chief engineer king (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. 3rd edition enlarged. Hardcover; Hardcover. Brown textured cloth boards with title on front board and spine in gold. Boards are edge worn and bumped, rubbing and light soil. Spine ends frayed, quarter inch loss. Foxed endpapers. Water mark to outer margins of text pages throughout. Text is unaffected. Occasional soil. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 8VO.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condizione: Good. Second Edition. Three-quarter red leather over red marbled boards, with matching endpapers and marbled edges. Various edgewear to leather. Hinges strong. 615 pages, with illustrations.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. xiv, 337pp, diagrams, fold out, appends. '.being the substance of a work recently published in America ; revised and corrected throughout, with additional notes by an English Naval Architect; and containing a description of the construction, armour, and fighting power of the iron-clads of England and other European powers of the present day.' Cloth is rubbed, fracturing to head and foot of spine, hint of spotting. 700g.

8vo. xvi, 615pp, frontis with guard, plates, text illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary full navy calf gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, red calf gilt spine label, Spine a little faded; calf lightly rubbed with isolated wear. Admiralty presentation bookplate dated 1882 to front paste-down. With the 66 plates called for plus a further 3 not in the plate list. Contains the substance of a work, Report of Chief Engineer J.W. King, United States Navy, on European ships of war . Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1877, which was reprinted in England as "The war-ships of Europe .".

Condizione: Gut. Leinen Neuer Leineneinband mit silbergeprägtem Rückentitel, Vorderdeckel mit montiertem Originalbezug. Der Schnitt ist gedunkelt, der Kopfschnitt ist rauh. Titelseite mit Bibliotheksstempel. Mit 23 Tafeln, davon 2 gefaltet; davon eine mit kleinem, geklebtem Einriß. Die Seiten sind bis auf Kleinigkeiten sauber und gut. Auswahl der beschriebenen und teilw. abgebildeten Schiffen/Typen: Inflexible, Devastation, Thunderer, Dreadnought, Audacious, Alexandra, Téméraire, Shannon, Nelson and Northhampton, Warrior, Waterwitch, Glatton, Unarmoured ships e.g. Inconstant, Raleigh, Boadicea, Rover etc. , Pelican, Iris and Mercury, Duquesne and Tourville, Duguay-Trouin, Rigault de Genouilly, Deutschland, Borussia, Preussen, Duilio, Dandolo, Cristofero Colombo, Novgorod, Admiral Popoff, Tegethoff. Anhang mit umfangreichem Tabellenteil. Am Ende 13 S. Verlagswerbung. Sprache / Language: de XIII + 337 Seiten. ca. 20 x 13,4 cm.