LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS A Descriptive and Historical Account of their Mode of Construction and Organisation
by Adams, W H Davenport
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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SHREWSBURY, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK: T Nelson, 1875. New revised edition 1875, T Nelson, attractive tan cloth with gilt and black decorations (illustration of Eddystone Lighthouse to front cover), wear and rubbing to covers, dust and foxing to edges, spots of foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally text and illustrations are good plus.. Reprint. Hard Back. Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nigel Sustins Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006023
- Title
- LIGHTHOUSES AND LIGHTSHIPS A Descriptive and Historical Account of their Mode of Construction and Organisation
- Author
- Adams, W H Davenport
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- T Nelson
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- Adams Lighthouses Lightships MCL1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime;
Terms of Sale
Nigel Sustins Books
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About the Seller
Nigel Sustins Books
Biblio member since 2006
SHREWSBURY, Shropshire
About Nigel Sustins Books
We sell rare and second-hand books on a variety of subjects including: modern firsts, crime fiction, children's, art, topography, travel, illustrated.
Glossary
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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