MARITIME
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
ALEXANDER STEPHEN & SONS: A Shipbuilding History 1750 -
1932. A record of the Business founded about 1750, by
Alexander Stephen of Burghead, and subsequently carried on at
Aberdeen, Arbroath, Dundee and Glasgow.
For Alexander Stephen & Sons by Ed. J. Burrow, 1932.
Plates and plans. 4to, pp. 212 together with trade
advertisements front and rear, original blue cloth, unevenly faded.
Quote Item No. 6699
Price: £28.00
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
BEESLEY, LAWRENCE: The Loss of the Titanic, its Story and
its Lessons.
London: William Heinemann, 1912.
First edition. Frontispiece, four plates, two folding.
8vo, pp.xi:300, original blue cloth. Spine faded, headband
chipped, short split to backstrip at base. Upper hinge a
little pulled, signature and date, "Edgar Bing Davis 1912" on
front free endpaper. Crease to upper blank fore-corner of
frontispiece and title, foxing to the text.
Quote Item No. 7268
Price: £150.00
BREWINGTON, W.V. & 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 d.w.
Quote Item No. 1344
Price: £125.00
See illustration in "Art" section
BRITISH & NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL:
A large lithographic four-fold plate of a iron paddle steam
ship, both side view in line and sectional. Numbered to the
right top corner "Pl.128" .
On heavy paper, size overall 27 x 53 inches.
Published Jan.1st 1864 by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
Quote Item No. 1312
Price: £55.00
BROWN, JAMES: Brown's Nautical Atlas. Giving Seaports and
Distances from Port to Port. With Complete Index.
Glasgow: James Brown & Son, n.d. ca. 1920.
Sixteen coloured charts and 11-page index. 4to, publisher's
quarter leather, blue cloth gilt boards. Backstrip a little
rubbed and with chip but generally very good.
Quote Item No. 5211
Price: £18.00
BROWN, JAMES: Brown's Star Atlas, showing all the Bright
Stars, with full instructions how to find and use them for
Navigational purposes ...
Glasgow: James Brown & Son, 1921.
4to, pp.43, original blue cloth blocked in black; generally
very good.
Quote Item No. 5210
Price: £12.00
CALDER, NIGEL: Boatowner's Practical and Technical Cruising
Manual. The Complete Handbook for Coastal and Offshore
Sailors.
London: Adlard Coles Nautical, 2001.
First edition. Illustrated in black & white. Large 4to,
pp.xviii:588, original glazed boards; spine very slightly
faded; neat ink names on front free endpaper; generally
a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 8070
Price: £30.00
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
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
FLETCHER, R.A: In the Days of the Tall Ships.
London: Brentano's, 1928.
First edition. Black & white plates. Royal 8vo, pp.348, original
blue cloth pictorially blocked in black, no dustwrapper; headbands
and corners bumped and rubbed, slight spot to upper cover and spine;
page edges browned; frontispiece detached but present, some foxing
but generally good.
Quote Item No. 1149
Price: £15.00
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
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
HERBERT, A.P: "No Boats on the River." With a
Technical Essay by J.H.O. Bunge.
London: Methuen, 1932.
First edition. Plates, maps. Square 8vo, pp.83, original
green cloth; binding soiled.
Inscribed, signed, & dated by the author on title.
Quote Item No. 5417
Price: £15.00
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
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
JOHNSON, W. BRANCH: The English Prison Hulks.
London: Phillimore, 1970.
Revised edition. Black & white frontispiece. 8vo,
pp.x:205, original blue cloth in dustwrapper; top edge of
binding faded; dustwrapper edges very slightly rubbed;
slight spotting to page-edges; in all other respects very
good.
Quote Item No. 7494
Price: £24.00
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
KOHLER, PETER C: Sea Safari. British India, S.N. Co. African
Ships and Services.
Abergavenny, Gwent: P.M. Heaton, 1995.
First edition. Black & white plates. 8vo, pp.256, original cloth
in dustwrapper; very, very slight shelf-wear to dustwrapper (no
rubbing), in all other respects, excellent. Inscribed by the author
on title.
Quote Item No. 1151
Price: £10.00
London: Sampson Low, [1930].
First edition. Coloured folding frontispiece, plates. Royal 8vo,
pp.xiii:244:16 [publisher's list], original blue cloth, no
dustwrapper; headbands bumped, some slight edge rubbing, spine
slightly faded and with a tiny dark mark; page edges browned and
foxed; internally, prelimns browned and foxing throughout; in all
other respects, very good.
Quote Item No. 1145
Price: £9.00
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, orignal 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
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
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
McMULLEN, R.T: An Experimental Cruise, single-handed, in the "Procyon"
7-ton Lugger.
London: Edward Stanford, 1880.
First edition. Folding frontispiece, title vignette, 1 plate
and 2 maps, one folding. 8vo, pp.139:[3], original green cloth
with repeat of title vignette inset on upper cover within gilt
rules. Binding rubbed, backstrip creased, stitching broken, one leaf
detached and slightly frayed on margins.
Inscription on f.f.e.
Quote Item No. 1158
Price: £80.00
PADFIELD, PETER: The Titanic and the Californian.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965.
First edition. Plates. 8vo, pp.318, original cloth, very good
in dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 1121
Price: £125.00
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
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
PRIEST, B.H. and LEWIS, J.A.: Model Racing
Yachts. Their architecture, design, construction, and handling.
Hemel Hempstead: Model Aeronautical Press, n.d.
First edition. Photographic illustrations and folding plans. 4to,
pp.111, original cloth in edge-rubbed d.w.
Quote Item No. 8569
Price: £60.00
Middlesbrough: Tees Towing Co. 1985.
First edition. Illustrated in black & white. Folio,
pp.189, softcover; bottom corner of front cover with crease marks;
generally very good.
Quote Item No. 1342
Price: £10.00
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
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
SMITH, ENG. CAPT. EDGAR C: A Short History of Naval and Marine
Engineering.
Cambridge: University Press for Babcock and Wilcox, 1937.
First edition. Plates. Tall 8vo, pp.xix:376, original red cloth;
spine slightly faded else good.
Quote Item No. 5499
Price: £22.00
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
TRADE CATALOGUE: Yacht, Launch and Boat Fittings.
Cowes: Pascall, Atkey & Son, ca. 1928.
Profusely illustrated catalogue of every conceivable item including
child's paddle-boat, sand-yachts, cooking stoves, starting canons,
dinghies etc. etc. 8vo, pp.510, original wrappers; wrappers worn and
chipped, some browning, unfortunately pages 13-16 removed.
Quote Item No. 1159
Price: £40.00
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
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
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
