The Conquest of the Sea - A Book about Divers and Diving - Original first edition bound in contemporary full leather
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1873
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Creaking Shelves Books, Spean Bridge, United KingdomCreaking Shelves Books
AbeBooks seller since October 5, 1998
Association member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 925.00
Quantity: 1 available
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xi+299p with plates and some illustrations in the text. The classic early book on diving and its history and practice.Written by the son of August Siebe, a German-born artillery officer who had moved to London following the Napoleonic wars and pursued a career in engineering. It was this elder Siebe who devised the standard and familiar diving apparatus of detachable helmet and canvas suit, and who, in partnership with his son-in-law, founded the firm whose name became internationally synonymous with diving equipment, Siebe Gorman. The book is bound in full leather, probably a prize binding with the Royal gilt coat of arms on front board and all edges gilt. The spine has raised bands with gilding and a neat black title label. The endpapers are marbled and the book is clean and tight without marks of signatures. No foxing. The marbled boards on the front pastedown are a little faded as if a label may have been removed and there is a corner chipped from one of the preliminaries. Still a VG+ copy of this diving classic. See scans and email for many more.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Conquest of the Sea - A Book about Divers and Diving - Original first edition bound in contemporary full leather
- Author
- Siebe, Henry
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, London
- Publication year
- 1873
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Full-Leather
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall
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- Art, Crafts, Jewelry, Wood & Metalwork & Painting, History, Transport
Creaking Shelves Books
Spean Bridge, United Kingdom
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"Creaking Shelves Books" has been selling (and buying) books on line since 1999. Based now in Spean Bridge, ten miles from in Fort William beneath Ben Nevis. I have a varied stock with a particular emphasis in Scottish History and topography, mountaineering, geology, natural history and ephemera. Unusual items and small rarities are a speciality!
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