Beyond the Capes. Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger [1776-1877]
by Dodge, Ernest S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0575013222
- ISBN 13
- 9780575013223
- Seller
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1971. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Colour frontispiece. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 429 pages. Looks at a forgotten century of Pacific exploration. Included are full accounts of the voyages of Marion du Fresne, La Perouse, Captain Bligh, John Hunter, James Wilson, Matthew Flinders, Baudin, Admiral von Krusenstern, Kotzebue, Dumont D'Urville, Charles Wilkes, and dozens of other leser-known expeditions. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB322494
- Title
- Beyond the Capes. Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger [1776-1877]
- Author
- Dodge, Ernest S
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0575013222
- ISBN 13
- 9780575013223
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical; History-Pacific;
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...