The Dobbins Life-Boat
by DOBBINS, D. P. [David Porter]
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
[Buffalo]: Art-Printing Works of Matthews, Northrup & Co., Office of the Buffalo Morning Express, 1886. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; 48pp; decoratively blind stamped front and back black cloth over board with title and life-boat silhouette gilt stamped to front cover; all edges red; decoratively patterned endpapers; facsimile author signature to presentation page; decorative head and tail piece to beginning and end of text; illustrated; discoloration to rear cover, light smudging of some pages, one pg protruding from binding but appears to be original; very good minus. In 14 WorldCat libraries but scarce except as a modern reprint. Published by the author to present his invention to "seafarers and professional life-savers" the boat which he felt was superior in design to others. The author was Superintendent of the Ninth District of the United States Life-saving Service, the forerunner to the U.S. Coast Guard. The author sets forth the several classes of boats in use and then, with illustrations, explains his "self-righting, self-bailing, and literally unsinkable" boat. Testimonials follow.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 696
- Title
- The Dobbins Life-Boat
- Author
- DOBBINS, D. P. [David Porter]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Art-Printing Works of Matthews, Northrup & Co., Office of the Buffalo Morning Express
- Place of Publication
- [Buffalo]
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- Seamanship, Life-Boat
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Thomaston, Maine
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- Worldcat
- Worldcat is a collaborative effort produced by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and supported and used by 72,000 libraries...
- 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...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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