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English Seamen in The Sixteenth Century
by James Anthony Froude
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1914 Book. Good. Blue Leather Boards. New Impression. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lectures delivered at Oxford, Easter terms 1893-4 regarding 16th century English sailors. Bound in full blue calf with giolt crest and border to top board, gilt design and title to spine with 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. 309pp. Bumping and rubbing to spine and corners and slightly foxed school prize certificate dated 1915 to endpaper, otherwise good copy..
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- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012678
- Title
- English Seamen in The Sixteenth Century
- Author
- James Anthony Froude
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- New Impression
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
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- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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