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Ferdinand Magellan
by WELCH, Ronald
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
UK: Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. William Stobbs. Hardback: map endpapers, illustrations by WILLIAM STOBBS, dj (price unclipped), some wear on the edges, tear on top back edge and a few marks, spine is faded, book is bound in orange cloth, covers are slightly bowed and edges are a little rubbed, some foredge and internal foxing, 2 'Red Cross' stamps on the half title, one page corner creased, still g. 8vo, 178pp. A biography of the man who led the first voyage around the world from 1519 to 1522.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mad Hatter Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20A27
- Title
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Author
- WELCH, Ronald
- Illustrator
- William Stobbs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Children's & Young Adult, Biography, Exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Non Fiction;
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About the Seller
Mad Hatter Books
Biblio member since 2006
Auckland
About Mad Hatter Books
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