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Practical Boat Sailing for Amateurs
by DAVIES G Christopher
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: L Upcott Gill & Son, 1890 'containing particulars of the most suitable sailing boats and yachts for amateurs, and instructions for their proper handling &c', illustrated with designs and plans of small yachts and sailing boats, and numerous diagrams, nd, 18pp adverts at rear dated 1890, maroon cloth with black white and gilt dec cover and spine, spine lightly sunned, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, front hinge cracked, pencil inscription [Ian White Sumner 1935], minimal foxing to prelims and closed edges, vii 198pp + folding diagrams and plans, frontis photo of The Swan a four ton yacht for single handling, tissue guard intact. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012470
- Title
- Practical Boat Sailing for Amateurs
- Author
- DAVIES G Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- L Upcott Gill & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Boats Boating Nautical Maritime Sailing Yachts Yachting Victorian Nineteenth Century Boatbuilding Making Boatwright Shipwright Wooden Boats Manufacture
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- Sunned
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cracked
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