(BLUNT'S) THE AMERICAN COASTAL PILOT; CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR THEPRINCIPLE HARBORS, CAPES, AND HEADLANDS, ON THE COAST OF NORTH AND PART OF SOUTH AMERICA...
by Edmund M. Blunt
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Edmund and George W. Blunt, 1864. twentieth edition. Full leather. Good. 6 x 10 in. 11, 841 pp, plus advert. Full contemporary brown calf with red calf spine label. 4 folding charts plus frontis chart. Condition is GOOD ; both joints cracked, front cover held on by single lower main thread, rear holding very well. Spine has a minor vertical surface crack but is fine, the label is a little age-crinkled but entire. First few pgs of text, up to title pg., are detached but held by the front binding. Front pastedown has a large label from a nautical store in Portland, Maine. Covers otherwise have normal wear and are clean. Text is clean and bright. All fold-out plates very good except the Gulf Stream, which has a small closed tear from the binding end. Endpapers have a bit of foxing. We care for all calf bindings with Talas formula. Naut. RGR.
Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51937
- Title
- (BLUNT'S) THE AMERICAN COASTAL PILOT; CONTAINING DIRECTIONS FOR THEPRINCIPLE HARBORS, CAPES, AND HEADLANDS, ON THE COAST OF NORTH AND PART OF SOUTH AMERICA...
- Author
- Edmund M. Blunt
- Format/Binding
- Full leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- twentieth edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edmund and George W. Blunt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1864
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
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Blue Hill, Maine
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...