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Book Lot #1 Underwater Exploration & History Of Diving

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Torrance Parker Twice Signed 20,000 Jobs Under the Sea: Hardcover 1997. First edition, signed twice. A history of diving and underwater engineering. This large book is full of amazing photos and details - really fantastic! The first divers, bios, evolution

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20,000 Jobs Under the Sea: Torrance Parker 1st Edition: Hardcover 1997. First edition. A history of diving and underwater engineering. This large book is full of amazing photos and details - really fantastic! The first divers, bios, evolution of diving equ

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20000 Jobs Under The Sea A History of Diving by Parker: Like new copy of the incredible book by Torrance R. Parker titled 20,000 Jobs Under the Sea; A History of Diving and Underwater Engineering. This is from the 2nd Printing in June 1998. 354 pages, orig

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15 Classic Underwater Diving Books: Lot of 15 assorted books focusing on scuba diving. The titles included are: The National Association for Cave Diving Safe Cave Diving by Tom Mount, Skin Diverâ€™s Guide to Hawaii by Gordon Freund

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A Pictorial History of Diving Book: Like new copy of a wonderful book titled A Pictorial History of Diving from 1998. 149 pages in full color of amazing historical equipment. Dust jacket protector reflecting light in photos. Dust jacket

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A Pictorial History of Diving Book Hardcover 1988: A fantastic study of diving history and equipment from ancient breath-hold diving to modern deep-sea diving. The sharp color photos are complement by the detailed text and additional information on ea

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Diving History, Treasure, Military Book Grouping: This is a grouping of 7 books, all used but in good condition. The titles include The First Five Fathoms by Arthur C. Clarke 1960 hardcover with dustjacket, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea hardcover, Div

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The History Of Russian Diving Book Issue 1 2002 Signed: Fascinating and relatively difficult softcover magazine style book on the history of Russian diving. Half of the text is in Russian and the other half in English. This is the 1st issue printed in 2002

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Underwater Work & Exploring The Deep 2 Book Lot: Lot of 2 vintage diving related books. First is Underwater Work: A Manual of Scuba Commercial, Salvage and Construction Operations by John Cayford, 258 pages, 1966, 2nd Edition. Original dust jacket p

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2 Military Diving & Scuba Diving Manuals 1940s 1950s: Pair of military diving manuals in excellent condition. First one is title A History of Self-Contained Diving and Underwater Swimming by Howard E. Larson for the Committee On Undersea Warfare and publ

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Skin Diving, Lady With A Spear, Undersea Adventure: Grouping of 3 vintage 1950s era books related to skindiving. Collection consists of Skin Diving and Exploring Underwater by John Sweeney, writing on inside, price clipped, original dust jacket, 1955,

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Frogman Spy, Underwater Warriors, Hidden Depths Books: Exciting lot of vintage military diving related books. Collection consists of Frogman Spy by J. Bernard Hutton, 1960, 1st printing, 180 pages, dust jacket original, former library copy with stamps ins

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20000 Divers Under The Sea Book Signed Torrance Parker: 20,000 Divers Under The Sea by Torrance R. Parker. A history of the Mediterranean and Western Atlantic sponge trades with an account of early deep diving. Inscribed by Parker and hand numbered 666 out

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American Dive Catalog, Schrader History & 1916 Manual: Trio of new unread historical diving helmet related books. The first is the American Dive Catalog Collection. This large hardcover book is a treasure trove of information on American made diving helme

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WWII Morse Diving Equipment Underwater Electric Light: Classic piece of underwater diving equipment! This is a WWII era Morse Diving Equipment electric lamp or light. These impressive lamps would produce an impressive for the time amount of light underwat

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Book Lot #1 Underwater Exploration & History Of Diving

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Book lot #1 of books related to underwater exploration and diving. Lot consists of a photocopy of Deep Diving and Submarine Operations from Siebe Gorman 1981, Exploring The Lusitania by Robert Ballard, Water Baby The Story of Alvin, The History of Oilfield Diving an Industrial Adventure, Abandon Ship the story of the USS Indianapolis, and Iron From The Deep the Discovery and Recovery of the USS Monitor. All books are in used condition.

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