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1876. DAVIS, Rear-Admiral C. H., ed. G. M. ROBESON, Secretary of the Navy. NARRATIVE OF THE NORTH POLAR EXPEDITION. U.S. SHIP POLARIS, CAPTAIN CHARLES FRANCIS HALL COMMANDING. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Davis on front flyleaf, undated. 696 pp. 4to., red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth stained, shelfworn at corners and spine with shallow chipping/fraying at heel and crown. Gilt vignette of dogsled team on front cover bright. Overopened at title page, which is partially detached. Plates: two steel engraving frontispieces, with light foxing; 38 wood engravings plus numerous tail-pieces; two photolithographs (tinted); six maps. Laid in at the end is a detached folding spherical map (extraneous origin) in b/w, "The Arctic Regions|Comprising the Most Recent Explorations of Robert F. Peary, Fridtjof Nansen and F. Jackson|by Prof. Angelo Heilprin| (Drawn by J. Ross)|The Geographical Society of Philadelphia|1897." This map is in good…
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Travels into Bokhara : containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia in the years 1831, 1832, and 1833 [ 3 Volume Set ]
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London: John Murray, 1834. 1st British Edition Alexander Burns Sikh Empire Ranjit Singh Lahore 1834. A fascinating account of the Lahore Sikh court by Alexander Burnes published whilst Ranjit Singh was alive and well this is the true First Edition. Fine leather gilt binding. Books titled - Travels into Bokhara.: Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool Tartary and Persia; also Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus from the Sea to Lahore with Presents from the King of Great Britain; performed under the orders of the Supreme Government of India in the Years 1831 1832 and 1833. Sir Alexander Burnes (1805-1841) British traveller explorer and writer was born on 16 May 1805. He joined the Bombay infantry in 1821. Upon his arrival in India he devoted himself to the study of the local languages and was while still an ensign selected for the post of regimental interpreter. In 1829 he was transferred to the political department as assistant to the Political Resident in Cutch. In 1831 he was sent on a complimentary mission to Lahore in charge of English horses including a team of cart horses four mares and a stallion sent by the King of England as presents for Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The real object of Burnes mission was to survey the River Indus and assess the power and resources of the Amirs of Sindh then being threatened by the Maharaja. He submitted to his government a geographical and military memoir on Sindh which formed the basis of Lord William Bentincks Indus navigation scheme. He describes Maharaja Ranjit Singhs habits and government his passion for horses his troops and horse artillery his dancing girls and the Koh-i-Noor diamond. In January 1832 Burnes visited Lahore again to solicit from the Maharaja facilities of travel through the Punjab to Afghanistan Central Asia and Baikh and Bokhara. Burnes (Sir Alexander). A very rare copy of this great work. Now professionally bound in brown half leather, gilt titles to spine, with 5 raised bands, leathered corners. engraved portrait frontispiece and a folding lithographic plate of the Buddhas of Bamyan to volume I; 2 engraved numismatic plates to volume II; Engraved frontispiece view of Hyderabad and one other similar view, and two lithographed plates to volume III. The plates, somewhat browned as usual. p.xii, 356; p. xv, 473; p. xix, 332. Excellent copies. [ Location : Display Lothlorien ]. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 8vo.
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NARRATIVE OF THE NORTH POLAR EXPEDITION. U.S. SHIP POLARIS, CAPTAIN
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An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his officers, who, in August 1783, were there shipwrecked in The Antelope, a packet belonging to the Honourable East India Company
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LONDON: Printed for Captain Wilson and sold by G Nicol, 1789 A good copy of this famous account, first published a year earlier in 1788. With 17 plates, 12 of which are folding. In a good half leather binding - the spine has a red leather title label and gilt compartments and is newer than the marbled boards. The newer leather is in very good condition; the boards have wear, particularly to edges. All page edges are gilt. There is an ink signature on the front pastedown - ? Mr Dickinson, Thorncroft Workington and then Cornsickle, Whitehaven 1882. With frontispiece portrait of Captain Wilson, title page (with small pencil note), dedication, folding chart of the Pelew Islands, Introduction, contents list and text including 7 plates of objects, 3 additional portraits, 3 views, 1 large folding view and 1 plan. The frontispiece and title page have some spotting and there is a little worming to the bottom in the gutter. P 215 has a small area of loss to the outer edge. Otherwise, the text pages are…
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From Red Sea To Blue Nile Abyssinian Adventure - WITH Rare Dust Jacket
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New York: The Macaulay Company, 1925. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. FIRST PRINTING of First USA Edition. Includes rare original dust jacket. The book measures 227mm tall x 151mm, and has 386 pages, 49 b/w photos, folding map. CONDITION: The book is in nice condition with clean covers, bright gilt, very minor rubbing extreme tips corners (not through cloth, just loss of some color), tight binding, NOT ex-library, previous owner bookplate on blank FFEP otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, no foxing, tight binding, clean pages. The original dust jacket has a 2cm tear upper rear, two tiny 5mm tears lower front, loss at spine ends up to 6mm deep (but no loss of text or images), price-clipped upper flap corner. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED.
