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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Maritime) |
| Author: |
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| Title: |
The Life of a Midshipman: A tale founded on facts, and intended to correct an injudicious predilection in boys for the life of a sailor |
| Place: |
London |
| Publisher: |
Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley |
| Date: |
1829 |
| Item # : |
213625 |
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| Sale Number |
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445 |
| Lot Number |
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97 |
| Sale Name |
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| Fine Americana: The Northwest Library of John M. McClelland, Jr. (with additions) - Maps & Atlases |
| Sale Date |
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01/20/2011 |
| Price realized |
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$ 480 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| xii, 264 pp. Engraved frontispiece. 20x12.5 cm. (8x5"), original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. First Edition. |
| Scarce work intended, purportedly, to persuade its juvenile readers to spurn a life at sea, but perhaps merely adding to the allure of life before the mast. OCLC lists 17 copies in libraries, but there are no current retail offerings online, and no records of a sale at auction that we could find. Inscription on front free endpaper dated Victoria, B.C., 1902. |
| Condition: |
| Rubbing and some staining to covers, spine ends and label worn, cloth fraying; some light scattered foxing within, very good. |
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