The Mariner's Compass in an Iron Ship. How to Keep it Efficient, and Use it Intelligently with Some Remarks on Electric Installation in Its Relation to the Compass
Language: English
Published by Griffin & Co.Ltd./Simpkin Marshall & Co., Portsmouth and London, 1898
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United KingdomKaren Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA)
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Bright blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front cover. Compass and the price of 2/6 stamped in gilt on front cover. Pale yellow endpapers. Condition: Good, covers have light shelfwear and soiling with an area of spotting to rear cover. Browning to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 67pp. plus tables and magnetic charts. Includes chapters on magnets, terrestrial magnetism, compasses, deviation and heeling error. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Mariner's Compass in an Iron Ship. How to Keep it Efficient, and Use it Intelligently with Some Remarks on Electric Installation in Its Relation to the Compass
- Author
- Whitly-Dixon, J.
- Publisher
- Griffin & Co.Ltd./Simpkin Marshall & Co., Portsmouth and London
- Publication year
- 1898
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA)
Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
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Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books is based in Dorset. We specialise in books on 20th Century Art, Architecture and Design.
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Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA)
United Kingdom
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