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A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD BY THE WAY OF THE GREAT SOUTH SEA
by Shelvocke, Capt. George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+
- Seller
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Mount Vernon, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for J. Senex. VG+. 1726. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 468 pages. Rebound in brown cloth with facsimile folding map frontispiece showing California as an island. With four engraved plates, two of them folding. Bound in full leather with slight rubbing along the edges and spine. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Easton's Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55929
- Title
- A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD BY THE WAY OF THE GREAT SOUTH SEA
- Author
- Shelvocke, Capt. George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for J. Senex
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1726
- Keywords
- Maritime, Exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Easton's Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2008
Mount Vernon, Washington
About Easton's Books, Inc.
We specialize in top quality used books in all categories and have been selling used books for 30 years.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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