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Item:Naval History of the Civil War (Salesman's Dummy) 1886

Naval History of the Civil War (Salesman's Dummy) 1886

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Ended27 Nov, 200911:56:13 AEDST
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Item number:120485973390
Item location:Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Item specifics - Antiquarian Books
Format: Salesman's DummySpecial Attributes: 1st Edition
Subject: Military & WarPrinting Year: 1886
 --Language: English
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1886 Salesman's Dummy
 
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The following is printed on the title page:


The Naval History

of the

Civil War
by

Admiral David D. Porter, U. S. Navy
illustrated from original sketches made by Rear-Admiral Walke and others

New York
The Sherman Publishing Company
1886

 
 
 
description

a salesman's dummy
portrait frontispiece (with tissue guard)
David D. Porter engraved by H.B.Hall's Sons, New York

74 pages (variously paginated)
including Preface, Contents, General Index, text, illustrations
and charts selected from the proposed book
followed by 16 ruled pages for potential subscribers to fill in.
(no entries have been made)

original publisher's mustard colour cloth over bevelled boards
titles and decorations on pictorial front cover and back cover
blocked in gilt and brown
floral patterned endpapers
2 sample back-strips glued to front paste-down
(in Turkey Morocco and Seal Russia)
and one to rear paste-down
(in Sheep, Library style)
all page edges dyed red


size: 26 x 20 cm

shipping weight: 800 g




condition

this salesman's dummy is in Very Good or better condition

and the only faults that I can find are as follows:

corner tips and spine ends worn with a small tear to head of spine
endpapers tanned by offsetting from the back strips
tanned sections to frontispiece , tissue guard and title page (see photos)
patchy loss of glaze to the book cloth
a couple of old worm holes to front free endpaper and spine






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