Category: Biography

Letter-Books and Order-Book of George, Lord Rodney Admiral of the White Squadron 1780-1782.

Price: £120.00

Publisher: : 1932, New York,

Seller ID: 6873

in two volumes, original green cloth, attractive production.û(I) Letter-Books July 6, 1780 - February 4, 1781. December 10, 1781 -ûSeptember 21, 1782. xxiii + 519pp.û(II) Order-Book July, 1781. November 27, 1781 - September 21, 1782. Index toûVolumes I and II. pagination continues to 932pp. Foreword: These volumes make available to students official correspondenceûand orders of Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney (first Baron Rodney),ûwhile he was commander-in-chief of the British fleet in the West Indies,û1780-1782, and during his visit to New York City in October and November,û1780.ûDNB: Rodne...
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Roger Keyes Being the Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover.

By: Aspinall-Oglander (C.)

Price: £14.00

Publisher: : 1951,

Seller ID: 4267

xv + 478pp, 10 illus, 5 maps and plans, blue cloth. Marder: The authorised biography by the official historian of the Gallipoli campaign. Uncritical, ludicrously so on the Zeebrugge Operation of 1918.
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American Naval Biography.

By: Bailey (I.)

Price: £275.00

Publisher: : 1815, Providence,

Seller ID: 11220

(iv), 257pp, original full calf, new spine, some staining, lacks front andûrear free endpapers. AJS: Uncommon. Issued at the end of the War of 1812 and celebrates theûlives of: Allen, Aylwin, Bainbridge, Barry, Biddle, Burrows, Decatur,ûHull, Jacob Jones, Lawrence, McDonough, Morris, Murray, Perry, Porter,ûPreble, Rodgers, and Truxton (see final leaf).
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Our Admiral A Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty 1871-1936.

By: Beatty (C.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1980,

Seller ID: 3723

xi + 211pp, 19 illus, dw. AJS: Written by his nephew, Charles Beatty.
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Napoleon vu par les Anglais et par les Francais.

By: Bedarida (F.) Editor.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1969, Paris,

Seller ID: 8830

36pp, original green paper wrappers. SBS: Catalogue of exhibition held at the Maison Francaise, Oxford,ûNovember, 1969.
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Very Special Admiral The Life of Admiral J.H. Godfrey CB.

By: Beesly (P.)

Price: £16.00

Publisher: : 1980,

Seller ID: 8756

xxv + 337pp, 3 maps, original printed stiff paper wrappers. AJS: Foreword by S.W.Roskill. Appointed DNI in 1939, his achievementsûrivalled those of his famous predecessor Admiral Hall. Also, in a longûcareer, he served in China, 1910; Dardanelles, 1915; and in the Black Seaû1919.ûAdvance Proof: This is an uncorrected proof copy and is for yourûconfidential information only. It is not to be quoted without comparisonûwith the finally revised text and is in no circumstances to be offered forûsale.
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Very Special Admiral The Life of Admiral J.H.Godfrey CB.

By: Beesly (P.)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: : 1980,

Seller ID: 775

xxvi + 345pp, 15 illus, 4 maps, dw. AJS: Foreword by S.W.Roskill. Appointed DNI in 1939, his achievementsûrivalled those of his famous predecessor Admiral Hall. Also, in a longûcareer, he served in China, 1910; Dardanelles, 1915; and in the Black Seaû1919.
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Kicking Canvas.

By: Bestic (Capt A.A.)

Price: £13.00

Publisher: : 1957,

Seller ID: 3542

207pp, frontis, 22 illus, endpaper maps, dw. AJS: Describes a voyage as an apprentice in the Denbigh Castle, from Cardiff to South America in 1908-09.
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Charles Elliot R.N. 1801-1875.

