Chief Engineer King (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 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.…

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.

OLnbd., 19 x 12 cm. Condition: Gut. xi (i), 337 Seiten, 24 (Falt-)Tafeln, Mit 24 Tafeln, davon zwei gefaltet (Risszeichnungen u.a. der Kriegsschiffe 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). Dazu Tabellen und weitere Textabbildungen. - Provenienz: J. F. W. Nuboer (Exlibliris). - Einband etwas berieben und bestoßen, Schnitt gebräunt. Sonst sauberes und wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. Due to new EU packaging regulations, we are currently unable to ship to many EU countries. Shipping to Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and the Baltic states is possible. Deliveries to border-based parcel lockers or cross-border parcel forwarding services remain possible. Shipping to all countries outside the EU also remains possible. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500. …

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 .".…

12mo (19.5x13.5cm), hardback, xiv + 337pp + 23 plates & b&w frontispiece. Good condition given age. No dustwrapper. General wear, bumped, rubbed edges, sunned spine and edges, some creasing mid-spine, gilt lettering to spine, gilt figures to front cover, blind-stamped badge at rear almost worn down, some marks with faint water marks to lower right rear, 2cm frayed section to upper right rear, age-toned, foxed, hinge cracked at title page. closed tears to two fold-out plates but no loss of content, owner's names penned at free front endpaper and title page, with red pencilled number at free front endpaper. …

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.…