Naval & Maritime
Naval
ADMIRALTY: Review of the Fleet by His Majesty the King at Spithead 16th July, 1935. List of Ships and Chart showing the positions at Spithead.
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London: Harrison & Sons, Printers in Ordinary to His Majesty, 1935. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches), 20-pages, original wrappers silk tie bound. With, at end, large folding coloured chart. Wrappers a little edge creased else good. £28.00 |
ADMIRALTY: I.D. 1157. Submarine Silhouette Book. For Official Use Only.
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Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty, July 1917. 11-pages of silhouettes and 4 photographic plates. 8vo (10 x 6 3/4 inches), original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued. Number in blue crayon on upper wrapper, wrappers dusty. £45.00 |
ADMIRALTY: Manual of Seamanship. Volume 1.
London: H.M.S.O 1913. Reprint. Plates, some coloured, some folding. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 425-pages. Original blue cloth blocked in blind; joints rubbed, a little marked. Armorial engraved bookplate on front pastedown, name in ink on fore-edge of text block.
£35.00
ANON: The British Navy from Within by "Ex-Royal Navy".
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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 |
ANON: Diary of H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth January to May 1915.
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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. £200.00 |
ANON: H.M.S. Apollo 1936-1938
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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.
£40.00
ANON: H.M.S. "Enterprise" Story of the First Commission April 7th, 1926 to December 19th, 1928.
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London: Gale & Polden c. 1929. Plates, folding chart. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), 193-pages. Original red cloth blocked in gilt; spine faded and spotted, corners bumped, front free endpaper removed, some light foxing. Persia, China etc. £40.00 |
ANON: H.M.S. Tenacious, Her Story.
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Bungay: Richard Clay, n.d. circa 1948. Plates, charts. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches), 68-pages, original black cloth gilt. Binding edge rubbed and marked, front free endpaper removed otherwise sound. Australia & China, 1945-1946. £70.00 |
BARRETT, PETER: H.M.S. "Glory". The History of a Light Fleet Aircraft Carrier 1942-1961.
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Tunbridge Wells: Parapress, 1996. First edition. Photographic plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 214-pages. Original cloth; very good in slightly edge creased else very good unclipped dust jacket. £20.00 |
BLACKMAN, RAYMOND V.B. (Editor): Jane's Fighting Ships 1965-66.
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London: Sampson, Low, 1966. Profusely illustrated. Folio (12 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches), 461-pages plus index. Original blue cloth; an excellent copy in a very god price clipped dust jacket. £35.00 |
CHATTERTON, E. KEBLE: The Story of the British Navy.
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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 |
COLOMB, VICE-ADMIRAL P. H: Memoirs of Admiral the Right Honble. Sir Astley Cooper Key.
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.
£30.00
COUHAT, JEAN LABAYLE: French Warships of World War II.
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London: Ian Allan, 1971. First edition. Photographic plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 176-pages. Original cloth; very good in like unclipped dust jacket which has some sunning at the backstrip. £22.00 |
DAWSON, WARREN R. [Editor]: The Nelson Collection at Lloyds. A Description of the Nelson Relics and a Transcript of the Autograph Letters and Documents of Nelson and his circle and of other Naval Papers of Nelson's Period.
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London: Macmillan for the Corporation of Lloyd's, 1932. First edition. 21 plates. 4to, pp.vii:[6]:525, orignial blue cloth gilt; a little rubbed but generally very good. £140.00 |
DONNITHORNE, CHRIS (Editor): All Round Look. Friends of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum. Year Books.
Gosport 1996 onwards. 15 year books, 1996 - 2014, lacking the year book 2000/2001. Each illustrated, wire-bound, original wrappers. Together with a number of bulletins "Harbour Stations" and ephemeral pieces. Very good.
£15.00
DILLON, SIR WILLIAM HENRY ([Edited by Michael A Lewis]: A Narrative of My Professional Adventures (1790-1839). Volume 1 (1790-1802) only.
