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A Manual of Marine Engineering
by A. E. Seaton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Charles Griffin & Company, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A Manual of Marine Engineering Comprising The Designing Construction and Working of Marine Machinery. with numerous tables and illustrations reduced from drawings. Thirteenth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. published by Charles Griffin London and D. Van Nostrand New York. 585 pages including index. Book is 8.75 inches in height by 5.75 inches in width, period beveled edge with triple window panel borders on boards, Book is Very Good, publisher's maroon pebbled cloth shows light edge, corner wear as well as to head and heel of spine, no card board showing, previous owner name on version of free page as well as previous owner name removed on free page, front hinge repaired. Book a bit shaken but complete and text and illustrations near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003522
- Title
- A Manual of Marine Engineering
- Author
- A. E. Seaton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Griffin & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Marine Engineering, Nautical Engineering
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Jacket
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- New
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- Pebbled
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- Spine
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- Beveled
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Fine
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