Isbn: 9780851776088 - steam, steel and shellfire (11 risultati)

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.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. Limited Edition. 4to (31 x 26 cm). 192 pp. 724/2000. Red cloth covers, black cloth spine. Gilt titles to spine. Text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Excellent. First Edition First Printing.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Conway Mariitme Press [Published Date: 1992]. Hardcover, 192 pp. First Edition. #11 out of a limited edition of 2000. Very good in very good dust jacket. Red and black cloth covered boards have light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] After three hundred years of dependence upon the broadside-armed sailing man-of-war, the world's battlefleets were to change out of all recognition in the span of a single lifetime. Between 1840 and 1905, sail was replaced by steam, wooden hull construction with iron and then steel, and the shell-firing gun encouraged the adoption of armour plate. As the pace of technology accelerated, entirely new underwater weapons in the form of the mine, torpedo and the submarine evolved to threaten the traditional pre-eminence of the surface warship. Earlier historians felt that navies were slow to respond to these technical changes, but with the benefit of much recent research this volume reveals the old view to be untenable. The interaction of politics, economics and technology needs to be considered in any coherent history of naval development and for the first time Steel, Steam and Shellfire offers the general reader a proper understanding of this neglected, misunderstood but fascinating period. This volume includes: The Introduction of Steam; The Screw Propeller Warship; Iron Hulls and Armour Plate; The American Civil War; The Era of Uncertainty, 1863 - 1880; Warships of Steel 1879 - 1889; The Pre-dreadnought Age 1890 - 1905; Underwater Weapons and the Torpedo Boat; Early Submarines; Naval Armaments and Armour; Warship Machinery; Bibliography; Glossary; Index.…

hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Near Fine. Limited First Edition; #1502 of 2000. Edited by Robert Gardiner. (London): Conway Maritime Press, 1992. Limited First Edition, #1052 of 2000 copies. 12 x 10". 192pp, Index, Glossary. Hardcover. Book in fine condition; dj near fine (slightly wrinkled at edge). Illustrated with photographs and drawings. From Introduction: "study of the impact of technology on nineteenth-century naval design. It follows the development of warships from the first application of seam machinery to a seagoing warship through to the revolutionary British battleship Dreadnought of 1906". ISBN 0851776086; 12 x 10 inches; 192 pages. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. UK 1st edition 1st impression, ltd edition copy, no inscriptions not price clipped.

Hardback. 1992. First limited edition. A fine copy in a fine d/w. This copy is no. 1538 of a Limited edition of 2000 copies. Scans available if required.

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