Practical Boat-Sailing: A Concise and Simple Treatise on the Management of Small Boats and Yachts Under All Conditions, with Explanatory Chapters on Ordinary Sea Manoeuvres, and the Use of Sails, Helm, and Anchor, and Advice as to What Is Proper to Be Done in Different Emergencies; Supplemented by a Short Vocabulary of Nautical Terms

Original publisher's brown cloth binding. 4 1/4" x 6." 142 pages, complete. Fourteen pages of advertisements for various publications in the back. Black and white diagrams and illustrations, complete. On the front cover is an illustration of a ship at sea. Pages and covers are very clean; binding is tight. Former ownership inscription in pencil on front pastedown: "Morris K. Davis, San Francisco, Kal., [Two Greek letters.] 97. And here's to '97' / We're all going to heaven / Drink it down, etc. / And here's to '98' / They'll all get there too late / Drink, etc. JRB.".