[Rarebooks] fs: Manual of Yacht & Boat Sailing, c.1900

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 9938)   Kemp, Dixon (1839-1899), revised and partly re-written by 
B[rooke]. Heckstall Smith. A MANUAL OF YACHT AND BOAT SAILING. NINTH EDITION 
(VOLUME I ONLY).
London: Horace Cox, "The Field Office", 1900. Original cloth, Quarto, xii, 
667 pages + ads, engraved cuts. Good.
      Kemp's classic work on selecting, inspecting, and building a yacht 
along with detailed instruction on seamanship and sailing in open yachts, 
steam yachts, ice boats, and much more. This edition was published in two 
volumes: the first being the main text volume illustrated with engravings 
and the second being a volume of 124 folding plates. The present book is the 
first volume only. See TOY #2152; MORRIS & HOWLAND p. 76. Bound in royal 
blue cloth over boards with black endpapers, spine titled in gilt. Rubs to 
edges of boards, fraying of .25" along head and heel of spine, some evidence 
of old dampstaining at top 1.5" of lower board. Hinges sound.
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