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ALSTON, [ALFRED HENRY].  Revised by Commander R.H. Harris: Captain Alston's Seamanship. New edition, Revised and Enlarged by Commander R. H. Harris, with a Treatise on Nautical Surveying by Staff-Commander May; also Instructions for Officers of the Merchant Service by W. H. Rosser. With 200 Illustrations.
Portsmouth: Griffin & Co;  London: Simpkin Marshall, 1871.
The 2nd edition. Folding frontispiece, trimmed on fore-margin without loss), illustrations in the text. 8vo, pp.xxix:(1):585:(1), contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Patch of marbling rubbed through to back board on upper cover, some general rubbing but sound. Some foxing, inner joint cracked between frontispiece and title but firm. Contemporary signature on verso of frontispiece. 
Quote Item No. 10406
Price:  £55.00

ANON:  Geographical Handbooks Series. Pacific Islands.  Volume 1: General Survey.  'For Official Use Only'. 
H.M.S.O. Naval Intelligence Division. Aug. 1945. 
Numerous plates, diagrams, some folding illustrations and large folding map in end-pocket.  8vo, pp.xv:599, original cloth;  binding faded. 
Quote Item No. 676 
Price:  £30.00

ANON:  Geographical Handbooks Series.  Volume 3:  Western Pacific (Tonga to the Solomon Islands).  For 'Official Use Only'. 
H.M.S.O. Naval Intelligence Division, Dec. 1944. 
Numerous plates and illustrations.  8vo, pp.xvii:741, original cloth. 
Quote Item No. 677 
Price:  £30.00

ARNOLD-FORSTER, REAR-ADMIRAL D:  The Ways of the Navy.  With Sixteen Plates.
London:  Ward Lock, 1931.
First edition.  Illustrated with black & white photographic plates.  8vo, pp.288, original blue glazed cloth;  edges foxed else a very good copy. 
Item No. 6054
Price:   £10.00

BAUGH, DANIEL A.: British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole.
New Jersey:  Princeton University Press, 1965.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  Large 8vo, pp.[16]:557, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding headbands slightly bumped;  dustwrapper suffering a number of short tears, chips and creasing (some loss) along edges and especially at spine, slightly edge-rubbed;  internally excellent. 
Quote Item No. 9077
Price: £65.00

BLACK, JEREMY  and  WOODFINE, PHILIP  [Editors]: The British Navy and the Use of Naval Power in the Eighteenth Century.
Leicester University Press, 1988.
First edition.  8vo, pp.xiii:273, original cloth in dustwrapper;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 9177
Price:  £65.00

BLORE, TREVOR - FIRST LIEUTENANT:  Terriers of the Fleet.  The Fighting Trawlers. By First Lieutenant.
London:  Hutchinson, [1943].
First edition.  Photographic plates.  Small 8vo, pp.96, original tan cloth.  Binding very soiled and marked and with inked note on upper cover.  Anonymous.  Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To 'Johno' with thanks for the publicity, Happy days pal from the author 'Digger' Blore, 22/5". 
Quote Item No. 8511
Price:  £20.00

BRITTON, C. J: New Chronicles of the Life of Lord Nelson.
Birmingham:  Cornish Brothers, n.d.
Folding pedigrees, portraits.  8vo, pp.125, original cloth;  a good copy in browned and edge-chipped d.w. 
Quote Item No. 3639
Price:  £35.00

CAMPERDOWN, EARL OF:  Admiral Duncan.
London:  Longmans, Green, 1898.
Three portraits and a plan of the action off Camperdown.  8vo, pp. xi:(2):416, horribly and crudely re-backed in paper, uncut.  Uncut edges browned, some marginal browning and foxing, front endpapers damaged.  Internally generally good;  for cosmetic reasons re-backing is advised. 
Quote Item No. 7549
Price:  £20.00

DAWSON, WARREN R. [Editor]:  The Nelson Collection at Lloyd's. A Description of the Nelson Relics and a Transcript of the Autograph Letters and Documents of Nelson and his circle and of other Naval Papers of Nelson's Period.
London: Macmillan for the Corporation of Lloyd's, 1932.
First edition.  Twenty-one plates. 4to, pp.vii:[6]:525, original blue cloth gilt;  a little rubbed but generally very good.
Quote Item No. 1211
Price:  £200.00

FEVYER, W.H. and WILSON, J.W.  [Editors]:  The Naval General Service Medal, 1915-1962, to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines for the Bars:   Persian Gulf 1909-1914,  Iraq 1919-1920,  N.W. Persia 1920.
The Navy & Military Press, 1995.
Folio, pp.239, original paper wrappers;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 6895
Price:  £18.00

GRAHAM, GERALD S.: The Politics of Naval Supremacy.  Studies in British Maritime Ascendancy.
Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1965.
First edition.  Two folding maps.  8vo, pp.viii:132, original cloth in dustwrapper;  binding very good;  dustwrapper spine slightly browned and with some edge-rubbing;  internally very good. 
Quote Item No. 9159
Price:  £20.00

LAUGHTON, JOHN KNOX  [Editor]:  Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James 1752-1828.  Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 6.
London:  Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1896.
First edition.  Black & white plates.  Large 8vo, pp.xxvi:402:[2, Society's list of books], original two-tone cloth lettered in gilt on spine with Society's emblem stamped in gilt to upper cover;  spine very slightly faded;  some small brown marks to page edges;  in all other respects extremely good.   
Quote Item No. 7509
Price: £40.00

LOW, CHARLES RATHBONE:  History of the Indian Navy (1613-1863).
London: Richard Bentley, 1877.
First edition. Two volumes. Large 8vo, pp. xx:541 & vi:596, original blue cloth.  Bindings very tired, rubbed, and cockled, stitching slack, foxing to prelims.  Priced to allow for rebinding. 
Quote Item No. 4353
Price:  £150.00

