Rare books from Gotcha By The Books

hardbound. Good/no dustwrapper. 9 Volumes 4to. b&w photographs 9 large-format minute books, being 8 Ships' Registers (Monstrings Liggare) for Steam Ships, Motor Ships/Vessels, Motor Tankers, travelling between Sweden and Australia from the 1940's-1970's, including numerous official applications for Seaman's Passports (including b&w photos of applicants, along with names, d.o.b's etc), and 1 large-format minute book of the Swedish Vice Consulate in Australia 1920's-1940's, referencing all issues maritime, including lists of Swedish ships reported at Vice Consulate (names, ports of registry, crews, dates of arrival, etc) - all details hand-written, and also including numerous official typed documents such as Seaman's Service Ratings, Notices of Masters of Swedish Vessels, incidental letters regarding requests for ships' repairs to be carried out in Australian ports, and so forth; many of the ships named herein also list the owner at the time, e.g. M.V. Camilla (F. Bjornberg), the cargo carried, dates… Read More

New York: White Gallaher & White, 1828. 1st Edition. three-quarter leather, marbled boards. Good-Very Good/no dustwrapper. 8vo. fold-out map 1st Edition of Samuel Gridley Howe's historical outline of the Greek Revolution, with gift-inscription to prelims by the author's son Henry Marion Howe and Eliza Howe (possibly SG Howe's daughter, the writer Laura Elizabeth Howe), inscription dated Boston December 1895, and also signed (presumably by the recipient) J.S. (or I.S.) Howe; includes the fold-out frontispiece map (often missing); Samuel Gridley Howe was an American physician, Abolitionist, and advocate for the blind, who (after being inspired by Byron) served as a surgeon in the Greek Revolution; his son Henry Marion Howe was a prominent metallurgist who wrote the Iron and Steel article for the 11th Edition (1911) Britannica; a unique copy with the Howe family connection; bound in (later) three-quarter calf with marbled boards, raised bands with six compartments, black title label with gilt titling… Read More

London: Walker's Galleries Ltd, 1921-1932. 1st Edition. leather/leatherette. Very Good/no dustwrappers. 7 volumes 8vo. profusely illustrated Scarce collection of Walker's Quarterly, being 28 issues bound in 7 volumes of four issues each from 1921-1932 including an unbroken run from No 5 - 28; No 5 Dictator of the Royal Academy (an account of Joseph Farrington R.A. with some notes on his brother George) No 6 William Payne No 7 Claude Hayes No 8 John Laporte No 9 Alfred William Rich No 10 David Roberts No 11 William Turner No 12 Robert Hills No 13 Edward Duncan No 14 Francis Nicholson No 15 John Glover No 16 John Burgess No 17 Brian Hatton No 18 Thomas Shotter Boys Nos 19-20 John Sell Cotman (The Bulwer Collection) No. 21 Miles Edmund Cotman No 22 William Callow No 23 James Holland No 24 John (Warwick) Smith Nos 25-26 George A Fripp and Alfred D Fripp No 27 Samuel Lucas No 28 John Frederick Lewis Nos 33-34 British Farm Animals in Prints and in Paintings Nos 35-36 Thomas Daniell William Daniell;… Read More