London: Navy Records Society, 1953. Portrait frontispiece, one plate and two maps, one folding. xxxiv:468-pages. 8vo (9 x 6 inches) original cream and blue 2-tone cloth. Binding with some soiling and rubbing, upper inner hinge pulled, some damp marking to prelims. Signature and date on front pastedown.
£30.00
ELLIOTT, PETER: Allied Escort Ships of World War II. A Complete Survey.
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London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1977. First edition. Profusely illustrated. 4to (10 x 8 inches), 575-pages. Original cloth; very good in good dust jacket which has the laminate just lifting on lower margin of upper panel. £35.00 |
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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. £28.00 |
GARDINER, ROBERT: Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars.
London: Chatham Publishing, 2000. First edition. Illustrations. 4to (11 3/4 x 10 inches), 208-pages. Original cloth; excellent in like, price-clipped, dust jacket.
£28.00
GARDINER, ROBERT (Editor): Warship 1992. [Volume XVI ].
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London: Conway Maritime Press, 1992. Illustrations throughout. 4to (11 x 8 1/4 inches), 256-pages. Original cloth; excellent in like dust jacket which has the slightest edge crease. £60.00 |
GARDINER, ROBERT (Editor): Warship 1993. [Volume XVII ].
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London: Conway Maritime Press, 1993. Illustrations throughout. 4to (11 x 8 1/4 inches), 256-pages. Original cloth; light corner bumps else excellent in like dust jacket £72.00 |
GLETE, JAN: Warfare at Sea 1500-1650. In the Warfare and History series.
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London: UCL Press, 2000. Softback. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 331-pages, original glazed wrappers; excellent. Small signature on half-title. £22.00 |
HARDING, RICHARD: Seapower and Naval warfare, 1650-1830. In the Warfare and History series.
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London: UCL Press, 1999. Softback. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 356-pages, original glazed wrappers; excellent. Small signature on title. £13.00 |
HOCKING, CHARLES: Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the Age of Steam, including saling ships and ships of war lost in action 1824-1962.
Privately Printed, n.d. circa 1969. Two volumes 4to (11 x 8 1/2 inches), 779-pages, original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. Very heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£60.00
HOOD, T.H: Notes of a Cruise in H.M.S. "Fawn" in the Western Pacific.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1863. First edition. 9 tinted lithographed plates (including frontispiece), 4 (of 5) other plates, 6 tillustrations in the text, and a folding lithographed chart; lacking the "Plan of the Ruins at Ascension" opp. page 174. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches), 268-pages, original purple cloth; binding faded and splash marked, backstrip chipped at head and tail. Title with vertical crease, some foxing to prelims. otherwise internally good. Bookplate and name stamp on front pastedwn.
£35.00
HOUGH, FRANK O; LUDWIG, VERLE E; & SHAW, HENRY I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, History of U. S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II.
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Washington: Historical Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps, n.d. Volume 1. Folding maps. Large 8vo (10 x 7 inches), 439-pages. Original cloth gilt; excellent. Presentation inscription, from Henry Shaw ("Chief Historian"), dated 1963, on front free endpaper. £40.00 |
JANE, FRED T: The Imperial Russian Navy.
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London: Conway Maritime Press, 1983. A facsimile of the revised edition of 1904. Profusely illustrated. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 735-pages. Original cloth; excellent in very good dust jacket. £26.00 |
KINGSTON, W.H.G: Our Sailors. Anecdotes of the Engagements and Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. A new edition, revised by G.A. Henty.
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London: Griffith Farran, circa 1900. Plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 348-pages. Original blue cloth pictorially blocked in black, red, and white; endpapers browned, headbands bruised else very good. Prize label dated 1900 on front pastedown. £21.00 |
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KIRBY, W.W: The Cruise of H.M.S. Vindictive, a Record of Her First Commission, Mediterranean Station 1900-1903.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 |
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LAMBERT, ANDREW (Editor): Warship. Volume X.(10).London: Conway Maritime Press, 1986. Illustrations throughout 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), 288-pages. Original cloth; excellent in like dust jacket. £30.00 |
McMURTRIE, FRANCIS E. (Editor): Jane's Fighting Ships 1940 (Issued January 1941).
