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James Cook, Maritime Scientist, The Life Of Captain Cook.
by Stamp, Tom Stamp, Cordelia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/GD+/GD+
- ISBN 10
- 0905355040
- ISBN 13
- 9780905355047
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978* Publisher: Caedmon of Whitby.* Binding and cover condition: Pale grey-green cloth, no title to spine or face. Slight bumps & rubs. Edges sunned. GD+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped, showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no annotations or marks to text, slight offsetting to prelims, otherwise VG+.* Illustrations: Some b/w photos within text.* Pages: 144 pp. text. 18 pp. chronology, appendices, notes, bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Tom and Cordelia stamp have produced an unique biography of James Cook covering his formative influences and written as far as possible in his own words. They show Cook to be one of the leading seamen, navigatorss, explorers and cartographers of his era.* A NEAR VG+ copy with some minor faults reducing it to GD+*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5616
- Title
- James Cook, Maritime Scientist, The Life Of Captain Cook.
- Author
- Stamp, Tom Stamp, Cordelia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/GD+/GD+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0905355040
- ISBN 13
- 9780905355047
- Publisher
- Caedmon of Whitby
- Place of Publication
- Whitby, Yorks. 150
- Date Published
- 1978-03-31
- Keywords
- Biography: general, Maritime history, Discovery and exploration, Scientific expeditions, Cook, James, Biography & Autobiography / General, Biography, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
- Size
- 21.8 x 13.8 x 1.2 cm
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