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
London: Methuen, 1898. First edition. Portrait. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 511-pages. Original black cloth. Prelims. foxed, messy scribbled out signature on front free endpaper, tiny snag in backstrip; overall very good.
£22.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15943
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1912. First edition. Folding charts. 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches), 213-pages. Original blue cloth. Binding scuffed & faded; internally very good. Armorial bookplate.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19021
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
Taunton: Hydrographic Dept. 1973. Coloured charts. 4to (12 x 8 1/2 inches), 258-pages. Original blue cloth. Together with a separate card wallet containing 4 large folding coloured chart sheets (one with some marginal sellotape repairs). Both contained in the original card slipcase; this faded and marked. |
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18788
London: Hutchinson, 1923. First edition. Plates & folding charts. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches),368-pages. Original blue cloth. Covers horribly damp-marked, spine quite presentable and internally sound. £32.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19067
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: Hutchinson, c. 1900. Portrait. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), 390-pages. Contemporary full polished tree calf, decorative border to sides, upper cover blocked in gilt "Grammar School Ashton-in-Makerfield". Spine blocked in gilt in 4 compartments within raised bands, double burgundy lettering pieces. all edges marbled, Prize label on front pastedown. An attractive binding in very good condition.
£35.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 18948
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: Sampson Low, 1897. First edition Maps, battle plans, and portraits, Two volumes 8vo (9 x 6 1/4 inches), pages: 454 & 427. Original blue cloth blocked in gilt, top edges gilt others uncut. A little light scuffing to one backstrip, overall a very good copy. £80.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19068
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
Portsmouth: Charpentier, 1930. The third edition re-written. Folding plan, portraits, plates & illustrations. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 inces), 264-pages. Original cloth with pictorial paper onlay as issued. Corners bumped, backstrip faded and a trifle worn. Overall very good. £20.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19054
London: Edward Arnold, 1914. First edition. Plates, folding maps. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 296-pages. Original blue cloth. Short split to headband, corners rubbed through. Portrait frontispiece detached. With the signature and armorial bookplate of Charles Rawson on front pastedown. Some foxing.
£20.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15800
Attractive coloured advertisement for this firm, seemingly removed from some form of nautical publication, illustrated by a lifebuoy and naval and merchant officers in uniform. "Contractors by appointment to the Cunard S.S. Co.Ltd, Pacific S.N.Co ..." etc. Suitable for framing, size overall 17 x 14 ins. c.1890's. £25.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 1311
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
Munchen: Lehmann, 1914. Numerous photographs, deck plans, outlines, etc. Small 8vo (6 34 x 4 3/4 inches), 425-pages plus illustrated advertisements. Original blue cloth pictorially blocked in colours. Spine canted and faded, partial split to cloth of lower joint. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17477
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
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
Portsmouth: Gieve's, London: John Hogg, 1897. Two volvelles at front "North [& South] Circumpolar Star Disc", double-page diagrams, illustrations in the text. Thick small 8vo (5 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches), 512-pages. Publisher's full grained blue calf lettered in gilt; some rubbing to extremities but overall very good. Errata slip tipped-in.
£45.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 15519
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
London: Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. 1920. Coloured frontispiece, illustrations. 4to (11 x 15 inces), 63-pages plus unpaginated Roll of Honour and Awards. Two-tone cloth gilt. Binding a little faded and marked, foxing to prelins. and at end. £10.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19063
London: George Philip, [1872]. 5 engraved plates. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches), 387-pages plus publisher's catalogue at end. Original cloth blocked in gilt with an anchor. Hinges split and chipped, boards held on cords, corners rubbed through.
£25.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19049
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: Longmans, Green, 1870. First edition. Woodcut plates and illustrations. 8vo (7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches), pages x (including dedication to his sister Kate Middleton after whom the yacht was named):2:292:4(tipped in prospectus for this work). Original blue cloth blocked in gilt. Binding detached and split on lower joint, chipping to head & tail of backstrip. Stitching broken but internally good. The rare first edition of this work re-printed many times, recounting this the first singlehanded yacht cruise around the UK. A worthy candidate for a sympathetic re-casing. £45.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14579
London: B. Law & G. Robinson, 1779. One plate, one map. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 301-pages. and approx. 200-pages of unpaginated tables. The last leaf being xx4 "A table of Amplitudes". Lacks all before title. Some damp marking to lower margin of a few leaves, old initials in ink on title, some dust marking and thumbing. Contemporary full tan calf, corners bent, some rubbing, burgundy lettering piece chipped. Binding sound however.
£40.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 19020
The launch taking place on 22nd June 1955. This substantial album contains at the front a leaf signed by the Queen and Prince Philip and there follows an example of all the printed material issued in relation to the launch (28 pieces as under) mounted to the album leaves, and 16 fine large photographs of the Queen, the shipyard, the launch etc. Two of the black album leaves bear drawings in white ink of shipyard scenes. | |
The ephemeral printed items include: the invitation to the launch mounted with two rosettes (by repute attached to the champagne bottle for the launching ceremony?); Guest List; Luncheon Menu; Table Seating Plan; Two A.A. Launch stickers; Five RSVP forms; four shipyard gate entry tickets (all different); 5 admission tickets for the launch (all different); Canadian Pacific brochure; a coloured reproduction of the painting of the ship by Norman Wilkinson; & a Fairfields notice. | |
Together with 16 fine large (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 inch) photographs mounted one per page. These depict the arrival of the Queen (2); one of the crowds watching the arrival of the guests in a convoy of coaches; eight others of the Queen and Prince Philip, three being on the launch dais; two of the ship launching and two of the ship immediately after the launch; two of the Queen and Prince Philp descending from the dais; one of the Queen accepting commemorative silver; and finally a fine head and shoulder portrait of the smiling Queen. |
Also two smaller photographs in a folder within the volume and four larger ( 11 3/4 x 9 inch) loose photographs, three being of the interior of Fairfileds offices and another of the launch dais. The album bound full grained black bevelled cloth (17 x 12 inches) gilt lettered on upper cover, "SS Empress of Britain Launched by Her Majesty the Queen, 22nd June 1955". Lacking one binding stud.
A unique album. Further images upon request.
£2,000.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 16481
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
Washington: Government Printing Office 1912 [ facsimile reprint. 7C'S Press, Ludlow, MA. 1975 ]. Portraits & plate. 8vo, 92-pages, original printed wrappers; a little spotted, staples rusting. £15.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 14005
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