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By: NMM Monograph No 3. May (Cdr W.E.)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: 1972,
Seller ID: 7969
iii + 56pp, frontis, chart, 4 illus, folding plate, large format (30cm xû21cm), pictorial paper wrappers. AJS: Recollections of a sailor's life in India, China, Japan, SouthûAmerica, Borneo, Sumatra, etc. View more info
By: Nordhoff (C.) RP
Price: £25.00
Publisher: 1874 rp 1974,
Seller ID: 1807
(viii), 288pp, 28 illus, decorated blue cloth. Alibion, page 54: Valuable because of one man's opportunity to compare atûfirst hand the way of life in those different services.ûPublisher: He served in the US Navy, the British Merchant Marine, and inûthe whaling fleet. He relates his experiences in lively narrative, wellûworth reading for those who want a true picture of life in any of theseûspheres. View more info
By: O'Toole (L.)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: 1986, Redruth,
Seller ID: 8847
181pp, frontis, 13 illus, map, pictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: The life of Rear Admiral Sir Richard Spry. View more info
By: Padfield (P.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1968,
Seller ID: 531
x + 246pp, 12 illus, dw, AJS: An account of the famous duel between Broke of the Shannon andûLawrence of the Chesapeake. Admiral Broke was a Suffolk man and 2012 seesûthe bicentenary of the action.ûRodger: Sir Philip Broke, the gunnery exprt and victor of theûShannon-Chesapeake action. View more info
By: Paine (R. ed) RP
Price: £12.00
Publisher: 1925 rp 1970,
Seller ID: 863
112pp, frontis, decorated cloth. AJS: Journal kept during the era of the French Revolution.ûPublisher: This is the journal of a Cape Cod skipper who flourished duringûthe period of the French Revolution. The events described typify theûadventures of American sailing vessels of the time and throw light uponûtheir role in international trade. The account links the adventures andûcommercial enterprises of Elijah Cobb in very readable prose. View more info
By: Paquette (Lt Cdr E.R.) & Bainbridge (Lt C.G.)
Price: £35.00
Publisher: ND 1965,
Seller ID: 8779
(vii), 600 + 34 + 53 + 3pp, large format (26.5cm x 21cm), printed stiffûpaper wrappers. AJS: A standard reference giving the name, rank, ship, award, date, withûany previous award, along with the citation for over 2000 individuals.ûThis work was published in a limited numbered edition of 500 copies, thisûbeing No 336. View more info
Price: £14.00
Publisher: 1959,
Seller ID: 1386
iv + 268pp, 23 illus, original brown cloth. AJS: Journal of a cruise off the Brazils on board of the U.S. shipûDelaware, 1841-1842 and notes by the way while on board the U.S. schoonerûEnterprise. (sub title). View more info
By: Pocock (T.)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: 1996,
Seller ID: 1107
xx + 261pp, 19 illus, 2 maps, endpaper map, dw. AJS: A new life of this remarkable man, a rival of Nelson. View more info
By: Pocock (T.)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: 2000,
Seller ID: 3086
208pp, 29 illus, dw. AJS: By the author of Remember Nelson, The Young Nelson in the Americas,ûNelson's Women, etc. View more info
By: Preston (C.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1964 rp 1972, Whitby,
Seller ID: 9572
24pp, 8 illus, printed stiff paper wrappers. AJS: By the former Curator of the Cook and Scoresby Wings of the WhitbyûMuseum. View more info
By: Rees (T.)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: 1822 rp 1971,
Seller ID: 860
176pp, small format, head and tail bands, original dark blue cloth. AJS: A moving account of the short life of a sergeant of marines at theûtime of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. After three years aboardûthe ship of the line Temeraire, Rees served two commissions on HMSûFavourite, 1814-17, during which time he voyaged to India. Invalided outûof the service, he died in poverty in April 1820, after a long illness. Itûis a melancholy commentary on the social conditions of the age, that inûhis last years an annual pension of œ10 for himself and his family wasûonly procured with gre... View more info
By: Russ (C.H.)
Price: £45.00
Publisher: 1923, Boston,
Seller ID: 9632
183pp, portrait frontis, 17 illus, decorated green cloth, dw. AJS: Being the record of adventures by sea and shore to the California Goldfields and the Pacific North West, 1849-1854. Illustrated from original sketches by the author. Edited from original manuscripts. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: 1949, Ipswich,
Seller ID: 9154
xv + 161pp, frontis, 13 illus, dark blue cloth, dw. AJS: With a foreword by Sir Alan Anderson. Capt Ruthven was for many years Commodore of the Orient Line and finally retired in 1911. He saw service in WWI as captain of the Ophir and lived to the age of 94. View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: 1887 rp 1970,
Seller ID: 840
xviii + 308pp, 24 illus, decorated cloth. Albion, page 77: Lively range of experiences, losing nothing in theûtelling..ranging from service as a boy on a Philadelphia collier, toûcommand of a clipper packet. View more info
By: Seager (R.) & Maguire (D.D.)
Price: £95.00
Publisher: 1975,
Seller ID: 594
three volumes, large format (24cm x 20cm), a substantial production,ûoriginal grey cloth, in grey cloth slipcase (heavy set).û(1) 1847-1889, xvii + 718pp, frontis portrait, endpaper illus.û(2) 1890-1901, xiii + 745pp, frontis portrait, endpaper illus.û(3) 1902-1914, xiii + 873pp, frontis portrait, endpaper illus. AJS: Monumental production. The letters of the author of such works asûThe Influence of Sea Power Upon History, The Life of Nelson, etc, etc.,ûNB: A heavy set that may require additional postage depending on theûdestination, please check with me before ordering. View more info
By: Spence (R.T.)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: 1995,
Seller ID: 1545
vx + 256pp, frontis, 6 colour illus, half title illus, 52 illus, 2ûgenealogical tables, 9 tables, 3 maps, dw. AJS: The first scholarly biography of this subject for seventy five years. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: 1975,
Seller ID: 1225
xii + 253pp, 19 illus, dw. DNB: Born 1789, served at sea under his father 1800-1806; with fleet atûCopenhagen 1807; served as Captain in Greenland Fishery and made severalûscientific observations; various appointemnts to 1839, thence to Australiaû1839-47 to carry out magnetic observations, published scientific worksûrelating chiefly to the Arctic Seas, died ;857. View more info
By: Street (L.)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: 1986,
Seller ID: 3682
(viii), 172pp, dw. AJS: The founder of Pennsylvania. View more info
Price: £18.00
Publisher: 1973,
Seller ID: 767
xiv + 336pp, 17 illus, map, black cloth, dw. AJS: Commanded Destroyer Flotillas at outbreak of WW1, invented theûcarrier, helped settle the Invergordon Mutiny, highly influential in anûera of change. View more info
By: Tupper (Capt E.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1938,
Seller ID: 7719
320pp, original brown cloth. AJS: An account of the seaman and his role 1911-38 by the Secretary of the NUS. View more info