The Yachtsman's Handy Book for Sea Use, and Adapted for the Board of Trade Yachting Certificate -
W. H. Rosser
1877 - Charles Wilson (Late J. W. Norie &, London - First Edition
Everything the beginner need know when sailing a yacht in 1877, and to obtain your yachting certificate, with additional section on International Code of Signals containing a colour plates of flags, and another extra section titled ‘Questions and Answers in Fore and Aft Seamanship’. To the rear you will find thirteen illustrated pages of Advertisements of Yachting Requisites.
Rare first edition of this standard instructional, that went through a further five editions over 45 years. Illustrated throughout including a folding map of Europe, two other plates , one full page colour plate of flags, tables, in text illustrations of instruments, signals, and so on. Provenance: F. J. B. Beckford, of Winchester, Hampshire, England, with his armourial bookplate.
Reference: Toy, Adventures Afloat 1933.
Octavo (book size 22x14.3cm), pp. [4] 80, 16 (Brief Rules in Navigation), 16 (International Code of Signals), 12 (Questions and Answers in Fore and Aft Seamanship’), 13 (Advertisements of Yachting Requisites) [3 publisher’s ads]. In publisher’s blue cloth, front boards lettered in gilt and decorated in black, rear board decorated in blind. Condition: Very good, toning to spine, light rubbing to edges and spine ends with small loss to head, some darker patches to boards, toning to endpapers Ref: 108207 Price: HK$ 2,000
Rare first edition of this standard instructional, that went through a further five editions over 45 years. Illustrated throughout including a folding map of Europe, two other plates , one full page colour plate of flags, tables, in text illustrations of instruments, signals, and so on. Provenance: F. J. B. Beckford, of Winchester, Hampshire, England, with his armourial bookplate.
Reference: Toy, Adventures Afloat 1933.
Octavo (book size 22x14.3cm), pp. [4] 80, 16 (Brief Rules in Navigation), 16 (International Code of Signals), 12 (Questions and Answers in Fore and Aft Seamanship’), 13 (Advertisements of Yachting Requisites) [3 publisher’s ads]. In publisher’s blue cloth, front boards lettered in gilt and decorated in black, rear board decorated in blind. Condition: Very good, toning to spine, light rubbing to edges and spine ends with small loss to head, some darker patches to boards, toning to endpapers Ref: 108207 Price: HK$ 2,000