London: Sampson Low, 1940. Profusely illustrated. Oblong folio (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 528-pages. Original blue cloth. Upper inner hinge cracked but held on cords, fore-margins of a few leaves of advertisements creased, snag to cloth on lower cover, else good. Very heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£45.00
McMURTRIE, FRANCIS E: Jane's Fighting Ships 1941. (Issued March 1942).
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.
£50.00
McMURTRIE, FRANCIS E. (Editor): Jane's Fighting Ships 1943-1944 (Corrected to July, 1944).
London: Sampson Low, 1944. Profusely illustrated. Oblong folio (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 582-pages. Original blue cloth. Front free endpaper creased and with loss else excellent & contained in the original shipping box. Very heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£65.00
McMURTRIE, FRANCIS E. (Editor): Jane's Fighting Ships 1940 (Issued January 1941).
London: Sampson Low, 1940. Profusely illustrated. Oblong folio (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), 528-pages. Original blue cloth. Upper inner hinge cracked but held on cords, fore-margins of a few leaves of advertisements creased, snag to cloth on lower cover, else good. Very heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£45.00
MARKHAM, SIR CLEMENTS: The Life of Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock.
London: John Murray, 1909. First edition. Portraits, plates and maps, one folding. 8vo (9 x 5 1/2 inches), 370-pages, original blue cloth; binding unevenly faded, half square inch hole in backstrip affecting title, several small punctures and headband chipped, internally sound. £25.00
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MEYER, CDR. C.J: Modern Combat Ships No. 1 'Leander' Class.London: Ian Allan, 1984. First edition. 8vo (9 1/2 x 7 inches), 112-pages, original cloth; excellent in like dust jacket. £14.00 |
MINTER, JOSEPH A. (Signal Boatswain, R. N.): The Cruise of H.M.S. "Drake". A Record of an eventful Commission with the Second Cruiser Squadron, January, 1905 - May, 1907.
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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 |
MONTAGU, ADMIRAL THE HON. VICTOR A: Reminiscences of Admiral Montagu.
London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition. Portrait & plates. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 inches), 311-pages. Original blue cloth gilt. Headbands slightly bruised, tissue guard to frontispiece foxed, front free endpaper removed; overall good.
£14.00
O'BYRNE, WILLIAM R: A Naval Biographical Dictionary.
London: John Murray, 1849. First edition. 8vo (10 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 1400-pages; original blue cloth. Lacking backstrip, very rubbed, text block nor broken into three, old MS note pasted to front free endpaper; text browned. Heavy, extra postage will be requested.
£21.00
PAGE, CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER (Editor): German Capital Ships and Raiders in World War II. Volume 1: From Graf Spee to Bismarck, 1939-1941. In the Whitehall Histories:Naval Staff Histories series.
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London: Frank Cass, 2002. First edition. Charts. 8vo (10 x 7 3/4 inches), original cloth; excellent in like dustwrapper. £45.00 |
PALMER, FRANCIS INGRAM: Descriptive account of an horizontal-acting and disconnecting spur-torpedo-ram fitted with auxiliary needle-torpedo-thrusts; also, a dome-shaped, double roller one gun turret. Invented and designed by Francis Ingram Palmer, RN commanding HM Indian Turret Ship 'Magdala'. Illustrated with five photographs after designs by the author.
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Published by the author, 1873. 5 mounted photographic plates, one coloured plate, and illustrations in the text. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches), 74-pages plus tables. Original blue bevelled cloth pictorially blocked in gilt with images of the ram within a rope border. Headbands rubbed, 5-inch split to cloth of outer upper joint otherwise bright and attractive. Contemporary gift inscription on upper margin of title. "With the Author's Compliments" slip tipped-in. Rare.
£175.00
PARKINSON, ROGER: The Late Victorian Navy. The Pre-Dreadnought Era and the Origins of the First World War.
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Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008. First edition. Illustrations. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), 323-pages. Original cloth; excellent in very good dust jacket. £70.00 |
PASLEY, LOUISA M. SABINE: Memoir of Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley.
