Description

First Edition, LIMITED ISSUE, ONE OF 97 COPIES ON SPECIAL PAPER OF WHICH ONLY 87 WERE OFFERED FOR SALE, and being publication twenty-two of the Marine Research Society. With 35 illustrations on plates, mostly images of ships or harbor views, reproduced from contemporary sources, 48 plans or sail plans of various ships, and with 26 drawings or graphics throughout the text. 4to, publisher's limited issue binding of marbled boards backed in black cloth, the spine gilt lettered, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, and in the original slipcase. xii, 185 pp. A very fine and fresh copy, the text-block clean and bright and as pristine, the binding solid and sharp, the spine still dark and fresh and unusually well preserved, the slipcase also in fine condition, just a touch rubbed at the underside.