The Universal Code of Signals for The Mercantile Marine of All Nations, By the Late Captain Marryat, R.N., with a List of Yachts, and a Selection of Sentences Adapted for Convoys, and Systems of Geometrical, Night, & Fog Signals. By G. B. Richardson

Marryat, Captain & G. B. Richardson

Verlag: Richardson & Compy., London, 1866

Beschreibung

Rebound with later plasticised green cloth over spine and corners. Later endpapers. Lacking the half-title leaf. Front board with dampstain to corner. Boards rubbed and worn. Heavy rubbing and loss of cloth along lower edges of boards. ; 1866 edition. Pages unnumbered. Lacking half-title leaf. Parts I, III-VI. Part II omitted from this edition - "The List of the French Navy being no longer published, this part cannot be continued." 8 colour plate leaves. Plates numbered I-VII, with Plate V being a double page plate. Also some other tipped in colour illustrations of flags. The 7 numbered plates do not appear in numerical order, but are found as follows: Plate VI "Geometrical Signals" facing page vii; Plate III "Numeral Repeaters or Substitutes" facing page viii; Plate V "Maritime Merchant Flags of All Nations" double page plate between part title to Part II and Part III; Plate I "Flags and Pendants", Plate II "Parts of the Code" and Plate IV "Flags for the British Navy" are on 1 folding sheet facing the first page of "Agents to Lloyd's" at rear of book. Inner column of flags on Plate I partially obscured at gutter. Paper tape strengthing along one fold of this sheet. The list of "Agents to Lloyd's" at the rear is followed by the final printed leaf "Royal Humane Society's Directions for the Recovery of the Apparently Drowned." Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and panel on front board. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23188

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Universal Code of Signals for The ...

Verlag: Richardson & Compy., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1866

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued