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The Golden Age of Sail An Illustrated Guide to Great Sailing Ships from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
by Ross, David
London: Amber Books. 2013. Oblong Quarto Size [approx 30x22cm]. Very Good+ in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Colour illustrations. 224 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£20.89
![Traders Under Sail. The Cutters, Ketches and Schooners of South Australia [Signed Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/730/761/1547761730.0.b.jpg)
Traders Under Sail. The Cutters, Ketches and Schooners of South Australia [Signed Copy]
by Gillespie, James Captain
Adelaide: Published by Author. 1994. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Signed by author on the Title Page. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Endpaper maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 311 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£114.91
The Last of the Windjammers. 2 volume set. 1927
by Lubbock, Basil
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex.-lib. LIbrary rebind. Spine lightly rubbed. Text block firm. 1927. Reprint. Blue/gilt hardback cloth cover. 250mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). xiv, 518pp; xv, 443pp + plates. 168 b/w plates. Published 1927 and 1929 Heavy set - extra shipping needed for overseas. .
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£46.00
Sail in the South. A Selection from the A.D.Edwardes Collection of Shipping Photographs in the State Library of South Australia
by Parsons, Ronald
Adelaide: Rigby. 1975. Small Quarto Size [approx 22cm x 26cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 209 pages. The great days of sail around Australia and New Zealand in complete pictorial form with each photograph accompanied by a fully descriptive caption. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£9.40
Deep-Water Sail. 1955
by Underhill, Harold A
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Label of previous owner on fep. 1955. 2nd impression. Green hardback cloth cover. 250mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). xxix, 302pp + plates. 100 b/w plates + 100 b/w plans, some fold-out. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .
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£32.00
Britannia at Dartmouth
by Pack, S W C
London: Alvin Redman Ltd. VG : in very good condition with rubbed dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Mustard hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 326pp. .
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£8.60
H.M.S. Buffalo An account of His Majesty's Ship Buffalo; Naval Storeship and Timber Carrier, Quarantine Ship, Transport, and Emigrant Ship bringing the first Governor to South Australia
by Sexton, Robert
Adelaide: Australasian Maritime Historical Society. 1984. Oblong Octavo Size [approx 22.8 x 15.3cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary pages. Black & white illustrations by the author. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 183pages.. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£31.34
Architectura Navalis Mercatoria. A Facsimile of the Classic Eighteenth Century Treatise on Shipbuilding
by Chapman, Fredrik Henrik
London: Adlard Coles. VG : in very good condition with lightly rubbed and scuffed dust jacket. 1972. Facsimile Bicentenary Edition Reprint. Brown pictorial hardback cloth cover. 350mm x 250mm (14" x 10"). 102pp. 52 folding plates. Mid 18thC collection of ships plans. First published in 1768, Chapman's treatise was rapidly translated into French, English, Russian and German. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .
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£54.00
The Blackwall Frigates
by Lubbock, Basil
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson. 1973. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is price-clipped & now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White plates & plans. 280 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Hardback.
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£20.89
![Beyond the Capes. Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger [1776-1877]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/838/132/581132838.0.b.jpg)
Beyond the Capes. Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger [1776-1877]
by Dodge, Ernest S
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1971. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Colour frontispiece. Maps to endpapers. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 429 pages. Looks at a forgotten century of Pacific exploration. Included are full accounts of the voyages of Marion du Fresne, La Perouse,...
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£13.06
By Way Of Cape Horn
by Villiers, Alan
London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good; Light cover creases, light edge and shelf wear, light foxing. ; . Hodder C281. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork uncredited. . Scarce in this edition.. 1957. Reprint. Paperback. Mass Market PB . First Printing; 256 pages; First hand account of a harrowing journey aboard a square rigged sailing ship from Australia to Queenstown in Ireland during 1929, by way of Cape Horn. .
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£44.96
The last of the windjammers
by Lubbock, Alfred Basil,
Brown, Sons & Ferguson, Glasgow, 1969, 1st ed. reimp. xiv, 518, ill. b/w photos, 17 plans, foldouts and includes index. Front board bumped, slight soiling of front edges, slight tear and wear, water damage to dj. Windjammers and clipper ships. Heavy will require extra postage.
