9780715359716 - Great Ouse: The History of a River Navigation (Inland Waterways Histories S.) von Summers, Dorothy (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and clipped.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0715359711.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents, The dust jacket is well preserved and now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve. Illustrated, 247pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's green coloured cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket that has no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.8vo 247pp First Edition 1st Impression [1973].

Hardback.  The history of river navigations other than the Thames is poorly documented. We now have, however, two excellent ones, Baron F. Duckham's The Yorkshire Ouse and Dorothy Summers' The Great Ouse. These give us the navigation history of two important rivers from the earliest times to the present, and very different they are. Navigation on the Great Ouse, completed to Bedford in the seventeenth century, had to contend for most of the time with powerful drainage interests: only occasionally, as under the South Level Corporation, were the two reconciled. Trade, too, was made more difficult because, right through the river's history from the seventeenth century to our own, navigation rights for most of the river were in private and not in company hands, with the right to charge tolls, except at one place, undefined. All this offers an absorbing and hitherto largely untold story. Dorothy Summers here develops the navigation history of the whole river from Bedford to King's Lynn and the Wash : the river and its tributaries, locks, staunches, bridges and mills, boats and boatmen, set against the endlessly recurrent need for good drainage. The Great Ouse adds greatly to our knowledge of navigation history: it is a book for all waterway enthusiasts, and for those who know and love East Anglia. Coloured Frontispiece. Good condition. Inscription at top of inside front cover page. Plastic slip over dust jacket.