Astronomical Air Navigation - a Comprehensive Handbook Embodying the Latest Principles for Practical Navigators, Instructors and Students
by Ronald Hadingham
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- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- G+/N/a
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire
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About This Item
Surrey: The Technical Press, 1943. Navigation as it used to be. Blue covers with gilt lettering to spine and front board, 132pp inc index, with b/w illustrations and frontis of Tychonis Brahe measuring the sun's altitude in 1587. Covers are rubbed and bumped at extremities, particularly head and foot of spine where lettering is sunned. Prelims are foxed with a few mild marks and neat names and addresses of two previous military owners on ffep. There is a mild mark on pp31, a few pages have hed the corners turned and page edges are dusty and a little foxed, otherwise internally clean and tight. Ref:082561. First Edition. Cloth. G+/N/a. 17x21cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 002561
- Title
- Astronomical Air Navigation - a Comprehensive Handbook Embodying the Latest Principles for Practical Navigators, Instructors and Students
- Author
- Ronald Hadingham
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - G+
- Jacket condition
- N/a
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Technical Press
- Place of Publication
- Surrey
- Date published
- 1943
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