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"Modern Seamanship" by Austin M. Knight, was for years and years the main, masterful treatise on the subject. Bringing to the fore everything that had to be known by sailors on boats and ships of all sizes and purpose. This is the Ninth Printing of the 10th Edition, published in November of 1942, so World War Two was well under way, and a goodly portion of the book obviously deals with giant battleships and destroyers. Nothing is left to the imagination, and we see that the book deals with all matters concerning the physical structures and both external and internal workings of a ship. The book has numerous detailed illustration which are a joy to perceive. Near the end of the book there is even a section on sailing ships, and discussions about the details of sail construction, proper configuration and use. Night time signals are detailed , as well as such things as buoys, and the many types and meanings of those prosaic but necessary floating warnings. Human interactions and formal ranks aside, there is probably hardly a thing necessary to good seamanship that has been left out. **************************************** TITLE : Modern Seamanship (on Spine : Knight's Modern Seamanship) / AUTHOR : Austin M. Knight (Late Rear Admiral, United States Navy) / IMPRINT : D. Van Nostrand Co. / PLACE : 250 Fourth Avenue, New York / DATE : (November 1942) / EDITION : Tenth Edition, Ninth Printing : (Rewritten and Revised By the Officers of the the Department of Seamanship and Navigation, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland) / PHYSICAL DETAILS : Contains a great many illustrations, both halftone photographs and detailed drawings, as well as a number of charts 5 3/8 x 8 1/4"; x + 848 pages; dark blue, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Binding is semi-flexible. ********************************************* CONDITION - VERY GOOD - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, the following particulars noted : The previous owned stamped his name four times on each sheet of the end-paper. :: EXTERIOR -- Spine extremities are compressed with fraying just beginning at rear corner of head; boards display moderate rub and smudging; board edges display a few dents; corner tips are bumped with attendant touch of fray. Text-block edges are lightly toned, else clean. / BINDING -- While the leaves open easily and widely, this is, more or less, a function of the book's design, and the whole remains fairly solid with no detached or loose leaves. / INTERIOR -- There are a few (very few) leaf corner tips that are dog-eared; the interior is clean and free of marking. No writing, no marginalia or underlining. Re : the aforementioned ownership stamps. Seller Inventory # 1920
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