REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY IN RELATION TO ARMORED VESSELS
by U. S. Navy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
-
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
Washington:Government Printing Office, 1864. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Washington:Government Printing Office. 1864. 607pp. Illustrated with line drawings and fold-outs. Hardcover. Brown pebbled boards lightly soiled and shelf-worn. Gilt on spine faded. Page xi/xii was jammed with resulting small tear in margin. Otherwise, aside from a bit of age toning scattered throughout, a very good, clean copy. Binding is tight and hinges intact.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23048
- Title
- REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY IN RELATION TO ARMORED VESSELS
- Author
- U. S. Navy
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Washington:Government Printing Office
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
- NAVY; NAVAL; ARMORED VESSELS;
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
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About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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