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A Joint Project of the United States Public Health Service and the War Shipping Administration, 1947. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office: 1955 revised edition. VG condition. A hardcover reference manual on Naval / maritime medicine. A thorough guide for "emergency treatment at sea on vessels which do not carry a physician." Contents include: hygiene and sanitation; food handling and storage;… Read more

Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1924. 1st American edition in the uncommon dust jacket. A history of British sea power, from its genesis more than 400 years ago through the World War I era. A superb, scholarly work by Callender, chair of Naval History at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Illustrated by 17 plates and an engraved frontispiece… Read more