MacDOUGALL, PHILLIP: Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 154.  Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865.  The Industrial Transformation.
Published by Ashgate for the Navy Records Society, 2009.
Tall 8vo, pp.xvii:410, original blue cloth, no dustwrapper;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 9206
Price:  £55.00

MAHAN, CAPTAIN A.T:  The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793-1812.  In Two Volumes.
London:  Sampson Low, Marston & Co., n.d.  ca. 1892.
Two volumes.  Large 8vo,  pp.xx:380 and pp.xvii:428;  original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spines and a ship pictorially blocked in gilt on upper cover, top edge gilt;  headbands and corners rubbed;  a splash mark to upper cover of  Volume 1;  some foxing to prelimns;  bookplate to front pastedown of both Volumes;  ink ownership name to both volumes;  some pencil underlining and notes to margins of Volume 1;  despite all, generally a very good copy. 
Quote Item No. 7493
Price:  £45.00

MARKHAM, SIR CLEMENTS  [Editor]:  Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral John Markham During the Years 1801-4 and 1806-7.  Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 28.
London:  Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1904.
First edition.  Portrait frontispiece.  Large 8vo, pp.xx:451:3, original two-tone cloth lettered in gilt on spine, with the Society's emblem stamped in gilt on upper cover;  spine very slightly faded;  corners very slightly bumped;  in all other respects, an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 7510
Price:   £32.00

MAY, COMMANDER W. E:  The Boats of Men of War.
London:  National Maritime Museum, 1974.
Maritime Monographs and Reports No. 15.  Illustrations and diagrams.  Folio, pp.35, original pictorial wrappers;  very good. 
Quote Item No. 3915
Price:  £12.00

NELSON, LORD: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson with Notes by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas.  Six volumes of seven published (Volume III missing).  The Nicolas Edition.
London:  Chatham Publishing, 1997.
Reprint (published over a period from 1997-98).  Six volumes only of seven, lacking volume three.  Tall 8vo, softcovers uniformly bound;  spines slightly faded, some shelf wear but generally very good. 
Quote Item No. 9264
Price:  £60.00

PERRIN, W.G.  [Editor]:  Boteler's Dialogues.  Publications for the Navy Records Society, Volume 65.
London:  Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1929.
First edition.  Large 8vo, pp.xxxix:341:[7, Society's list of books], original two-tone cloth lettered in gilt on spine with Society's emblem stamped in gilt on upper cover;  spine slightly faded, white cloth of binding slightly soiled;  some foxing;  in all other respects, extremely good. 
Quote Item No. 7520
Price:   £32.00

RAYNER, J. J. & SONS:  Naval Outfitters, Clothiers, and Contractors. 
Attractive coloured advertisement for this firm, seemingly removed from some form of nautical publication, illustrated by a lifebuoy and naval and merchant officers in uniform. "Contractors by appointment to the Cunard S.S. Co. Ltd, Pacific S.N.Co..." etc.  Ca.1890's. 
Suitable for framing, size overall 17 x 14 inches.
Quote Item No. 1311
Price:  £25.00

ROGERS, H.C.B: Troopships and their History. Imperial Services Library, Volume VII. 
London:  Seeley, Service, 1963. 
First edition. Coloured frontispiece, black & white plates. Tall 8vo, pp.223, original cloth in dustwrapper; binding very good with tiny amount of edge-rubbing; dustwrapper with a number of very short tears to edges, chipped at ends of spine, edge-rubbed; internally, excellent.
Quote Item No. 1217
Price:  £10.00

ROSE, SUSAN:  Publications of the Navy Records Society Volume 153.  The Naval Miscellany.  Volume VII.
Aldershot:  Ashgate for the Naval Records Society, 2008.
First edition.  Tall 8vo, pp.xvii:714, original blue cloth, no dustwrapper;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 9099
Price:  £25.00

ROSKILL, CAPTAIN S.W:  The War at Sea 1939 - 1945. Volumes 1 & 2 being "The Defensive" & "The Period of Balance".
London:  H.M.S.O. 1954 & 1956.
First editions.  Numerous plates and folding maps and plans.  4to, pp.xxii:(1):664 and pp.xvi:(1):523, original cloth; generally good in browned and edge chipped dustwrappers.  Name and address in ink on front free endpaper of Volume 2. 
Quote Item No. 8513
Price:   £85.00

SEMENOFF, CAPTAIN VLADIMIR:  The Battle of Tsu-Shima Between the Japanese and Russian Fleets, Fought on 27th May, 1905.
London:  John Murray, 1906.
First edition.  Folding map at end.  8vo, pp.xxxii:165, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, t.e.g.;  binding edge-rubbed and slightly marked;  endpapers browned and some foxing. 
Quote Item No. 5870
Price:  £50.00

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

SUMIDA, JON TETSURO:  The Pollen Papers.  The Privately Circulated Printed Works of Arthur Hungerford Pollen 1901-1916.  Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 124.
London:  George Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society, 1984.
First edition.  Portrait frontispiece.  Large 8vo, pp.xv:400:[5, Society's list of books], original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine with the Society's emblem stamped in gilt to upper cover;  an excellent copy. 
Quote Item No. 7519
Price:   £22.00

WELCH, J.J.:  A Text Book of Naval Architecture for the use of Officers of the Royal Navy.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1889.
18 folding plates. Tall 8vo, pp.167, original cloth; binding very damp-marked, one folding plate ragged and a bit dusty on fore-margin else internally good. 
Quote Item No. 9124
Price:  £20.00

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