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The Armada 400th Anniversary Edition, Mattingly, Garrett. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1959 BOMC. Quarter brown cloth over blue boards, gilt spine titles, illustrated endpapers. 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 443 pages including color and black and white plates, notes and index. Inked name to half title and otherwise volume and unclipped jacket in fine condition. "On the four hundredth anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, here, in a new deluxe illustrated edition, is Garrett Mattingly's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, The Armada, which has been hailed as 'an historical masterpiece' (New York Times)."

Around the World in a Dugout Canoe: The Untold Story of Captain John Voss and the Tilikum, MacFarlane, John; Salmon, Lynn J. Published by Harbour Publishing, Pender Harbour, British Columbia, 2020. First Edition. 268pp., illustrated. In fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket.
Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar canoe from an Indigenous village on the east coast of Vancouver Island. For three years Voss and the Tilikum, aided by a rotating cast of characters, visited Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil and finally England.
In this groundbreaking work, marine historians John MacFarlane and Lynn Salmon sift fact from fiction, Around the World in a Dugout Canoe tells the real story of a little-understood character and his cedar canoe. It is an enduring story of courage, adventure,… Read More

Battleground South Pacific. Adams, Bruce (Photographs) and Howlett, Robert (Text). Published by A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney, 1970. First Edition. pp. 223 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. Green cloth boards, red spine titles, mapped endpapers. Foreword by Sir Arthur Lee. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color photographs. Volume is in fine condition without marks, tears or folds, boards have very light fading near edges. Unclipped dustjacket has chipping tail and head of spine and light wear. "The Second World War came to the Pacific and shattered a dream. The battling armies created bleak infernos of the jewelled islands and laid them waste. The armies passed but the material remained: aircraft, tanks, cannon, landing craft, warships, beach defenders ... everything that could advance the attack and retard the enemy. Bruce Adams with his camera has caught a hundred moods ...in this decay".. Adams, Bruce (Photographs) and Howlett, Robert (Text). Published by A.H. & A.W. Reed, Sydney, 1970.… Read More

Canadian Warship Names, Freeman, David J. Published by Vanwell Publishing Limited, St. Catharines, Ontario, 2000. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 367 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, indexes. Green boards, gilt spine titles. Both unclipped jacket and volume in mint unread condition."The name carried by a ship has far-reaching significance. It has historical and geographical references; it may have political, social or propaganda overtones; it links the ship with its class and type. To the ship's company the name of the ship and its nickname identify it as a community or it is the name of their home.This book covers over 900 names of Canadian naval vessels, shore establishments, and some RN ships, from 1910 to the present. Each name covered includes the origin and meaning of the name, its sometimes-complex process of selection, its pennant numbers, and dates in commission and whether the name was assigned an official badge.A comprehensive reference painstakingly researched from primary sources,… Read More

Captain Cook, Alistair MacLean. Published by Doubleday & Company, 1972. First American Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall.,192pp. with colour frontispiece, colour and black and white photographs, maps, illustrations, epilogue, index. Green cloth boards with mapped endpapers. Illustration on dustjacket is by artist John Webber who accompanied Cook on his final voyage. Very light fading and small bump to lower edge of front board and otherwise both volume and unclipped dustjacket are in fine condition without marks, folds etc. James Cook was the greatest combination of seaman, explorer, navigator, and cartographer that the world had ever known.Alistair MacLean presents a graphic and lively account of this great explorer, his three amazing voyages and the adventures that befell him, his crews, and his ships in lands that until he sailed were in many cases unknown. Cook's life was a resounding success and the story of it is a thrilling exemplification of his own description of himself as a man 'who had… Read More

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, Larson, Erik. Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 2015. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 430pp. with index, bibliography and chapter notes. Black boards with gilt titles, mapped endpapers. Volume has a small remainder dot tail outer edge and is otherwise in fine, unread condition; unclipped dustjacket has light scuffing. The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. The vessel went down 11 miles (18 km) off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland, killing 1,198 and leaving 761 survivors. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought. DEAD WAKE: THE… Read More

Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, Massie, Robert K., Random House, New York, 1991. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 1007 pages including illustrations, photographs and maps. Burgundy quarter-cloth over brown boards with gilt spine titles and mapped endpapers. Light shelf wear to jacket; volume is in fine, unread condition.
Massie brings to life a crowd of glittering figures: the single-minded Admiral von Tirpitz; the young, ambitious Winston Churchill; the ruthless, sycophantic Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow; Britain's greatest twentieth-century Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey; and Jacky Fisher, the eccentric admiral who revolutionized the British Navy and brought forth for the first true battleship, H.M.S. Dreadnought. Their story, and the story of the era, filled with misunderstanding, missed opportunities, and events leading to unintended conclusions, unfolds like a Greek tragedy in this powerful narrative. Intimately human and dramatic, Dreadnought is history at… Read More

Fishing for a Living, Haig-Brown, Alan. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia, 1993. First Edition. 4to up to 12" tall; 200pp, index, illustrated with black and white photos, charts etc. Volume and unclipped jacket both in fine condition without marks, tears, folds etc.. On the West Coast, catching fish is a way of life, celebrated in these writings, oral histories and photographs about the people who build the boats and bring in the fish. This book, the result of a three-decade infatuation with fishing boats and fishing people, salutes those fishers and everyone else who builds the boats, fixes the gear and brings in the fish - from humpback to halibut, from draggers to double-deckers.The book has more than 200 photographs from the author's collection, oral histories from the Native Canadians, Dalmatians, Japanese, Norwegians, Vietnamese and others who created the rich culture of our fishing industry...

