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THE ART OF NAVIGATION IN ENGLAND IN ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY STUART TIMES
by DAVID W WATERS
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: HOLLIS AND CARTER, 1958 Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, top edge stained blue, 250 x 160 mm approx. xl + 696 pp. Frontis + LXXXVI further illustrations and 43 diags. as called for. Foreword by Earl Mountbatten First Edition 1958. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Good. (Book- mild general shelf wear to cloth, discreet original book seller label to front paste down, ink previous owner name to front free end paper. Dust Jacket - mild colour rubbing to extremities with a few small tears - max 15mm approx to top rear flap fold, a liitle grubby from handling, non price clipped - cover 84s. Remains very presentable in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132598
- Title
- THE ART OF NAVIGATION IN ENGLAND IN ELIZABETHAN AND EARLY STUART TIMES
- Author
- DAVID W WATERS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- HOLLIS AND CARTER
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Navigation, David W Waters, Pilotage, Arithmetical, Logarithmical, Pocket Dials, Seamanship, Maritime Books, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Smith, Dr John Dee, Thomas Hariot, Sir Walter Raleigh,
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- First Edition
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cloth
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