THE UNIVERSAL CODE OF SIGNALS FOR THE MERCANTILE MARINE OF ALL NATIONS

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Octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in later half brown leather with green cloth boards. Paneled spine with black label and gilt lettering. Slight cracking to upper edge of front hinge and weakening beginning. Discoloration to entirety of front cloth and part of rear cloth. With all six chromolithographic plates. Plates 1-4 bound before the title page with the first three as one folding page, plate 5 as a double-page "Maritime Merchant Flags of all Nations," with tissue guard between them. Despite its popularity, none of the editions of the Code are common. ZG consignment; shelved case 9. The first general system of signalling for merchant vessels was Captain Frederick Marryat's A Code of Signals for the Merchant Service published in 1817. Marryat's code was an immediate success and was translated into several other languages, and the 1854 edition was renamed The Universal Code of Signals for the Mercantile Marine of All Nations because of its widespread usage. The last edition was published in 1879, two decades after the publication of the code that supplanted it; there are reports that it was still being used as late as 1890. The replacement was the Commercial Code of Signals, published by the British Board of Trade in 1857, which eventually became the International Code of Signals (ICS). [wikipedia]; Previously published under title: A Code of Signals for the Use of Vessels Employed in the Merchant Service. "The copyright of this Code of Signals, by which the Mercantile Marine of the whole world has so greatly benefited, became from a very early period the property of the late Mr. J. M. Richardson. The Edition of 1841 was the last edited by the original inventor, the late Captain Marryat, but since then four large Editions has been issued, each greatly extended and improved." [from the Preface]. 1369650. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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Titel

THE UNIVERSAL CODE OF SIGNALS FOR THE MERCANTILE MARINE OF ALL NATIONS

Verlag

Richardson Brothers, London

Veröffentlichungsdatum

1854

Bindung

Hardcover

Ausgabe

Twelfth Edition.

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