Edition: Second printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson,, Glasgow:
Date Published: 1946.
Description: Frontispiece of author, 47 plates, including a colored plate of flags, 7 maps (2 are folding) in text and a map on endpapers. Tall 8vo, pp. xiv, 392, original navy cloth with silver lettering (fine), d.j. (chipped; a piece missing; good). read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date Published: 1987-12
ISBN-13:9780851742410ISBN:0851742416
Description: Good. Isbn: 0851742416Hard cover, blue cloth with gilt titles, white, blue, green, red and black dust jacket with blue titles, 392 pages, 1992 edition. Corners, edges and spine bumped. Dust jacket has water mark to lower spine and corners. Very small faint water mark to inside front and rear lower corners. Unmarked text, tight binding. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Glasgow
Date Published: 1933
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall 392 pgs., blue cloth, bumped and rubbed corners, front and spine of book a little dusty, four very small tears to cloth, a solid, copy; no foxing or other marks. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson
Date Published: 1953
Description: Good. This a hardcover book with a dust jacket. This book is in good condition. Dust Jacket shows some wear. Pictures available upon request. Former library copy with the usual markings. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brown, son, and Ferguson, Glasgow
Date Published: 1967
Description: With Illustrations and Plans. Very Good Condition. Good Condition Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾ Some foxing on jacket, but insides and edges clean.392 pp. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Light Blue Cloth
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780851742410ISBN:0851742416
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Some foxing on edges of pages. The history of the clipper ships trading with China and Japan in the first half of the 19th Century with maps and illustrations. read more
Description: 1967. Brown, Son & Ferguson. Second, third reprint. Hard Cover. Book-VG. Dj-VG, protective covered. 9.5x7.5. 392pp. Frontis, Many b/w photos & illus, some folding, endpaper maps. Of all the sea trades engaged in by man from the time of the Phoenicians right down to more modern times, that of the opium traffic into China was one of the most risky and adventurous, for it was a forbidden trade on a scarcely known coast amidst wild, stormy seas and in the haunts of the most cruel pirates the world ... read more
Description: Unsigned 60 Illus. 392 Pages. 18 x 25cms. covers a little worn & bumped. Some Foxing. Spine little weakDetailed history of the Opium traffic into China, the ships and Captains. 1 page flags in col. 7 plans. 2 append. including Register of Ships in the Trade. Endpaper map. Index. Decorated front cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Brown, Son & Ferguson, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780851742410ISBN:0851742416
Description: New in New dust jacket. 0851742416. A fine new hardcover in a like slightly shelf worn dustwrapper supplied in new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our bookshop in Scotland. read more
Description: Good. No Jacket. Used. 4to-9.75"-12" tall. 392 pages. Ex maritime museum. Previous owner name and stamp. Felt pen bottom edge. Three quarters of an inch tear top of spine. read more
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Missing dust jacket, light cover and corner wear, binding sturdy, clean copy with no writing or highlighting. (C017) read more
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