Written to accompany the medicine chest proscribed by the Merchant Shipping Act (1854) to be carried by all British merchant vessels greater than 15 tons.
16mo, brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering. 168 pages.
Publisher Fearnall & Co, Liverpool.
Published 1878.
17th edition.
Copious engravings through-out.
Cover is worn and creased. Internally complete and in good order.
Quite scarce in any edition and although worn, it is in the best condition of any copy we have handled.