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ADAMS, W.H. DAVENPORT:  The Mariners of England, Stories of Deeds of Daring, Written for English Youth.
Edinburgh:  Edinburgh Publishing Co. 1879.
Frontispiece & plates.  Small 8vo, pp.190, original purple cloth gilt.  Binding faded, joints rubbed.  Hinges strained, presentation inscription.  Last leaf chipped on fore-margin, some foxing. 
Quote Item No. 3424
Price:  £10.00

ALLEN LINE STEAMER, OF GLASGOW:  "Deck scene. Ship 'Armillan' 1655 Tons Reg. John Mitchell, Commander. March 13th 1888 at Robinson's Stores, Brooklyn, N.Y". 
An original photograph of the 9 crew of this steamer pictured on deck, on the original card mount printed as above.
The photograph 4 x 6 inches, rather faded, the mount 11 x 9 inches, rather foxed. 
Quote Item No. 1309
Price:  £50.00
  

ANDERSON, JOHN: Coastwise Sail.  A Record of the Schooners surviving in the British Coasting Trade, and of those lost in recent years.
London:  Percival Marshall, [1934].
Illustrations.  8vo (7
½ x 5 inches), 80-pages. Original blue cloth with applied photograph as issued. Slight lean at spine; very good. 
Quote Item No.  11889
Price:  £18.00

BOUSFIELD, H.T.W.:  R.M.S. "Queen Mary" The Ship of Beautiful Woods.
Cunard White-Star n.d.
A promotional booklet of 32-pages with descriptions and illustrations, partly in colour, of the wooden embellishments of the ship's interior decoration and furnishing. Original wrappers; wrappers foxed. 
Quote Item No. 10955
Price: £25.00

1344 BrewingtonBREWINGTON, W.V. and DOROTHY: The Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum. 
Salem, Mass.: 1968.
Numbered limited edition. First edition. Profusely illustrated partly in colour. 4to, pp. xvii:530, original cloth.
Small label "from the Brook-Hart Collection" on front free endpaper; a very nice copy in slightly marked dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No. 1344
Price:  £125.00

BROOK-HART, DENYS:  20th Century British Marine Painting.
Woodbridge:  Antique Collectors' Club, 1981.
First edition.  Illustrated with colour and black & white plates.  Large format (11 x 8¾ inches wide), pp.381, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding excellent with very bright gilt lettering to spine and front cover;  dustwrapper with 1/4 inch tear to top edge, corners chipped and frayed (with a tear to top back edge near corner), some general shelf-wear;  internally, extremely good. 
Quote Item No. 11134
Price:  £15.00

BROOK-HART, DENYS: 20th Century British Marine Painting.
Woodbridge: Antique Collector's Club, 1981.
First edition.  Profusely illustrated, partly in colour.  4to (11 x 8
¾ inches), 381-pages. Original cloth gilt; very good in marked and edge torn dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No.  11894
Price:  £15.00

CARY, ALAN L:  Mail Liners of the World.
London:  Sampson Low, n.d.
First edition.  Illustrations from photographs and silhouettes. 8vo, pp.144, original cloth in chipped d.w.  Binding faded where d.w. chipped, front free endpaper soiled. 
Quote Item No. 2893  
Price:  £22.00

CHATTERTON, E. KEBLE:  Ships and Ways of Other Days.
London:  Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913. 
First edition.  Coloured frontispiece, plates, folding plans. Large 8vo, pp.xvi:308, original blue cloth with coloured illustration inset on upper cover, uncut, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped and slightly rubbed together with slight edge-rubbing; page edges browned; internally, prize label on front pastedown and armorial device in gilt on lower cover, a very small amount of foxing; a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 1176
Price:  £12.00

CONWAY MARITIME PRESS (Publishers):  Model Shipwright, a Quarterly Journal of Ships & Ship Models.  Numbers 1 - 96, 1972 - 1996.
London:  Conway Maritime Press, 1972 onwards.
A good run, numbers 1-96 of this respected journal published 1972-1996.  Numbers 1-8 hardbound as issued, Numbers 9-96 soft-bound, original wrappers.  Some top edges of text blocks spotted but generally excellent apart from No. 29 (September 1979) which has damage and staining although all text complete and legible. With the index volume for numbers 1-44, September 1972 - June 1983. 
Quote Item No.  11858
Price:  £325.00

