The American rowing almanac and oarsman's pocket companion, 1874

Hardcover reprint of the original 1874 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Engelhardt, Fred. J. The American Rowing Almanac And Oarsman's Pocket Companion, 1874. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Engelhardt, Fred. J. The American Rowing Almanac And Oarsman's Pocket Companion, 1874, . New York: F.J. Engelhardt, 1874. Subject: Rowing

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Excerpt from The American Rowing Almanac and Oarsman's Pocket Companion, 1874 It was a great source of pleasure and pride to find my little work of so much practical service - as at all the numer ous races and regattas which I attended I saw it in many hands and often used. The second issue, 74, now in your possession, is much more perfect and beautiful in its mechanical construction than the first, and in the Appendix to the Almanac of '73, which is added to this edition, will be found a number of corrections and records of races previously omitted on account of the very imperfect reports of aquatic events prior to the establishment of Our Boating Department' in the Tmf, Field and Farm, and which have since come to hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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