Books - "nautical"
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Merchantmen-at-Arms: The British Merchants' Service in the War
Large quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, t.e.g, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 260pp, illus, VG (owner's name & date in ink to title page, bruising to spine extrems, some foxing to page edges & eps, insect damage to lower edge of page 41)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1919
KEYWORDS: Britain British merchants Merchant navy naval nautical maritime history
A List of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet: with the Dates of their First Commissions, as Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear-Admirals and Captains; and Alphabetical List of the Post Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants of His Majesty's Fleet with
Ex Royal Victoria Yacht Club library, octavo, red leather boards with green leather spine, gilt decorative rule to boards& spine, gilt lettering in red decorative leather panel to spine, a.e.g, gilt dentelle to eps, patterned eps, 149pp + 207pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & boards, red leather title label to spine almost completely torn off, some soiling to upper page edges, Yacht Club label to front pastedown, some staining to eps)
PUBLISHER: M & S Brooke 1805
KEYWORDS: reference maritime nautical naval history
Fastnet, Force 10
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: WW Norton & Co 1980
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical sailing history Fastnet race yachting storm gale
Collision Course
Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1962
KEYWORDS: Shipwrecks nautical history
The Wheel's Kick and the Wind's Song
octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Percival Marshall 1951
KEYWORDS: nautical Seafaring life Sailing ships travel history
Fishermen and Fishing Ways
First edition, ex library, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped yacht motif to front board, frontispiece, 285pp, illus, VG- (usu library markings, moderately heavy foxing & tanning to page edges, prelims & terminals, some fading to board edges & spine extrems, light bruising to board corners) in d/w, VG- (some archival tape repair to spine extrems & edges and corners, moderate browning to spine & flap folds, some creasing)
PUBLISHER: George G Harrap & Co 1932
KEYWORDS: fishing fishermen sport sailing ships nautical maritime history
Spithead: An Informal History
octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1972
KEYWORDS: naval nautical history Great Britain Spithead Channel England
Royal River Highway: A History of the Passenger Boats and Services on the River Thames
First edition, Super Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1985
KEYWORDS: Passenger ships England Thames River - History Navigation Transport nautical
Sailor at Sea
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. REED 1965
KEYWORDS: nautical World War One WW1 history Naval operations
The Last Voyage of the Lusitania
First UK edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Longmans 1957
KEYWORDS: Lusitania Ship WW1 World War One Naval operations Submarine nautical history
The Discovery of the Bismarck
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1990
KEYWORDS: Bismarck Battleship Ballard nautical history
The Devil's Fo'c'sle
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Doubleday 1929
KEYWORDS: biography nautical
Stalin's Silver
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 1995
KEYWORDS: John Barry Liberty ship World War Two Naval operations Arabian Sea nautical history
My Mystery Ships
Frontispiece Loose but present, Super Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1929
KEYWORDS: Armed merchant ships World War One Naval Nautical Submarine history
Early New Zealand Steamers: Vol.1 The Pioneering Years 1840-1861
Inscribed & signed, octavo, green heavy card boards with black lettering to front board, x + 230pp, illus, VG (light tanning to lower board edges & spine base, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, poor (half of rear & rear flap cut off, moderate tanning)
PUBLISHER: Maritime Historical Productions 1966
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical shipping ships steamers history
Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases
Ex library, octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to red leather spine, page edges speckled red, frontispiece, 372pp, VG- (usu library markings, page 109 loose, some staining to boards & spine, light tanning to page edges, relevant newspaper cuttings glued to prelims)
PUBLISHER: George Routledge 1925
KEYWORDS: language linguistics military nautical vocabulary words phrases slang Navy Air Force
Rites of Passage
Octavo softcover (VG+) ;all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1982
KEYWORDS: literature nautical
The Liners
Small quarto softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1977
KEYWORDS: nautical marine history Berengaria Lusitania Normandie ships liners
With the Aurora in the Antarctic 1911-1914
First edition, scarcer 'orange' binding edition, imperial octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & black ship illus to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxi + 183pp, illus plus folding map to rear, VG (light bruising to spine extrems, small black stain to front board upper edge, moderate browning & foxing to page edges, owner's name in pencil to fep, some foxing & tanning to prelims and terminals, sporadic lighter foxing elsewhere)
PUBLISHER: Andrew Melrose 1919
KEYWORDS: John King Davis autobiography Antarctic exploration maritime nautical history
The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times
Small quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained light blue, frontispiece, xxxix + 696pp, illus, VG (some soiling to boards, v slight tanning to page edges, light foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Hollis & Carter 1958
KEYWORDS: England English Elizabethen Stuart maritime nautical navigation history