London: Edward Arnold, 1900. First edition. Portrait. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 342-pages. Original blue cloth; some speckled colour loss to fore-edge of upper cover, some foxing, else good. Inscription on front free endpaper, "In memory of L.M.S. Pasley 15 March 1929 from Madalene S. Jenkyns".
£45.00
PERRIN, W.G. [Editor]: Boteler's Dialogues.
London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1929. Publications for the Navy Records Society, Volume 65. First edition. Large 8vo, pp.xxxix:341:[7, Society's list of books], original two-tone cloth lettered in gilt on spine with Society's emblem stamped in gilt on upper cover; spine faded, white cloth of binding slightly soiled; internally, some foxing, else good.
£20.00
RAWSON, GEOFFREY: Life of Admiral Sir Harry Rawson. With Maps & Illustrations.
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. £30.00
RAYNER, J.J. & SONS: Naval Outfitters, Clothiers, and Contractors.
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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 |
REID J.S. & PEARCE, T.H: The Log of H.M.S. Victorious 1899-1903 including that part of the Commission in H.M.S. Revenge.
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London: The Westminster Press, 1903. Plates, folding chart. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 153-pages; original blue cloth gilt; binding unevenly faded else good. Mediterranean Station. £65.00 |
ROBERTS, JOHN (Editor): Warship. Volume III. (3).
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London: Conway Maritime Press, 1979. Illustrations throughout 8vo (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches), 288-pages. Original cloth; a little corner bumped else excellent in like dust jacket. £15.00 |
ROSKILL, S. W: The War at Sea 1939-45. 3 volumes in 4 (complete). In the History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series.
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London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1961. 5th impression of volume 1, first editions of volumes 2 & 3 ( 3 being in two parts), published 1956-1961. Plates and folding maps. 4 volumes 8vo (10 x 6 1/2 inches), pages: 664; 523; 413; & 502. Original green cloth with black/gilt lettering pieces. Some foxing to endpapers and spotting to top of text block, spine of volume 1 darkened, extremities a little rubbed. Signature on endpapers. No dust jackets. Heavy, extra overseas postage will be requested. £74.00 |
ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION: Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard. Volume XX.
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
RUSSETT, ALAN: Dominic Serres R.A. 1719-1793. War Artist to the Navy.
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. First edition. Coloured illustrations. 4to (11 x 8 3/4 inches), 233-pages. Original cloth; excellent in like dust jacket. Signed by the author on title.
£14.00
SOUTHEY, ROBERT: The Life of Nelson.
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London: Printed for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition, first issue (page 258 in vol.2 mis-numbered). Portrait and plate. Two volumes. 8vo (6 1/2 x 4 inches), pages: [v]-viii:253:(3, advertisements) & [vii]-viii:280 (the last five being advertisements), contemporary full diced tan calf; joints cracked and chipped but firm, backstrips and lettering pieces chipped and rubbed. Cracked at two gutters but firm. Some foxing to prelims. but generally internally very good. £150.00 |
STEWART, A.T. & PESHALL, C.J.E: The Immortal Gamble and the part played in it by H.M.S. "Cornwallis".
London: A & C Black, 1917. First edition. Plates. 8vo (8 x 5 inches), 269-pages. Original cloth; binding unevenly faded, slightly spotted, top edge dusty, dates and smudging to endpapers.
£14.00
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WATSON, G.C: The Commission of H.M.S. Amphion, Pacific Station, 1900-1904. The Log Series No. 11.London: The Westminster Press, 1904. Plates. 8vo (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches), 119-pages. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; very good. £85.00 |
WILLIAMS, H. NOEL: The Life and Letters of Admiral Sir Charles Napier.
London: Hutchinson, 1917. First edition. Portrait & plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 inches), 412-pages. Original blue cloth; good. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper.
£30.00
WILLOCK, ROGER: Bulwark of Empire. Bermuda's Fortified Naval Base, 1860-1920.
Princeton, N.J. Privately Published, 1962. Softback. Plates. 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), 151-pages. Original printed wrappers; wrappers browned. With long presentation inscription from the author on half-title and the recipient's signature on upper wrapper.
