international code signals use nations (9 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations | Anonymous | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Antigonos Verlag | EAN 9783566083014 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good with no dust jacket. Presumed first English edition. 8V ; 246. 26 pages; Adds, color pages and color flags. Leather spine, cloth binding. Firm and straight.

Leather. Zustand: Good Only. Not Stated (illustrator). A comprehensive code of signals, with colour illustrations. The International Code of Signals for the use of all Nations, prepared under the authority of the board of trade.The first edition of this work was published in 1857. The volume contains a reference for an international code of signals, with flags of nations to the front of the volume and instructions on how to signal, two-flag signals, three flag-signals, four flag signals and distant signals.With fourteen pages of colour flags.Collated, complete.Adverts to the front and rear of the volume. In quarter leather with cloth covered boards. Externally, smart with rubbing to the spine and splitting to the spine and front joint. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Good Only. book.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). An early printing of this book of International Code of Signals, with coloured illustrations. An early printing of this work, dated 1899 from the same copy held at the National Trust Libraries on Jisc. With a publisher's slip bound in with the volume stating 'This edition of the International Code of Signals will come into use on 1st January 1901 .'A revised edition of the of the original 1857 International Signal Book, which at the time failed to meet the requirements of the Mercantile Marine. This volume comprises a more updated copy of the international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages concerning the safety of navigation and related matters.Structured in two parts: Part I with instructions on how to signal, including how to make alphabetical spelling signals and numeral signals, and Part II on distant signals, including the fixed semaphore for coast use.Illustrated with twelve full page coloured plates of flags, as well as numerous other illustrations in text. With numerous leaves of advertisements. In the original publisher's quarter morocco binding over cloth covered boards. Externally rather worn with some shelf wear and chipping to the extremities, of the boards, rubbing to the spine and boards, with some minor losses to the cloth of the boards and a touch of edge wear. General light soiling to the boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are clean with a touch of age toning to the protruding title indexes, as usual, and to the first and last few leaves. Illustrated with twelve full page coloured plates of flags, as well as numerous other illustrations in text. With numerous leaves of advertisements. Good. book.

1899 Spottiswoode London, hardcover 572 pages + advertisements, with coloured illustrations of the flags. In good condition (because of weight, orders outside Europe additional costs for sending).

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1873. Royal8vo. Orig. full calf. Gilt boders and gilt lettering on covers. Gilt spine. Lithographed frontispiece in colour. XVI,107,203,26,8 pp., 3 lithographed colourplates (one large folded).

xvi + 107 + 238pp, 16pp adverts, colour frontis of flags, 4pp colour flags, xxiii + 122pp, bound with: The British Code List for 1878, xxiii + 122 + 4 + 3pp, endpaper adverts, original embossed boards with later leather spine, a good clean copy. AJS: There was no practical flag book for the merchant service until 1817 when Captain Frederick Marryat RN, produced his Code of Signals for the Merchant Service. The book was an international success going through nineteen editions between 1817 and 1879, there were a number of foreign language editions too. In 1857 a new code entitled the Commercial Code of Signals (later, from 1870, known as the International Code) was published under the authority of the British Board of Trade, and gradually this superseded Marryat. The copy catalogued here is dated 1877: - Prepared under the authority of the Board of Trade. With The British Code List for 1878, for the Use of Ships at Sea, and for Signal Stations, Appendix to the International Code of Signals prepared by Allen Stonham, Esq., Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.

1870 nice copy complete with adverts with quarterly supplement loosely inserted. Leather spine is missing.