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Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
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1857 RAILROAD Exploration Surveys Indians San Francisco California Fossils RARE Beginning in 1855, the United States Congress published reports and surveys of certain railroad routes from the Mississippi River westward to the Pacific. This volume from "Reports of Explorations and Surveys" covers the routes through California, particularly those from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Note the impressive collection of illustrations – landscape views, churches, fossils and plants, Indian tribes, and geological plans.
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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and republican: a historical, geographical, political, statistical, and social account of that country from the period of the invasion by the Spaniards to the present time: with a view of the ancient Aztec empire and civilization, a historical sketch of the late war, and notices of New Mexico and California
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1853 MEXICO & California Aztec Spanish Mayer Santa Fe Nevada Indians Voyages 2vBrantz Mayer was a 19th-century American diplomat to Mexico and Secretary of US legation to Mexico. While his political career was important, he is best remembered for his book on the history of Mexico and the Aztec people. This work includes a great deal of information on New Mexico and California, which was especially pertinent to those Americans migrating west in search of gold! This 1853 edition of 'Mexico' is two volumes bound in one and features an impressive set of full-page and in-text illustrations depicting landscapes, views of Santa Fe, San Francisco Bay, Sierra Nevada, Volcano of Jorullo, plants, local 'Indians', and much more.
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ON THE "POLAR STAR" IN THE ARCTIC SEA. With the Statements of Commander U. Cagni Upon the Sledge Expedition to 86 Degrees 34 Minutes North, and of Dr. A. Cavalli Molinelli Upon His Return to the Bay of Teplitz
by Amedeo of Savoy, Luigi (Duke of the Abruzzi), Translated by William Le Queux
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Hutchinson and Co, London, 1903. First UK Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st English Edition; 2 volumes; Vol I xvi, 1-346 pages xvii-xxii; Vol II viii, 347-702pages, ix-xii. Original covers. In two volumes, with 212 illustrations in text, 16 full-page photogravure plates, 2 panoramas and 5 maps. Both volumes covers very minor bumping, inner hinges beginning to crack, tissue paper guards age toned as usual. Contents clean. A Lovely set. In 1899 the author organized an expedition towards the North Pole. In spring he arrived in the Norwegian capital Christiania (the present day Oslo) with 10 companions. The duke acquired the Jason, a steam whaler of 570 tons, renamed it Stella Polare ("Pole Star") & took the ship on the expedition through the frozen Artic Sea. The members of the expedition sought to reach the North Pole by way of Novaya Zemyla, and the Franz Joseph Archipelago. They sailed as far north as possible, and then continued their trek by sledge. While they did not…
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MY ATTAINMENT OF THE POLE: Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909 With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy
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The Polar Publishing Co, 1911. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition; xx, 604pp, illustrated, frontispiece, plus 49 b/w photographic illustrations. Original brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt. Cook's original purpose in exploring the region west of Greenland was ostensibly to organize a hunting expedition. Just north of Etah, Cook decided that conditions were good enough for an assault on the North Pole, and set out on his journey over the sea ice with two Eskimo companions, two sledges and 26 dogs. Cook is one of the most controversial figures in the history of polar exploration. His supporters claim that he was the hero of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to climb Mt. McKinley, and the first to stand at the North Pole (allegedly only four days before Robert Peary). Others insist that Cook faked his claims to both Mt. McKinley and the North Pole, and continued a career of deceit by using the mail to defraud investors in a Texas oil promotion, for which he was convicted and spent five…
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AMONG UNKNOWN ESKIMO: AN ACCOUNT OF TWELVE YEARS INTIMATE RELATIONS WITH THE PRIMITIVE ESKIMO OF ICE-BOUND BAFFIN LAND, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR WAYS OF LIVING, HUNTING CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS
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Seeley Service & Co, 1923. Cloth. Very Good. 1st Edition; 280pp, illustrated 23 b/w illustrations, 1 map. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling to spine. Errata slip tipped in. "His account of the customs, modes of life, and beliefs of the Central Eskimo of Baffin Land is, however, something more than a book with a merely popular appeal. A residence of twelve years among these tribes qualifies him to give ritual and belief their proper setting and perspective in the everyday round in a manner which is not always possible in an analytic study." Nature 112, 469-469 (29 September 1923). Ex SPRI Library, SPRI cancellation stamp on fep and title page, note on verso front cover. Crease to front cover, contents clean. Very Good. PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote.PLEASE NOTE: This book will incur extra postage and insurance charges. Please contact us for a quote. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram.…
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Memoirs of the life and travels of John Ledyard from his journals and correspondence.
