Published by D. Van Nostrand Company, 1862
Seller: Koster's Collectible Books, Farmingville, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 3rd edition enlarged. Hardcover; Hardcover. Brown textured cloth boards with title on front board and spine in gold. Boards are edge worn and bumped, rubbing and light soil. Spine ends frayed, quarter inch loss. Foxed endpapers. Water mark to outer margins of text pages throughout. Text is unaffected. Occasional soil. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 8VO.
Language: English
Published by A. Williams and Company, Boston, 1881
Seller: A Book By Its Cover, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Three-quarter red leather over red marbled boards, with matching endpapers and marbled edges. Various edgewear to leather. Hinges strong. 615 pages, with illustrations.
Published by Griffin and Co., Portsmouth., 1878
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. xiv, 337pp, diagrams, fold out, appends. '.being the substance of a work recently published in America ; revised and corrected throughout, with additional notes by an English Naval Architect; and containing a description of the construction, armour, and fighting power of the iron-clads of England and other European powers of the present day.' Cloth is rubbed, fracturing to head and foot of spine, hint of spotting. 700g.
Published by Boston: A. Williams & Co.; London: E & F N Spon 2nd edition, 1881
8vo. xvi, 615pp, frontis with guard, plates, text illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary full navy calf gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, red calf gilt spine label, Spine a little faded; calf lightly rubbed with isolated wear. Admiralty presentation bookplate dated 1882 to front paste-down. With the 66 plates called for plus a further 3 not in the plate list. Contains the substance of a work, Report of Chief Engineer J.W. King, United States Navy, on European ships of war . Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1877, which was reprinted in England as "The war-ships of Europe .".
Published by Boston: Williams, 1880., 1880
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 623p. Plates of ships & artillery. Heavy/oversize. Professionally rebound with the original decorated blue cloth laid down. Some loss to the original cloth at top & bottom of spine. Decorated cover. Spine lettering faint. Heavy. Very Good copy.
Published by Griffin & Co, Portsmouth, 1878
Seller: Versandantiquariat Hösl, Neuried, Germany
Condition: Gut. Leinen Neuer Leineneinband mit silbergeprägtem Rückentitel, Vorderdeckel mit montiertem Originalbezug. Der Schnitt ist gedunkelt, der Kopfschnitt ist rauh. Titelseite mit Bibliotheksstempel. Mit 23 Tafeln, davon 2 gefaltet; davon eine mit kleinem, geklebtem Einriß. Die Seiten sind bis auf Kleinigkeiten sauber und gut. Auswahl der beschriebenen und teilw. abgebildeten Schiffen/Typen: Inflexible, Devastation, Thunderer, Dreadnought, Audacious, Alexandra, Téméraire, Shannon, Nelson and Northhampton, Warrior, Waterwitch, Glatton, Unarmoured ships e.g. Inconstant, Raleigh, Boadicea, Rover etc. , Pelican, Iris and Mercury, Duquesne and Tourville, Duguay-Trouin, Rigault de Genouilly, Deutschland, Borussia, Preussen, Duilio, Dandolo, Cristofero Colombo, Novgorod, Admiral Popoff, Tegethoff. Anhang mit umfangreichem Tabellenteil. Am Ende 13 S. Verlagswerbung. Sprache / Language: de XIII + 337 Seiten. ca. 20 x 13,4 cm.