Ashbery, JohnMareMagnum
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Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Signed on title page. Publisher's page has the words "First Published" with the date.
Features: First across the Kra; The Explorers Club in space; Tassili - the Sahara's secret; Exploring Spanish Galleons on the Pedro Shoals; My Career and Zaire - by Philip R. Dormitzer; Coronado's Chickens; The Explorers in London; The Antarctic Explorers Stamp Series; Anatomy of an Explorer, by John D. Bruno. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
New New English Original cloth bdg. Dust wrapper. Large 4to. (41 x 30 cm). In English and Turkish. 235 p. Color and b/w ills. A very heavy volume. Turkish sailing ships through the ages.= Tarih boyunca Türk yelkenli gemileri.
New New English Original binding with original dust wrapper. 4to. (31 x 24 cm). Color and b/w ills. In Turkish. 461 p. Ottoman sailboats and oared naval ships. Kürekli ve yelkenli Osmanli gemileri.
New New English Original binding with original dust wrapper. Mint. 4to. (31 x 24 cm). Color and b/w ills. In Turkish. 461 p. Ottoman sailboats and oared naval ships.
Book shows light wear to covers with a slight bend to the page block at the spine, a little light scuffing, a tiny bit of edge wear. Five pages starting with the Acknowledgments page have a dot of oil 1/4" diameter that has soaked through. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 95 pages. Publisher's page has the words "First Edition."
240 pages. Bibliography. Index of names. Index of geographical references. Handsome reproductions of historic maps and illustrations. Printed upon glossy stock. Chapters include: Galleons, Pirates, Pearls and Fantastic Straits - California, XVIIth Century; Russian, French, British and American Incursions into "The Spanish Lake"; The Spanish Presence on the Northwest Coast - Sea-going Expeditions (1774-1793); Spanish Cartographic Surveys of the Northwest Coast in the XVIIIth Century - The Corps of Naval Steersmen; The Culture of the Indians of the Northwest Coast; Faces in the Forest - Mozino's Noticias de Nutka; A Personal View of the Northwest Coast - The journal of Tomas de Suria (1791); Nootka - the Crisis of 1789. Fore-edge of front free endpaper rumpled, othwerwise book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this handsome and very informative work. Book
Very Good Turkish Original illustrated wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 109 p., 40 numerous b/w ills., and many unnumbered b/w photographic plates. Small label on front cover, occasional light fading in pages. Otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition of this first complete book on oarsmanship ever printed in Turkey, written by the Turkish oarsman champion hold the championship for a long time in the early period of the Turkish Republic. The book includes the details of the oarsmanship sport, boat building, rules, and western and Turkish history of this sport. Nevin Hassan started rowing in Galatasaray Bebek Boathouse [i.e. Kayikhâne] in 1929, and in the same year, he captured Eftal Nogan's championship in Tek Çifte boat from Altinordu. Nevin Hassan left active sports at a young age after 1935, went to Germany to study at the Berlin Technical High School, and followed the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a correspondent for "Kirmizi Beyaz dergisi" [i.e. the Red-White magazine]. During his education in Germany, he worked with F. K. Gwinner and Tom Sullivan, two of the most famous rowing coaches in the world at the time, at the Berliner Ruder-Club, and also read the books of the famous sports authority Steve Fairbairn and compared them with the Orthodox rowing style. Nevin Hassan coached the Galatasaray Rowing team following his return from Germany. Not located in OCLC.; The National Library of Turkey 000039123.