£15.00
WILSON, H. W: Battleships in Action. Two volumes.
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London: Conway Maritime Press,1995. A facsimile of the edition of 1926. Plates & battle plans. Two volumes 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), pages: 337 & 384. Original cloth; excellent in like dust jackets. £25.00 |
WONHAM, ALBERT R: Spun Yarns of a Naval Officer.
London: P. S. King, 1917. First edition. Plates. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 265-pages, original blue cloth; rusty paper clip mark to frontispiece and title, some foxing. Binding extremities rubbed.
£16.00
WOODMAN, RICHARD: Malta Convoys 1940 - 1943.
London: John Murray, 2000. First edition. Plates. 8vo (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches), 532-pages. Original blue cloth; excellent. Signature on front free endpaper. Cut panels of dust jacked loosely inserted at end.
£15.00
Maritime
ALLEN LINE STEAMER, OF GLASGOW: 'Deck scene. Ship "Armillan" 1655 Tons Reg. John Mitchell, Commander. March 13th 1888 at Robinson's Stores, Brooklyn, N.Y'.
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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 |
BOWEN, JOHN & ROBSON, MARTIN (Editors): Shipwright 2010. The International Annual of Maritime History & Ship
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London: Conway, 2009. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to (11 x 8 1/4 inches), 208-pages; fine in excellent dust-jacket. £14.00 |
BOWEN, JOHN & ROBSON, MARTIN (Editors): Shipwright 2011. The International Annual of Maritime History & Ship Modelmaking. Incorporating Model Shipwright.
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London: Conway, 2010. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to (11 x 8 1/4 inches), 208-pages; fine in excellent dust-jacket. £14.00 |
BOWEN, JOHN & HOOD, JEAN (Editors): Shipwright 2012. The International Annual of Maritime History & Ship Modelmaking. Incorporating Model Shipwright.
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London: Conway, 2011. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to (11 x 8 1/4 inches), 207-pages; fine in excellent dust-jacket. £14.00 |
BOWEN, JOHN & HOOD, JEAN (Editors): Shipwright 2013. The International Annual of Maritime History & Ship Modelmaking. Incorporating Model Shipwright.
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London: Conway, 2013. Profusely illustrated in colour. 4to (11 x 8 1/4 inches), 207-pages; fine in excellent dust-jacket. £25.00 |
CARY, ALAN L: Mail Liners of the World.
London: Sampson Low, n.d. First edition. Illustrations from photographs and silhouettes. 8vo, pp.144, original cloth in chipped d.w. Binding faded where dustwrapper chipped, front free endpaper soiled.
£10.00
CHATTERTON, E. KEBLE: Ships and Ways of Other Days.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913. First edition. Coloured frontispiece, plates, folding plans. Large 8vo, pp.xvi:308, original blue cloth with coloured illustration inset on upper cover, uncut, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped and slightly rubbed together with slight edge-rubbing; page edges browned; internally, prize label on front pastedown and armorial device in gilt on lower cover, a very small amount of foxing; a very good copy.
£12.00
COOKE, E.W: Sixty Five Plates of Shipping and Craft, Drawn and Etched by E.W. Cooke.
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London: 1829. Sixty five engraved plates including title and contents leaf, with tissue guards. 4to (12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches), original blindstamped brown cloth. Binding split and detached, stitching broken. Frontispiece detached and foxed. Title and first two plates with some foxing, last contents leaf (of the additional plates) foxed and soiled with some edge wear. Overall the remainder of the plates good and virtually free from foxing. £450.00 |
COOMBE, DEREK: Spritsail Bargemen.
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Bosham, West Sussex: Pennant Books, 2003. First edition. Illustrations. 4to (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches), 118-pages, original glazed pictorial wrappers; very good. £15.00 |
CRUISING HOLIDAYS 1935: For Health & Pleasure.
London: Daily Telegraph Supplement, Feb. 25th 1935. Newspaper folio, pp.24. Profusely illustrated editorials and advertising. Folded, one leaf a little frayed on foremargin. Together with the same for 1934; this however rather more yellowed and bumped.
