Garden City, NY: Double, Page & Company, 1925. 322 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine a bit sunned. Top edge gilt. Previous bookseller's small label on rear paste-down. Illust. w/ a frontispiece of "The Nina," and several b/w drawings. Contents nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Francis J. Rigney. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Shoemaker Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 7264
Title: SHIPS OF THE SEVEN SEAS
Author: Daniel, Hawthorne/Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Introduction)
Illustrator: Francis J. Rigney
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-
Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Double, Page & Company
Place of Publication: Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1925
Keywords: TRANSPORTATION BOATS SHIPS NAUTICAL MARITIME SAILS DEVELOPMENT CLIPPER SHIPS STEAMSHIPS PORTS PORT EQUIPMENT SEAMANSHIP SCIENCE OF NAVIGATION LIGHTHOUSES LIGHTSHIPS BUOYS SHIP DESIGN CONSTRUCTION REPAIR SHIPPING LINES NONFICTION GENERAL ILLUSTRATED RIGNEY
Bookseller catalogs: Nautical; Transportation; Transportation - Boats;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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