Category: Maritime

Peter the Great of Russia at Zaandam and Amsterdam (1697 - 1698)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands Historical Shipping Museum : 1924

Seller ID: 004647

Condition: Fair

Quarto, pp 14, with two plates and a vignette portrait title page, original cloth backed boards, rather rubbed and marked. Hinge at title page cracked. Signed by author in pencil on the front endpaper. very scarce. [Presented to the Congress of Americanists on their trip through the port of Amsterdam, to Zandaam and its environs, at the invitation of the Royal Dutch Geographical Society, Friday 15th August, 1924.]
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Pacific Seashores - a guide to intertidal ecology

By: Carefoot, Thomas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Vancouver, J.J. Douglas Ltd : 1977

Seller ID: 017709

ISBN-13: 9780888941213

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Well illustrated with line drawings and colour photographs, quarto, pp 208, very slightly used internally, paperback, covers slightly worn.
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The Goodwin Sands

By: Carter, George Goldsmith

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Constable & Co. Ltd : 1955

Seller ID: 015145

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

A few illustrations, small octavo, pp xviii, 148, a very small mark to the fore-edge and one to the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, blue clot, spine very slightly faded otherwise very good.
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The Banks/Cook Portfolio

By: Carter, Harold B.; David, Andrew C.E.; (Gilbert, Pamela - editor)

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Melbourne and London, Hill House Publishers : 1990

Seller ID: 009176

ISBN: 0947352060

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

Limited edition of 500 copies only. Illustrated, folio, pp 112, green cloth, a very good copy. The first trade edition, without the brochure of other illustrations. [Comprises two major essays - "Sir Joseph Banks as the Father of Australia", and "Captain Cook's Second Voyage and His Chart of the Southern Hemisphere", together with two appendices - "Franz Andreas Bauer" and "The Banks Copper Engraving of the Great Pacific Ocean". With two portaits of Banks, two botanical plates (by L'Heritier and Franz Bauer), 10 plates of charts or maps, and seven other plates.]
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Fore and Aft Craft - an account of the fore and aft rig fro the earliest times to the present day

By: Chatterton, E. Keble

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Seeley, Service & Co Limited : 1927

Seller ID: 010812

Binding: Pictorial Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with many plates and line drawings, thick 8vo, pp 347, rather foxed throughout including the fore-edge (worse on the first few pages), otherwise very sound and tight internally, pictorial cloth quite bright and clean.
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Ride on the Wind

By: Chichester, Francis

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton : 1967

Seller ID: 019006

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Third impression. Illustrated, small octavo, pp 285, endpapers very slightly age-toned, a slight blemish to the title page, otherwise very clean internally, blue cloth, a very slight bruise to the spine head, otherwise very good, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped just very slightly worn and with a bit of abrasion on the front cover. .
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Ships in Focus Record 2017

By: Clarkson, John & Fenton Roy (editors)

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Preston, Ships in Focus Publications : 2017

Seller ID: 013231

ISBN-13: 9780992826406

Binding: Pictorial boards

Condition: As New

Well illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 128, pictorial boards, a very good copy. As new.
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Image for The Victoria and the Triton - two global expeditions reveal the advance in marine technology with the passage of four and a third Centuries

The Victoria and the Triton - two global expeditions reveal the advance in marine technology with the passage of four and a third Centuries

By: DIBNER, Bern

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Burndy Corporation : 1962

Seller ID: 003993

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Illustrated, (including a folding coloured map of the Pacific by Ortelius), small quato, pp 57, stiff card covers, a very good copy. [Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe, and the first submarine circumnavigation in 1960].
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The Commodore. Lord Hornblower. [Two volumes, first editions)

By: Forester, C.S.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph

Seller ID: 019150

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Two volumes, both first editions. The Commodore, 1945, clean internally, brown cloth very slightly used, binding leaning very slightly, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, rubbed and frayed. Lord Hornblower, 1946, clean internally, possibly lacking a front endpaper (?), the half-title slightly torn at the upper gutter margin, brown cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but it is rather soiled worn and wrinkled, and heavily strengthened internally with brown paper.
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Tugs Today: Modern Vessels and Towing Techniques

By: Gaston, M.J.

