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Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena
by Cornish, Vaughan; Harold Jeffreys (additional notes)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps, labels and markings. Marginalia on front endpaper. Rubbing to spine and edges of boards.; xv, [1 (blank)], 164 pages + frontispiece + 25 plate leaves. 2 in-text illustrations. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. Illustrations include: Aeolian Sand Waves, Helwan, Egypt; The Sand Pits called Fuljes, Helwas, Egypt; The Peak of a Sand Dune, Ismailia, Egypt; Travelling Snow Waves, near Montreal; "Current Mark" on a Sand Bank, Averdovey; Intersecting Tidal Sand Waves, Dun Sands, River Severn; Roll Waves, looking down stream, The Grunnbach, Merligen; The Trent Bore, near Gainsborough, Lincs.) ; 8vo .
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- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 25742
- Title
- Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena
- Author
- Cornish, Vaughan; Harold Jeffreys (additional notes)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1934
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- First Edition
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- Leaves
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Marginalia
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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