DAVIDSSON, JAN.  Beatrice.  Varldens sista stora jarnseglare ex Routenburn, ex Svithiod 1881-1932.
Malmo:  Forum, 1976.
Swedish text. Numerous illustrations in sepia. 4to, pp.183, original white boards with a coloured picture of the ship on the front cover, no dustwrapper; headbands bumped with a nick to the side of top headband, spine slightly browned and binding lightly marked and soiled; internally, remains of a label to front pastedown, else very good.
Quote Item No. 1338
Price:  £20.00

DAWSON, PHILIP:  Cruise Ships, an evolution in design.
London: Conway Maritime Press, 2000.
First edition.  Well illustrated. 4to, pp.271, original cloth; headband of binding and d.w. bumped and snagged else excellent in like d.w.  
Quote Item No. 8860
Price:  £22.00

DYSON, JOHN:  Spirit of Sail - Clippers, Windjammers and Tall Ships.
Kingswood Press, Heinemann, 1987.
Largely coloured photographic illustrations throughout by Peter Christopher.  4to, pp.176, original cloth;  fine in like price-clipped d.w. 
Quote Item No. 3925
Price:  £10.00

FALKUS, HUGH:  Master of Cape Horn.  The Story of a Square-rigger Captain and his World.  William Andrew Nelson 1839 - 1929.
London:  Gollancz, 1982.
First edition.  Coloured frontispiece, illustrations.  Small 4to, pp.160, original cloth; very good in slightly spine faded d.w. 
Quote Item No. 3928
Price:   £10.00

FARR, GRAHAME E:  West Country Passenger Steamers. 
London:  Richard Tilling, 1956. 
First edition.   Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.327:[1], original red cloth, no dustwrapper; headbands bumped, corners and headbands slightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded; generally a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 1142
Price:  £9.00

FURNISS, HARRY:  P & O Sketches in Pen & Ink.
London:  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987.
Facsimile of the first edition.  Plates.  Oblong small folio, pp.204, original green cloth blocked in gilt.  Fine.  
Quote Item No. 4785

Price:  £12.00

GEORGE GIBSON & CO:  Steamers. 
An attractive printer's proof of their invoice heading, decorative lettering, engraved vignette of steamship, emblematic female figure kneeling upon the globe, etc. Slightly smudged. Size 5 x 9 ins. ca.1900. 
Quote Item No. 1307
Price:  £15.00

GREENHILL, BASIL:  Schooners.
London:  Batsford, 1980.
First edition. Illustrations from photographs throughout. Small folio, pp.160, original cloth;  a very good copy in like d.w. 
Quote Item No. 3930
Price:   £15.00

GREENHILL, BASIL & WILLIS, LIONEL:  The Coastal Trade. Sailing Craft of British Waters 900 - 1900.
London:  The Bourton Press, 1975.
First edition. 45 coloured plates. Large oblong folio, original cloth; fine in d.w. and slipcase.   
Quote Item No. 3935
Price:   £42.00

GRIFFITHS, DENIS: Steam at Sea, Two Centuries of Steam-powered Ships.
London:  Conway Maritime Press, 1997.
First edition. Well illustrated.  4to, pp.xL:242, original cloth;  an excellent copy in like d.w. 
Quote Item No. 8859
Price:  £25.00

GROENEWEGEN, G: Verzamelling van Vier en tachtig Stuks Hollandsche Schepen Geteekend en In Kiper Gebragt, 1789. 
Rotterdam:  Van den Brink, n.d. 
Numerous plates in facsimile. Oblong 8vo, original printed mock "vellum" boards. Binding foxed or marked, some foxing internally.
Inscribed, dated 1975, on f.f.e. 
Quote Item No. 1110
Price:  £25.00

HARLAND, JOHN: Catchers and Corvettes. The Steam Whalecatcher in Peace and War, 1860 - 1960. Illustrated by the Author, 40 Ship Plans specially drawn by John McKay.
Rotherfield, East Sussex: Jean Boudriot Publications, 1992.
FIrst (and only?) edition.  Profusely illustrated including fold-out plans.  Large 4to, pp.xi:432, original cloth;  a very good copy in slightly edge bumped d.w. 
Quote Item No. 8734
Price:  £275.00

HENRY ROBB LTD: Leith Built Ships on War Service. Being the war-time history of the firm of Henry Robb Ltd.  
Leith:  Henry Robb Ltd. n.d. 
Plates, aerial view of Robb's yard mounted at end.  4to, pp.43, softcover; binding poor, spine chipped with 9cm of loss to the bottom of spine, bottom corner of front cover creased, generally browned and soiled; internally, some foxing.
Quote Item No.1345
Price:  £12.00

