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 9�" - 12" tall.

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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

Publisher

Griffin & Co.Ltd./Simpkin Marshall & Co., Portsmouth and London

Publication Date

1898

Language

English

Binding

Cloth

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket

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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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Owner: Karen Jakobsen
Address: 10 Church Street, Sturminster Newton, Dorset DT10 1DB
Email: info@karenjakobsen.co.uk
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