WHALE SHIPS AND WHALING
by Dow, George Francis
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Yaxley, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Salem MA: Salem Marine Research Society, 1925. xi, 446pp. 40 pages of text and 207 plates. Introduction by Frank Wood. Publication No. 10. A lovely copy, trifle sunned to the spine and a little foxing to the fore-edge, not affecting margins. A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF WHALING DURING THREE CENTURIES. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE WHALE FISHERY IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND. 1st edition. Green Buckram, Gilt. Fine. large 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- N167
- Title
- WHALE SHIPS AND WHALING
- Author
- Dow, George Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Salem Marine Research Society
- Place of Publication
- Salem MA
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- large 8vo
- Keywords
- naval, maritime, shipping, naval architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical & Maritime;
Terms of Sale
Thomas Rare Books
7 day return if mis-described
About the Seller
Thomas Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Yaxley, Suffolk
About Thomas Rare Books
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- New
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- Sunned
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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....