HOLLAND AMERICA LINE:  S.S. "Statendam".  
Three large Gala and Farewell Dinner menus, 8 dinner menus, 16 large breakfast and luncheon menus with coloured illustrations at head, and 12 other ephemeral pieces, brochures, etc. 1963 and 1966. 
Quote Item No. 1228
Price:  £30.00

HOLLOWAY, R.E.:  Notes on Sailing. 
Bombay:  College of Military Engineering. 
First edition.  Illustrations.  8vo, pp.38, original printed boards in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrapper unevenly edge-browned and with two pieces torn (with loss) from back edges of dustwrapper; internally very good, with ink name on front free-endpaper. Signed and inscribed by the author.
Quote Item No. 66
Price:  £15.00

HOLME, GEOFFREY [Editor]: British Marine Painting. With Articles by A.L. Baldry. 
London: "The Studio", 1919. 
Plates, some coloured. 4to, pp.135, blue binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped and slightly rubbed; original wrappers preserved and bound in; a little creasing to a few margins; library blindstamp and ink accession numbers on title; generally very good.
Quote Item No. 1203
Price:  £20.00

HOLM-PETERSEN, F:  Skibsportraetmalere. 

Skaninavisk Bogforlay [1967]. 
Danish text. Numerous plates, largely coloured. 4to, pp.162, original boards in dustwrapper; headbands and corners bumped; dustwrapper the same, together with some slight edge creasing, else good; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 1198
Price:  £20.00

10430JEANS, H.W.:  Nautical Astronomy and Navigation. A New edition.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1870.
Two volumes bound in one. Tall 8vo, pp. viii:251 & viii:207, contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Binding rubbed and scuffed but sound. Some foxing. 
Quote Item No. 10430
Price:  £60.00

JENKINS, DAVID:  Jenkins Brothers of Cardiff: a Ceredigion Family's Shipping Ventures. 
Cardiff:  National Museum of Wales, 1985. 
First edition.  Black & white illustrations.  8vo, pp.112, softcover; front cover a little faded, with a slight thumbed crease to bottom corner of front cover, very slight shelf-wear; internally, very good. 
Quote Item No. 1155
Price:  £9.00

10520KALOGJERA, DUSAN:  Korculanska brodogradnja.  Shipbuilding in Korcula.
Zagreb:  Prometej, 1998.
Very well illustrated in colour and b&w. 4to, pp.678, original blue faux leather; rubbed along top of lower board. The dustwrapper a little edge faded and rubbed, short tear. Lengthy inscription signed from the author on front endpaper.  A substantial well produced work; English and Croation text. 
Quote Item No. 10520
Price:  £65.00

KENNEY, CYRIL ERNEST: The Quadrant and the Quill. A book written in honour of Captain Samuel Sturmy "a tryed and trusty Sea-man" and author of The Mariner's Magazine, 1669.
London: Privately published, 1947.
Well illustrated in black & white. 4to, pp.166, original unlettered quarter olive cloth, white boards lettered in black with central portrait vignette. Some spotting to boards, corners worn but generally a good copy. 
Quote Item No. 10386
Price:  £22.00

KLITGAARD, B.J:  Troubadour Sails On.
London:  Seeley, Service, 1938.
First edition.  Plates.  Small 4to, pp.283:(4,adverts), original blue cloth;  spine faded, inscription on front free endpaper. 
Quote Item No. 6289
Price:  £12.00

KIRK, ALLAN:  Express Steamers of Cook Strait. 
Wellington, New Zealand:  Reed, 1968. 
First edition. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.207, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good; dustwrappers with some edge-rubbing; internally, uneven browning to half-title and title page, else very good.
Quote Item No. 1152
Price:  £9.00

11869LAVERY, BRIAN: The Ship of the Line.  Volume 1: The Development of the battle fleet 1650-1850  &  Volume 2: Design, Construction, and Fittings.
London: Conway Maritime Press, 1983.
Volume 2 published 1984.  Two volumes, first editions.  Numerous plates & illustrations.  4to (12 x 10 inches), pp.224 & pp.191, original cloth;  good in slightly edge creased dustwrappers. The dustwrapper backstrip of Volume 2 a little faded. 
Quote Item No.  11869
Price:  £82.00

