Author: ADMIRALTY
Title: A Seaman's Pocket-Book. June 1943. By Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. SOLE WARTIME EDITION: NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
Description: HMSO,, 1943. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, with 5 coloured plates and very numerous monochrome illustrations (many full-page) in the text; original boards printed in black, blue cloth back, covers lightly age-soiled else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Publication code BR 827. With 2 pages of trade advertisements at front. Sole wartime edition of a deceptively detailed and compact guide aimed primarily at HO ratings that by now were forming an increasing proportion of ships' companies. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, admiralty, seamanship, admiralty, naval, manuals, seaman's, pocket-book


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