Pellervo Kokkonen (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Hardcover, Large 4to, pp.287. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and embossed gilt compass design to front board. Original dust jacket. Extensive colour and B&W illustrations. 1999 3rd edition of 1995 original. Very Good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. previous owners inscription else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. English translation by Philip Binham. Large format cloth hardcover, 287 pages, glossy paper, copiously illustrated, pictorial endpapers, NOT ex-library. Weight over 2.2kg. Some minor wear only, book is clean, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Mildly used VG untorn dust jacket. -- Contents: The Baltic: An Image / Matti Klinge; Mare Balticum: Cultural Cross-Swells / Ulla Ehrensvärd [Baltic Sea - Inland Sea; Mare Balticum, Sinus Codanus, Ostsae; The Baltic - a Closed Sea. Mare liberum - Mare clausum; Connections with Ancient Mediterranean lands; Vikings on the Road to the East; The Varangian Sea in Arab cartography; Missionary work, trade and piracy; Hanseatic League and Teutonic Knights; Sailing directions and Island books; Portolans; Carta Marina and Carta Gothica; The oldest school of astronomy in the North; Dutch pioneers; Johan Mansson's Sea Book and Chart; The Gulf of Bothnia and the Staple Constraint; Sweden and Denmark as rivals; Sea Atlas of Gedda and von Rosenfeldt, 1695]; Speculum Nauticum: Baltic Mirror / Pellervo Kokkonen [Speculum Nauticum: Birth of Charting and early Baltic cartography; Focus of charting shifts eastward; Russia charts the Baltic; Sweden's charting development projects and charting of archipelagoes; Private or public cartography?; State cartography becomes established]; Navigation, Ships, Trade and Seafaring / Juha Nurminen [World as a globe; Wind-rose and compass; Projection of sea charts; Sounding; Pilotage; Goniometry and latitude; Sea marks; Navigation skills in the Baltic; Compass and magnetic phenomena; Longitude and measurement of time; Manufacture of instruments; Measurement of speed; Lighthouses; Ancient boats; Viking ships; Hansa cog; Hulk, Flute; Baltic work-horses; Square-rigged ships; Galley; Merchant burghers' sailing ships; Steam vessels]; [Black Heads; Lübeck - Hanseatic Queen; Grain trade; Tar trade; Mining products; Farmer sailing vebtures; Timber]; [Baltic geophysics and hydrography; Mediterranean connections with the Baltic; Viking road to the East; Hansa connections; Baltic sailing routes of the Middle Ages; Fishing; Harbour equipment; Shipbuilding; Coastal defence; Marine salvage and diving Operations; Canals; Mail conveyance; Winter conditions in the Baltic; Average winter maximum ice cover]; Appendix -- Swedens's struggle for mastery of the Baltic / Ulla Ehrensvärd; Battles at sea / Erik Wihtol; Historic wrecks / Juhani Grönhagen; Index map for charts and maps; List of maps, charts and pictures / Nils-Erik Raurala; Bibliography; Index of persons. …

Condition: Gebraucht / Used. Hardcover with dustjacket. Fine state. 287pp. Illustr.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket New book folio 287pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index, ENGLISH TEXT EDITION. In decorated card slip-case as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Swedish language edition. Mare Balticum tells the story of the colourful destiny of the Baltic Sea over a period of two thousand years. It pictures the Baltic as a unifying element in the cross-currents between East and West, North and South, showing how navigation, trade, power politics and communications have shaped the Baltic region. The illustration of the book is unique: the rare pictures come from museums and libraries of the Baltic countries as well as from the remotest archives. Many of the antique sea charts are now published for the first time. **** Richly illustrated. Large folio, size about 34 x 26 cm. 287 pp.…

33,5x25 cm. 287 s. Rikt illustrerad i färg. Förlagets klotband, i orginalklotkassett. Titelsidan med mycket liten fläck, kassetten lite solkig, annars fin.

Condition: gut. 1996. Marc Balticum - 200 Jahre Geschichte der Ostsee In deutscher Sprache. pages.

Condition: Very Good. Helsingfors, Bokförlaget Otava/John Nurminens Stiftelse, 1995. Folio. 287 s. Rikligt illustrerad. Förlagets blå klotband med skyddsomslag. Förord av Matti Klinge. Brett upplagd historia, ur politiskt, ekonomiskt och kulturellt perspektiv, över östersjöregionen, med tyngdpunkt på förbindelserna mellan dess olika länder och folk. Vackert illustrerad efter kartor och planscher ur äldre verk, målningar, modeller, arkitektur m. m. Hardcover / Hardback.…