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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 009119850X.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 288pp, index, appendices, bw ills. Or black cloth in pictorial jacket. Prev owners gift note on front free endpaper. Slight edgewear to jacket. Slightly mothbally smell. When the Amsterdam wrecked in 1748 near Hasting, Sussex there was only time to salvage the treasure on board before she sank into the sand. For years holiday makers would wander the timbers of her upperdeck. In 1969 a party of workmen working on a sewerage outfall unearthed a wealth of objects. The 3/4 complete ship was an almost untouched storehouse of 18th century life.
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London, Hutchinson, 1974, hardcover, 288 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light spine end bumps. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light edge nicks, displays beautifully in new Brodart sleeve. Sunk on her maiden voyage in 1748 the Amsterdam lay quietly in shallow water near Hastings in Sussex until 1969 when it was discovered that she held an almost untouched storehouse of information pertaining to life in the 18th-century. Illustrated throughout with 41 drawn figures and 24 black-&-white plates. Appended; English Records, Payroll of the Amsterdam, Bibliography, Sources, Index. ISBN 9780091198503
