An account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean : composed from the journals and communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his officers, who, in August 1783, were there shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a packet...
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. History would prove him correct; the events of that day-when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor-ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into World War II. In Pearl Harbor, acclaimed historian Steven M. Gillon provides a vivid, minute-by-minute account of Roosevelt's skillful leadership in the wake of the most devastating military assault in American history. FDR proved both decisive and ...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. History would prove him correct; the events of that day-when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor-ended the Great Depression, changed the course of FDR's presidency, and swept America into World War II. In Pearl Harbor, acclaimed historian Steven M. Gillon provides a vivid, minute-by-minute account of Roosevelt's skillful leadership in the wake of the most devastating military assault in American history. FDR proved both decisive and deceptive, inspiring the nation while keeping the real facts of the attack a secret from congressional leaders and the public. Pearl Harbor explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal twenty-four hours that followed, a period in which America burst from precarious peace into total war.
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Seller's Description:
Used-Good. Good hardback in full leather. Bound in contemporary calf, with leather title label & gilt decoration on spine; 2 plates & folding chart. Small armorial bookplate (Thornhill) on front pastedown; offsetting from frontis portrait on title page; leather a little dry; spine back joint weak.
Publisher:
Manning and Loring for S. Hall, W. Spotswood, et al
Published:
1796
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16621324394
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. 1796, later edition. Hardcover, small 8vo., full contemporary calf, with gilt bands and leather and gilt title label. 264 pp. Very Good. Shallow loss to leather at crown of spine; leather label chipped; minimal signs of varnish along the spine and outer hinges. Mild foxing/browning to contents. Digital images available upon request.
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Very Good+ Tree calf, handsomely rebacked, with gilt-stamped ornate rules and details on spine, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label; 4to (9.5 x 12 inches); pp. xxvii, [1] (directions to the binder), 378, plus frontis., folding map, and 12 plates (one of which is folding). Spine, corners, and edges of boards a bit scuffed. Some off-setting of the plates onto facing pages, some interesting marginalia (see below), and a little worming in the gutter; otherwise, text block is nice and clean, with side margins. Armorial bookplates of John Thurlow Dering (front paste-down) and Sir Samuel Hoare, Baronet (FFEP). Ticket of "Pigge Binder, Lynn" on front paste-down. A feather has been laid-in at pp. 364-5, marking the beginning of "A Vocabulary of the Pelew Language, " and a lengthy manuscript addition across the bottom margins of both pages--an early hand, and trimmed close along the bottom edge, it records an account from an officer on board the Panther, describing the Pelew monarch's devastated response to the news of the death of his son, Le Boo. A few more instances of discreet notations alongside the printed marginalia, all of it tidy (even pleasing), in black ink. An unique, handsome copy.
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AN UNCOMMON VERY GOOD+ TO NEAR-FINE FIRST PRINTING OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. A MODERN HALF-LEATHER AND MARBLED BOARDS BINDING, WITH RAISED SPINE BANDS AND CONTEMPORARY (WITH THE BOOK) LEATHER SPINE LABEL. Octavo, xxvi [1] 408pp, frontispiece portrait, 15 copper-engraved plates ( 1 folding), and, 1 folding map. INTERIOR IS QUITE CLEAN WITH VERY OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING, BINDING IS TIGHT, LEATHER AND BOARDS CLEAN. Attractive armorial bookplate with no owner's name on front pastedown. A very nice copy.
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Belonging to the Honorable East India Company.; The Fifth Edition. To which is added A Supplement. by J. P. Hockin, of Exeter College, Oxford; Note the paper size of this edition; Full calf with gilt spine title & marbled endpapers/pastedown; A good+ textblock in a fair worn binding; Fold out Chart of the Pelew Islands & 20 plates (lacking 2, crossed out on the illustrations list by the binder); 244 & 72 pages. Size: 9"x11.5"
