Our Seaman An Appeal

by Samuel Plimsoll

$32 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

First edition

Hardcover, London: Virtue & Company, 1979. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. This is the 1979 facsimile reprint of the 1873 first edition. The first edition of this title is one of the more important seamanship books ever written, the author was a British Member of Parliament and in his book he detailed the abuses unscrupulous shipowners and shady insurance companies heaped upon the men who went to sea. He quotes examples of

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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