9780715359716 - Great Ouse: The History of a River Navigation di Summers, Dorothy (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and clipped.

Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0715359711.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents, The dust jacket is well preserved and now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve. Illustrated, 247pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A5 portrait format hardback with dustjacket. One in a series on canals from this publisher. Colour frontispiece, 247pp including index, eight chapters, six appendices, 32 black and white photographs on additional glossy pages and 10 maps and illustrations within the text. Previous owner's name and date of purchase in top left hand corner of flyleaf otherwise both book and jacket in near fine ciondition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's green coloured cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket that has no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.8vo 247pp First Edition 1st Impression [1973].

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Photographs / Illustrations / Plates (illustratore). First Edition. Dust jacket price clipped. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Small ownership label. Photographs / Illustrations / Plates. 247 pages clean and tight. The history of river navigations other than the Thames is poorly documented. We now have, however, two excellent ones, Baron F. Duckham's The Yorkshire Ouse and Dorothy Summers' The Great Ouse. These give us the navigation history of two important rivers from the earliest times to the present, and very different they are. Navigation on the Great Ouse, completed to Bedford in the seventeenth century, had to contend for most of the time with powerful drainage interests: only occasionally, as under the South Level Corporation, were the two reconciled. Trade, too, was made more difficult because, right through the river's history from the seventeenth century to our own, navigation rights for most of the river were in private and not in company hands, with the right to charge tolls, except at one place, undefined. All this offers an absorbing and hitherto largely untold story. Dorothy Summers here develops the navigation history of the whole river from Bedford to King's Lynn and the Wash : the river and its tributaries, locks, staunches, bridges and mills, boats and boatmen, set against the endlessly recurrent need for good drainage. The Great Ouse adds greatly to our knowledge of navigation history: it is a book for all waterway enthusiasts, and for those who know and love East Anglia. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. There is a neat, dated signature to the f.e.p. and a handsome bookplate to the front paste down. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The River Great Ouse is a river in England, the longest of several British rivers called "Ouse". From Syresham in Northamptonshire, the Great Ouse flows through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to drain into the Wash and the North Sea near Kings Lynn. With a course of about 143 mi (230 km), mostly flowing north and east, it is the fifth longest river in the United Kingdom. The Great Ouse has been historically important for commercial navigation, and for draining the low-lying region through which it flows; its best-known tributary is the Cam, which runs through Cambridge. Its lower course passes through drained wetlands and fens and has been extensively modified, or channelised, to relieve flooding and provide a better route for barge traffic. The unmodified river would have changed course regularly after floods. Published in the impressive and authoritative David & Charles Inland Waterways series it is illustrated with thirty two plates and ten maps and illustrations in the text. Ref QQQ 6.

Hardback.  The history of river navigations other than the Thames is poorly documented. We now have, however, two excellent ones, Baron F. Duckham's The Yorkshire Ouse and Dorothy Summers' The Great Ouse. These give us the navigation history of two important rivers from the earliest times to the present, and very different they are. Navigation on the Great Ouse, completed to Bedford in the seventeenth century, had to contend for most of the time with powerful drainage interests: only occasionally, as under the South Level Corporation, were the two reconciled. Trade, too, was made more difficult because, right through the river's history from the seventeenth century to our own, navigation rights for most of the river were in private and not in company hands, with the right to charge tolls, except at one place, undefined. All this offers an absorbing and hitherto largely untold story. Dorothy Summers here develops the navigation history of the whole river from Bedford to King's Lynn and the Wash : the river and its tributaries, locks, staunches, bridges and mills, boats and boatmen, set against the endlessly recurrent need for good drainage. The Great Ouse adds greatly to our knowledge of navigation history: it is a book for all waterway enthusiasts, and for those who know and love East Anglia. Coloured Frontispiece. Good condition. Inscription at top of inside front cover page. Plastic slip over dust jacket.