THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT: CONTAINING THE COURSES AND DISTANCES BETWEEN THE PRINCIPLE HARBOURS, CAPES AND HEADLANDS, FROM PASSAMAQUODDY, THROUGH THE GULPH OF FLORIDA; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR SAILING...
by (Capt.) Lawrence Furlong
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt et al, 1809. sixth edition. Full leather. Good. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. xii, 389 pp., plus 3 pgs of Newburyport nautical adverts. Full contemporary brown calf. All 15 map plates present. Sixth edition, as stated, 1809. Lacks ffep. Condition is GOOD ; front board deatched but present. The calf of the front is chipped with loss at edges. Spine and binding of text split at pg. 186, with a little looseness to pags immediately surrounding. Front pastedown shows a water stain but title pg has just a faint one, text does not show water stains but several plates do. Some plates have mild foxing as well, but overall they are quite clean and the folds good - Sable Island chart has darkest water staining, the Chesapeake fold-out has a little over-folding to the central one. Rear endpapers have more foxing. Naut. RGR.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
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- Title
- THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT: CONTAINING THE COURSES AND DISTANCES BETWEEN THE PRINCIPLE HARBOURS, CAPES AND HEADLANDS, FROM PASSAMAQUODDY, THROUGH THE GULPH OF FLORIDA; WITH DIRECTIONS FOR SAILING...
- Author
- (Capt.) Lawrence Furlong
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- sixth edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edmund M. Blunt et al
- Place of Publication
- Newburyport
- Date Published
- 1809
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....