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Our Fleet To-Day and Its Development during the Last Half-Century
by Eardley-Wilmot, S. (Rear-Admiral)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Seeley and Co.. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1902. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library markings and labels. Rear board bruised creased with wrinkles to cloth. Library blind-stamps to corners of plates.; Second edition. 1902 imprint on title page, Preface to the Second Edition dated 1900. [1-2 (title leaf)] (ix-xvi) 1- 327 [1 (blank)] + [1-8] pages advertisements + frontispiece + plates. Red-brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 199 x 135mm. This is a revised edition of "The Development of Navies during the last Half-Century". 38 illustrations in total. The illustrations include full page plates and small in-text illustrations, wood-engravings and relief half-tone photographic illustrations of ships. Some of the plate leaves are counted within the pagination sequence, while others are additional to the pagination. .
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Details
- Seller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 19845
- Title
- Our Fleet To-Day and Its Development during the Last Half-Century
- Author
- Eardley-Wilmot, S. (Rear-Admiral)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- Seeley and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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