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Cook's Voyages of Discovery
by [COOK, James]. BARROW, John, editor
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
Thick Octavo. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour illustrations by John Williamson; fold-out facsimile. Original pictorial red cloth stamped in black, brown, white, yellow and red with a native man running on the beach holding a shield and spine with a vignette of a sailing ship. Very good. 417 pages + 8 page publisher's advertisements at end. No bookplates. Printed by Neill and Company, Limited, Edinburgh.
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- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 229052
- Title
- Cook's Voyages of Discovery
- Author
- [COOK, James]. BARROW, John, editor
- Illustrator
- John Williamson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Pages
- 417
- Size
- Thick Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Vignette
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Facsimile
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