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First English edition. Henry Colburn. London. 1828. 8vo. Title, xii, 428pp. Full marbled paper covered boards, 19th Century pseudo tree calf papier croisé pattern. Red spine label with gilt lettering and edge rules. Blue endpapers. Title page slightly toned. Lacking half-title. Rubbing to spine edges. A crisp copy of the rarer London first edition.In making a Papier Croisé, the final step required that the paper be lifted up and carefully moved while still wet. This caused the characteristic knotting in the design.
John Ledyard (1751-1789) American explorer and adventurer. Ledyard accompanied Cook on the third and final voyage 1776-1780. Visiting the Sandwich Islands, Cape of Good Hope, the Prince Edward Islands off South Africa, the Kerguelen Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tonga, Tahiti, and then Hawaii. It continued to the northwest coast of North America, making Ledyard perhaps the first U.S. citizen to touch its western coast, along the Aleutian islands and Alaska into the… Read More
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Land Benighted - A Story of Liberia by Barbara Greene
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205pp. Decorative endpapers. Very Good condition with light foxing to the closed page edges, and corner 'crumple' to lower margin/corners of pages 137-144.In near Very Good original price-clipped dustwrapper with some edge tears and toning.Rare memoir by Barbara Greene of the 350-mile, 4-week walk through the unmapped interior of Liberia undertaken in 1935 with her cousin, Graham Greene (republished in 1981 as 'Too Late to Turn Back'). Graham Greene's own account of the journey "Journey Without Maps" had been published in 1936.
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Travels into Bokhara
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Travels Into Bokhara: Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia. Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore, Performed Under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India in 83, 832, 833
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Travels Into Bokhara: Containing the Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus from the Sea to Lahore, With Presents from the King of Great Britain; and an Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia. Performed by Order of the Supreme Governme
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Travels Into Bokhara: Being The Account Of A Journey From India To Cabool, Tartary And Persia. Also, Narrative Of A Voyage On The Indus, From The Sea To Lahore, Performed Under The Orders Of The Supreme Government Of India In 1831, 1832, 1833, Volume
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Travels Into Bokhara: Travels Into Bokhara Continued Book I. General and Geographical Memoir on the Part of Central Asia. Book Ii. an Historical Sketch of the Countries Between India and the Caspian Sea. Book Iii. on the Commerce of Central Asia. Observat
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Travels Into Bokhara: Narrative of a Voyage by the River Indus. Memoir of the Indus and Its Tributary Rivers in the Punjab
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Travels into Bokhara
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Travels Into Bokhara: Being The Account Of A Journey From India To Cabool, Tartary And Persia. Also, Narrative Of A Voyage On The Indus, From The Sea To Lahore, Performed Under The Orders Of The Supreme Government Of India In 1831, 1832, 1833, Volume
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Travels into Bokhara: Being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore, with Presents from the King of Great Britain
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Paperback / softback. New. In 1832, soldier and diplomat Alexander Burnes (1805-41) embarked on a covert expedition to Bukhara, to survey the country and observe the activities of the Russians in central Asia. This bestselling account was published in 1834. Volume 3 describes Burnes' earlier journey up the Indus to Lahore in 1831.
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South American Journals 1858-1859
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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
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A Holiday in Italy
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal
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lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,…
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub.
by EMIN. PASHA
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Oak Park, Illinois, United States
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547 pages. Black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine. Spine detatched on one side. JWSC LLC is listing this property on behalf of a private collector's estate. Documentation on file indicates this book was purchased by the estate in the 1970s from (a UK dealer). Additional photos available.
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TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND
by WILSON, WILLIAM RAE
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Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)
by Berenstain, Stan and Jan
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- 9780394951317 / 039495131X
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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A Naturalist in the Guianas
by Andre, Eugene
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.
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Panama: And The Canal In Pictures and Prose
by Willis J. Abbot
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Lubbock, Texas, United States
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This book is an antique but it is in poor condition. The binding is loose and peeling off the spine of this book. The cover is worn substantially on the edged, corners and all over. The previous owners name is written on the inside front board and the front end page. The inside pages are yellowed and tanned and the page is torn. "A complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world famous canal - the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time. Approved by leading officials connected with the great enterprise. Profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly for this book by our special staff." - Panama
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