Catalogue of the Library of the National Maritime Museum. Volume 1. Voyages and Travel
by National Maritime Museum
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Previous owner's small stamp on fore-edges. Good in rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper. Maps at end slightly creased
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, first edition, 1968. Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to,. xi, 403, [1] pp, 8 plates, 2 maps. 1204 entries. The first volume of the superb bibliographical catalogue of the famous library of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. Arranged geographically, sub-arranged chronologically. Contents include : Introduction; Collective voyages; Circumnavigations; Africa; America; East Indies; Europe and Mediterranean; Far East; Pacific; Polar: Arctic; Polar: Antarctic; General voyages; General index; Index of ships. Previous owner's small stamp on fore-edges. Good in rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper. Maps at end slightly creased.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-10927
- Title
- Catalogue of the Library of the National Maritime Museum. Volume 1. Voyages and Travel
- Author
- National Maritime Museum
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to,
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's small stamp on fore-edges. Good in rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper. Maps at end slightly creased
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, first edition, 1968
- Date Published
- 1968
- Pages
- xi, 403, [1] pp, 8 plates, 2 maps
- Keywords
- Great Britain British military naval history national maritime museum atlases maps cartography geography voyages travel navy exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Naval & Maritime (Bibliographies);
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Wykeham Books
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LONDON, Aberdeen
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