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Price: £30.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Authorhouse: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 019631
ISBN: 1456783203
Condition: Very Good
v +262pp, index, 10pp illustrations, 3 appendices. Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Signed by the author on half title 'With very best wishes, Maurice Abney-Hastings'. Underneath is 11/500 with authors initials alongside, indicating that this is perhaps one of a limited edition. Included is a small pamphlet 'Karteria - The Story of the First Steam Paddle Ship used in Naval Warfare' by Dianne Williams. View more info
By: Andrews, Surgeon Captain OW
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Ltd: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 017484
Condition: Good+
359pp + x + folding chart at rear, illustrations, index, appendix. Gilt on blue boards, slight edge rubbing, slight dulling to spine, general light foxing only, mainly to endpapers, a Good+ solid tight copy without dustwrapper. Gift inscription from the author to his (un-named) god-daughter, dated March 1927, frontispiece of the author signed and dated February 1927. View more info
By: Armstrong, Lieut. GE (Edited By Commander CN Robinson)
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, George Bell & Sons: 1901
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 017502
Condition: Good
xvi + 306pp, index, 55 illustrations including 3 fold-out plans. Second edition, revised. Gilt on black boards, blind-stamped decoration to front board, recent endpapers, general ageing to contents, a few marks, pulling to a few gatherings but overall whole is secure. Marking/minor edge tear to 1 folding plan, overall a Good copy of a very scarce title. Fascinating period technical detail. View more info
By: Ballard, Admiral GA (Foreword By Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma)
Price: £24.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Naval Institute Press: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 020616
ISBN: 0870219243
Condition: Very Good
263pp, indexes, footnotes, 7 appendices, over 200 black and white photographs, plans, draughts and diagrams. Orange boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost. View more info
By: Bethune, Colonel Drinkwater
Price: £15.00
Publisher: William R Blackmore / Conway Maritime Press: 1969
Edition: Facsimile Reprint
Seller ID: 018070
Condition: Very Good
xii + 97pp, 8 plates. Blue boards, light wear and ageing only, owner's name to front endpaper otherwise a VG clean tight copy in (slightly browned, closed edge tear to rear) dustwrapper. Facsimile of the 1840 second edition, an eyewitness account of this celebrated action which took place off Cape St. Vincent on 14th February 1797. View more info
By: Bigot de Morogues, Sébastien François
Price: £400.00
Publisher: London, Printed for David Steel, at His Navigation Warehouse, Little Tower Hill: 1797
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030341
Condition: Good
188pp, illustrated by colour figures, distinguishing the different columns or squadrons in every evolution. Rebound with new leather backstrip and new gilt on red spine title label, 5 raised bands, original boards retained. Some edge rubbing/loss to boards. General foxing throughout, portrait frontispiece has repair to 1 corner, slightly affecting illustration. A few minor edge tears, longer tear to pages 183/4 with minor loss. Pages 3/4 are missing and appear to have been so when rebound, otherwise contents complete. Fascinating study of a key time in naval history. Extremely scarce, only fou... View more info
By: Boteler, Captain John Harvey / Bonner-Smith, David (Editor)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, The Navy Records Society: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018067
Condition: Very Good
xiii + 272pp, index, map. Quarter bound in blue buckram over grey boards, gilt banding and decoration, light wear, light foxing mainly to rough cut edges, a few pages uncut. Pencilled notes to rear endpaper, occasional pencil marks to text, easily removed but left for interest, overall a VG copy, no dustwrapper as issued. View more info
By: Brown, D. K.
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press Ltd: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017297
ISBN: 0851775322
Condition: Very Good
217pp, indexes, references, 14 appendices. illustrated with maps, drawings, plates. Brown boards, a VG clean tight copy in (slight fading to spine) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Brown, David K.
