Sailing Ships: The Story of Their Development From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author:
CHATTERTON, E KEBLE
Title:
Sailing Ships: The Story of Their Development From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Publisher:
Sidgwick & Jackson 1909
Description:
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt decoration & illus plate to front board, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xxi + 362pp, illus, folding diagrams to rear, VG (light rubbing & scuffing to spine extrems, sl bruising to board extrems, moderate chafing & soiling to rear board, light chafing & soiling to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, bookseller's embossed stamp to top corner of ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & frequently throughout, occasional cracking to gutters)
Keywords:
first editions maritime nautical history sailing ships development