Published by Robert Carter & Brothers, New York, 1856
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Early reprint. 98pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with the title in gilt on the spine, and embossed designs on the boards. Ex-library (The People's Circulating Library), with neat markings to the preliminary pages. The cloth at the spine ends is chipped, and the boards are moderately rubbed. The book is very sturdy. An 1840s shipwreck survival story, originally published in Edinburgh in 1845.
Published by Stereotyped By Ballantyne & Co. Edinburgh and Published By J. B. Brechin. Dundee, 1860
US$ 1,737.61
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFull Leather. Condition: Near Very Good. Book measures 33x26.cm. No date, circa 1860, Collation xx, 612, 197, [68]pp, 16 colured plates, 7 coloured maps. Bound in full very ornate leather, with raised bands, ornate gilt tooling, full gilt edges, inner dentells, ornate endpapers. Rebacked retaining the original spine, leather rubbed, minor abrasion wear. Overally a very good binding. Internally, spotting to endpapers, light stain line along top section of plates. Pages and plates in good clean condition. A nice copy, in a unique unsigned binding. F Size: Quarto.