The Great Lakes Wooden Shipbuilding Era (includes the Tugboat CHAMPION, MONTEZUMA schooner, The DAVID DOWS, The Charles Bradley, the Steamer TAMPA, , the INDIANA, etc) ( Ship Building )
by Inches, H C, Foreword By William A MacDonald and Gordon Wendt / Great Lakes Historical Society
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good (see description)
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Canada: Canada: Great Lakes Historical Society, 1976, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing , 1976. -----------large (oblong quarto) softcover, about 17w x 11h inches, a Very Good copy with a wee bit of very light rubbing, short corner creases and bumped upper corner, plastic coil binding, former owner's name stamp on front endpaper, unpaginated, packed with b&w illustrations and photos, includes a brief essay on Wooden Shipbuilding (about 7 pages ), a full page illustration of the tug CHAMPION with eight schooners in tow, a full page schematic of the LUCIA A SIMPSON showing the sail plan plus 2 more pages of drawings and plans and 2 pages of photos; a full page plan of The MONTEZUMA (schooner 101 )plus drawings and photo; The DAVID Dows; The CHARLES BRADLEY including a photo showing The CB with Brightie, Mary Woolson and Goshawk in tow; The TAMPA (steamer 74 ); the building and disintegration of The INDIANA; freight and Pasenger propellor driven steamers; side wheel passenger steamers; interiors of side wheel steamers; lumber steamers; harbor and lake tugs; aids to navigation maintained by the United States Coast Guard; Shipyard scenes; any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED --- GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE /// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. Later Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good (see description). Illus. by Uncredited Cover Art. 17w x 11h Inches.
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- Bookseller
- Leonard Shoup (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 169631
- Title
- The Great Lakes Wooden Shipbuilding Era (includes the Tugboat CHAMPION, MONTEZUMA schooner, The DAVID DOWS, The Charles Bradley, the Steamer TAMPA, , the INDIANA, etc) ( Ship Building )
- Author
- Inches, H C, Foreword By William A MacDonald and Gordon Wendt / Great Lakes Historical Society
- Illustrator
- Uncredited Cover Art
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (see description)
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Canada: Great Lakes Historical Society, 1976, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 17w x 11h Inches
- Keywords
- Sailing Ships,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction;
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Leonard Shoup
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Burlington, Ontario
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