Arctic Rovings: Or, The Adventures Of A New Bedford Boy On Sea And Land 1861
by Hall, Daniel Weston
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
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Boston: Abel Tompkins. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1860]. Hardcover. 171, [4] pages; 12mo, original ornamental and pictorial blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt. Heqad and foot of spine lightly worn, Frontispiece. Internally generally clean. Early ink ownership on front blank, modern ink annotation on verso of frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements in the rear. A youth's advenures as a mariner touchng on Whaling, Hawaii and the Arctic. Has a chapter titled "Peep at the Whale Fisheries." Sabin 29745. Appendix. .
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- Title
- Arctic Rovings: Or, The Adventures Of A New Bedford Boy On Sea And Land 1861
- Author
- Hall, Daniel Weston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Abel Tompkins
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- [1860]
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