Item #56973 The telegraph dictionary, and seamen's signal book, adapted to signals by flags or other semaphores; and arranged for secret correspondence, through Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph: for the use of commanders of vessels, merchants, &c. Henry J. Rogers, Assistant Superintendent of Electro-Magnetic Telegraphs for the United States.
The telegraph dictionary, and seamen's signal book, adapted to signals by flags or other semaphores; and arranged for secret correspondence, through Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph: for the use of commanders of vessels, merchants, &c.
The telegraph dictionary, and seamen's signal book, adapted to signals by flags or other semaphores; and arranged for secret correspondence, through Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph: for the use of commanders of vessels, merchants, &c.
The telegraph dictionary, and seamen's signal book, adapted to signals by flags or other semaphores; and arranged for secret correspondence, through Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph: for the use of commanders of vessels, merchants, &c.
The telegraph dictionary, and seamen's signal book, adapted to signals by flags or other semaphores; and arranged for secret correspondence, through Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph: for the use of commanders of vessels, merchants, &c.

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The telegraph dictionary, and seamen's signal book, adapted to signals by flags or other semaphores; and arranged for secret correspondence, through Morse's electro-magnetic telegraph: for the use of commanders of vessels, merchants, &c.

Baltimore: published by F. Lucas, Jr., 170 Market Street, [1845]. 8vo, pp. x, [2], xi-xii, [2], 11-334, [2]; frontispiece and 4 chromolithograph plates of signal flags; contemporary full sheep neatly rebacked, new black morocco label on spine; the plates lightly spotted but on the whole very good and sound. This copy with a presentation on the front pastedown: "To the Association of New York Pilots with the compliments of Messrs. Rogers and Black per Colt & Robinson, proprietors of the New York & Offing Electro-Magnetic Telegraph." Dedicated to Samuel F. B. Morse, "inventor of the American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph." Rogers, a trained engineer from New York City, worked as Morse's assistant in constructing the first telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore. He was himself an inventor and pioneered the use of insulated cables for use underground and underwater. During the Civil War, he helped develop the military telegraph system. American Imprints 5604; see Sabin 72626 for a later edition. Item #56973

Price: $2,500.00