Author: Basil Greenhill
Title: The Coastal Trade: Sailing Craft of British Waters 900-1900
Description: London, The Bourton Press, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this in-depth history of British vessels covering over a millenia, richly illustrated in colour throughout and presented in the original dust wrapper and slipcase. Detailing coastal vessels, local vessels, fishing vessels and working boats. Introduced and with notes by Basil Greenhill, the Director of the National Maritime Museum, a historian and author.Complete with an excellent unclipped dust wrapper and slipcase. Richly illustrated with paintings by Lionel Willis; forty-three plates in colour and fifty-three black and white illustrations. Collated, complete.The first edition of this thorough work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper, housed in a slipcase. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper has some slight wear to the tail of the spine, but is otherwise in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Lionel Willis. Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: The Coastal Trade British Maritime History British Waters Sailing British Maritime History Basil Greenhill Lionel Willis
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Title: The Coastal Trade: Sailing Craft of British Waters 900-1900
Description: London, The Bourton Press, 1975. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this in-depth history of British vessels covering over a millenia, richly illustrated in colour throughout and presented in the original dust wrapper and slipcase. Detailing coastal vessels, local vessels, fishing vessels and working boats. Introduced and with notes by Basil Greenhill, the Director of the National Maritime Museum, a historian and author.Complete with an excellent unclipped dust wrapper and slipcase. Richly illustrated with paintings by Lionel Willis; forty-three plates in colour and fifty-three black and white illustrations. Collated, complete.The first edition of this thorough work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper, housed in a slipcase. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper has some slight wear to the tail of the spine, but is otherwise in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Lionel Willis. Fine/Near Fine.
Keywords: The Coastal Trade British Maritime History British Waters Sailing British Maritime History Basil Greenhill Lionel Willis
Price: GBP 90.00 = appr. US$ 128.52 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 790R61
- Book number: 790R61
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