Britain's Glory: Or, Ship-Building Unvail'd. Being a General Director, for Building and Compleating the Said Machines
by Sutherland William
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good
- Seller
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CHESHUNT, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for Tho Norris [ and Others ], 1717. Book measures 34x23.cm. In two parts, xxvi, 134,[4],286pp, 3 virtually full page engraved pages,, 6 folding plates, many diagrams, engraved frontis. Bound in modern full panelled leather, raised bands, blind stamped tooling, leather title label. Binding in fine condition. Internally, frontispiece trimmed, with loss on edges, some other tears/loss, frontis silked , title with previous owners name on top margin,, dated 1761. Persistant single track or single hole worming, mainly to margins. Generally pages and plates in good clean condition. Overally a nice copy.. First Edition. Full Calf. Near Very Good. Small Folio.
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Details
- Bookseller
- George Jeffery Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013296
- Title
- Britain's Glory: Or, Ship-Building Unvail'd. Being a General Director, for Building and Compleating the Said Machines
- Author
- Sutherland William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed for Tho Norris [ and Others ]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1717
- Size
- Small Folio
- Keywords
- Ship Building
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Architecture; Naval;
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About the Seller
George Jeffery Books
Biblio member since 2005
CHESHUNT, Hertfordshire
About George Jeffery Books
We are a long established company dealing in second-hand, out of print and antiquarian books on all subjects. We are based in Hertfordshire, just 2 miles north of Junction 25 of the M25. We are members of the PBFA and exhibit at a large number of their fairs across the UK. We also exhibit in London at least twice a month at the Russell and Royal National Hotels, and regularly exhibit at H&D fairs in the South East, we also organise a monthly Fair at the Royal National Hotel, this fair has exhibitors specialising in books, maps, prints and ephemera. Please contact us for any further details.
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