THE OLD 'COUNTRY TRADE' OF THE EAST INDIES

London:Cornmarket Press. 1969. xiv+205pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. A facsimile edition of 1911 Published by Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson, Ltd.  The Book in very good, clean condition inside and out, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is slightly soiled and shelfworn but still in very good condition. *"This book is part of a series of fifty books on the maritime subject being reprinted in facsimile from originals in the National Maritime Museum Library. ... An important book that has long been scarce. The term 'Country Trade' is defined by the author...to include vessels owned by Englishmen resident in India, as well as purely Indian Ships, and seems to have applied as far back as the end of the seventeeth century"...dj