Category: Docks/Ports/Buildings

Anvers Port de Mer Description du Port et des Establissements Maritimes d'Anvers. D'Apres les Documents les Plus Recents.

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.
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Shipshape and Bristol Fashion.

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-.
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The Ports, Arsenals, and Dockyards of France.

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.
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Maritime Greenwich.

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!
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The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850 Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy.

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 now.ûJon...
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A Cheap and Simple Mode of Protecting our Mercantile Ports & Navigable Rivers: Addressed to Those Entrusted with our Security, and the Inhabitants of the Coast Towns of the United Kingdom.

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).
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Southsea Castle.

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
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HMS Vernon 1872-1972 Centenary A Short History of the Establishment.

By: Dicker (Lt S.)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: : 1972,

Seller ID: 10692

29pp, 22 illus, pictorial paper wrappers.
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Port of Baltimore Handbook.

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.
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The Portsmouth Papers No 11. Portsmouth and the Fall of the Puritan Republic.

By: Dymond (D.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: : 1971,

Seller ID: 10680

21pp, 4 illus, map, printed paper wrappers.
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Gibraltar Yesterday Years. A Pictorial History of the Rock of Gibraltar.

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.
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Lisbon as a Port Town the British Seaman and Other Maritime Themes.

By: Fisher (S.) Editor.

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.
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Essays and Letters on Subjects Conducive to the Improvement and Extension of Inland Communication and Transport. By Thomas Grahame Esq. Presented to Michael Faraday Esquire., Royal Institution, Albemarle Street.

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.
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The Liberty of the Water of the Thamer - With Particular Reference to 1760-61.

By: Hearn (J.R.) Compiler.

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 property of...
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The Portsmouth Papers No 19. Portsmouth and the Crimean War.

By: Hoad (M.J.) & Temple Patterson (Prof A.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: : 1973,

Seller ID: 10675

22pp, 12 illus, printed paper wrappers.
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From Walker to the World Charles Mitchell's Low Walker Shipyard.

By: Keys (D.) & Smith (K.)

Price: £5.00

Publisher: : 1997,

Seller ID: 6732

48pp, 34 illus, plan, pictorial paper wrappers. SBS: Charles Mitchell's Low Walker Shipyard, Newcastle, founded 1852.
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The Ship Registers of the Port of Hayle.

By: NMM Monograph No 20. Farr (G.)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: : 1975,

Seller ID: 1787

ix + 143pp, 15 illus, sketch, large format (30cm x 21cm), pictorial paperûwrappers.
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The Origins of the Newcastle Quayside Excavations at Queen Street and Dog Bank.

By: O'Brien (C.) Bown (L.) and others.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: : 1988,

Seller ID: 850

(vi), 168pp, 52 text figs (many multi-view), large format (26.5cm x 21.5cm),ûpictorial stiff paper wrappers. AJS: Monograph No III issued by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastleûupon Tyne.
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Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

By: Patterson (B.) & Coad (J.)

Price: £6.50

Publisher: : 1992,

Seller ID: 7578

booklet, 28pp, 66 illus (with inserts), pictorial paper covers. SBS: Architectural details by Jonathan Coad author of the great book on Royal Dockyards, which is in need of a reprint.
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The Improvement of the Entrance to Sunderland Harbour, With Reference to the Reduction of Wave-Action.

By: Simpson (W.)

Price: £45.00

Publisher: : 1919,

Seller ID: 9802

12pp, large fold-out plate 21.5cm x 90cm, printed paper wrappers, slightûwear to wrappers. AJS: Printed by permission of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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