Nancarrow Secretary Writers Lloyds Register (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. "Register Book" Register of Ships A-L, and "Appendix", 1966-67, by R. B. Nancarrow, Secretary and the writers of Lloyd's Register, London. Published in four volumes periodically, listing all ships over 500 Gross Register Tons with detail. This is the 1966 information for one half of the alphabet. Published by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London UK. NOT Ex-Library. No ISBN. Two tight firm books in Very Good, near Like New condition (one) and Like New (Appendix) volumes in scarlet/bright shiny gilt-lettered and decorated hard boards, 11 1/2" x 9 3/4" x a total of 2.417 thin 'Bible-leaf' pages of splendid registry information. Splendid for the historian, genealogist, family history writer. Register Book, 1966-67, Register of Ships, A-L, 1,800 clean and unmarked red-edged pages of information, most pages covering perhaps 12 ships per page - Name, previous name(s), GRT, Construction date and firm, location, propulsion, more. Very Good boards with fuzziness to the leathers after a half-century, with Like New interiors; Register Book, 1966-67, Appendix, 617 clean and unmarked red-edged pages of information - Shipbuilders, Docks, Telegraphic Addresses, Marine Insurance. Like New; Two explanation sheets, one for each volume, explaining the change from "Chinese Rep." to "People's Rep. of China" throughout. There are no dust jackets - we believe there never were. No looseness, no markings. No mustiness, No looseness, No smoke smell. No names, No other markings, No bookplates, NOT Remainder-marked. A marvelous and historic find.