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Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on Board the D.G.S. Neptune 1903-1904
by Low, A.P
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Ottawa: Government Printing Office, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo. [2], vii-xvii, [1], 1-355, [1] pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece, several plates and in-text illustrations, a chart, and with a folding map in the rear pocket of the volume. Both hinges cracked and the binding shaken, lacks the endpapers and the half-title page. The first several leaves have a dampspot on their bottom margin.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000013675
- Title
- Report on the Dominion Government Expedition to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Islands on Board the D.G.S. Neptune 1903-1904
- Author
- Low, A.P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Date Published
- 1906
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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