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A Compendious History of Captain Cook's Last Voyage, Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in Which All the Interesting Transactions Are Recorded, Particularly Those Relative to His Unfortunate Death with a Map of the New Discoveries, and the Track of the Ships.
by James Cook; Edited by George Kearsley
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- Used - Good
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- 1784
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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First abridged edition. Foldout map of Cook's voyages to rear. Previous owners' names neatly to front pastedown and fly dated 1785 and 1889. Brown calf with tape repair to spine (see image). Heavy wear to edges. Tape reinforcement to front gutter. Acid burn to map at first centerfold and separation at folds. Nonetheless text remains clean with no further defacements.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vidas de los Navegantes, Conquistadores y Colonizadores Espanoles de los Siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII; Tomo 1 Navegantes con 46 Ilustraciones
by R. Majo Framis
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1957
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$170.00
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Vol. I only. Dark red morocco with significant gilt detailing. Inner dentelles gilt. Moire endpapers and a silk ribbon. All edges gilt. Previous owner's name to front fly and to title page (see image). Small abrasion to gilt to top edge. Overall an attractive clean copy.
6 x 7.25 in Item Price
$170.00
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Fate of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman, Captain Alexander Greig, Bound to Bombay: with an Account of Her Wreck, and the Suffering and Privations Endured by the Survivors, for Six Months, on the Desolate Islands of Inaccessible and Tristan D'Acunha, in Lat 37'29' South. Long 11'45' West.
by Alexander M. Greig
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1847
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$800.00
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Brown debossed cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Professional repairs to the head and tail of spine (see image one). Small piece of cloth is missing to rear board (see image two). Occasional foxing. No previous owners' names or other markings.
5 x 7.5 in Item Price
$800.00
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Mappe-Monde or Map of the World
by William Dampier
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1711-1723
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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An historic copper-plate engraving of the world from English explorer William Dampier's Nouveau voyage autour du monde which shows the route Dampier took on a circumnavigation. Depicts California as an island. Text in the original French.
7.5 x 12 inches. Item Price
$400.00
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The Giants of Patagonia: Captain Bourne's Account of his Captivity Amongst the Extraordinary Savages of Patagonia
by Captain Benjamin Franklin Bourne
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1853
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$220.00
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Scarce London edition. Quarter red morocco with gilt stamped title to spine. Contains the six original engravings: a frontispiece, a title vignette, and four full-page illustrations. Inscribed Y.R. Clapham, Austwick Hall to verso of frontispiece. Traces of illegible stamp to title page and page 1 of text.
4.3 x 6.7 inches. Item Price
$220.00
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Navegantes Guipuzcoanos por D. Ramon Seoane y Ferrer, Marquez de Seoane Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
by D. Ramon Seoane y Ferrer
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1908
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- Hardcover
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$200.00
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Original wraps bound in half green leather over cloth boards. Gilt particulars and raised bands to spine. Small bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown. Marbled endpapers. 33 hors texte plates. A nice clean copy. 8" - 9" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$200.00
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Colon y Canarias
by Alejandro Cioranescu
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- Used - Good+
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- First Edition
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- 1959
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$110.00
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In Spanish text. Printed paper wraps. Some foxing to pages throughout. Inscribed in blue ink to half-title page. 227 pp. 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Item Price
$110.00
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The Discovery of North America, A Critical, Documentary, and Historic Investigation,
by Henry Harrisse
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1892
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$1,450.00
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Quarter morocco over pictorial maroon cloth board with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt. Limited edition copy No. 91 of 380 issued, this being the English Toned Paper edition. Hors textes plates with tissue guards throughout. Black and white illustrations throughout text as well. Title continued: "to which are added a chronology of one hundred voyages westward, projected, attempted,… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,450.00
![[7 books bound as 1] 1) Lettre a M. Francois Salvolini, sur les Monumens Egyptiens; 2) Palestine Exploration Society, No. 2, Second Statement; 3) De Natura et Indole Linguae Popularis Aegyptiorum](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/808/499/1296499808.0.m.jpg)
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[7 books bound as 1] 1) Lettre a M. Francois Salvolini, sur les Monumens Egyptiens; 2) Palestine Exploration Society, No. 2, Second Statement; 3) De Natura et Indole Linguae Popularis Aegyptiorum
by Dr. Conradus Leemans; Palestine Exploration Society; Henrico (Heinrich) Brugsch; Heinrich Hubschmann; Dr. Martin Haug; Dr. Richard Lepsius
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1838; 1850; 1852; 1855; 1869; 18
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$300.00
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1) Dr. Conradus Leemans, Lettre a M. Francois Salvolini, sur les Monumens Egyptiens, portant des legendes royales, dans musees d'antiquites de leide, de londres, et dans quelques collections particulieres en angleterre, 1838. Chez H. W. Hazenberg et Comp., Leide. 160 pp., XXXII (32) plates
2) Palestine Exploration Society, No. 2, Second Statement, September 1873, Hackensack, N.J. 76 pp., [vi]
3) Henrico Brugsch,… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
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Plan charta tilhorande underrattelsen om Captn Cook sista uptackter
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- Used - Very Good
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- c. 1800
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$500.00
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A map showing the third Cook voyage(1776-1780). Paper : 23.7 x 25.7; plate 16 x 20.5 cm. Scale 1:60m. Degrees: N80 S00; E130 - E250. Minor stain to lower right (see image). Scarce. Item Price
$500.00
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Conversaciones de Ulloa con sus tres Hijos en Servicio de la Marina instructivas y curiosas, sobre las Navegaciones, y modo de Hacerlas, el Pilotage, y la Maniobra: Noticia de Vientos, Mares, Corrientes, Paxaros, Pescados y Anfibios y de los fenómenos que se observan en los mares en las redondez del Globo.
