Author: DAVIES G CHRISTOPHER
Title: Practical Boat Sailing for Amateurs
Description: London, L Upcott Gill & Son. 1890. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. 'containing particulars of the most suitable sailing boats and yachts for amateurs, and instructions for their proper handling &c', illustrated with designs and plans of small yachts and sailing boats, and numerous diagrams, nd, 18pp adverts at rear dated 1890, maroon cloth with black white and gilt dec cover and spine, spine lightly sunned, light rubbing to spine ends and corners, front hinge cracked, pencil inscription [Ian White Sumner 1935], minimal foxing to prelims and closed edges, vii 198pp + folding diagrams and plans, frontis photo of The Swan a four ton yacht for single handling, tissue guard intact. Very Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Boats Boating Nautical Maritime Sailing Yachts Yachting Victorian Nineteenth Century Boatbuilding Making Boatwright Shipwright Wooden Boats Manufacture


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