The Whaling Directory of the United States in 1869, with the Signals of the Fleet Lithographed in Colours
by Taber Bros
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New Bedford: Taber Bros., 1869, . First Edition. Hardback. Near Fine/No Jacket. First edition 1869 A rare work "The Whaling Directory of the United States in 1869, with the Signals of the Fleet Lithographed in Colours." New Bedford, Taber Bros., 1869, octavo, [4], 9-46, [2] pp, seven double-sided plates with hand-colouring recto and verso, double sided advert leaf, original cloth professionally and very neatly re-backed.
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- Bookseller
- finecopy ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110271
- Title
- The Whaling Directory of the United States in 1869, with the Signals of the Fleet Lithographed in Colours
- Author
- Taber Bros
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New Bedford: Taber Bros., 1869,
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Westbury, Wiltshire
About finecopy ltd
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Glossary
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- Re-backed
- Describes a book that has had the material covering the spine replaced or joints mended.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.