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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing. Hardback. 288 pp. Colour frontispiece and 11 other illustrations. Near Fine condition in unclipped dust jacket (Jacket sunned on spine otherwise Very Good). No inscriptions. Seller Inventory # 073318
Book Description 1st Ed., H/B black cloth bds, Near Fine, unclipped d/w, VG+, fading at spine, sl. crease at rear edge, maps to endpapers, colour frontis., illust. with b/w plates, contents fine and tight, pp284. The author recreates one of the greatest sea tragedies hour by hour as it happened. Seller Inventory # 3132
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR002948922
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR001461017
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The jacket is a little shelf rubbed and marked. It is protected in cellophane. The boards show little wear. They are strong and study. Internally, clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*24/05/2023. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # jq88
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a handsome book plate to the front paste down. The price clipped dust wrapper is sunned to the spine condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Méduse was a 40-gun Pallas-class frigate of the French Navy, launched in 1810. She took part in the Napoleonic Wars during the late stages of the Mauritius campaign of 1809?1811 and in raids in the Caribbean. In 1816, following the Bourbon Restoration, Méduse was armed en flûte to ferry French officials to the port of Saint-Louis, in Senegal, to formally re-establish French occupation of the colony under the terms of the First Peace of Paris. Through inept navigation by her captain, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, who had been given command after the Bourbon Restoration for political reasons, Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin off the coast of present-day Mauritania and became a total loss. Most of the 400 passengers on board evacuated, with 151 men forced to take refuge on an improvised raft towed by the frigate's launches. The towing proved impractical, however, and the boats soon abandoned the raft and its passengers in the open ocean. Without any means of navigating to shore, the situation aboard the raft rapidly turned disastrous. Dozens were washed into the sea by a storm, while others, drunk from wine, rebelled and were killed by officers. When supplies ran low, several injured men were thrown into the sea, and some of the survivors resorted to the Custom of the sea (cannibalism). After 13 days at sea, the raft was discovered with only 15 men still alive. Ref ZZ 2. Seller Inventory # 029143
Book Description New edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 288 pages, leaf of plates, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (including 1 color), maps (on lining papers), plan, portrait ; 23 cm. Subjects; Shipwrecks Senegal. Shipwrecks. France History Restoration, 1814-1830. Medusa (Ship). 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 350710
Book Description New edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 288 pages, leaf of plates, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (including 1 color), maps (on lining papers), plan, portrait ; 23 cm. Subjects; Shipwrecks Senegal. Shipwrecks. France History Restoration, 1814-1830. Medusa (Ship). 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 350710
Book Description Condition: Poor. Dust jacket has scratches/marks and outer edges have scuffs/nicks. Textblock has dusty marks. Book content is in good readable condition. Seller Inventory # 086411-10