London: Hodder & Stoughton, [ 1914 ]. First edition. Plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 200-pages. Original blue cloth with coloured pictorial onlay to upper cover and spine as issued. Spine onlay a little chipped, some foxing, small paint splash to fore-edge of text block. £28.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15790
Printed by Permission of the Admiralty, for private circulation to Officers and Men, 1919. Plates. 8vo (8 x 5 inches), 50-pages. Original blue cloth; good. Inscribed on front pastedown: "Charles D. Morris AB, HMS Queen Elizabeth 23rd Dec. 1914". Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Rare. £150.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15919
Lowestoft: Printed by Flood & Son, circa 1939. Plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), 136-pages. Original blue cloth; headbands a little rubbed else good in dust jacket; dust jacket with tears. Signature on front pastedown. Bermuda etc.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15915
London: Mills & Boon,1911. Coloured frontispiece, b&w plates. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches), 371-pages. Original blue cloth with coloured pictorial onset on upper cover as issued. Some foxing, overall good. Engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16131
London: W. H. Allen, 1895, Map & plans, one folding. 8vo (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 471-pages. Original blue cloth. Hedbands bruised and with split, upper inner hinge partly split, foxing to prelims. Overall a very nice copy; largely unopened. £60.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19069
EWART, REAR-ADMIRAL: The Naval Almanack 1914. Containing a Victory or Event of Naval Interest for each Day of the Year.London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1914. Frontispiece. 12mo (6 1/4 x 5 inches), unpaginated. Original blue cloth gilt; very good. Rare. |
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15938
[1920]. Original 2-tone buckram with white title label on upper cover; boards very damp mottled. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Contemporary inscription on half-title.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19065
Naval Society, 1913. Folding map. Large 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 471-pages, buckram with scuffed green lettering piece. Foxing to prelims. Paper of upper inner joint cracked but very firm. White (paint?) marks to upper cover. Tanning within. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19053
London: Gale & Polden, 1904. Plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 130-pages. Original blue cloth pictorially blocked in silver; some foxing otherwise very good. £70.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15920
London: J.S. Virtue [ 1890-1893 ]. Three volumes. Chromolitho. frontispieces, extra chromolitho. titles and 40 chromolitho. plates with tissue guards. The plates by W. Christian Symonds and W. Fred. Mitchell. Three volumes 4to (11 1/4 x 9 inches), pages: xi:(1):348; vii:(1):352; & vii:(1):352, each volume with 4-pages of publisher's advertisements at end. Volume 3 with tipped-in printed notice "To Officers of the Navy" offering the original drawings for this work at 10 to 12 guineas each. Original pebble grain green cloth blocked in gilt and colours, all edges gilt. Some tiny spits to headbands, overall an excellent and clean set. Contemporary signature and address on verso of front free endpapers.
£450.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19176
London: Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1941. Black & white photographic illustrations, diagrams. Oblong (8 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches wide), pp.61 advertisements:lvi:529, original blue cloth, no dustwrapper; binding headbands bumped with a very short split to top headband, front cover with a large very faintly discoloured patch, and with whitish marks to back cover, white speckling to front; internally, with faint bumping or creasing to top corner of text block, some movement to hinges but generally firm.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11336
London: Gale & Polden, 1907. Plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 287-pages. Original blue cloth blocked in white & red. White decoration to binding rubbed, upper inner joint strained, front free endpaper removed, front pastedown and half-title soiled, ink scribble on leaf of advertisements at end. Canada and the Mediterranean. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15910
London: George Bell, 1894. Large Paper copy, limited to 150 copies. Small 4to (8 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches), pages: xviii:560, original vellum-backed cloth boards blocked in gilt, top edge gilt others uncut. Vellum spine dustmarked else very good.
Weight 1.9 kg thus extra overseas postage will be requested.
£100.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19086
London: W. Mitchell, 1877. Maps & plates, some folding. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 762-pages plus proceedings and list of members. Contemporary half black calf with crimson lettering piece, rubbed and scuffed, inner joints cracked, but sound. Tears into two folding maps without loss, endpapers foxed. On Circular Iron-clads (with folding plates); An Account of the Chinese Naval Arsenal at Foo-chow, etc. etc.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16029
London: Charles Knight, 1825. First edition. Extra engraved title, folding facsimile. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), pages: xviii:327. Contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards. Spine gilt with burgundy lettering piece. One inch crack at head of upper joint, foxing to prelims. otherwise good.
£120.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19085
London: John Bale, 1920. First edition. Portrait, 16 plates, some coloured. 4to (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches), 85-pages. Original blue and white cloth blocked in gilt. Foxing to prelims. and occasionally lightly elsewhere. A very nice copy indeed.