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Chatham Publishing: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017302
ISBN: 1861760221
Condition: Very Good
224pp, index, glossary, sources, 9 appendices, illustrated with drawings and photographs. Green boards, small bookseller's label to front endpaper otherwise an excellent clean tight copy. This book traces all the technological changes which transformed warships from the fully-rigged broadside ironclads of the mid-nineteenth century, through the centre battery ships, early turret vessels and barbette ships, to the turbine-powered Dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers which were to fight in WW1. View more info
By: Burgoyne, Alan H (Founded and Edited by)
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017163
Condition: Good
392pp + xiv adverts to rear, 14 plates and 12 plans by Oscar Parkes. Gilt on red boards, spine sunned, front hinge showing but quite secure, spine head frayed with small loss, general ageing to contents, occasional page still uncut, overall contents are clean and tight. Lovely period adverts. View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1898
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017553
Condition: Good+
511pp, index, errata slip, frontispiece. Blue boards, gilt titling and decoration to spine, foxing mainly to endpapers, overall a near VG tight copy. Memoirs covering the early life of Cooper Key, and his naval exploits, including battles during the Anglo-French blockade of Rio de la Plata and the Crimean War, before becoming First Naval Lord in 1879. View more info
By: Compiled By J.B. With the Assistance of Henry Cavendish
Price: £250.00
Publisher: London, JD Potter: 1871
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021231
Condition: Good+
290pp + 16pp publishers catalogue at rear, 1 black and white plate, 13 coloured plates (12 with tissue guards), folding map. Blue boards, blind-stamped decoration, gilt design to front and titling to spine, gift inscription (non-personalised) to verso of front endpaper, from ? Potter, possibly the printer. Boards are bright, light edge rubbing, general light ageing to contents, short edge tear to map, darkening to 1 page from plate opposite (missing tissue guard), overall a Good+ copy. Scarce. View more info
By: Cordingly, David
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 018318
ISBN: 074758088X
Condition: Very Good
xxvi + 422pp, maps, index, notes, bibliography, glossary, appendix, 16pp colour plates, 8pp black and white plates, drawings in text, pictorial endpapers. Black boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Signed gift dedication from the author to 1/2 title, with dedication from previous owner thereunder. View more info
By: Eardley-Wilmot, Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney M
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co: 1927
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 017114
Condition: Very Good
viii + 184pp, index, 28 illustrations. Blue boards, spine a little dulled otherwise light wear only, rough cut edges to fore- and bottom edges, foxing generally light, overall a VG clean tight copy without dustwrapper. Undated, but assumed to be 1927 first edition (ref British Library). View more info
By: Friedman, Norman
Price: £75.00
Publisher: South Yorkshire, Seaforth Publishing: 2008
Edition: Reprint
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 021637
ISBN: 1844157016
Condition: Very Good
319pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, drawings, black and white photographs. Blue boards, slight edge rubbing, a VG copy in dustwrapper. 'Signed Copy' label to front of wrapper, signed 'With Best Wishes, Norman Friedman' to title page. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost. View more info
By: Gardiner, Samuel Rawson / Atkinson, CT (Editors)
Price: £300.00
Publisher: London, The Navy Records Society: 1899
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 018178
Condition: Good+
6 volume set plus corrigenda. xx +431pp; xvi + 388pp; xviii + 452 + 4pp; xiv + 396 + ivpp; xvi + 429pp; xiv + 379 + 7pp; 34pp. Folding map, tables. All volumes blue buckram over white buckram boards, gilt decoration to front panel. Boards grubby in places, some rubbing to edges, mainly to head/tail of spine of volume V, sunning to spine of volume VI; general browning/foxing to contents, a few marks, slight hinge weakening in places but overall a tight set. Occasional annotation, mainly pencil, to rear endpaper of volume 1 plus occasionally to text, and occasionally in red pencil. Overall a Go... View more info
By: Gardner, Derek / Collins, Ian / Band, Admiral Sir Jonathon
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Messum's: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017255
ISBN: 1903438810
Condition: Very Good
124pp, colour photographs throughout. Gilt on blue boards, pictorial endpapers, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021920
ISBN: 0304352632
Condition: Very Good
224pp, index, further reading, biographies, illustrations throughout, many in colour. Black boards, light wear only, a VG copy in (not price-clipped) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Jane, Fred T
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Tri-Service Press: 1990
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 030222
ISBN: 1854880314
Condition: Near Very Good
