Brown son ferguson ltd (961 resultados)

paperback. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

paperback. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

paperback. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paper Cover. Condición: Good. Still well bound. Interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. 40pp.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Foxing to the pages.…

Condición: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: good. Missing dust cover, otherwise book is in good condition with some wear from normal use.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Published 1968. Paperback, vii + 109 pp.; 22 cm; second edition, second reprint; illustrated with line drawings and diagrams throughout. In good condition. Orange laminated card covers, lettering in red, the lamination turned in and mitred at the corners as issued. Chipping to the lamination with nicks and short tears along edges, creasing to corners, moderate scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Pages toned but otherwise unmarked.Practical seamanship manual on rope, wire, blocks, tackles and ground tackle, first published 1925 and still being reprinted forty years later. Stopford opens the second edition by quoting a naval flag officer who had dismissed the first, holding that "most naval learners will be content to acquire their instruction from practical experience rather than from a book of this class." He answers that writing it down was meant to prevent destruction of material and danger to life and limb, and returns to boat-ropes, believing boats reported capsized while being lowered were lost for want of the knowledge. Part I covers cordage manufacture, bends and hitches, splicing, sennit and net-making, blocks and purchases, derricks and towing; Part II anchors, cables, mooring and clearing hawse, closing with fancy knots. Brown, Son & Ferguson of Glasgow have been nautical printers since the 1830s and publish Brown's Nautical Almanac.Contents: Part I. Cordage and Cables: Ropes, Process of Manufacture, Wire Ropes; Care and Maintenance of Ropes, Cutting, Strength, Steel Wire Rope; The Danger of a Taut Span, Strength of a Span; Bends and Hitches, Their Uses; Knots and Splices, Hemp, Wire Splicing, Eye-Splice, Wire Grummet; Point, Graft, Seizing, Lashings, Serving, Flemish Eye; Sennit, Net-Making and Mending; Blocks, Tackles, Purchases, Stropping Blocks; Derricks, Sheers; Boats' Falls; Laying-out Hawsers, Securing to a Buoy; Securing a Vessel alongside a Wharf or another Vessel; Application of the Parallelogram of Forces to the Foregoing Subject; Towing. Part II. Anchors and Cables: Types of Anchors; Cables, Manufacture, Kinds, Shackles; Stowage of Anchors; Cable Holders and Capstans; Anchoring, Weighing, Mooring, Unmooring; Mooring Head and Stern; Clearing Hawse; Laying-out Anchors, Bower, Sheet Anchor, Kedging; Some Fancy Knots.…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condición: Fair. Ships Out Tomorrow.

hardcover. Condición: Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 1973 Reprint of 2nd edition. The binding is bright, square and tight. Shows only slightest edge wear and a few small green paint spots. The dust jacket is clean and bright, a very minor bit of edge wear. The first few pages have faint smudges otherwise pages are clean, unmarked and tightly bound.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. A handbook on simple coastwise navigation for the small cruising yacht. Covers the use of charts, equipment, ground tackle, the barometer, warps, sailing directions, compass, log, tidal streams atlas, and much more. Profusely illustrated.

Condición: Good. Good condition. Slightly dampstained.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. New Series, 1962. No markings, Guaranteed condition. Cullen, Patricia (ilustrador).

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Third Edition. covers lightly rubbed with a little bit of light soiling, pages lightly toned, corners lightly bumped.

Softcover. Condición: Fair. Second Edition. Large area of staining to upper part of front cover. By the title page it is limited to the area of the upper outer corner, continues to diminish through the booklet until stain is gone around page 44. Owner's name written on inside of front cover. ; Approx. 4 1/2" wide by 6 3/4". ; 60 + ads pages. …

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1978 printing. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. Light soiling on the fore edge of the text block. The clipped dust jacket shows edgewear and soiling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 157pp.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 6th. ***Please Read*** No marks on text - My shelf location 42-C-43*.