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A Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures, and Sufferings By Shipwreck & Imprisonment, of Donald Campbell, Esq. Of Barbeck. With the Singular Humors of His Tartar Guide Hassan Artaz. Comprising The Occurrences of Four Years, and Five Days...
by Campbell, Donald
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
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About This Item
New York: L. Nichols & Co. For Evert Duyckinck, 1801. Third American Edition . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 359pp. Contemporary calf, leather spine label, text is tanned and lightly foxed throughout, endpapers, frontispiece and title page partially dampstained, clean tears to 4 or 5 pages with no loss of text. Despite the above shortcomings, the text is complete and very readable, and the binding is tight. Voyage and adventures as told by the author in a series of letters to his son.
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- Title
- A Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures, and Sufferings By Shipwreck & Imprisonment, of Donald Campbell, Esq. Of Barbeck. With the Singular Humors of His Tartar Guide Hassan Artaz. Comprising The Occurrences of Four Years, and Five Days...
- Author
- Campbell, Donald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third American Edition
- Publisher
- L. Nichols & Co. For Evert Duyckinck
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1801
- Pages
- 359
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Tartars India Baghdad Turkey Brussels
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- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Fair
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
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