Kippis, A.

Captain Cook's Voyages' With an Accounr of His Life,during the Previous and Intervening periods

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 404pp. Brown cloth, paper labels to cover and spine, 12 illustrations. Faint stains to boards, spine ends lightly chipped, text is age-toned and has very scattered foxing, and binding is tight. Book is overall sound. Good.

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Book number: 002696

Catalogue: History, Travel and Voyages

Keywords: Sailing Seafaring

Parker, Captain H. and Bowen, Frank C.

Mail and Passenger Streamships of the Nineteenth Century; The Macpherson Collection with Iconographical and Historical Notes

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel. Very Good/Poor.

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Book number: 003540

Catalogue: Illustrated, History, Travel and Voyages

Keywords: Sailing Maritime