Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
by Lieut. Sherard. Osborn
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: George P. Putnam, 1852, 1852. Hardcover. Good. 10mo. 216 pp. Publishers brown cloth boards. Gilt spine. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Sunning to spine and edges of rear board. Chipping and loss to head of spine. Scattered foxing. Slight toning. Ownership inked on front pastedown. Arctic Bib. 12899. Gagnon I 2594. Sabin 57760. cfTPL 3193-94.
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- SequiturBooks (US)
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- Title
- Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
- Author
- Lieut. Sherard. Osborn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: George P. Putnam, 1852
- Date Published
- 1852
- Weight
- 0.88 lbs
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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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- 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....