LEES, JAMES: The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War 1625-1860.
London: Conway Maritime Press, 1979.
First edition.  Plates and illustrations.  4to (12 x 10 inches), 196-pages. Original cloth; very good in lightly edge creased dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No.  11887
Price:  £30.00

LE SCAL, YVES: The Great Days of the Cape Horners. Translated by L. Ortzen. 
London:  Souvenir Press, 1966. 
First English edition.   Black & white photographic plates. 8vo, pp.xvi:222, orignal blue cloth, no dustwrapper; slight warp to the boards, one corner bumped; page edges foxed; internally, one page corner creased, else very good.
Quote Item No. 1164
Price:  £9.00


LESLIE, R.C:  Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words. Reproduced in Facsimile from the original edition with an Introduction by C.R.L. Fletcher and L.G. Carr Laughton ...... 

London:  Chapman & Hall, 1930. 
First published 1890.   Black & white illustrations. Royal 8vo, pp.xxxvi:xix:328:39, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, no dustwrapper; spine very slightly faded, headbands bumped, a number of whitish scuff marks to cloth specially along outer edge of front cover; page edges browned and slightly dusty; internally, very good.
Quote Item No. 1134
Price:  £35.00
 

LINDSAY, J & H:  Passage Brokers by authority of H.M. Board of Trade, World Travel Bureau, Edinburgh. 
An attractive printer's proof of their engraved letterhead; the engraved image showing the globe, a steamship at sea, a railway train etc.  Size within plate marks 5 x 8 inches. ca.1900. 
Quote Item No. 1305
Price:  £25.00

11370LUBBOCK, BASIL;  SPURLING, J. [Illustrator];  HOOK, F.A. [Editor]; VILLIERS, ALAN [Introduction]:  Sail.  The Romance of the Clipper Ships. Pictured by J. Spurling.  Storied by Basil Lubbock, Edited by F.A. Hook. With an Introduction by Alan Villiers.
London:  Patrick Stephens, [1972].
Three volumes.  No. 19 of only 50 sets bound in full blue goatskin gilt, all edges gilt.  Silk endpapers. Coloured plates throughout, folding map at end of Volume 1.  Pages: 153; 152; & 102.  Each volume 12 x 10 inches and contained within individual double slipcases, these with blue leather title labels. One coloured plate in Volume 1 partially detached on inner margin; some scuffing to slipcases.  A fine set in excellent condition.  Signed by Alan Villiers on the title of Volume 1. 
Quote Item No. 11370
Price:  £750.00

LUBBOCK, BASIL:  The Log of the "Cutty Sark". 
Glasgow:  James Brown, 1924.
First edition.  Plates and plans, some folding. 8vo, pp.xii:420, original cloth;  inner hinges strained, backstrip dulled and cockled, short split to lower joint.
Bookplate. 
Quote Item No. 1097
Price:  £15.00

LUBBOCK, BASIL: The Down Easters. The Story of the Cape Horners.
Glasgow:  Brown, Son, and Ferguson, 1963.
Reprint.  Plates and folding plans.  Large 8vo (9
¾ x 7½ inches), 288-pages. Original blue cloth; very good indeed in incomplete and spotted dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No.  11879
Price:  £15.00

LUBBOCK, BASIL:  The Last of the Windjammers. Two volumes.
Glasgow:  Brown, Son, and Ferguson, 1954.
Fourth impression. Two volumes. Plates and folding plans.  Large 8vo (9
¾ x 7½ inches), pages: 518 & 448.  Original blue cloth;  headbands & corners bumped, bindings spotted, some browning to edges of text blocks, generally sound. 
Quote Item No.  11892
Price:  £30.00

LUBBOCK, BASIL:  The Opium Clippers.
Glasgow:  Brown, Son, and Ferguson, 1967.
Reprint.  Plates and folding plans.   Large 8vo (9
¾ x 7½ inches), 392-pages.  Original blue cloth; corners slightly bumped, light vertical crease to backstrip, else good in soiled, edge chipped, price clipped dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No.  11885
Price:  £15.00

3216bMcKAY, RICHARD C.:  South Street, a Maritime History of New York.
New York: Putnams, 1934.
No. 85 of a limited edition of 200 copies signed by the author and with piece of wood mounted to front pastedown, "Taken from the last of the Yankee Clippers 'The Glory of the Seas'. Built by Donald McKay at East Boston in 1869, burnt for her 'Junk' near Seattle, May 1923". Plates. Royal 8vo, pp.xxii:460, orignial two-tone cloth, t.e.g. others uncut; binding faded and soiled, headband pulled. Inscribed and signed by the author on half-title "To Mr Joseph Frank - Here's hoping you enjoy reading this - my work - from cover to cover. Richard C. McKay, N.Y. Nov. 10/37".