£160.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19099
An original photograph of the 9 crew of this steamer pictured on deck, on the original card mount printed as above. The photograph 4 x 6 inches, rather faded, the mount 11 x 9 inches, rather foxed. £50.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1309
London: L. W. Strange, 1844. Frontispiece, extra engraved title, and plates by Robert Cruikshank. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 inches), 456-pages. 19th Century half tan calf, marbled boards, spine floral gilt within compartments with maroon and green lettering pieces, all edges gilt. Some plates browned, inner margin of frontispiece rubbed, extra engraved title detached and frayed on inner margin. Touch of old colouring to flag on engraved title.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18780
Printed log book filled-in by hand. Commencing on 1st July 1914, only 11-pages have been filled-in by hand as the Summer Cruise was cut short on 25th August due to the commencement of WWI, a printed notice regarding the "Mobilisation of the Royal Naval Reserve, Men called out for Service in the Royal Navy" loosely inserted. The cruise commences at Bursledon, to Southampton to Buckler's Hard, to Yarmouth, to Poole, to Lulworth Cove, to Dartmouth, to Plymouth, to Salcombe. 4to (12 x 10 inches), original cloth-backed printed boards; some corner rubbing to upper board else very good.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19246
London: The 'Yachtsman' - this over stamped 'The Yacgting World Publishing Co,' 1907. Tinted frontispiece, illustrations and folding diagrams. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 170-pages, original green cloth; headbands rubbed, binding marked but sound. Original drawing tipped-in. Contemporary gift inscription sliptipped-in.
£21.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19243
London: Simpkin Marshall, Liverpool: Edward Howell, Douglas: Mylrea & Allen, 1870. First edition, 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 219-pages. Original blue cloth blocked in black & gilt. The binding very spotted and marked, headbands worn. Occasional marginal soiling to the text, endpapers soiled, scribbling to rear endpapers, a few small pieces torn from blank margins. Not a good copy but very rare.
£50.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18363
Cunard, December 1954. Large coloured folding plans comprising six long double sided fold-out deck plans with coloured illustrations, each plan 22 x 8 3/4 inches and folding into the original wrappers printed in brown and gold. Very good.
£30.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18410
London: Offices of "Engineering", 1936. Five folding deck plans. Frontispiece & numerous photographic illustrations. Folio (14 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches), 78-pages. Original wrappers titled in black and gilt. Wrappers marked, Being a reprint of articles originally appearing in "Engineering" on May 15, 22, 29 & June 5, & 12 1936 and here first published as one. Rare. |
£120.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18783
Cunard White Star, 1938. A sumptuous souvenir of the launch. Folio, purple and silver light boards with the 'Mauretania' embossed in relief, silk cord bound. The illustrations comprising plates from photographs and two splendid art-drawn double-page coloured plates printed on silvered background. The binding a little rubbed and edge chipped but generally very good. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 2693
Six 4to menus from this ship, each with coloured illustration to the front; the larger farewell dinner menu foxed. 1936. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No.1299
London: The General Steam Navigation Co. 1950. Illustrations. 8vo, 96-pages. Original pictorial wrappers. Good. £10.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17266
On stout paper, 8 3/4 x 5 inches. Circa 1900. Ink smudged on plate marks and at date line. £10.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13945
Paris: E. Plon, 1879. First edition. Two volumes. Two folding maps, plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), pages: 321:(1) & 344:(1). Nicely bound half burgundy calf, spines gilt rules, raised bands, green & tan lettering pieces, top edges gilt. Light rubbing to extremities, uneven fading to upper cover of volume one, endpapers foxed. Overall very good. £100.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19074
Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2006. First History Press edition. Illustrations. 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches), 153-pages. Softback. Original coloured pictorial wrappers; excellent. £18.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15128
London: Sole Distributor Capt. O. M. Watts, June 1948. First impression. Plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 96-pages, original cloth; very good in edge worn dust jacket. Signed by the author on title. £12.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18710
London: George Philip & Son [1897]. The maps by T. Ruddiman Johnston. 13 double-page & 2 single-page coloured maps. Folio (18 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches), with 9-page index at end. Original cloth. The title, preface and table of contents leaves very foxed, the maps unaffected. Binding worn and broken, the maps, apart from 1 short marginal tear, are excellent. Rare.
