Author: PARKINSON C.N.
Title: Trade in the Eastern Seas 1793-1813. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Description: University Press, Cambridge,, 1937. 8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates (including 2 charts) and 2 maps on one folder at end; original green buckram, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (TO PETER STORRS FOX) WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With the (illustrated) rear panel of the dustwrapper loosely inserted. Elusive and important standard reference. Signed copies of any of Northcote Parkinson's works are exceedingly scarce. Albion, p.185; Gulbenkian/Minchinton 3591.

Keywords: naval, maritime, merchant navy, east indies, india, travel, trade, exploration, northcote parkinson, c.n. parkinson, naval, maritime, trade, eastern, seas, 1793-1813


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