Results for: Nautical History
Pocket Battleship : The Story of the Admiral Scheer.
Admiral Theodor Krancke and H. J. Brennecke.
New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1958.
Good octavo hardcover in good clipped dust jacket. Wear and light rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corners of covers with slight hole in binding on upper corner of front cover. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some tears, including small strip missing from head of spine and an inch long chip missing from upper edge of back cover, and some scuffing to covers. Page edges are lightly browned. Name and address of previous owner written large on front pastedown endpaper. 239 pages with illustrations. An account of the exploits of the Admiral Scheer during World War II as remembered by its commander, Admiral Krancke.
Price: $30.00
Deep - Sea Bubbles or the Cruise of the Anna Lombard.
Bootes, Henry H.
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1929.
Octavo (standard size). Wear and chipping to edges of dj, with a few closed tears. Small 1/2 oblong hole in dj on spine at title. Dj covers are scuffed, with some red marks at lower front cover. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, with a small scuff mark on spine matching hole in dj. Head and heel bumped. Bookshop sticker of Dennen's of Detroit on flyleaf. Slight soiling and browning to edges of textblock. 354 p. The story of a former smuggling clipper ship and a long voyage from London to the Pacific on a whaling voyage with additonal purposes in the 1880s, with the author as 3rd mate. Nonfiction, though an Australian newspaper of the time stated " The publishers do not guarantee the literal accuracy of all the statements In "Deep Sea Bubbles," by Mr. Henry H, Bootes, but commend it as an interesting narrative..."
Price: $45.00
Classic Ocean Liners Volume 1 ( I ) : Berengaria, Leviathan, & Majestic.
Braynard, Frank O.
Wellingborough, Northamptonshi Patrick Stephens, Limited, 1990.
Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 176 p. w/ color and b&w illustrations, index. A good survy of the three Ballin liners, bilt in Germany by Albert Ballin for his Hamburg - American Line. One of the ships, the Vaterland, was interred then seized by the Americans, while the other two ( Imperator and Bismarck ) were idle and then went to England as reparations. The book discusses the careers of each ship.
Price: $30.00
Cogs, Caravels, and Galleons : the Sailign Ship 1000 - 1650. Conway's History of the Ship.
Gardiner, Robert editor.
London: Conway Maritime Press, 1994.
Squarish quarto (oversized. Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 188 p. w/ many b&w illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. A volume in Conway's excellent Histor of the Ship, this work looks in detail at ship development over the later middle ages through the beginning of the early modern period, including the ships of the age of discovery. Covers knaars, carracks, the Contarina, the round ship, the Fluit, and others.
Price: $85.00
Master in Sail.
Learmont, Captain James S.
London: Percival Marshall, 1954.
Octavo (standard size). Some wear and small tears to edges of dj. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight browning to edges of textblock. Purposeful black mark on copyright page next to publisher's name. 228 p. w/ illustrations, glossary, short index. The memoir of a 10 year master of Pacific merchant sailing between Australia, Hawaii, and South America, and of the many years and ships and travels that went before in the latter 19th and early 20th c.
Price: $35.00
Mahan on Sea Power.
Livezey, William E.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has some light wear along edges with a small closed tear on lower edge of front cover and some minor scuffing to covers. Slight smudging to fore-edges of pages. 427 pages with illustrations, footnotes, list of books and articles by Mahan, selected bibliography, addenda for revised edition, and index. An updated edition of this work, which was originally published in 1947, dealing with the thought and influence of the American naval historian and strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan (d. 1914).
Price: $35.00
Guns at Sea.
Padfield, Peter.
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1974.
Good quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and some minor scuffing to covers. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with few small tears and minor chip missing from head of spine. Dj is also scuffed on covers and faded along spine. Name and address of previous owner written large on front pastedown endpaper. 320 pages with illustrations, glossary, notes, references, bibliography, and 2 indices. A history of naval gunnery from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century. Special shipping rates for this work due to its size.
Price: $60.00
Rough and Tumble on Old Clipper Ships.
Ramsay, Robert.
New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1930.
Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. Crease at back cover of dj, and dj spine a bit sunned. Edges of textblock slightly browned. Name of former owner stamped on first pastedown. 297 p. A collection ot tales from an old captain, covering everythign from deep sea sailing and diving to shipping on the Great Lakes and wrecks at Cape Horn.
Price: $40.00
The Age of Sail : Master Shipbuilders of the Maritimes.
Spicer, Stanley T.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Formac, 2001.
Oblong - slightly oversized. Small crease to cover and pages at top right. 144 p. w/index. many illustrations. A lavishly ilustrated history, organized by different builders, including Cunard, Miramichi, the Peakes, KIllam, and more. A well done work on an unusual subject, by perhaps the most knowledgable writer on this subject.
Price: $60.00
Aak to Zumbra : A Dictionary of the World's Watercraft.
The Mariner's Museum with contributions by M.H. Parry. Susan Rutter, editor.
Newport News: The Mariners' Museum, 2000..
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the upper corner of the front panel. Dj has minor wear and rubbing along the edges with slight scuffing to the covers. NOTE: The forward is incomplete and missing some text at end, otherwise the book is all correct. 676 pages with illustrations, selected reading, and geographical index. A nice reference work on the various boats, cogs, ships, barges, galleys, canoes, kayaks, and other watercraft from around the globe. The entries feature descriptions of design features, materials, and construction.
Price: $30.00
The Voyage of the Peacock: A Journal by Benajah Ticknor, Naval Surgeon.
Ticknor, Benajah. Edited by Nan Powell Hodges.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1991..
First edition thus. Very good octavo hardcover in brown cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards and minor scuffing to covers. 366 pages with illustrations, endnotes, and index.
Price: $25.00
Falmouth for Orders : The Story of a Sailing Race Around Cape Horn.
Villiers, A. J. introduction by Frank C. Bowen.
Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., ca. 1929.
Octavo (standard size). Reverse of jacket shows other titles in the Star Series by Garden. Some wear, chipping, and small tears to edges of dj, a bit more so at head of spine. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Top corners slightly bumped. A bit of browning to edges of textblock. 301 p. w/ frontis. The first hand story of the grain race between the Beatrice and the Herzogin Cecilie in 1927/28 by Villiers, who was onboard the Cecilie. They raced from Port Lincoln in Queensland to Falmouth, the Cecilie winning with a 96 day time.
Price: $35.00
