Books - "nautical"
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The Merchant Navy Seaman, Pocket Manual 1939-1945
Sm 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Casemate 2018
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical merchant navy naval seman pocket manuals ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
A History of Working Watercraft of the Western World (Second Edition)
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: International Marine 1994
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history ships boats marine work
The Polynesian Journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Peabody Museum of Salem 1981
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Captain Henry Byam Martin HMS Grampus British Navy Polynesia journals diaries
John Harrison and His Timekeepers
Imperial octavo softcover, stapled (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: National Maritime Museum 1958
KEYWORDS: history science John Harrison navigation longitude maritime nautical
J and C Harrison: The History of a Family Shipping Venture
Quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Ships in Focus Publications 2012
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history shipping companies J & C Harrison
Coast to Coast: The Great Australian Coastal Liners
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Rosenberg Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history coastal liners Australia Australian passenger ships cruise liners cargo
Captain James Cook: Seaman and Scientist
Quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Chaucer Press 2003
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history biography memoir Captain James Cook sailors exploration
FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Review 2004
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history exploration weather forecasting forecasts Robert FitzRoy HMS Beagle meteorology biography New Zealand
Eber Bunker of Liverpool The Father of Australian Whaling
Imperial octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, printed rear eps, errata slip pasted in to front pastedown, viii + 64pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Roebuck 1975
KEYWORDS: Roebuck series maritime nautical history Australia Australian whaling whalers Eber Bunker biography
The Rise of the English Shipping Industry: In the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 427pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling, light scuffing & chipping to edges, 1cm scuff to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1962
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history England English shipping industry 17th 18th seventeenth eighteenth century
The Torm Ships: The TORM Fleet Through 120 Years
Quarto, illus heavy boards, white lettering to spine, 288pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Editions Maritime N/D (c.2009)
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history TORM fleet ships
Shaw, Savill & Albion: A Fleet History
Quarto, illus heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 264pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minor fading to spine, light bruising to extrems, light chafing to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: World Ship Society 2011
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history fleets albion line Shaw Savill John Leslie Walter Savill lines shipping ships
Larrinaga Line 1863-1974
Quarto, coloured light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, illus inside front cover, 108pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy crack/scuff to spine & hinges affecting prelims inside also, other minor wrinkling & chafing to covers, sl tanning & soiling to page edges, light soiling to title page)
PUBLISHER: World Ship Society 2005
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history larrinaga line boats ships shipping
Extracts from New Zealand Journals Written on Ships Under the Command of d'Entrecasteaux and Duperrey 1793 and 1824
Oblong quarto, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering to black background on spine & front board, 219pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & tanning/soiling to spine & board edges/extrems, other sl soiling & discolouration to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust 1986
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history journals voyages journals diaries diary extracts New Zealand Maori life anthropology ethnology
Canoes of Oceania (3 Vols in 1)
3 VOLS IN 1, imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers, beige lettering to spine, each vol separately paginated, illus, VG (moderate fading/discolouration to spine & covers, light to moderate creasing/curling & soiling to covers/edges, moderate scuffing to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, occasional light foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Bishop Museum Press 1975
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Oceania canoes vessels
White Wings, Vol II: Founding of the Provinces and Old-Time Shipping: Passenger Ships from 1840 to 1885
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, blue lettering to spine, black lettering to front board, frontispiece, 259pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate tanning & scuffing to spine, moderate scuffing & bruising to board corners/extrems, minor soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. ownership inscriptions in ink to front eps, light wrinkling & adhesive residue to rear eps, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: The Brett Printing Company 1928
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical shipping history passenger ships Sir Henry Brett
Whales & Destiny: The Rivalry Between America, France and Britain for Control of the Southern Whale Fishery 1785-1825
SIGNED, super octavo, blue buckram boards, white lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, illus title page, xii + 427pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor pencil annotation to terminals) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, minor chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: University of Massachusetts Press 1972
KEYWORDS: signed Edouard A Stackpole maritime nautical history whaling fishing fisheries Southern Whale Fishery
Cox's Navy: Salvaging the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow 1924-1931
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 213pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword Maritime 2008
KEYWORDS: navy naval Ernest Cox Scapa Flow Orkney salvage maritime nautical history German High Seas Fleet warships
The Duchess: The Life and Death of the Herzogin Cecilie
Octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, 247pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, minro chafing/soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minor foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy rubbing & tearing to spine, other moderate creasing & chipping to edges, minor chafing)
PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1958
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical square rigged sailing ships shipping Herzogin Cecilie
Inshore Craft of Great Britain: In the Days of Sail and Oar (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, vol 1- 276pp, vol 2- 309pp, illus, VG (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, ffep missing from both vols, occasional minor cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1970
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Britain British sail oar boats