THE RAFT BOOK
THE LORE OF THE SEA AND THE SKY - WITH MAPS

AUTHOR - Harold Gatty

PUBLICATION - George Grady Press New York 1943

CONDITION - Very good condition in faded but sturdy slipcase with rice paper charts and tables enclosed. Wellington Harbour Board plate on outside of slipcase. Card covers of booklet are crisp and bright with shiny silver gilt titles. Inside is slightly age discoloured, otherwise beautiful, binding tight, page edges clean, foldouts tidy. No dustwrapper.

PRICE - $140

DESCRIPTION - Harold Gatty was the 20th-century’s master navigator of both sky and sea. The book’s covers are blue heavy paper stock, embossed in silver with a majestic, soaring albatross upon a field of stars. Within its original slipcase are also two large folding leaves containing tables for navigation computations, scales for measuring distance (`Greenwich date and hour scales') and a unique world-wide chart. While an interesting, well-illustrated, carefully thought-out, and concise specimen of book production, The Raft Book is both a training manual (on shore) and a survival guide (at sea).

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