The Romance of Submarine Engineering: Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-Technical Language of the Construction of Submarine Boats, the Salving of Great Ships, the Recovery of Sunken Treasures, the Building of Breakwaters and Docks and Many other Feats of Engineering Beneath the Surface of the Water.
Published by London: Seeley, Service, & Co., 1913
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: MFR RARE BOOKS, Edinburgh, United KingdomMFR RARE BOOKS
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Condition: Used - Fine
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FIRST EDITION. Leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (19.5cm x 13cm x 4.5cm), pp. 316. English text, with fifty-four illustrations and diagrams throughout. Handsomely bound in full calf gilt by Relfe Bros. Ltd., London, marbled page edges and endpapers, half-title, frontispiece plus 23 leaves of plates, 30 diagrams in the text, printed footnotes, rear index in double columns. Condition: FINE. A remarkable tight and clean copy. Prize plate to front pastedown.
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- Title
- The Romance of Submarine Engineering: Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-Technical Language of the Construction of Submarine Boats, the Salving of Great Ships, the Recovery of Sunken Treasures, the Building of Breakwaters and Docks and Many other Feats of Engineering Beneath the Surface of the Water.
- Author
- THOMAS CORBIN
- Publisher
- London: Seeley, Service, & Co.
- Publication year
- 1913
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Engineering, Fine Bindings, First Edition
MFR RARE BOOKS
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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