A Manual Of Scientific Enquiry; Prepared For The Use Of Officers In Her Majesty's Navy, And Travellers In General by John F W Herschel, Robert S Ball (eds.)
1886. Fifth edition. 450 pages. No dust jacket. Blue embossed cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains 3 fold-out sections, including map to rear. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to hinges with exposed netting, especially to rear, board is slack. Binding loose. Edges of fold-out map at rear are tanned, brittle and chipped; small stain to one panel. Several ink stains to page margins. Text not affected. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional moderate marks and staining. Boards are slightly bowed. Some surface wear to spine.