2 volume set. Volume I: ISBN 1854880314. xvi + 332pp, glossary, drawings and illustrations. Volume II: ISBN 1854880373. viii + 288pp, index, drawings and illustrations/ Both volumes black boards, gilt titling, spines very slightly dulled, binding flaw to Volume I affecting inner upper corner of the final pages (corner corners bent back, book sits squarely), so near VG copies without dustwrappers. This is the 1990 reprint of the 2 volume 1915 revised edition, without the original colour plates which the publishers state could not be reproduced. View more info
By: Lavery, Brian
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Conway: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 019563
ISBN: 1844861090
Condition: Very Good
272pp, index, bibliography, illustrations throughout, many in colour. Red boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Flat signed by the author on title page. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Durban, The Pentland Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 019997
ISBN: 1858214939
Condition: Very Good
xv + 228pp, index, bibliography, 12 illustrations. Blue boards, light ageing to page edges, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Paintings and Text By Ian Marshall / Foreword By John Maxtone-Graham
Price: £15.00
Publisher: USA, Howell Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030255
ISBN: 0943231620
Condition: Very Good
108pp, index, bibliography, 38 colour plates, drawings in text. Grey boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
Price: £195.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1934
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016934
Condition: Good
xii + 478pp, index, frontispiece portrait, 13 maps and diagrams. Blue boards, titling to spine has been reasonably neatly marked up in white, small hole in one place to side of spine (minor flaw), general light wear to boards, Occasional marks/foxing to contents, overall contents are VG. No dustwrapper. Parkinson's scarce biography of Edward Pellew, a Naval Officer during the Napoleonic Wars. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Berkshire, Profile Publications Ltd: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 019129
Condition: Very Good
24pp, black and white photographs, 2pp centrefold drawings showing top and side profile views in colour, map. Booklet, a VG clean tight copy, an excellent reference for the ship modeller. View more info
By: Sir William Henry Dillon KCH / Edited By Michael A Lewis MA, FRHistS
Price: £45.00
Publisher: The Navy Records Society: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017003
Condition: Nr VG
Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. XCIII Volume I: 1953 1st edition. xxxiv + 468pp +6pp Navy Records Society publications + 14pp list of members. 2 maps, 2 plates. Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. XCVII Volume II: 1956 1st edition. 500pp, indexes, 6pp Navy Records Society publications + 16pp list of members. 1 map, 2 plates. 2 volume set. Both volumes quarter-bound in blue over white buckram, gilt decoration to front. Some foxing to boards of volume II, Slight foxing to contents of volume I, very light ageing only to volume II. Overall a near VG set. Very heavy, UK at s... View more info
By: Styles, Showell
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1961
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022776
Condition: Very Good
272pp. Blue boards, WH Smith Library plate to front pastedown, no other markings, some foxing, overall a VG copy in (minor edge loss) dustwrapper. View more info
By: Sutton, Brigadier John (Editor)
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Barnsley, Leo Cooper: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 021990
ISBN: 0850526256
Condition: Very Good
xxxii + 448pp, indexes, 44 colour plates, bibliography, maps, black and white photographs. Blue boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost. View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Oxford, Osprey Publishing: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 030284
ISBN: 1841764787
Condition: Very Good
48pp, index, drawings and illustrations, some in colour. Softback, VG. View more info
By: Welch, JJ
Price: £100.00
Publisher: London, HMSO: 1891
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022531
Condition: Good
167pp, index, 133 drawings, 18 plates, most folding. Blue boards, rubs to edges and corners, 2 short edge splits, bumping to corners. Foxing to contents, small loss to edges of some plates, some folded slightly offset, some pencilled annotation (mainly lines adjacent to text), overall a Good tight copy of the scarce 1st edition. View more info
By: Willis, Sam
Price: £16.00
Publisher: Woodbridge, The Boydell Press: 2013
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 021301
ISBN: 1843833670
Condition: Very Good
xviii + 254pp, index, bibliography, glossary, appendix, notes, 9pp maps, 32 illustrations. Brown boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Willis, Sam
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, QuercuS: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022239
ISBN: 1847249981
Condition: Very Good
xxviii + 323pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, 3 appendices, 34 plates. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
By: Willis, Sam
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, QuercuS: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 022246
ISBN: 1847249981
Condition: Very Good
xxviii + 323pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, 3 appendices, 34 plates. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. View more info
