Dutton Commander Benjamin U S Navy (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good +. 4to; 509pp; gilt-stamped black cloth over board; ownership to endpapers; illustrated within text; scuffed cloth, small tears to cloth on front joint, wear to edges, light stain to bottom edge; foxing to endpapers; good plus. Seventh edition, published in 1942, as a textbook for the United States Naval Academy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 7th Edition. Fine condition navy blue linen boards with gold front cover and spine lettering. Includes Preface to First Edition by Benjamin Dutton, Commander, U.S. Navy, Annapolis, MD., May 25, 1926; Preface to the Seventh Dedition by C.H. Cobb, Captain, U.S. Navy, Head of the Department of Seamanship and Navigation, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, January 1942; Summary and Index. Profusely illustrated with diagrams, charts, graphs and maps. "This revision has been done under the direction of the Head of the Dpartment of Seamanship and Navigation. The actual work of revision was supervised by Commander K.J. Christoph, U.S. Navy, the Head of the Navigation Division, and was performed by officer instructors in navigation, chiefly Commander H.F. Floyd, U.S. Navy (Retired) and Lieutenant Commander L.H McDonald, U.S. Navy (Retired). The 1939 (sixth) edition and three reprints having been exhausted, this 1942 (seventh) edition offered an opportunity to correct errors appearing in the 1939 edition, to make desirable changes and to insert new material, some of which was suggested by officers of the service not attached to the Naval Academy. Although some changes of various kinds have been made in all chapters, the principal ones are as follows: (a) Chapters I, II, VII, and XIV revised and new material inserted. (b) Chapterr III, Section I, rearranged. (c) Chapter XII, entier chapter rewritten and rearranged. New material added, principally the description of the Nautical ALmanac and the Air Almanac. (d) Summary, revised and extracts from Air Almanac, 1941, inserted." - C.H. Cobb, Captain, U.S. Navy, Head of the Department of Seamanship and Navigation, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, January 1942. - from the Preface to the Seventh Edition.…