SAILING SHIPS, Their History and Development as Illustrated by the Collection of Ship-Models in the Science Museum, Part 1 - Historical Notes,
by G S Laird Clowes
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Wrappers are soiled; spine covering is cracked. Eight words written on front cover. Book in GOOD condition
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
His Majesty's Stationery Office, London - reprint edition 1951 softcover, 6" x9¾" Wrappers are soiled; spine covering is cracked. Eight words written on front cover. Book in GOOD condition Thirty-eight b&w photographic plates, eleven illustrations (drawings) in text, and index. The author traces the development of shipbuilding on the Mediterranean seaboard (from the earliest times to the fall of the Roman Empire), and then in greater detail, the evolution of the northern ship from the days of the Viking invaders of Britain up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Advertisements at rear.
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- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34524
- Title
- SAILING SHIPS, Their History and Development as Illustrated by the Collection of Ship-Models in the Science Museum, Part 1 - Historical Notes,
- Author
- G S Laird Clowes
- Format/Binding
- Softcover, 6" x9¾"
- Book Condition
- Used - Wrappers are soiled; spine covering is cracked. Eight words written on front cover. Book in GOOD condition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- His Majesty's Stationery Office, London - reprint edition
- Date Published
- 1951
- Pages
- 116 pages
- Keywords
- Galley Viking Cinque Warships Four-masted Barfleur Frigates East Indiaman China Clippers Barques
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