Verlag: London: Printed by J. Gold Naval Chronicle Office, and published by Joseph Mawman, 39 Ludgate Street, 1815
Anbieter: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Zustand: Good. 8vo. 14.5 x 23.5cm. vi, 579pp. Contemporary English binding, full long-grain blue morocco, wide gilt borders framing the covers, spine with 5 raised bands with decorated compartments, gilt-stamped letter "S" on the covers, gilt edges, borders of the same morocco inside, and endpapers of blue silk with gilt borders. Superficial crack along spine.Presentation copy in French from Smythe .[ "offered as a token of esteem and friendship by the publisher, an associate member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles-Lettres of the city of Caen"]. (Exemplaire "offert en témoignage d'estime et d'amitié par l'éditeur, membre associé de l'Académie Royale des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de la ville de Caen". ) . Folding map as frontispiece by R. Rowe. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:230578317:Notes:Frontispiece is folded plate: chart on Mercator's Projection exhibiting Crusoe's trackEmbellished throughout text with maps and engravings. [Cannot find any references to John Spencer Smythe in biographies and OCLC omits his name from the book!).