£10.00
CUNARD WHITE STAR: "Mauretania" Launch at the yard of Cammell Laird & Co. Limited Birkenhead, Thursday July 28 1938. Naming ceremony performed by Lady Bates.
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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. £75.00 |
CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE: R.M.S. "Carinthia".
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Six 4to menus from this ship, each with coloured illustration to the front; the larger farewell dinner menu foxed. 1936. £45.00 |
GARDNER, DEREK G.M: Exhibition of Marine Paintings and Watercolours.
London: Polak Gallery, 1979. Exhibition catalogue. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Tall 8vo, pp.40, original glazed pictorial wrappers; apart from some very slight rubbing, good.
£10.00
GEORGE GIBSON & CO's STEAMERS: A printer's proof of their letterhead.
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On stout paper, 8 3/4 x 5 inches. Circa 1900. Ink smudged on plate marks and at date line. £10.00 |
GROENEWEGEN, G: Verzamelling van Vier en tachtig Stuks Hollandsche Schepen Geteekend en In Kiper Gebragt, 1789.
Rotterdam: Van den Brink, n.d. Numerous plates in facsimile. Oblong 8vo, original printed mock "vellum" boards. Binding foxed or marked, some foxing internally. Inscribed, dated 1975, on f.f.e.
£25.00
HALL, ELTON W: Sperm Whaling from New Bedford. Clifford W. Ashley's photographs of Bark Sunbeam in 1904.
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New Bedford: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1997. Second Printing. Profusely illustrated. Small 4to (9 1/4 inches square), 221-pages, original cloth. Ink initials on front free endpaper else fine in fine unclipped dust jacket. £24.00 |
HALL, THOMAS: The T.W. Lawson. The Fate of the World's Only Seven-Masted Schooner.
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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. £28.00 |
HARBORD, J.B. & GOODWIN, H.B: Glossary of Navigation. A Vade Mecum for Practical Navigators. Third edition, Revised and Enlarged. Edited by H. B. Goodwin.
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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. £60.00 |
HOLM-PETERSEN, F: Skibsportraetmalere.
Skaninavisk Bogforlay [1967]. Danish text. Numerous plates, largely coloured. 4to, pp.162, original boards in dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped; dustwrapper the same, together with some slight edge creasing, else good; internally, excellent.
£15.00
JEANS, H.W: Nautical Astronomy and Navigation. A New edition.
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London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1870. Two volumes bound in one. Tall 8vo, pp. viii:251 & viii:207, contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Binding rubbed and scuffed but sound. Some foxing. £60.00 |
JOHN KELLY LTD: John Kelly Ltd. War Service 1939-1945.
Not published, 1949. 26-page folio carbon typescript giving details of this Merchant Shipping Line's involvement during World War II. Folio (13 3/4 x 9 inches, old buff wrappers. Signature of Douglas B. Cochrane on first leaf.
£25.00
KENNEY, CYRIL ERNEST: The Quadrant and the Quill. A book written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy "a tryed and trusty Sea-man" and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669.
London: Privately published, 1947. Well illustrated in b&w. 4to, pp.166, original unlettered quarter olive cloth, white boards lettered in black with central portrait vignette. Some spotting to boards, corners worn but generally a good copy.
£22.00
KLITGAARD, B.J: Troubadour Sails On.
London: Seeley, Service, 1938. First edition. Plates. Small 4to, pp. 283:(4,adverts), original blue cloth; spine faded, inscription on front free endpaper.
£12.00
LESLIE, R.C: Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words. Reproduced in Facsimile from the original edition with an Introduction by C.R.L. Fletcher and L.G. Carr Laughton ......
London: Chapman & Hall, 1930. First published 1890. Black & white illustrations. Royal 8vo, pp.xxxvi:xix:328:39, orignal blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrapper; spine very slightly faded, headbands bumped, a number of whitish scuff marks to cloth specially along outer edge of front cover; page edges browned and slightly dusty; internally, very good.
£15.00
LINCOLN-GRANGE, L.F: Motor Ships and their Story.
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.
