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c1900 Perils of the Sea
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce, With Dustwrapper
First edition. Very scarce work. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and thirty black-and-white images. Collated complete. A collection of dramatic and terrifying stories of life at sea, from the loss of the Eurydice, and the H.M.S. Victoria, to the loss of the Titanic. With chapters on missing ships and wrecks which cost no lives. Written by Arthur Owens Cooke, a British author and maritime historian.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear only. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Minor sunning to the spine with the odd small mark to the panels. Light loss to the panel edges with a 1" closed tear to the front panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers.
Near Fine
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