East Coast Rivers. Charts and Sailing Directions for the Rivers Crouch, Roach, Blackwater, Colne, Stour, Orwell, Deben, Ore, and Alde; together with General Charts from the Thames to Southwold.
by MESSUM, S.V.S.C. - Lieut. R.N.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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- Seller
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J. D. Potter, Admiralty Agent for Charts, 1903. First edition. 11 Coloured charts, mostly folding. 8vo 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 24-pages, with following on the next 10 unpaginated leaves, details of "Buoys & Lights" and "Tide Tables for the principal places between Sheerness and Orfordness for Saturdays only, 1903". Together with Potter's 8-page catalogue of Nautical Works & loosely inserted the 16-page Admiralty List "A". Original green grained cloth lettered in gilt; 1920's signature of the geologist H.G. Busk on front pastedown. Very good indeed. Scarce and scarcer still with the additional 10 -leaves of "Buoys & Lights and the "Tide Tables" not usually found
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- Bristow and Garland (GB)
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- 19242
- Title
- East Coast Rivers. Charts and Sailing Directions for the Rivers Crouch, Roach, Blackwater, Colne, Stour, Orwell, Deben, Ore, and Alde; together with General Charts from the Thames to Southwold.
- Author
- MESSUM, S.V.S.C. - Lieut. R.N.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: J. D. Potter, Admiralty Agent for Charts, 1903.
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- Maritime;
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Bristow and Garland
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Shaftesbury, Dorset
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