By: Blake (C.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: : 1960,

Seller ID: 7442

xv + 130pp, 8 illus, 5 maps, large format (26cm x 20cm), blue cloth, dw, anûattractive copy. AJS: Elliot, Charles (1801-1875), cousin of Admiral George Elliot, wasûmidshipman in Minden at the bombardment of Algiers in 1816 and lieutenantûon the Jamaica station in 1822. In 1828 more or less retired from theûNavy, being employed by the Foreign and Colonial Office. In 1830-33 wasûprotectore of slaves in Guiana, and in 1837 became Plenipotentiary andûChief Superintendent in the China Trade Commission, being superseded byûSir Henry Potinger in 1841. Later Governor of Bermuda 1846-54, Trinidadû1854-...
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A Million Ocean Miles.

By: Britten (E.T.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1936 rp 1989,

Seller ID: 7717

274pp, frontis, 19 illus, blue cloth, dw. SBS: Britten was a Captain of both the Cunard ships Berengaria and the Queen Mary.
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Master of Sea Power A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J.King.

By: Buell (T.B.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1980,

Seller ID: 776

xxv + 609pp, 70 illus, endpaper maps, dw. AJS: Much needed modern account of King's life.
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NRS Vol 74. The Tomlinson Papers.

By: Bullocke (J.G.) Editor.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: : 1935,

Seller ID: 2421

xxix + 400pp, frontis, 4 folding tables, 2 maps, original half blue cloth. AJS: No 74 in the series.
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Sir Llewellyn Woodward 1890-1971.

By: Butler (R.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1971,

Seller ID: 8826

16pp, frontis, original grey paper wrappers. SBS: E.L. Woodward, Fellow of All Souls, twentieth century historian,ûwhoseûwork included 'British Foreign Policy in the Second World War' and 'GreatûBritain and the German Navy'. Dr R. Butler succeeded him as editor ofû'Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939'.
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Gipsy Moth IV Round the World with Sir Francis Chichester.

By: Carr (F.G.G.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1969,

Seller ID: 9036

24pp, 27 illlus, 3 line illus, 3 maps, large format (23cm x 18cm), pictorialûstiff paper wrappers. AJS: Updated from the 1967 edition recording Chichester's epic voyage ofûcircumnavigation in photographs.
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The Epic Voyage of Sir Francis Chichester in Gypsy Moth IV.

By: Carr (F.G.G.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: : 1967,

Seller ID: 9035

24pp, 32 illlus, 3 line illus, 3 maps, large format (23cm x 18cm), pictorialûstiff paper wrappers. AJS: Chichester's epic voyage of circumnavigation in photographs.
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Yarns of a Cyprus Pilot.

By: Clark (Capt G.V.)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: : 1991,

Seller ID: 1643

(viii), 192pp, 12 illus, dw. AJS: Based on his experiences in Famagusta where he served as a pilot inûthe Colonial Service from 1953 to 1960.
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Invergordon Scapegoat. The Betrayal of Admiral Tomkinson.

By: Coles (A.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1993,

Seller ID: 89

x + 193pp, 30 illus, dw. AJS: Tomkinson dealt 'on site' with the mutineers at Invergordon inû1931... after the event he was much criticised for his mild treatment ofûthe sailors... this is his biography.
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Fields of Fire A Life of Sir William Hamilton.

By: Constantine (D.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: : 2001,

Seller ID: 4541

xxvii + 324pp, 27 illus, dw. AJS: Diplomat, art-collector, naturalist, musician and scholar. Husband ofûEmma Hamilton and yet friend of Lord Nelson.
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My Naval Life 1885-1941.

By: Cork & Orrery (Ad of the Fleet the Earl.)

Price: £25.00

Publisher: : 1942,

Seller ID: 5248

208pp, frontis, 17 illus, endpaper maps, dark blue cloth. Marder: Well described as a straight forward story, told with many touches of humour, of a straight forward naval life.
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Cox and the Juju Coast A Journal Kept Aboard HMS Fly 1868-69.

By: Cox (J.G.)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: : 1968,

Seller ID: 3830

xxvi + 88pp, frontis, 5 plates, 22 sketches, folding plate, endpaper maps,ûoriginal pictorial boards. AJS: HMS Fly, twin screw, composite gunboat off the West coast of Africaûin 1869.
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Category: Biography

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