CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS.

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Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea. Second edition, following the first of 1912, of this bilingual reference for customs service employees and those serving on private vessels. Though unmarked as such, this copy was formerly owned by Lester Knox Little (1892-1981), the service's last inspector-general, and was acquired by a private collector from his family in 1999.This handbook is scarcer than most customs service publications, most copies likely not surviving the ravages of use onboard ship. WorldCat shows that the New York Public Library holds both editions, and a copy of the second can also be found at Cornell.

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