A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing.
by Kemp, Dixon
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Horace Cox, 1886. xi, 676 pp. b/w folding plates, ills.
Expanded fifth edition, this work is a compendium of American and English yacht designs, equipment, and rigs (including canoes). Now with 100 full page plates, many of which are folding, hundreds of text illustrations, and a 130 page illustrated dictionary of terms and general information. As thorough an explication of 19th century yacht sailing and designing as exists in one volume. Toy calls it, A classic work by a central figure in British yachting... Toy 2152. Morris & Howland p. 76. Very good condition in original cloth, rebacked to match.
Expanded fifth edition, this work is a compendium of American and English yacht designs, equipment, and rigs (including canoes). Now with 100 full page plates, many of which are folding, hundreds of text illustrations, and a 130 page illustrated dictionary of terms and general information. As thorough an explication of 19th century yacht sailing and designing as exists in one volume. Toy calls it, A classic work by a central figure in British yachting... Toy 2152. Morris & Howland p. 76. Very good condition in original cloth, rebacked to match.
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- Bookseller
- Ten Pound Island Book Co. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41853
- Title
- A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing.
- Author
- Kemp, Dixon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Horace Cox
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1886
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- autical, Maritime, Marine Architecture, Yachting
- Bookseller catalogs
- Maritime;
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