What Ship is That?

E. C. Talbot-Booth

Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, London, 1943

About this Item

A smart first edition of this detailed work on ships, with folding plates and images throughout. First edition. Illustrated with two folding plates with many in-text figures. A detailed introduction to the study of ship recognition, with chapters on the principal parts of merchant vessels, types of hull, bow, stems, and sterns, superstructure and upperworks, types of merchant vessels, types of warships, estimation of speed or age of ships, range of naval guns and torpedoes, and much more. Compiled, edited, and illustrated by E. C. Talbot-Booth, a British author and editor of Merchant Ships. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good.

Seller Inventory # 901T20

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Ship is That?
• Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1943
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: E. C. Talbot-Booth
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Voyages