£250.00
LINDSAY, J & H: Passage Brokers by authority of H.M. Board of Trade, World Travel Bureau, Edinburgh.
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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 |
McMULLEN, R.T: Down Channel: From London to the Land's End in the Leo, 3 tons, and from London to the Scilly Isles in the Orion, 16 tons, R.T.Y.C. With other cruises
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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 |
MAYNE, RICHARD: Mail Ships of the Channel Islands 1771-1971.
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.
£14.00
MIDDLETON, EMPSON EDWARD: The Cruise of "The Kate".
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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. £60.00 |
QUEEN ELIZABETH II LAUNCHES THE S.S. EMPRESS OF BRITAIN 1955: The unique album compiled by the shipbuilders Fairfields of Govan, Glasgow for the launch of the SS "Empress of Britain" built for Canadian Pacific. Signed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh.
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| 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. |
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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.
£2250.00
ROBINSON, A.H.W: Marine Cartography in Britain. A History of the Sea Chart to 1855.
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Leicester University Press, 1962. First edition. Black & white plates. 4to, pp.222, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper poor, spine and edge-browned and with tears and chips along edges especially at spine with some loss; internally excellent. £30.00 |
ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY: Playing Cards.
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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 |
SAWYER, L.A. & MITCHELL, W.H: From America to United States. In Four Parts. The History of the long-range Merchant Shipbuilding Programme of the United States Maritime Commission. 4 Parts, complete.
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Kendal: World Ship Society, 1979. 4 volumes. Illustrations throughout. 4to (9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: 120; 104; 112; & 140. Softbacks. Original variously coloured pictorial wrappers; a couple of corners lightly bumped else excellent. £60.00 |
SENATE, 62nd Congress, 2d Session, Report No. 806: "Titanic" Disaster. Report of the Committee on Commerce United States Senate pursuant to S. Res. 283 directing the Committee on Commerce to Investigate the causes leading to the Wreck of the White Star Liner "Titanic" ........
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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. £35.00 |
SLIGHT, JULIAN: A Narrative of the Loss of the Royal George at Spithead, August, 1782; including Tracey's Attempt to raise Her in 1783, also Col. Pasley's Operations in Removing the Wreck by Explosioins of Gunpowder, in 1839-40. Third Edition.
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| Portsea: S. Horsey, 1841. Engraved frontispiece and 3 engraved plates. 12mo (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches), pages: vi:7-110. Original calf-backed wooden boards; upper board warped and with edge chip to upper fore-corner, lower board darkened, edge chipped and split in two. Spine lettered in gilt "Relic of the Royal George". Internally good. |
Publisher's printed label on front pastedown states that this volume is bound in wood from the wreck. With the small engraved label of J. Stacy, Bookseller of Norwich and inscribed by him on the recto of the frontispiece.
£125.00
SMITH, EUGENE W: Passenger Ships of the World Past and Present. Second edition.
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Boston: Dean, 1978. Plates. Small 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches, 1097-pages. Original brown faux leather in the worn, now protected, dust jacket. £14.00 |
SMOUT, T.C. [Editor]: Scotland and the Sea.
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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. £45.00 |
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH [Publishers]: The Mariner's Mirror, The Quarterly Journal for Nautical Research. The four issues for 1968 comprising Volume 53.
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
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH [Publishers]: The Mariner's Mirror, The Quarterly Journal for Nautical Research. The four issues for 1969 comprising Volume 53.
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
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH [Publishers]: The Mariner's Mirror, The Quarterly Journal for Nautical Research. The four issues for 1971 comprising Volume 53.
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
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH [Publishers]: The Mariner's Mirror, The Quarterly Journal for Nautical Research. The four issues for 1972 comprising Volume 53.
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
TALBOT-BOOTH, E.C. (Editor): Merchant Ships of the World 1940.
London: Sampson Low, n.d. Profusely illustrated. Thick oblong folio (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches), original blue cloth; inner hinges cracked but holding, creasing and snag to backstrip otherwise good.
