Navigation and Nautical Astronomy : United States Naval Academy (1939)
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Navigation and Nautical Astronomy : United States Naval Academy (1939)
by Benjamin Dutton
Full Title: Navigation and Nautical Astronomy : A Textbook on Navigation and Nautical Astronomy : Prepared for use at the United States Naval Academy
10 x 6 ¾. In English. Printed and originally bound by The Collegiate Press, George Banta Publishing Company for the United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD, 1939. 6th Edition. Stated. 477 pp. Complete. Profusely illustrated. ** Rebound by George Bayntun. ** Polished, full blue morocco with double gilt rules on front and rear boards. Light to moderate shelf wear. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with double gilt rules as well as elaborate and detailed designs. Red morocco label with bright gilt title. Spine head and tail as well as corners sharp. Front joint near spine head starting but holding firm. Gilt foredges. Elaborate dentelles with marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown as well as embossed stamp on front fly. Neatly, perhaps insightful, handwritten notes on ten or so occasions. George Bayntun’s bookplate describing how the book was bound and how to care for the book neatly applied to front endpaper. Text block crisp and clean. Overall, a handsome copy of a scarce edition published the same year World War II started.
About the binder: George Bayntun was born and lived in Bath, Somerset, England where he served a book-binding apprenticeship before starting his own book-binding business in Northumberland Place in 1894. He took on a number of London binders in order to raise the standard of craftsmanship in his own bindery and soon afterwards moved the business into larger premises on Walcot Street in Bath. Bayntun adhered to traditional book binding techniques and built a strong relationship with many American dealers. His last years were crowned by the patronage of Queen Mary, who spent the World War II years near Bath. She granted Bayntun’s firm the royal appointment of Bookseller to Her Majesty in 1950.
Price: $150
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Inventory Number: 73010
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