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Steam and the sea
by Johnston, Paul Forsythe Salem, Peabody Museum of
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0875770738
- ISBN 13
- 9780875770734
- Seller
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About This Item
SOFTBACK ?UNCOMMON OUTSIDE THE USA,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1983* Publisher: Peabody Museum of Salem USA.* Binding and cover condition: Illustrated. Coloured print to soft card covers. No bumps, slight rubs & fading. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems little used if at all. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. FINE* Illustrations: Colour & b/w illustrations and plates within text. throughout.* Pages: 77 pp. text. xiii pp. appendices, bibliography & index at rear.* Product Description:- The Peabody Museum of Salem has one of the most extensive collections of steamship-related materials in the world. The collection comprises several different categories of resources: Paintings and drawings, more than 310 original works. Prints and posters, approximately 800 steamship engravings, broadsides, prints and posters from the eighteenth century to the present. Ship models, approximately 63 models of commercial steamships from 1813 to 1938. Plans, roughly 1000 sheets of steamship plans mostly for ships built in New England and the Northeast of America. Photographs, Approximately 200,000 photographic images of steamships of all types. Library Manuscripts and Memorabilia. This catalogue gives a taste of some of the above.* This is a NEAR FINE UN-READ copy of the 1st./1st. with some shelf wear reducing it to VG*
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3786
- Title
- Steam and the sea
- Author
- Johnston, Paul Forsythe Salem, Peabody Museum of
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0875770738
- ISBN 13
- 9780875770734
- Publisher
- Peabody Museum of Salem
- Place of Publication
- Salem, Mass. 90
- This edition first published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Steam-navigation -- History -- Exhibitions, Steamboats -- History -- Exhibitions, Peabody Museum of Salem -- Catalogs
- Size
- 26 cm.
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