Beyond the Capes Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the "Challenger", 1776-1877
by Dodge, Ernest S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0575013222
- ISBN 13
- 9780575013223
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. First Edition; Review Copy. Hardcover. 0575013222 . Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, (1971). First Edition, Review Copy, with slip. 8vo. 429pp, Index, Bibliography. Color frontis, several full-page illustrations, endpaper map. Blue cloth, near fine. Dj spine panel moderately soiled and worn. From dj: "During the hundred years following the death his [Cook] death, the Pacific was the setting for countless new voyages of exploration - expeditions that resulted in major geographic discoveries, in the charting of tens of thousands of miles of coast line, and in the collection of scientific and cultural data of utmost importance."; Illustrations, map; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 429 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5883
- Title
- Beyond the Capes Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the "Challenger", 1776-1877
- Author
- Dodge, Ernest S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Review Copy
- ISBN 10
- 0575013222
- ISBN 13
- 9780575013223
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston & Toronto
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- 0575013222, Exploration, Pacific, Travel
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