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By: Anon.
Price: £12.00
Publisher: ND 1950,
Seller ID: 5884
viii + 110pp, colour frontis, 4 colour illus, 40 illus, original blue cloth. SBS: Bristol as a shipbuilding port, including the Great Eastern, The Bristol City Line 1879-. View more info
By: Anon.
Price: £95.00
Publisher: 1885, Bruxelles,
Seller ID: 4692
318pp, 37 folding plates, 40 text plates, 4 maps, original half calf withûsome wear to top of spine. AJS; History of the port and its activities along with a detailedûdescription of its facilities, equipment, docks etc. View more info
By: By a Traveller. [Kirwan (A.V.)]
Price: £350.00
Publisher: 1861,
Seller ID: 466
xx + 299pp, frontis chart, later half calf (1960s), bookplate, an attractiveûcopy. AJS: Published anonymously, however, the author was in fact Andrew Kirwan.ûA study of the progress made and now making (1840) by our nearestûneighbour, and most formidable as well as implacable rival...i.e theûFrench. The bookplate is that of the Royal Artillery Regimental Library.ûThe author visited Harvre, Cherbourg, Brest, Port Louis, L'Orient,ûRochefort, Marseilles, Toulon, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Dunkirk, St Servan andûBayonne. View more info
By: Carr (F.G.G.)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: 1974,
Seller ID: 7575
booklet, 24pp, 35 colour illus, coloured pictorial paper wrappers. SBS: Frank Carr was the Director of the National Maritime Museum, as well as being the man who brought the Cutty Sark to Greenwich! View more info
By: Chaplin (W.R.)
Price: £12.00
Publisher: 1951,
Seller ID: 9085
34pp, 14 illus, 2 maps, original white cloth. SBS: A learned article on Harwich Lighthouses and their owners extractedûfrom 'The American Neptune'. View more info
By: Coad (J.C.)
Price: £185.00
Publisher: 1989,
Seller ID: 6088
xxvi + 399pp, 226 illus, 66 plans and charts, 12 line illus, 20 chartsû(two-tone colour), large format (30cm x 21cm), attractive cloth, originalûdw. AJS: Describes the architecture, engineering works and organization ofûBritish naval bases at home and overseas between 1690 and 1850. The authorûexplains the vital contribution these bases made to British sea power,ûenabling Britain to build and maintain the huge fleets of the eighteenthûand early nineteenth centuries and to sustain their crews.ûPublished in a small print run and went out-of-print within a year.ûThis is an uncommon title ... View more info
By: Coles (Capt C.)
Price: £30.00
Publisher: 1859,
Seller ID: 5249
14pp, later (1960s) wrappers, in protective glassine envelope. AJS: Pamphlet from the officer who went on to design the first turretûship, HMS Captain (1870). View more info
By: Corney (A.)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: 1967 rp 1968,
Seller ID: 8981
23pp, 6 illus, landscape format, pictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: Built to protect the Solent. This copy with additional 6pp printedûinsertion View more info
By: Couch (J.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1871 rp 1965, Newcastle,
Seller ID: 9584
96pp (inc 5pp adverts), map frontis, 10 line drawings, original red cloth,ûdw. SBS: Includes privateering and smuggling. View more info
Price: £18.00
Publisher: ND 1950,
Seller ID: 8241
95pp, 70 illus, pale grey cloth. AJS: An account of the Orchard Shipbuilding Yard and the East India Graving Dock, along with other shipbuilders on the Thames (1750-1950). View more info
By: Dicker (G.)
Price: £12.00
Publisher: ND 1971,
Seller ID: 8977
37pp, text illus, large format (29.5cm x 21cm), printed stiff paperûwrappers. AJS: Typescript and bound in wrappers. View more info
By: Dicker (Lt S.)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: 1972,
Seller ID: 10692
29pp, 22 illus, pictorial paper wrappers. View more info
By: Dougherty (M.E.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: ND 1966,
Seller ID: 6756
126pp, 58 illus, 21 plans, paper covers. SBS: History of this great American Seaport up to 1966. View more info
By: Dymond (D.)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: 1971,
Seller ID: 10680
21pp, 4 illus, map, printed paper wrappers. View more info
By: Ellicott (D.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: 1975, Gibraltar,
Seller ID: 10710
(iv), 130pp, title illus, 8 illus, pictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: A good local study, with a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet, VarylûBegg. View more info
By: Fernandez (J.J.)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: 1977-78, Gibraltar,
Seller ID: 10709
as issued in two parts, landscape format, original pictorial stiff paperûwrappers.û(1) 60pp, 54 illus, plan.û(2) 60pp, 54 illus, plan. AJS: Based on the author's large postcard collection, published by theûGibraltar Chronicle newspaper. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: 1988,
Seller ID: 8677
vi + 143pp, 10 illus, pictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: Exeter Maritime Studies No 2. Seven papers, including: Crewing onûArctic Whaling Vessels; Prince William's Descent on Devon 1688; Decline ofûBritish Shipbuilding since 1945. View more info
By: Geddes (A.)
Price: £5.00
Publisher: 1970,
Seller ID: 10691
22pp, 5 illus, printed paper wrappers. View more info
By: Grahame (T.)
Price: £45.00
Publisher: 1835,
Seller ID: 8823
61pp, large format (27cm x 21.5cm), without wrappers. AJS: Suggestions for improving transport costs and the carrying capacityûon rivers and canals. This copy presented to Michael Faraday Esq, RoyalûInstitution, Albemarle Street. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: 1965,
Seller ID: 7273
60pp, frontis, 8 illus tipped-in on text pages, map, tables, large formatû(33cm x 20.5cm), original blue paper wrappers, title pasted on front cover. SBS: Includes a complete schedule of the 1050 ships from which dues wereûcollected from ports in the river Thamer 1760-1761.ûAJS: This article has been prepared from documents and papers formerly theûproperty of Captain Edward Hawkins, RN (1765-1839), found in 'DuncanûHouse' Saltash. uopn the death of Miss Mary G.C. Hawkins in 1959. Asûreagrds the year 1760-61 the schedule of Cornish shipping has beenûabstracted from an old ledger the prop... View more info