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The Voyage of the Challenger: The Atlantic
by Thomson Sir. C. Wyville
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition
- Seller
-
Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. 2 volumes in publsher's green cloth. Modest wear at edges and corners, sspotting, both slightly shaken, scattered foxing and age toning internally, heavy in a few spots, some toning to a few plate margins. 168 in text illustrations, 42 plates many folding. Frontis map in volume 2 torn at the folds but complete, another folding map with a tear in the gutter This is the first US edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Ships & the Sea; Travel & Places. Inventory No: 046766.
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- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 046766
- Title
- The Voyage of the Challenger: The Atlantic
- Author
- Thomson Sir. C. Wyville
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- Ships & the Sea; Travel & Places. NOISBN
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pazzo Books
Returns accepted for any reason within 30 days of shipment - full refund less shipping. If we have made a mistake, we will pay shipping both ways. Institutions billed according to their requirements.
About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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