The maps are: 1). The World - Mercator. 2). The English Channel. 3). North Sea, Baltic Sea, & Baltic Canal. 4). North Atlantic Ocean. 5). North Atlantic Western Parts, Boston and New York. 6). The North Chanel, Forth of Clyde, Irish Sea, Saint George's Channel & Manchester Ship Canal. 7). Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea. 8). South Atlantic Ocean, Continuation of South America and False Bay. 9). Western Mediterranean. 10). The Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, Corinth Canal and Suez Canal. 11). Indian Ocean. (12). Red Sea, Arabian Sea, & Persian Gulf. 13). Bay of Bengal, China Sea, & Eastern Sea. 14). The Pacific Ocean, Nicaragua Canal, Panama Canal, & continuation of coast-line of United States. 15). Australasia.
£300.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19339
London: Upcott Gill, c. 1907. Illustrations. 8o (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 108-pages. Original green grained cloth pictorially blocked in gilt. Relevant newscutting tipped on to front pastedown. £38.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17402
The original typescript of this apparently unpublished work. 183-pages folio; tie bound. Together with 12 folders containing another copy of the typescript, arranged in chapters, with c.111 original photographs with which it was intended to illustrate the published book; these photographs showing numerous ships, engines, etc. Chapter headings include 'The first Motor Ships', 'American Motor Ships during the 1920's', 'Cargo-passenger liners', 'Oil Tankers' . A well written and illustrated work. c. 1958.
£75.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1329
An attractive printer's proof of their engraved letterhead; the engraved image showing the globe, a steamship at sea, a railway train etc. Size within plate marks 5 x 8 inches. c.1900. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1305
London: Longmans, Green, 1869. First edition. Frontispiece, title vignette, 7 plates and 4 maps (2 folding). Small 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 77-pages. Original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt; a little spotting to upper cover; overall very good. £75.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14630
Chippenham, Wiltshire: Picton Publishing, 1971. First edition. Black & white illustrations. Large 8vo (9 1/2 x 7 inches ), 108-pages, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding excellent; dustwrapper with some slight edge-creasing along top edge, else good; internally, endpapers with a strip of light browning, otherwise excellent. With neat ownership blind-stamp on front free-endpaper.
£10.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 12365
London: J. D. Potter, Admiralty Agent for Charts, 1903. First edition. 11 Coloured charts, mostly folding. 8vo 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 24-pages, with following on the next 10 unpaginated leaves, details of "Buoys & Lights" and "Tide Tables for the principal places between Sheerness and Orfordness for Saturdays only, 1903". Together with Potter's 8-page catalogue of Nautical Works & loosely inserted the 16-page Admiralty List "A". Original green grained cloth lettered in gilt; 1920's signature of the geologist H.G. Busk on front pastedown. Very good indeed. Scarce and scarcer still with the additional 10 -leaves of "Buoys & Lights and the "Tide Tables" not usually found
£85.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19242
A standard pack of playing cards produced by Waddington, the backs showing the R.M.S.P.Co. flag to each corner, sailing ships, globe, to the centre; fine in the original rubbed slipcase. c. 1920. £35.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1304
Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers; and Maryland: Barnes & Noble, 1992. First edition. Black & white illustrations and maps. Large 8vo, pp.vii:232, original cloth in dustwrapper; tiny tear and slight crease to back upper edge of dustwrapper; in all other respects, excellent. £22.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 9079
London: Cambridge University Press for The Society for Nautical Research, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1968. Four issues. 8vo, original printed wrappers; backstrips browned. top edge of text block spotted.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11851
London: Cambridge University Press for The Society for Nautical Research, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1969. Four issues. 8vo, original printed wrappers; backstrips browned, top edge of text block spotted, chipping to lower fore-corner of No.1. With the separate index for these issues loosely inserted.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11852
London: Cambridge University Press for The Society for Nautical Research, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1971. Four issues. 8vo, original printed wrappers; backstrips browned. top edge of text block spotted.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11853
London: Cambridge University Press for The Society for Nautical Research, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1972. Four issues. 8vo, original printed wrappers; 3 backstrips browned. top edge of 2 text blocks spotted.
£15.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 11854
Valparaiso: Club Naval de Valparaiso, 1979. Number 1361 of an edition of 2000. Lavishly illustrated in colour, with tissue-guards, throughout; the whole printed on heavy art paper. Oblong folio, full padded tan calf lettered in gilt and with brass corners; headbands slightly rubbed; generally a very good copy. £40.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1317
Edinburgh: for the Author, 1773. First edition. 14 folding plates. Large 8vo (9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches), pages: xvi:510:(1,errate). Contemporary full polished brown calf with chipped burgundy lettering piece. Extremities rubbed, re-cased at an early date. Dust marking to half-title. One folding plate dust marked on fore margin, several creased, one with lower margin trimmed and laiddown on linen.
£400.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19087