LOST ISLANDS. THE STORY OF ISLANDS THAT HAVE VANISHED FROM NAUTICAL CHARTS. by Stommel, Henry - 1984

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Oversize light gray cloth binding, light wear, clean and tightly bound. Light foxing to end pages, o/w bright paper, clean and unmarked. Folded map in back of book. Light wear to dust jacket. Foreword by Rear-Admiral G. S. Ritchie. xxi, 146 pp & 1 folded map (67 x 117), with 11 b/w illust. & 23 charts (4 double page). A very nice copy. Ships media mail, extra charges for airmail.

Vancouver: U, British Colombia Press, 1984. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Bound in green cloth, with dw, 11 b/w illustrations, 23 maps, 2 folding charts in back pocket, 146pp.

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1984. Quarto, xxii, 146 pages with 11 plates and 25 maps. Cloth; a fine copy with the dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine.

Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1984. First Edition. A chronicle of poor navigation, misprints, falsification, optical illusion, wild whalers’ tales, and of a few real islands which rose and fell beneath the waves. Also contains two 19th century foldout maps in a special pocket at the rear of book. Fine in dust jacket.