Fishing with John, Iglauer, Edith. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, BC, 1988. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 305pp. Quarter navy cloth over grey boards, silver spine titles. Contents in fine condition with tiny owner's label on pastedown under jacket flap. Boards have very light fading and soiling; Unclipped jacket is in fine condition. Edith Iglauer was born in Cleveland and lived an urban, sophisticated life in New York until she met and married John Daly, a commercial fisherman in British Columbia. She spent more than four years on his forty-one-foot troller, the Morekelp until his sudden death.

From The Wheelhouse: Tugboaters Tell Their Own Stories, Armitage, Doreen. Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park BC, 2003. First Edition. In pristine condition in fine unclipped dust jacket. Gray boards, silver spine titles. 4to up to 12" tall. 182Pp, Index. black and white photographs"Author and historian Doreen Armitage interviewed 17 old-time tugboat captains, engineers and deck hands to assemble this intimate and often hair-raising account of life aboard BC tugs. Generously illustrated with archival photos and images from the personal collections of the skippers who appear within its pages. From The Wheelhouses a lively personal account of towboating in BC and an engaging portrait of the coastal characters and vessels that shaped this region's maritime history".

The Good Company: An Affectionate History of the Union Steamships, Henry, Tom. Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada, 1994. First Edition. 4to up to 12" tall; 152 pages profusely illustrated. Gray boards with gilt titles; mapped yellow endpapers. Both volume and unclipped dustjacket are in collectible condition without marks, tears or folds; a hint of toning to top edge. "The fascinating story of the legendary Union Steamship Company, which operated up and down the BC coast between 1890 and 1955. The Union Steamship Company was an essential part of BC life during the late 1800s and early 1900s. For hundreds of people living along the coast of BC, the Union Steamship Company was the only link to the outside world. In this bright, well-illustrated, genuine history - with 100 photographs, many of them never published before - the heyday of the Union Steamships comes beautifully to life".

The Great War at Sea 1914-1918, Hough, Richard. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1983. First Edition. 8vo, 353 pages with bibliography and index, photo illustrations, line maps. Blue boards with gilt spine titles. Clipped dustjacket is otherwise in fine condition and now protected in mylar; volume in fine, unmarked condition. Describes the years leading up to 1914, the Kaiser's burning resentment of Britain's unchallenged supremacy at sea, and the headlong race to war, accelerated by the construction of the "Dreadnought", the biggest, fastest, and most heavily gunned battleship in the world.

High Boats: A Century of Salmon Remembered. Norris, Pat Wastell. Published by Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, British Columbia, 2003. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 232pp., illustrated. Volume and unclipped jacket both in fine condition without marks, tears, folds etc. "… an affectionate history of the West coast fishery -- the boats, canneries and characters that shaped this part of the world for more than a century.".

If a Pirate I Must Be The True Story of Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Caribbean, Sanders, Richard. Published by Aurum Press, London, England, 2007. First Edition/First printing 8vo up to 9½" tall. 278 pages with map, Appendix 1: Roberts' Ships, Crews and Prizes; Appendix 2: Thomas Anstis's Articles; Selected Sources; and Index. Red boards with gilt titles. Unclipped dustjacket in fine condition with a hint of top edge ruffle; volume in fine condition with a few tiny light marks to boards; contents clean bright and unmarked.

Lighthouse Chronicles: Twenty Years on the BC Lights, Flo Anderson Published by Harbour Publishing Co, Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada, 1998. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. Pictorial card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall.-222 pages including index and black and white photographs. In unread condition."The Andersons worked as light keepers for the next twenty years, at Lennard Island and then at Barrett Rock, McInnis Island, Green Island (B.C.'s northernmost lighthouse) and Race Rocks (B.C.'s southernmost lighthouse)."

Manual of Seamanship for Boys and Seamen of the Royal Navy, 1904, Cecil H. Fox. Published by Algrove Publishing, Ottawa, 2003. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 311pp. illustrated throughout with diagrams etc. In fine, unread condition with very light shelf wear to covers.

The Map That Changed the World, Winchester, Simon. Published by , Harper Collins, New York, 2001. First Edition, First printing. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 329 pp., bibliography, glossary, photographs and illustrations. Beige boards with gilt spine titles. This first issue dustjacket becomes a fold-out of am 1815 facsimile map titled Delineations of the Strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland exhibiting the collieries and mines. Both volume and unclipped dustjacket are in fine condition without marks, tears and folds.
This is the story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.

The Metal Fighting Ship in the Royal Navy, 1860-1970, Archibald, E. H. H. Illustrated by Ray Woodward. Published by Arco Pub. Co, U.S.A., 1971. Assumed First Edition. 4to up to 12" tall.226 pages including bibliography and index. Detailed illustrations throughout by Ray Woodward. Blue cloth boards, blind stamped illustration of ship front board; gilt spine titles; illustrated endpapers. Volume is in mint condition; clipped dust jacket has light age yellowing at edges and light shelf wear. Development of the modern British navy; from iron-clad masted ships, to dreadnoughts, and the evolution specialized combat ships: cruisers, destroyers, etc.

The Northwest Coast: British Navigation, Trade, and Discoveries to 1812, Gough, Barry M. Published by the University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver BC 1992. First Edition. 266pp. with black and white illustrations and maps; endnotes, bibliography and index.. Blue boards with silver spine titles. Volume is in fine condition; very light shelf wear to jacket.

A Passage to Sword Beach: Minesweeping in the Royal Navy, Maher, Brendan A. Published by US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 1996. First printing. 8vo. up to 9½" tall. 8vo. 246 pp. including index, appendices, black and white photographs. Brown cloth boards, gilt titles. Inscription free endpaper and otherwise volume and unclipped jacket in mint condition.