A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence 0f Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood
by G. L. Newnham collingwood, Esq
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
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About This Item
New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1829. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. B/w Fold Out Map. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First American Edition from the fourth London Edition. Rebound in brown library buckram, 8vo, 422pp. A good reading/reference copy of this collection of writings and letters by Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood notable as a partner with Lord Nelson in several of the British victories of the Napoleonic Wars. (fading, wear and dulling to outer extremities, toning and browning to page edges, light foxing throughout, staining to text block at lower corneraffecting the margin at corner, couple of spot stains to foredge, foxing and toning to fold out frontis chart with staining to lower margin of fold-out).
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- Bookseller
- Vashon Island Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0849361
- Title
- A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence 0f Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood
- Author
- G. L. Newnham collingwood, Esq
- Illustrator
- B/w Fold Out Map
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- G. & C. & H. Carvill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1829
- Keywords
- spel2015 A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence 0f Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- G
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- 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...