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Sparkford, Yeovil, Patrick Stephens Ltd : 1996

Seller ID: 014617

ISBN-13: 9781852605216

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 200, binding leaning slightly, in a very good dustwrapper, virtually as new. [A survey of vessels and techniques employed in world shipping and covers ship and tanker handling, harbour and coastal duties, oil rig supply vessels, ice breaking, emergency response roles and push-towing. The commercial and economic environment of the towage industry is discussed. ]
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A History of British Paddle Steamers

By: Gladwell, Andrew

Price: £5.95

Publisher: Hersham, Ian Allen Publishing : 2014

Seller ID: 013232

ISBN-13: 9780711037427

Binding: Pictorial boards

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 160, very clean internally, pictorial boards, the top of the spine very slightly bruised, otherewise a very good copy.
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Image for The United States Trans-Atlantic Sea Post 1891 - 1917 & 1921 - 1939; United States Sea Posts to South America; United States Trans-Pacific Sea Post; The Sea Posts of the Canal Zone and Their Postmarks; The Sea Posts of Puerto Rico and their Postmarks

The United States Trans-Atlantic Sea Post 1891 - 1917 & 1921 - 1939; United States Sea Posts to South America; United States Trans-Pacific Sea Post; The Sea Posts of the Canal Zone and Their Postmarks; The Sea Posts of Puerto Rico and their Postmarks

By: Gordon, Robert S.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Redwood City, Maritime Postmak Society

Seller ID: 009581

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Good

1961 - 1966. A good collection of these specialist publications, issued as parts of "Seaposter". Each is of 10 or 12 pages, large slim 8vo, typed and xeroxed, stapled, slightly worn. SCARCE.
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Image for Mullyon: its history, scenery and antiquities; narratives of shipwrecks on its coast; its agriculture, fisheries, and mining; tales of the days of wrecking and smuggling; longevity of its inhabitants; names of places, their true Cornish renderings.......

Mullyon: its history, scenery and antiquities; narratives of shipwrecks on its coast; its agriculture, fisheries, and mining; tales of the days of wrecking and smuggling; longevity of its inhabitants; names of places, their true Cornish renderings.......

By: Harvey, E.G.

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Truro & London, W. Lake; Simpkin, Marshall & Co. : 1875

Seller ID: 017124

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, three plates, a double page map and a vignette title page, square octavo, pp (6), 135, all edges gilt, some foxing here and there, a couple of neat relevant pencil annotations, original green bevelled cloth, gilt lines and decoration on upper cover, slightly worn and rubbed, very neatly and professionally recased, keeping the original endpapers. A paper attached to the front endpaper reads "From the author", followed by an address. [The subscribers' list at the rear accounts for about 200 copies.]
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T.H. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake [Edited from the unpublished Ms.]

By: Huxley, T.H. & Huxley, Julian

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1935

Seller ID: 018724

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Illustrated with 12 plates and a colour frontispiece, octavo, pp viii, 372, a map at the rear, slight foxing and age-toning but otherwise generally clean internally, blue cloth very faded and marked with some wear, the spine badly torn at the upper joint. [The ship saw much service in the Greeek War of Independence, the East Indies and China Station, and the first Anglo-China War before being converted to a survey ship to Australia and New Guinea. The captain on this five year voyage was Owen Stanley. Also aboard were John Thomson as Surgeon, Thomas Henry Huxley as Assistant Surgeon ("surgeon'...
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Frederic Cozzens - Marine Painter

By: Jacobsen, Anita

Price: £27.50

Publisher: New York & London, Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd : 1982

Seller ID: 018267

ISBN-13: 9780933516601

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, large quarto, pp 252, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just slightly rubbed with very slight signs of use.
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The Blackwall Frigates

By: Lubbock, Basil

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Glasgow, James Brown & Sons Ltd : 1924

Seller ID: 018992

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Second edition. Illustrated, thick octavo, pp xvi, 332, the fore-edge and the bottom edge heavily foxed, with foxing throughout otherwise in good condition, blue cloth good, the dustwrapper is heavily strengthened with paper internally, it is age-toned, particularly on the spine which is very dark, and a bit worn and chipped.
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The Great Western at Weymouth - a railway and shipping history

By: Lucking, J.H.

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles : 1971

Seller ID: 016774

ISBN-13: 9780715351352

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 253, very clean internally, paperback, covers showing only very slight signs of use, the spine a little faded.
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Very Ordinary Seaman

By: Mallalieu, J.P.W.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz : 1944

Seller ID: 011487

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

One illustration, small 8vo, pp 278, very age-toned, a few creased corners, a small signature on the front endpaper, green cloth, dull and slightly worn, spine a little spotted, binding leaning slightly. [First edition, first impression of what is generally considered one of the finest accounts of life at sea in the Second World War. A fictionalised but accurate account, based on the author's experiences in a destroyer on the Murmansk run.]
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The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Seashore Creatures

By: Meinkoth, Norman A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1981

Seller ID: 016325

ISBN-13: 9780394519937

Binding: Soft Cloth

Condition: Good

Well illustrtaed, 12mo, pp 799, very slightly used internally, soft cloth with paper wrap, very slightly worn.
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The Atlantic Challenge : The Story of Trimaran FT

By: Palmer, David

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, Hollis and Carter : 1977

Seller ID: 014632

ISBN-13: 9780370300313

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, octavo, pp 187, a very good copy indeed, virtually as new apart from a slight fade to the spine of the dustwrapper, which is now protected in a removable sleeve.
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