capt george biddlecombe rn (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Hardback book (155 pages, plus ad page)illustrated with black and white drawings. Boards show moderate rubbing/scuffing with tips bumped - foxing on front endpapers. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-4-Middle-R) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good ++. No Jacket. Limited Edition. First printing-limited edition. Flat-signed by publisher- "Edward Sweetman" on title page. Brown coarse cloth boards with dark-brown imprinting on spine. Date in ink on front pastedown and prev owner stamp on flyleaf. Not rem marked or ex-lib. "The progressive method of rigging expressly adapted for sailing ships". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1925 1st edition of the revision by Capt. Biddlecombe of an 1848 work by Charles Wilson. Hardback bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in original dust wrapper. In very good condition, dust wrapper clipped, aged, particularly on spine, corners and edges rubbed, extensive old reinforcements and repairs to loss on inside and outside of wrapper, some slight foxing on endpapers only, otherwise tight and clean. Attractive owners bookplate for Thomas Burton Gabriel, with inscribed date March 1925. Xixpp with Preface and Introduction by Capt. Ernest H Pentecost RNR, 153pp including 17 black and white plates and extensive tables.