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Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1966. Cloth, 296 pages, illustrations (part colour), maps; 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket, with moderate edgewear & toning, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Gervis Frere-Cook; Vessels of the ancient world, by Leonard Cottrell; The viking longships, by Arne Emil Christensen Jr.; Vessels of the Mediterranean, by Ernle Bradford; Sailing ships of the Atlantic seas, by Lt.-Cdr. P. K. Kemp, R.N.; Steamships of the Atlantic seas, by Frank O. Braynard; State barges, by Philip Cowburn; Vessels of the inland waterways of England and Holland, by Hugh McKnight; Mississippi rivercraft, by Willard Price; Charts and maps, by Christopher Lloyd; Navigational instruments and timekeepers, by Lt.-Cdr. D. W. Waters, R.N.; Figureheads, by A. E. Weightman; Decorative rope and canvaswork, by P.… Read More

(London: Cassell: 1966) First Edition. Pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. viii, 296 (310 x 244 mm) Richly illustrated. A copy of particular interest being that given to the notable South Australian maritime historian H.M. Cooper, with inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper: 'To H.M. COOPER on his 80th. Birthday with Affection and in Appreciation from his Friends and Colleagues at the South Australian Museum - December 1966' and signed by some 49 including David Corbett, Robert Edwards, Hans Mincham, Michael J. Tyler, Charles P. Mountford, etc. Signed in pencil 'H.M. Cooper - Dec. 26, 1966' at foot of the front free endpaper. First Edition. Four tapestains to each free endpaper otherwise a fine copy in like dust-jacket.