by Antonio Ulloa
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1795
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$900.00
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Original full vellum with inked title. Professional repair to fore edge. Sabin 97684. 263 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$900.00
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Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M. in the years 1835, '36, and '37; containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives: with a map of Oregon territory
by Rev. Samuel Parker
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- Used - Very Good
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- Third Edition
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- 1842
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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Brown cloth boards with decorative blind stamping to covers. Particulars in gilt to spine. Light wear to tail of spine and corners. Foxing to endpapers. Large foldout linen backed map of "Oregon Territory" to front of book. Repair to approximately six-inch tear near top right fold line of map. Some foxing to map. Otherwise, an exceptional, crisp copy without… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
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They All Discovered America. A rich, unconventional, and imaginative recounting of the explorers of the Western Hemisphere from the Phoenicians to Columbus. Illustrated with maps and photographs.
by Charles Michael Boland
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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- First Edition
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- 1961
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$125.00
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Grey cloth boards with particulars stamped to front cover and spine. Slight losses to edges of dust jacket which has since been protected in mylar wrapping. Stated First edition. A clean, crisp copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv, 384 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$125.00
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Voyage au Nord de l'Europe, particulierement a Copenhague, Stockholm, et Petersbourg. Traduit de l'Anglois d'apres la seconde edition.
by Nathaniel Wraxall
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1783
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$400.00
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Full brown calf. Gilt particulars to red morocco label to spine. Five decorative gilt bands to spine. A nice clean copy of this hard to find book without previous owners' names or other markings. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 262 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . Item Price
$400.00
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A Concise Account of a Voyage Made By Thomas Lord of New York, a Passenger in the Ship Minerva, in the Winter of 1818 Written By Himself in 1870 from Recollection Soley
by Thomas Lord
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1871
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$120.00
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Brown beveled cloth boards with gilt title to front cover. Lacks frontispiece. Light foxing throughout. Otherwise a nice, crisp copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 11 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . Item Price
$120.00
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A personal narrative of a journey to the source of the river Oxus: by the route of the Indus, Kabul, and Badakhshan, performed under the sanction of the Supreme Government of India, in the years 1836, 1837, and 1838
by Lieutenant John Wood
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1841
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$375.00
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Brown cloth. New black cloth spine with particulars in gilt. Date to spine incorrectly reads 1814. Inscription to front fly dated 1841. Folding map. ; tall; xv, 424, 12 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$375.00
Decouverte de l'Amerique par les Normands au X Siecle
by Gabriel Gravier
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1874
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- Hardcover
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$170.00
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Rouen, France: Esperance Cagniard. Very Good. 1874. Hardcover. 103 of only 150 copies. Original printed wraps bound in half brown morocco over paper covered boards. Gilt particulars and decoration to spine. Raised bands to spine. Decorative endpapers. Light foxing throughout. A nice copy.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxxix,250 pages; All shipments through USPS insured… Read more about this item Item Price
$170.00
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La Carabela Santa Maria. Apuntes para su reconstitucion compuestos por el Teniente de Navio, Piloto de dirigible, don Julio F. Guillen y Tato
by Julio F. Guillen y Tato
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- Used - Very Good
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- Limited Edition
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- 1927
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$350.00
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84 of only 120 copies. Original wraps bound in blue morocco with particulars to spine. Marbled slipcase. Marbled endpapers. Inscribed by editor: "A Guillermo Tamayo con los mejores deseos para el y para su Museo, con todo cordial afecto Julio Guillen Md. 4 ag 1953" ; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; [239] pages; Signed… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
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Islario General de todas las Islas del Mundo WITH Atlas
by Alonso de Santa Cruz & Antonio Blazquez
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- Used - Very Good
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- Limited Edition
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- 1918-20
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$750.00
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Scarce. 1/150 copies. Quarter brown morocco over brown cloth boards. Gilt particulars and raised bands to spine. Bumps to fore edge corners. Marbled endpapers. Small bookplate of previous owner to front pastedown. Bound with atlas volume consisting of 120 maps (recto only). A nice clean copy. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 559,120, iv… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa Estudio Historico por Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale De la Real Academia de la Historia
by Angel de Altolaguirre y Duvale
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1914
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- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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Half mottled spanish leather, gilt particulars and raised bands to spine. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 231 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. . Item Price
$100.00
