Brown son and ferguson (Oltre 2400 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paper Cover. Condizione: Good. Still well bound. Interior in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. 40pp.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Foxing to the pages.…

Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: good. Missing dust cover, otherwise book is in good condition with some wear from normal use.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. A clean copy in good plus condition with slightly bowed boards. DJ in good minus with sticker ghost shelf wear a a few small tears and chips. Includes July 1958 Supplement.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Published 1968. Paperback, vii + 109 pp.; 22 cm; second edition, second reprint; illustrated with line drawings and diagrams throughout. In good condition. Orange laminated card covers, lettering in red, the lamination turned in and mitred at the corners as issued. Chipping to the lamination with nicks and short tears along edges, creasing to corners, moderate scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Pages toned but otherwise unmarked.Practical seamanship manual on rope, wire, blocks, tackles and ground tackle, first published 1925 and still being reprinted forty years later. Stopford opens the second edition by quoting a naval flag officer who had dismissed the first, holding that "most naval learners will be content to acquire their instruction from practical experience rather than from a book of this class." He answers that writing it down was meant to prevent destruction of material and danger to life and limb, and returns to boat-ropes, believing boats reported capsized while being lowered were lost for want of the knowledge. Part I covers cordage manufacture, bends and hitches, splicing, sennit and net-making, blocks and purchases, derricks and towing; Part II anchors, cables, mooring and clearing hawse, closing with fancy knots. Brown, Son & Ferguson of Glasgow have been nautical printers since the 1830s and publish Brown's Nautical Almanac.Contents: Part I. Cordage and Cables: Ropes, Process of Manufacture, Wire Ropes; Care and Maintenance of Ropes, Cutting, Strength, Steel Wire Rope; The Danger of a Taut Span, Strength of a Span; Bends and Hitches, Their Uses; Knots and Splices, Hemp, Wire Splicing, Eye-Splice, Wire Grummet; Point, Graft, Seizing, Lashings, Serving, Flemish Eye; Sennit, Net-Making and Mending; Blocks, Tackles, Purchases, Stropping Blocks; Derricks, Sheers; Boats' Falls; Laying-out Hawsers, Securing to a Buoy; Securing a Vessel alongside a Wharf or another Vessel; Application of the Parallelogram of Forces to the Foregoing Subject; Towing. Part II. Anchors and Cables: Types of Anchors; Cables, Manufacture, Kinds, Shackles; Stowage of Anchors; Cable Holders and Capstans; Anchoring, Weighing, Mooring, Unmooring; Mooring Head and Stern; Clearing Hawse; Laying-out Anchors, Bower, Sheet Anchor, Kedging; Some Fancy Knots.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. . . . . 8vo, hardcover. Near fine condition in vg+ dj. NOT ex-library. Faintest foxing to textblock edge, not affecting interior at all; Contents bright & clean, appears unread; dj glossy w/ slight edge-rubbing. 185 p., illus., plates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Second Edition; Second Printing. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Limited, (1980). Second Edition, Second Printing. 8vo. 92pp, Index, Bibliography, References. Blue cloth. Fine condition in fine dj. 9 full-page illustrations and 6 folded tables (slightly age-toned). ISBN 0851741584; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Very Good. 1987. Paperback. Paperback, blue spine (blank). Stamps on inside front cover and first page, date written on inside front cover. 189pp. First edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Condizione: Good+. Second Edition. 2Nd Edition; 401 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condizione: Very Good. 1987. Paperback. Paperback, blue spine (blank). Stamps on inside front cover and first page, date written on inside front cover. 189pp. First edition copy. . . .

hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Ships Out Tomorrow.