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Commander of the Karteria: Honoured in Greece. Unknown at Home. (Signed)

By: Abney-Hastings, Maurice

Price: £20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Authorhouse: 2011

Seller ID: 019631

ISBN: 1456783203

Binding: Hard Cover

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 author's 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.
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Seamarks and Landmarks: Being Leaves from the Log of Surgeon Captain O.W. Andrews C.B.E. R.N.

By: Andrews, Surgeon Captain OW

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Ltd: 1927

Seller ID: 017484

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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H.M.S. Bulwark. From 11th June 1905 to January 1907. Flag of Admiral The Right Hon'ble Lord Charles Beresford

By: Anon

Price: £100.00

Publisher: The Royal Navy: 1907

Seller ID: 030711

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

47pp, details ships and vessels composing the Mediterranean Fleet at 3rd June 1905 and in January 1907. Page 22 appears possibly to be a censored illustration. Green card covers, small splits to pine, small corner loss, browning to edges, general foxing to contents. Overall a Good copy of a very scarce publication. The fleet in 1905 included 8 Battleships, the 3rd Cruiser Squadron of 4 ships, 4 cruisers attached to the Battle Squadron, 22 Torpedo Boat Destroyers, 6 other vessels. HMS Bulwark was destroyed by an explosion in November 1914, killing 741 men.
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The Black Battlefleet: A Study of the Capital Ship in Transition

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

Seller ID: 020616

ISBN: 0870219243

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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A System of Naval Tactics; Combining the Established Theory With General Practice, and Particularly With the Present Practice of the British Navy.

By: Bigot de Morogues, Sébastien François

Price: £400.00

Publisher: London, Printed for David Steel, at His Navigation Warehouse, Little Tower Hill: 1797

Seller ID: 030341

Binding: Full-Leather

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...
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Publications of the Navy Records Society Volume LXXXII: Recollections of My Sea Life from 1808 to 1830

By: Boteler, Captain John Harvey / Bonner-Smith, David (Editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Navy Records Society: 1942

Seller ID: 018067

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Nelson to Vanguard: Warship Design and Development 1923 - 1945

By: Brown, David K

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Naval Institute Press: 2012

Seller ID: 030695

ISBN: 159114602X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

224pp, index, glossary, 20 appendices, illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings. Softback, a VG copy.. The author focuses on the principal pre-war developments such as the first purpose-built aircraft carriers and the growing perception of the threat of air attack to warships.
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The Navy League Annual 1912 - 13 (Corrected to October 10th, 1912). Sixth Year of Issue

By: Burgoyne, Alan H (Founded and Edited by)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1912

Seller ID: 017163

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Memoirs of Admiral the Right Honble. Sir Astley Cooper Key

By: Colomb, Vice-Admiral PH

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1898

Seller ID: 017553

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Cruise Round the World of the Flying Squadron 1869 - 1870, Under the Command of Rear-Admiral G.T. Phipps Hornby

By: Compiled By J.B. With the Assistance of Henry Cavendish

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, JD Potter: 1871

Seller ID: 021231

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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An Admiral's Memories: Sixty-five Years Afloat and Ashore

By: Eardley-Wilmot, Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney M

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co: 1927

Seller ID: 017114

Binding: Hard Cover

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).
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Letters and Papers Relating to the First Dutch War 1652 - 1654. Six Volume Set Plus Corrigenda

By: Gardiner, Samuel Rawson / Atkinson, CT (Editors)

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, The Navy Records Society: 1899

Seller ID: 018178

Binding: Hard Cover

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...
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Cassell's History Of Warfare: Galleons And Galleys

By: Guilmartin Jr., John F.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 2002

Seller ID: 021920

ISBN: 0304352632

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Nelson's Navy

By: Haythornthwaite, Philip

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Oxford, Osprey Publishing: 1993

Seller ID: 031307

ISBN: 1841762520

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

64pp, index, bibliography, colour plates, illustrations. Softback, a VG copy. Useful reference for the modeller.
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The British Battle Fleet: Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day. Volumes I and II (2 Volume Set)

By: Jane, Fred T

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Tri-Service Press: 1990

Seller ID: 030222

ISBN: 1854880314

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Empire of the Seas - How the Navy Forged the Modern World

By: Lavery, Brian

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Conway: 2009

Seller ID: 019563

ISBN: 1844861090

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Nelson's Mediterranean Command. Concerning Pride, Preferment and Prize Money

By: Orde, Hi Honour Denis A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Durban, The Pentland Press: 1997

Seller ID: 019997

ISBN: 1858214939

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xv + 228pp, index, bibliography, 12 illustrations. Blue boards, light ageing to page edges, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Ironclads and Paddlers

By: Paintings and Text By Ian Marshall / Foreword By John Maxtone-Graham

Price: £15.00

Publisher: USA, Howell Press: 1993

Seller ID: 030255

ISBN: 0943231620

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

108pp, index, bibliography, 38 colour plates, drawings in text. Grey boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth: Admiral of the Red.

By: Parkinson, C Northcote

Price: £85.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1934

Seller ID: 016934

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Treasure of the San José: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession

By: Phillips, Carla Rahn

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, The Johns Hopkins University Press: 2007

Seller ID: 031225

ISBN: 0801885809

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 258pp, index, bibliography, notes, 13 figures, 4 maps, 2 appendices. Quarter-bound in grey buckram over brown boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Anatomy of the Ship: The Battleship Dreadnought

By: Roberts, John

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Conway Maritime Press Ltd: 1992

Seller ID: 031610

ISBN: 0851776000

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256pp, extensive drawings in 11 sections, black and white photographs, technical data, history. Grey boards, bump to lower front corner, slightly to adjacent pages, minor edge marks, a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. Excellent reference for the ship modeller.
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The Sea Officer

By: Styles, Showell

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1961

Seller ID: 022776

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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75th Anniversary R.N.V.R., R.N.R. 1903 - 1978

By: Thornton, Lt Cdr WM

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Lt Cdr WM Thornton: 1978

Seller ID: 031800

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

106pp, illustrated. Large format softback, light wear and ageing only, overall a VG clean tight copy. Covers all main units and formations of the RNVR/RNR.
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A Text Book of Naval Architecture for the Use of Officers of the Royal Navy.

By: Welch, JJ

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, HMSO: 1891

Seller ID: 022531

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Category: Naval History - Pre WW1

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