Bedside reading?

[bilbobaggins]

Browsing a couple of pages of 'Burton' always helps me to nod off.....

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d78/bilbobaggins1946/BurtonsTables.jpg


This is the 1941 Edition, together with a publisher's slip 'With Mr Burton's Compliments'. There are some fascinating scraps of paper, between the leaves, with jottings which suggest the original owner worked in the Admiralty Building, in Whitehall, during the Blitz.

Yawn......



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[Twisterowner]

Does it have a happy ending?

[sarabande]

Glad to see that someone else prefers to ignore histerical novels. On a shelf at home, not on board are :

1940 German Navy Nav tables
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and
1914 Admiralty Manual of Navigation , with an intriguing first owner.

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n37/b3ssb3ss/DSC00899.jpg

and

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n37/b3ssb3ss/DSC00898.jpg

[bilbobaggins]

There's reading there enough for a couple of oceans. Here is a couple more well worth the time.....


http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d78/bilbobaggins1946/Books_0001.jpg

Hakluyt's famous compendium account was published by Cassell's in 1887. This small volume also has, tucked in, a couple of pages torn from The Literary Gazette and Journal of Archaeology, Science and Art of November 1856 reviewing an account of 'The Discovery of the North-West Passage by Captain McClure'.

and

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d78/bilbobaggins1946/Books_0002.jpg

This, by the American 'Narrative Press', is written by a name to conjure with; related to the famous Lieutenant Matthew Maury, founder of the US Hydrographic Office, he describes a truly heroic voyage in sail from Nova Scotia to the Marquesas in a locally-built small schooner ( 35' LOA; 26' LWL ).