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H.M.S.O, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Volume 1 only. Light scuffing and smudging across boards and spine strip. Upper corner of front endpaper cut. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London : H.M.S.O., 1966, first edition in two volumes, hb with xix; 382 p. col. ftp and b/w photos; cased 17 folded drawings with designs, diagrams. Text -fine/very good vol. with dec. boards - gilt on blue with simple dust jacket, case very good blue boards slight wear to gilt on spine. Additonal authors: Great Britain Victory Advisory Technical Committee. This is a detailed account of the building of the ship; of her permanent docking in 1922; of the fight against deathwatch beetle and fungal decay; and of her very extensive restoration and reconstruction including full particulars of structure, masts and spars, rigging, blocks and sails.
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London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office [at the University Printing House, Cambridge], 1966. First edition, 4to, pp. xix, [1], 382; color frontispiece and 56 plates, 43 drawings, 17 of which are folding and contained in a separate blue cloth folding box; original blue cloth, dust jacket with several short tears; very good and sound. Bookplate of Frederick E. Ellis. Concerning the preservation and restoration of the famous ship to her condition at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Admiral Lord Nelson, England's most famous naval hero, was killed on board at the moment of victory. Arthur Bugler is one of the shipwrights whose skill and conscientious craftsmanship has helped preserve this famous warship for posterity. Laid in is a 16-p. pamphlet "The Conferment of the Honorary Freedom of the City of Portsmouth on the Portsmouth Command of the Royal Navy, 7 May, 1965"; plus a one-page autograph letter signed from the mycologist W. P. K. Findlay dated 6 December, 1966, asking to see Bugler's book on the… Leer más