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Richardson FredrickABAA

One foot in industry and one foot in the soil

Richardson G. B MarryatABAA

The Universal Code of Signals for The Mercantile Marine of All Nations by the Late Captain Marryat R. N. with a Selection of Sentences Adapted for Convoys and Systems of Geometrical Night & Fog Signals

186118388London: Richardson & Company 1861. First Printing. Cloth. Fair. First Printing. 3- publisher ads count includes front pastedown and endpaper foldout leaf with Plates I & II 1 leaf Plate IV i-vi 1 leaf Plate VI vii-viii 2 leaves Plates III and VII ix-xi 1-general contents 11 - "PART I" 1 - "PART II FOREIGN VESSELS OF WAR The list of the French Navy being no longer published this Part cannot be continued" 2 leaves plate V 154 last leaf apparently an insert with additional information on front verso blank - "PART III MERCHANT VESSELS" 2 - "BRITISH MERCHANT VESSELS OFFICIAL NUMBERS &c" 72 last blank - "PART IV LIGHTHOUSES HEADLANDS PORTS and HARBOURS ." 85 - "PART V MEM. - Several New ." 51 "PART VI VOCABULARY ." 2 "ADMIRALTY NOTICE" 10 - "LIST OF AGENTS TO LLOYD'S" bottom of last page with printer imprint 2 - "ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY'S DIRECTIONS FOR THE RECOVERY OF THE APPARENTLY DROWNED" this tipped onto rear endpaper pages. A total of 6 Parts. 2 xi 391 pages plus 7 plates Binding appears to be publishers cloth with blind stamped design quite faded and worn with amateur repair to corners and spine panel. Recent paper label on spine. Front board with gold title lettering and decorative border: "THE UNIVERSAL CODE OF SIGNALS MARRYAT RICHARDSON" also faded but readable. Front flyleaf crudely glued at the gutter first folding plate nearly torn in 2 at the fold repaired with archival tape. Binding still sound noting several signatures a bit "proud". A working man's copy and in it's original "patina'd" state. Front pastedown and endpaper publisher advertisements. Previous owner Haddock & Co St. Thomas stamped in several places another inked name/location on front flyleaf. Chips and creasing to front flyleaf no loss of text. 2 of the plates probably trimmed no apparent loss to content While there are no page numbers each section appears complete with numerical signals progressing page to page in an appropriate manner with no obvious gaps. All sections present per the "General Contents" page. While not aesthetically pleasing as a book the content signaling ship to ship was an important function in the days before other communication systems as evidenced by it's obviously used state. Cloth. This copy is dated 1861. The preface which is for the edition of 1856 notes that the original Inventor of the code of signals the late Captain Marryat produced his last edition in 1841. It further notes that six large Editions have been issued since "each greatly extended and improved". We don't know how many editions if any were produced between that 1856 edition and this 1861 edition. There is no specific edition noted in the book.<br/><br/>A scarce title with only 6 items for this publication date in OCLC not all complete. Richardson & Company unknown books

Kuenzig Books, ABAA · États-Unis303,00 $US≈ 256,37 €