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A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, IN THE YEARS MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV
by ANSON, GEORGE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- General Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: John and Paul Knapton, 1748. Rebacked with new red leather spine labels. New endpapers front and rear. Corners rubbed, Small book-plate tipped-in front. Three large fold-out maps present in in good condition with some light peripheral browning. Text clean throughout. Small area of old ink droplets botton of p.255. 548pp. Errata note at end of Introduction. Printed in the same year as the quarto first edition. See Sabin 1629. . Second Edition. Full Brown Calf. General Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014615
- Title
- A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, IN THE YEARS MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV
- Author
- ANSON, GEORGE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - General Moderate Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- John and Paul Knapton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1748
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Exploration, Maps, Voyages
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Rebacked
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- New
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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...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Quarto
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