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£35.32
The Bounty Ships of France
by Villiers, Alan and Henri Picard
Scribner's, New York, 1972, first US edition, 240 p. ill. b/w photos, map front end papers, full rigged ship and sails identified on back end papers. The French Merchant Marine ships called bounty ships 1870-1920, moved cargoes to the overseas possessions. The French had low desertion rates and the ships more comfortable and safe. They also took easier passages for the ships. Many were Breton sailor, Henri Picard sailed on one of these ships.
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£14.72
The Mayflower and Other Colonial Vessels
by Baker, William A
London: Conway Maritime Press Ltd. VG: in very good condition with dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Navy blue hardback cloth cover. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 180pp. B/w illustrations by the author. .
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£12.60
Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la voile, 1608-1850
by Camu, Pierre
Hurtubise HMH, LaSalle, Québec, 1996, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. very good, Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-348) and index. This book won the Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau in 1996. It is described as a encyclopedia of the navigation in the St. Laurent and Grand Lacs. Heavy may require extra postage.
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£26.49
Britannia at Dartmouth
by Pack, S W C
London: Alvin Redman Ltd. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Previous owner inscription to fep. 1966. First Edition. Mustard hardback cloth cover. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 326pp. .
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£7.60
Sailing Ships of War 1400-1860
by Howard, Frank
London: Conway Maritime Press. 1987. Quarto Size [approx 24x30cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Colour photographs and drawings. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 256 pages. . Reprint. Hardback.
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£18.28
Ancient and Modern Ships. Part I. Wooden Sailing Ships
by Holmes, George C V
London: HMSO. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 1906. Revised Edition. Green/gilt hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 168pp. 74 illustrations. .
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£28.00
Spirit of Sail On Board the World's Great Sailing Ships
by Dyson, John
Key Porter Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550130315 . Blue Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A Near Fine copy with a solid binding and bright, unmarked pages. Light sunning to the front cover bottom edge. The DJ is unclipped and in Near Fine condition. " Christopher full-clour photographs capture the lofty beauty of a stately parade of sail and the dizzy swoop of the view from the topgallant yard high above the sea. He takes us on spray-whipped...
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£21.16
Malaspina on the Northwest Coast. Voyages of Enlightenment
by Vaughan, Thomas; Crownhart-Vaughan, E A P; de Iglesias, Mecedes Oalau
Portland: Oregan Historical Society. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 1977. First Edition. Illustrated card cover. 230mm x 200mm (9" x 8"). viii, 61pp. .
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£4.60
The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor, or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship
by Lever, Darcy w/intro. & notes by John H. Harland
Mineola, NY: Dover, 1998 reissue. 126pp. illus. paperback 4to: Fine. A crisp Dover facsimile reissue of the 1819 second edition of English East Indian Company man Darcy Lever's (ca. 1759-1839) magnum opus, written during the heyday of the Napoleonic Era Age of Sail.
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£12.19
A Drifterman's Diary. An Account of Herring Fishing in Norfolk in the Days of Sail & Steam. Signed copy
by Holmes, J E
Yarmouth: J.E. Holmes. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 1994. First Edition. Illustrated laminated card cover. 210mm x 150mm (8" x 6"). 42pp. B/w illustrations. Signed by author on title page. .
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£9.60
Transport History Volume 4. Volume 4 of the Journal Transport History
by Duckham, Baron F. And Hume, John R. (Editors)
Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1972. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. DJ spine a touch faded. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 344 pages. Contains all articles, book reviews and notes which appeared in the 1971 issues of the journal 'Transport History'. Subjects include: Railway history, Roads,...
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£13.06
The Search for Speed Under Sail 1700 - 1855
by Chapelle, Howard I
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. G: in good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 1968. First UK Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). xviii, 453pp + plans & ads. 16 b/w fold-out plans. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. .
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£24.00
Greyhounds of the sea
by Cutler, Carl C
Halcyon House, New York, 1930, first edition US, v-xxvii, 592 p. b; 117 illustrations,maps on liners, includes index. good - book plate and previous owners' inscription, slight silver fish at edges, dust jacket chipped and faded on spine. A detailed history the clipper ship in America, discussing their importance to trade and commerce, including sections on China, California clippers, Australian gold, and the eventual decline in the use of the clipper ships toward the end of the 19th century. Heavy will...
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£29.43