£40.00
THE LANDGUARD FORT LIFEBOAT 1821- Benjamin William Page (1765-1845, Admiral; for which see D.N.B): An original pencil drawing, on parchment.
showing the deck plan with buoyancy cases and seating, inscribed, also in pencil, "Mr. Bayley Boatmans plan for a Life Boat - like a Whale Boat. 26 feet by 6 x 30 inches deep, to be light as possible & not exceed £100 pounds Sterling in costs. This boat it is expected can be launched by a few men - say 10 or 12 & well manned by seven & will carry 18 or 20 upon any necessary occasion". Inscribed and signed in ink to the reverse; "First plan for a Life Boat to be built at Ipswich 1821. This was extended to 30 feet & six wide but should be eight feet by thirty & 6 deep, B.W.Page". 6 ½ x 5 ¾ inches; folded.* Benjamin William Page (1765-1845, Admiral; for which see D.N.B) raised by public subscription the funding for this life boat. Built by Baleys of Ipswich she was launched in April 1821 near Stoke Bridge, after undergoing trials on the Orwell, she was stationed at Landguard Fort, Felixstowe.
£200.00
VALPARAISO, CLUB NAVAL DE: Centenario de las Gestas Navales de 1879.
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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. £55.00 |
WENTHOLT, A.D: Brug over den Oceaan. Een eeuw geschiedenis van de Holland Amerika Lijn.
Rotterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1973. First edition. Numerous black & white plates. 8vo, pp.369, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding good; dustwrapper extremely edge-rubbed, a tear to back fold and another square tear to top edge of front cover with a piece almost detached; internally very good. A history of the Holland America Line.
£15.00
WILLYAMS, COOPER: A Voyage up the Mediterranean in His Majesty's Ship the Swiftsure, one of the squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson... with a description of the Battle of the Nileon the First of August 1798 and a Detail of Events that Occured Subsequent to the Battle in Various Parts of the Mediterranean. FULLY COLOURED.
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| London: T. Bensley for J. White, 1802. First edition. Engraved dedication to the Earl of St. Vincent with hand-coloured armorial vignette, hand-coloured double-page aquatint chart of the Mediterranean with 3 medallion views, and 40 hand-coloured aquatint plates engraved by J.C. Stadler after the author, also a hand-coloured plan of the Battle of the Nile by R.W. Millar, Captain of H. M. S. Theseus, 4to (12 x 9 1/2 inches), pages xxiii:309. Contemporary full tan calf, ornamental gilt rules to sides; rebacked at some stage retaining the majority of the original backstrip, with black lettering piece, the gilt lettering on which is not good. The volume could do with a sympathetic reback and is priced to allow for such. Internally clean and the plates fresh; with no offsetting of the plates to the text, as often, as most of the original tissue guards are in place. Later inscription on front fly. With the contemporary engraved armorial bookplate of Vere Warner Hussey [Lieutenant General in His Majesty's Service and Lieutenant General of Artillery in the Service of the Honorable East India Company] on front pastedown. A fully-coloured copy of this important account of Nelson's victory at the Nile, and of travels in the Mediterranean; copies were offered coloured and uncoloured, the majority were issued uncoloured. Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure, and was present at the Battle of the Nile.According to ODNB this is "the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle". Includes views of Sicily, Egypt, Gibraltar, Syracuse, Alexandria, Minorca, Venice, and other locations around the Mediterranean. £2000.00 |
WILLYAMS, H.V: Down West. Extracts from the Log-Book of a Single-Hander. Illustrated from Photographs and Sketches by the Author.
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London: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, [ 1902 ]. Folding map, plates. Small 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 156-pages plus two leaves of advertisements at end for Norie & Wilson's Yachting Warehouse. Original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and lettered in white; a very good copy. £25.00 |
YOUNG, ARCHIBALD: Summer Sailings by an Old Yachtsman. With numerous illustrations after water-colour drawings by the Author.
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Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1898. First edition. Frontispiece, title vignette, and 14 plates all hand-coloured, as issued; together with illustrations in the text. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), 225-pages, original blue cloth gilt; headband snagged, a little rubbing to the joints, spine gilt dulled, some foxing to prelims., but overall a very nice copy. £70.00 |
