The Nanking Cargo

Hatcher, M: 1987 London, hardcover with dust jacket, 176 pages. Illustrated. The book recounts the thrilling underwater adventure of discovering, salvaging, and auctioning the cargo of the Geldermalsen, a Dutch East Indiaman that sank in the South China Sea in 1752. The book, lavishly illustrated, details how Hatcher and his team recovered a vast treasure of Chinese porcelain and gold from the ocean floor, which was later sold at Christie's in Amsterdam for over ten million pounds ISBN 9780241121177 In very good condition