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COOLIE SHIPS AND OIL SAILERS
by LUBBOCK, Basil
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Glasgow: Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Blue cloth with gilt fr. & sp. lettering, virtually pristine. f/piece + 180, 55 ills on 38 plates ex-pagination; tanning patches verso half-title, and lightly to edges of first few leaves, tanning spots to text-block edges, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked. The first chapter is devoted to the slave trade from Elizabethan times to mid-19th century and very informative. But for the tanning would have rated this Fine. A little bonus is a slipped in publishers bookmark (' Nautical Publishers since 1860') with selected list of books on sail and verso headed 'Abstract Log', 'Log Your Notes on thiis Bookmark' plus small ill. of 3 mast sailing ship. 19 cm x 25 cm
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013655
- Title
- COOLIE SHIPS AND OIL SAILERS
- Author
- LUBBOCK, Basil
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Brown, Son and Ferguson
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1955
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- sailing ships nautical history maritime history slave trade slavery
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- Verso
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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