The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times
by WATERS, DAVID W
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- Hardcover
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Hollis & Carter 1958. Small quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained light blue, frontispiece, xxxix + 696pp, illus, VG (some soiling to boards, v slight tanning to page edges, light foxing to prelims)
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- Title
- The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times
- Author
- WATERS, DAVID W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hollis & Carter 1958
- Keywords
- England English Elizabethen Stuart maritime nautical navigation history
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- Quarto
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- VG
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