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Quote Item No. 3216
Price:  £100.00

PATERSON, L.J:  "Only Thirty Birthdays". British Marine Mutual, 1876 to 1996. 
London:  British Marine Mutual Insurance, 1996. 
First edition.  Profusely illustrated.  4to, pp.116 original cloth;  very good in d.w. 
Quote Item No. 1265
Price:  £12.00

PETREJUS, E.W.:  Modelling the Brig-of-War "Irene".  A Handbook for the Building of Historical Ship-Models.
Hengelo: N.V. Uitgeversmaatschappij "de Esch", 1970.
Illustrations and diagrams throughout.  Folio (11
¾ x 8½ inches), 287-pages, original tan linen.  Some brown marking to edge of text block else very good in poor chipped & marked dustwrapper. Without the two loose folding plans, being  larger versions of Figures 571 and 572. 
Quote Item No.  11871
Price:  £48.00

P. & O:  A small group of ephemeral pieces relating to the 1937 Centenary of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, as under:
a)  The menu for the Centenary Dinner held at the Savoy Hotel on October 14th 1937.  10 x 8 inches.  24-pages giving the menu, wines, toasts, list of guests, and seating arrangements. Each of the 45 tables named after a P. & O. ship and each illustrated with a silhouette of the ship.  Silk cord bound; the wrapper spotted.   The names of of guests at one table added in ink. 
b)  An invitation to the dinner, 7¼ x 5¾ inches, with the embossed arms of the company in gold & colours. 
c)  Pamphlet  “A Service in Commemoration of the Centenary”, Thursday14th October, 1937 at St. Andrew Undershaft, St. Mary Axe.  15-pages, original wrappers.
d)  Two copies of  “A Souvenir of the Centenary”.  47-pages in the original printed wrappers.  1937.
Quote Item No. 5200 
Price:  Five items in all - £20.00

POWELL, L.H.:  The Shipping Federation, a History of the First Sixty Years, 1890-1950. 
London:  Shipping Federation, 1950. 
Black & white plates, 1 double-page. 4to, pp.149, original cloth lettered in gilt on front cover; binding with faint whitish marks to front cover, gilt lettering faded, some shelf-wear; page edges browned; internally, some foxing, else good.
Quote Item No. 1150
Price:  £12.00

QUARM, ROGER  and  WYLLIE, JOHN:  W.L. Wyllie, Marine Artist, 1851-1931.
London: Chris Beetles, 1981.
First edition. Plates, some coloured.  4to (11 x 8
½ inches), 143-pages. Original cloth; a trifle marked in browned dustwrapper. 
Quote Item No.  11893
Price:  £25.00

RAYMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY: Log Book, Round Africa Cruise, 1929. Being a Brief Description of the Land of Cham, Together with the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants ...... 
Boston:  Raymond &Whitcomb Co., 1929. 
Black & white illustrations throughout, map. 8vo, pp.124, original cloth-backed embossed boards gilt, no dustwrapper; binding slightly bumped at headbands and with two very slight white marks to front cover, else good; internally, some joints cracked and stitching slightly slack. Mr W.C. Balle's copy with his name in gilt on upper cover. The blank diary pages provided in the volume are fully written up with his daily observations of this cruise which departed from new York on January 12, 1929 and arrived at Southampton, March 26. 
Quote Item No. 1160
Price:  £30.00

RINMAN, T & ATTMAN, A: From Lake and River to Distant Oceans. 
Gothenburg:  Bromstroms, 1965. 
First edition.  Numerous illustrations.  Folio, pp.(160) original cloth dustwrapper; binding generally good but with a slight warp to the boards; dustwrapper with a number of creased tears to the top edge, top of spine chipped with some loss, edge-rubbed, front cover with whitish speckling; internally, excellent. A history of the Bromstrom Group, Swedish shipping company, 1865-1965.
Quote Item No. 1285
Price:  £20.00

