The American Coast Pilot; containing directions for the principal harbors, capes, and headlands, on the Coast of North and part of South America (...). Nineteenth Edition
by Blunt, Edmund M
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Dover, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
New York: Edmund and George W. Blunt, Publisher, 1863. Full Leather. Good/No Jacket. June, 1863. Full calf leather. 836 pp., plus ads. 4 fold out maps/charts present, plus a few small in text illustrations. With a frontispiece map. The nineteenth edition of this exhaustive description of the Atlantic coast of North America and the northern part of South America, including islands in the Caribbean. An appendix glued to the reverse of the preface page, dated to July of 1863. GOOD condition. Heavy scuffing and bumping to the extremities and spine, with minor to moderate scuffing to the covers themselves. Minor soiling to the covers. Uneven darkening and fading. Hinges cracked along the exterior and beginning to separate, making the covers somewhat tenuously attached to the text block. Text block solid, with minor to moderate scattered foxing throughout. Minor scattered soiling and staining. A few pages with large dog-ear creases.
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- Mare Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008787
- Title
- The American Coast Pilot; containing directions for the principal harbors, capes, and headlands, on the Coast of North and part of South America (...). Nineteenth Edition
- Author
- Blunt, Edmund M
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Edmund and George W. Blunt, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1863
- Keywords
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- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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- Jacket
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- Cracked
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- Spine
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