Search Results: Maritime History from Tapsell's Books and Music

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1826. Volume I: Voyage to Loo-Choo and Other Places in the Eastern Seas, in the Year 1816. Including an Account of Captain Maxwell's Attack on the Batteries at Canton; and Notes of an Interview with Buonaparte at St Helena, in August 1817. iv, ii, 322 pages. Volume II and III: Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822. xii, 313 and x, 311 pages. Each volume is 14.6cm x 9.7cm. Engraved half-title pages. Blind-stamped original three-quarter calf with gitl titling and rules on the spine. Marbled boards. Corners a little bumped. A lovely old set. Scarce.. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good.

London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831. Set of two volumes. xxiv, 566 and viii, 568 pages. Fourteen b/w engraved plates, including the frontispieces. About half the plates have varying degrees of tanning with offsetting on the facing page. Pale foxing on the title page and frontispiece of Volume One. Rebound at some time in three-quarter calf with raised bands, gilt titling and rules on the spine. Original marbled boards (slightly rubbed). New endpapers. A lovely old set.. First Edition. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Osaka: Osaka Shosen Kaisha, 1931. Quarto. 724 pages. Many b/w illustrations and full-colour maps. Many interesting advertisements with spot colour. Thumb index. Original pictorial embossed and decorated blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine. Coloured titling on upper board. Top and bottom edges gilt. Blue art paper endpapers. Very minor insect hole on front free endpaper. A beautiful copy. OVERSEAS BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This is a very heavy book (about 3.7kgs) so please ask us for an exact price for shipping to your country.. 18th Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.