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Published by Naval Inst Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1557500215ISBN 13: 9781557500212
Seller: Spike706, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition/First printing! Some read/shelf wear and aging. Notes and an owner sticker inside the cover.
Published by Naval Inst Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1557500215ISBN 13: 9781557500212
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Published by Naval Inst Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1557500215ISBN 13: 9781557500212
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Published by Naval Inst Pr, Annapolis, Md, 2000
ISBN 10: 1557500215ISBN 13: 9781557500212
Seller: First Landing Books & Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Classics Of Naval Literature. Blue Cloth With Title In Gold On Frontt Cover And Spine. Blue Ribbon Sewn In. 485 Pages Including Appendices, Bibliography And Intensive Index. The Only Mar Is The Previous Owners' Name And Date On Top Of Half-Title Page. The Result Of An Exhaustive, International Research Effort, The Book Also Has Been Acknowledged By Naval Historians To Be One Of The Very Early Attempts To Broaden Naval History Into A Serious Study Of Logistics And Supply And Of Technology And Operations. In A Delightfully Absorbing Prose Rare For Such Studies, Robert Albion Relates These Pivotal Issues Throughout The Two-Hundred-Year Period That Saw Most Of The Greatest Naval Wars Of The Age Of Sail, From The First Dutch War Of 1652 To The Introduction Of The Ironclad Early In The American Civil War. The Author Explores How The Timber Supply Problem Affected Other European Maritime Powers And Their Far-Flung Colonies, Explains How It Was Driven By The Conservatism And Corruption Of Official Bureaus And Rapacious Landowners Conducting The Business, And Offers A Fascinating Portrait Of The Contemporary Logging And Timber Transport Industries. An Introductory Essay Has Been Written For This New Classics Edition By Timothy Bean, A Lecturer At The Department Of War Studies At The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst And A Specialist In Early Eighteenth-Century Naval History. His Essay Examines Albion's Unique Contributions To The Understanding Of The Relationship Between The Military And Commerce And Applies Navy Timber Supply Issues To Twentieth-Century Problems With Oil Supplies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Naval Inst Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1557500215ISBN 13: 9781557500212
Seller: Campbell Bookstore, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good.
Published by Naval Inst Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1557500215ISBN 13: 9781557500212
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Naval Inst Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1557500215ISBN 13: 9781557500212
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Published by Naval Inst Pr, 1999
ISBN 10: 1557500215ISBN 13: 9781557500212
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: new. New.
Published by Harvard University Press, 1926
Seller: Weather Rock Book Company, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in dust jacket. Important work. Gilt-stamped red cloth binding. Attractive bookplate to front pastedown. Previously owned by Donald V. Reardon, formerly a Coast Guard reserve officer and senior naval architect at American President Lines, whose collection of vessel documents is maintained by the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Ex-library copy stamped "released" bearing remnants of stickers and pockets to rear endpapers. Withdrawn from the J. Porter Shaw Maritime Library. Dust jacket is edgeworn, chipped, and price-clipped.
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge , MA, 1926
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Author (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 1926, Cranberry cloth hardcover, 485 page book. Lacks the publishers dust wrapper.Red cloth well rubbed , spine well faded with gilt stamped lettering quite dulled, top edge of front and rear boards show fadding. Glue residue from removed bookplate still present on the front pastedown. Frontispiece. Appendices . Bibliography. Index. Volume XXIX in the Harvard Economic Studies. FOREST AND SEA POWER was the first extensive study of the relationship between the British Navy's shortage of suitable ship timber and Britain's foreign policy and colonial expansionism during the seventeeth to eighjteenth centuries. , most notably Paul Walden Bamford's FOREST AND FRENCH SES POWER 1660 - 1789, none match Albion's insight and his book remains among the most highly regarded naval and military history titles. Quite scarce and rare and very uncommon . Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1926
Seller: 12 Peers Fine Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original maroon cloth with blindstamped design to the centre of the front board. Slightly faded title in gilt to the spine. Frontispiece. Adverts. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. An interesting book which examines a subject that is not commonly known. A solid square and tight copy. Excellent condition. Very scarce in the first edition. Size: 6.5" x 9.0" Language: eng.