Twenty Years Before the Mast with the More Thrilling Scenes and Incidents While Circumnavigating the Globe Under the Command of the Late Admiral Charles Wilkes 1838 - 1842
by Erskine, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
R.R. Donnelley & Sons/ the Lakeside Press, 2006 liv, 382 pp with four maps plus color and B&W illustrations throughout. An account of theU.S. Exploring Expedition whose mission it was to explore the Pacific Ocean pole to pole and to plant the American flag around the world. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge of pages gilt. Green cloth boards with gold-stamped titles are bright and undamaged. # 001870. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001870
- Title
- Twenty Years Before the Mast with the More Thrilling Scenes and Incidents While Circumnavigating the Globe Under the Command of the Late Admiral Charles Wilkes 1838 - 1842
- Author
- Erskine, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- R.R. Donnelley & Sons/ the Lakeside Press
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic/Antarctic;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.