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Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since November 8, 2004
6 x 9 in. xix, 724 pp, appendix, plus advert. Full contemporary calf with red calf spine label. 17 plates, many folding, all present. Condition is VERY GOOD ; joints strong with no cracks. Covers clean with usual wear to corners and spine ends. Spine, just above label, has a small pulled nick. Binding tight. Book has a faint water stain throughout, to the lower right portions of text and plates. Plates are quite good, some with a bit of foxing or a tiny fold tear - the latter two large fold-outs have been misfolded a bit to create some sticking out from the text, the plate with Sapello Island has a small, partly open tear on one fold. Ffep has "John Steward(?) Book" in a contemporary hand, sepia ink. Front pastedown has three round spots, some early orange paper? Text overall very clean and readable. We care for all calf bindings with Talas products. Naut. RGR. Seller Inventory # 51938
Title: (BLUNT'S) THE AMERICAN COASTAL PILOT; ...
Publisher: Edmund and George W. Blunt, New York
Publication Date: 1837
Binding: Full leather
Condition: Very good
Edition: thirteenth edition, improved.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Full leather. Condition: Good. twentieth edition. 6 x 10 in. 11, 841 pp, plus advert. Full contemporary brown calf with red calf spine label. 4 folding charts plus frontis chart. Condition is GOOD ; both joints cracked, front cover held on by single lower main thread, rear holding very well. Spine has a minor vertical surface crack but is fine, the label is a little age-crinkled but entire. First few pgs of text, up to title pg., are detached but held by the front binding. Front pastedown has a large label from a nautical store in Portland, Maine. Covers otherwise have normal wear and are clean. Text is clean and bright. All fold-out plates very good except the Gulf Stream, which has a small closed tear from the binding end. Endpapers have a bit of foxing. We care for all calf bindings with Talas formula. Naut. RGR. Seller Inventory # 51937
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