The Ship Owner's Manual, Or Sea-Faring Man's Assistant: Containing...
A Rare Layman's Guide to Maritime Law [Great Britain]. [Maritime Law]. The Ship Owner's Manual, Or Sea-Faring Man's Assistant: Containing A General System of the Maritime Laws, On the Most Interesting Subjects; Viz. Freight, Charter-Parties, Demurrage, Insurance, Bottomry, Salvage, Average, Arbitration, Quarantine, &c. With Several New Adjudged Law Cases, And Abstracts of the Most Important Acts [...] To Which are Added Many Useful Tables and Other Articles; Particularly, Correct Tables of the Net Consolidated Duties, Revised by a Gentleman of the Customs, Tables of the New Convoy and Excise Duties, And Tables of the Rates and Duties Payable at Elsinore, In Denmark. Newcastle: Printed, in Gateshead, by and for D. Akenhead and Sons, fronting the Exchange, Sandhill, 1800. [xvi], 296; 116, [2] pp. Table of net duties has separate title page. Octavo (8" x 4-3/4"). Contemporary sheep, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, blind tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few small scuffs, nicks and scratches to boards, front board separated but secured by cords, moderate rubbing to extremities, chipping to spine ends, rear joint cracked, corners bumped and worn. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing and soiling in a few places, occasional faint dampstaining to last quarter of text block, clean tears to edges of a few leaves not affecting text, light creasing to a few leaves. Rare. $950. * Eighth stated edition. A practical overview of maritime law for merchants and seamen with detailed abstracts of relevant acts and an extensive table of net consolidated duties. The earliest edition located (the second) was published in 1782 and the tenth and final edition in 1811. OCLC locates 2 copies of the 1800 edition (University of Glasgow, Navy Department Library). Not in Sweet & Maxwell or the English Short-Title Catalogue.
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Book number 74991