pictures in the Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital
de Locker, Edward Hawke
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London; Harding and Lepard, 1832., 1832. Hardcover. Quarto. Twenty engraved plates with tissue guards (complete), sixteen of which are portraits of the commanders including Admiral Byng and Captain Cook and four of which are historic scenes including the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the Battle of the Nile. Each plate has a separately paginated chapter to accompany it. Book Condition: Very Good. Half calf ; original spine laid down over modern leather with patterned paper-covered boards. Five raised bands, gilt stamped titles and decoration, aeg. Leather a little rubbed to extremities but a sound tight copy. Sporadic foxing, heaviest to plate edges; no annotation or inscriptions. Scarce.
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- Keel Row Books
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- 895
- Título
- MEMOIRS OF CELEBRATED NAVAL COMMANDERS Illustrated by Engravings from Original Pictures in the Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital
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- Locker, Edward Hawke
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- London; Harding and Lepard, 1832.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1832
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- Maritime
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Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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....
