The Telegraph Dictionary And Seamens Signal Book Adapted To Signals By Flags Or Other Semaphores

by Henry J Rogers Assistant Superintendent Of Electro Magnetic Telegraphs For The United States

$2,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Baltimore: published by F. Lucas, Jr., 170 Market Street, 1845 . 8vo, pp. x, 2 , xi-xii, 2 , 11-334, 2 ; frontispiece and 4 chromolithograph plates of signal flags; contemporary full sheep neatly rebacked, new black morocco label on spine; the plates lightly spotted but on the whole very good and sound. This copy with a presentation on the front pastedown: To the Association of New York Pilots with the compliments of Messrs. Rogers and Black per Colt

• Binding: Leather

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