ROBINSON, A.H.W.: Marine Cartography in Britain.  A History of the Sea Chart to 1855.
Leicester University Press, 1962.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  4to, pp.222, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding very good;  dustwrapper poor, spine and edge-browned and with tears and chips along edges especially at spine with some loss;  internally excellent. 
Quote Item No. 9245
Price:   £80.00

ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY:  Playing Cards.  
A standard pack of playing cards produced by Waddington, the backs showing the R.M.S.P. Co. flag to each corner, sailing ships, globe, to the centre; fine in the original rubbed slipcase. Ca. 1920. 
Quote Item No. 1304
Price:  £35.00

SMOUT, T.C.  [Editor]:  Scotland and the Sea.
Edinburgh:  John Donald Publishers;  and  Maryland:  Barnes & Noble, 1992.
First edition.  Black & white illustrations and maps.  Large 8vo, pp.vii:232, original cloth in dustwrapper;  tiny tear and slight crease to back upper edge of dustwrapper;  in all other respects, excellent. 
Quote Item No. 9079
Price:   £45.00

STAMMERS, MICHAEL K.: The Passage Makers. The history of the Black Ball Line of Australian Packets, 1852-1871.
Brighton:  Teredo Books, 1978.
First edition.  Plates, some coloured.  Large 8vo (10 x 7
½ inches), 508-pages. Original cloth; slight spotting to edge of text block else very good indeed in price-clipped dustwrapper which is protected with a removable plastic sleeve. 
Quote Item No.  11883
Price:  £24.00

STEEL, DAVID:  Steel's Art of Rigging 1818.
Brighton, Sussex:  Fisher Nautical Press, 1974.
Facsimile reprint from "The Art of Rigging" 1818.  Folding plates and tables.  8vo, pp.136:tables at end, original cloth in price-clipped dustwrapper;  dustwrapper spine considerably faded with lettering now almost illegible, two short creased tears to top edge, two marks to front cover;  in all other respects very good. 
Quote Item No. 11350
Price:  £25.00

TALBOT-BOOTH, E.C.: Ships of the British Merchant Navy. Passenger Lines. With 64 coloured plates and 234 line drawings by the author.
London: Andrew Melrose, 1932.
First edition.  8vo (9
½ x 6¼ inches), pp.591 plus illustrated advertisements at front,  original blue cloth blocked in gilt and red.  Binding a trifle spotted, headbands rubbed; upper inner hinge cracked exposing webbing, contemporary signature on front free endpaper. Generally good. 
Quote Item No. 10751
Price:  £90.00

VALPARAISO, CLUB NAVAL DE:  Centenario de las Gestas Navales de 1879.  
Valparaiso:  Club Naval de Valparaiso, 1979. 
Number 1361 of an edition of 2000.  Lavishly illustrated in colour, with tissue guards, throughout; the whole printed on heavy art paper. Oblong folio, full padded tan calf lettered in gilt and with brass corners;  headbands slightly rubbed; generally a very good copy. 
Quote Item No.  1317
Price:  £55.00

WENTHOLT, A.D:  Brug over den Oceaan. Een eeuw geschiedenis van de Holland Amerika Lijn. 
Rotterdam:  Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1973. 
First edition.  Numerous black & white plates. 8vo, pp.369, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding good; dustwrapper extremely edge-rubbed, a tear to back fold and another square tear to top edge of front cover with a piece almost detached; internally very good. A history of the Holland America Line.
Quote Item No.  1181
Price:  £25.00

WILLYAMS, H.V.: Down West. Extracts from the Log-Book of a Single-Hander. Illustrated from Photographs and Sketches by the Author.
London: Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson, [1902].
Folding map, plates. Small 8vo (7 1/2 x 5 inches), 156-pages plus two leaves of advertisements at end for Norie & Wilson's Yachting Warehouse. Original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and lettered in white; a very good copy.  
Quote Item No. 11216
Price:  £25.00

WILSON, ARNOLD:  A Dictionary of British Marine Painters.  
Leigh-on-Sea:  Lewis, 1980. 
Reprint with additions.  48 plates. 4to, pp.92, original cloth dustwrapper; dustwrapper spine faded, else very good in all other respects.
Quote Item No.  1343
Price:  £15.00

WORDEN, WILLIAM L:  Cargoes.  Matson's First Century in the Pacific.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1981.
First edition.  Photographic plates. 4to, pp.192, original cloth; a very good copy in d.w. which has very short tear and a little rubbed at headband. 
Quote Item No. 4787
Price:  £10.00

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