Sailing Directions for the Coast of China

Washington, DC: United States Navy Department Hydrographic Office,, 1943. First edition, first printing, pleasingly with all the printed supplement tickets still present and the detailed maps well preserved. Updated chapters offer information on general subjects such as pilotage, storm and weather signals, quarantine regulations, and ocean currents, as well as detailed discussion of stretches of river and ocean along China's east coast down to Hong Kong and up the Yangtze. While common institutionally as expected, copies are now seldom encountered in commerce. Octavo. With 2 folding maps, 2 diagrammatic plates, illustrations in text. With all 8 leaves (4 blank) of printed supplement tickets bound in at front as issued. Original brown card wrappers, spine and front cover printed in black. Ex-Civil Affairs Training School, University of Chicago, with its ink stamps on front cover and "discard" noted in pencil. Wrappers well preserved, first map with stub tear just touching neatline, second map split along one fold, neatly repaired on verso with archival tape, couple of small nicks and chips internally not affecting text: a very good copy.