Maritime

Light-house Board of the United States, 1902 Covers First District- Sixteenth District . Description of station, fog signal characteristic of light, remarks, ect. Color foldout maps rear, taped tears title page,stapled, missing front and rear covers, with b/w photographs of stations, light vessels, scarce. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition.. Soft cover. Good.

London, UK: Lloyd's, 1983. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover, first edition, 10kg, coloured endpapers, set of three volumes. Complete 1983-84 register of ships from Lloyd's. Volume I (A - G) 1934pgs, includes pocket inside front cover with conversion tables and proforma for registration. Volume II (H - O) 1916pgs. Volume III (P - Z) 1958pgs. Books are in good condition with mild general wear and tear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Due to the weight of items, postage estimate will most likely be insufficient. Photo featured is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title your looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock we can't list them all!!..

London: John Murray, 1839 3rd edition, (1st published 8 years earlier in 1831), in contemporary full leather binding with 6 black and white plates. Classed as poor because the boards are adrift, there are loose preliminaries (at one point one was attached with sellotape) and there is browning, particularly where the plates have offset to tissue guards and text. There is a signature for John ?Slater Harrison, dated 1839 to a preliminary.Remaining contents nice and clean. There is light brown toning to paper.

London, United Kingdom: George Allen & Company, Ltd, 1913. Marks to front and rear boards. Blue boards with gilt title and decoration to front. Previous owners name to front endpaper. Foxing thoughout. 336 pages with b/w illustrations. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

1st edition.First book published in the Bolitho series. The boards are slightly worn, but the priceclipped dustwrapper is in very good condition.

Profusely illustrated review of the French Navy in the 19th century with engraved title page, 8 finely handcolored plates of men in uniform and 1 of flags of the Nautical Powers, 22 full-page steel engravings of ships and maritime scenes, and over 100 engravings and vignettes in the text by Antoine Leon Morel-Fatio. 240 pp, 31 plates, text in French.The costume plates are handcolored lithographs by the famous Pauquet Brothers after illustrations by Andre Castan, A. Gusman, P. Goyer, Louis, etc., and show ranks from Admiral to Matelot. The steel plates by de Tournemine, E. Isabey, Morel-Fatio, etc., show famous French ships of the line, nautical scenes, historical events.The vignettes by Morel-Fatio show many different types of vessels as well as life on board sailing ships, in the rigging, on deck and below decks. Condition: Covers a little frayed, binding tight, ex-library stamp Marinens Bibliotek on frontis and barcode on front endpaper, some slight browning and foxing throughout. Antoine Leon… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 491 pages, indexed. Bound in gray cloth with a black leather label on the spine. The binding is rubbed but sound with secure inner hinges. This is a special Limited Edition, limited to 200 copies. The text is sound and a little toned but clean.

Naval Institute Press, 2013-02-15. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x0. Name on inside cover/ title page. Additional pages appear to be clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Dust jacket is clean and bright, shows some crease on back cover, some edge and shelf wear from normal use/storage. No rips, tears or stains. Seaforth Publishing, 2012. Thank you for shopping with us!

Elliott, W. Gerald Treasure On The Broads. Herbert Jenkins, London Stated First Printing 1933. Signed and inscribed by British screenwriter Dorothy Greenhill, a co-writer of Mr. Elliott's. RARE THUS. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. Orange boards with black titling. 5 X 7 1/2. 312 pages plus adverts. Summary: A mystery story about an ancient buried treasure trove located in Sussex, England.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. First edition. Softcover. Published Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. Small 4to. wrappers, 8" x 10 1/2", 306pp., illustrated with 25 multi-part b/w plates. Gray covers with black spine and cover titles. Old tape repairs at the spine ends, light soil/darkening to covers, pencil penmanship on rear end paper, else very good. Binding tight, pages and plates clean. Scarce. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1841. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. George Cruikshank. Signed binding by "Root & Son." Hardcover bound in 20th century 3/4 morocco with raised bands on the spine. Spine designs in gilt and with Cruikshank's facsimile signature in gilt on the spine. The binding shows light to moderate wear; the front hinge shows some rubbing. Top edge gilt. Signed (in type) by the binder at the top (verso) of the front flyleaf, "Bound by Root & Son". Patterned endpapers. A sound copy with clean text. Illustrated with 10 engravings. The "Songs" are text only (poetry); there is no scored music in this work. (Please note: Only the binding is signed (in type). This book is NOT signed by either the Dibdins or by Cruikshank).

Salem, MA: The Essex Institute. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn.. 1944. Hardcover. Dark gray cloth binding titled in gilt on spine. Introduction by Stephen Willard Phillips. Black and white illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages .

Navy cloth binding. Gilt ship, Jane signature and New South Wales Library stamp on the front board. Gilt title on the spine.
A very rare Edition The Imperial Russian Navy operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917. Formally established in 1696, it lasted until dissolved in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917. It developed from a smaller force that had existed prior to Tsar Peter the Great's founding of the modern Russian navy during the Second Azov campaign in 1696. It expanded in the second half of the 18th century and reached its peak strength by the early part of the 19th century, behind only the British and French fleets in terms of size. The Imperial Navy drew its officers from the aristocracy of the Empire, who belonged to the state Russian Orthodox Church. Young aristocrats began to be trained for leadership at a national naval school. From 1818 on, only officers of the Imperial Russian Navy were appointed to the position of Chief Manager… Read More

Navy cloth binding. Gilt ship on the front board. Gilt title and naval rating on the spine.
H.M.S. Britannia was the name given to the British Royal Navy's ship used for the preliminary education of naval officers from 1859 to 1905. It was anchored first at Portsmouth, then Portland, and finally off the town of Dartmouth in Devon. The first ship used was the 1820 three-decker Britannia, which was replaced in 1869 by the three-decker Prince of Wales, which became the fifth ship to bear the name Britannia. From 1864 onwards the two-decker Hindostan was moored ahead of Britannia and connected by an enclosed gangway, providing extra accommodation and classroom space. Cadets joining the Royal Navy were entered into a "term" in Britannia, in which they remained for two years of instruction. The number of terms started each year varied, ranging from two to four before normalising at three per annum. If cadets gained enough time through scholarly aptitude and good behaviour, upon leaving for the fleet they… Read More

Navy Calf. Gilt edging on both boards with Cargilfield School on front board. Red title plate with gilt lettering and ornate decoration on the spine. Red marbling on all edges.
This collection of historian James Anthony Froude's lectures delivered at Oxford on 16thcentury English seamen. In very good condition. This collection included Froud's historic lectures The Sea Cradle of the Reformation, John Hawkins and the African Slave Trade, Drake's Voyage Round the World, The Great Expedition to the West Indies, Sailing of the Armada, and Attack on Cadiz. James Anthony Froude FRSE (23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the… Read More