Etchinigs of a Whaling Cruise, With Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar, to which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery, its Past and Present Condition
by Browne, J. Ross
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1846. First edition. Cloth. Fair. Rebound using original covers. 8vo, 580 pp., steel and wood engravings. Melville source. Covers worn, dampstain to endpapers and numrous pages including some plates, previous owner name roughly effaced from front blank, foxing throughout.
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- Bookseller
- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5030
- Title
- Etchinigs of a Whaling Cruise, With Notes of a Sojourn on the Island of Zanzibar, to which is Appended a Brief History of the Whale Fishery, its Past and Present Condition
- Author
- Browne, J. Ross
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1846
- Keywords
- Herman Melville, Whaling , Herman Melville , , ,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration; Herman Melville;
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Fair
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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.