Biddlecombe Capt George (16 results)

xix, 155 pages. 9vo Brown cloth stamped in brown on spine. Top page edges stained brown. no jacket as issued. Clean. Like new condition.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1974 ISSUE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Clean unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Reprint; Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. B&W Illustrations; 5 1/2 x 9; xix, 153 pages; Hard cover has slight bumping, rubbing. 1974 reprint. Top of text block is brown. Some sunning on pages. No DJ. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with b/w drawings, diagrams, plates and charts. Originally published in 1848. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1925, Very Good/Good Only dj, tall octavo, 153pp., black cloth hardcover, gold lettering on backstrip, unclipped dj with several small holes & numerous chips around edges, binding tight, text unmarked.

VG+, unmarked, illus. Hardback; no DJ. [.Sailing Ships] xix + 155 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A Very Good hard cover book in Fair dust jacket. Covers show slight edge wear, corners nice and square, spine lettering bright and clean, Internally, a bit of toning to end papers and text block edges, otherwise nice and clean throughout. Unclipped dust jacket is complete, with toning, some wear to edges and some small tears. Jacket protected by removable clear archival mylar. A nice solid copy. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-Library unless specifically described as such. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback book (155 pages, plus ad page)illustrated with black and white drawings. Boards show moderate rubbing/scuffing with tips bumped - foxing on front endpapers. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-4-Middle-R) rareviewbooks.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. xix, 155pp, tables, bw ills. Or green cloth lacking jacket. Light even toning to page edges. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Salem 1925 Marine Research Soc. 1st. ed. 8vo green cloth HB xix, 155 pp., plus ads. VG+ in worn torn d.j.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1925, 1st thus. Octavo. xix, 155pp. Illustrated. Original green cloth, gilt title to spine. Binding square and firm. A bright copy. Neat former owner signature and date to end paper. Otherwise clean within. A 'Near Fine' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. No Jacket. Limited Edition. First printing-limited edition. Flat-signed by publisher- "Edward Sweetman" on title page. Brown coarse cloth boards with dark-brown imprinting on spine. Date in ink on front pastedown and prev owner stamp on flyleaf. Not rem marked or ex-lib. "The progressive method of rigging expressly adapted for sailing ships". Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Originally published in Great Britain in 1845, this has been considered one of the primary reference sources for historians and model makers. It follows very closely the arrangements of David Steel who first published a book under this title in 1796 (with later editions in 1806 & 1818). Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on the spine, blind stamped ruling on border of front. 116 pages of text and illustrations followed by approximately 70 pages of tables and charts. The fifteen engraved plates are based on David Steel but were newly drawn and engraved by J. S. Hobbs to depict ships of the mid-19th century. Witt included Biddlecombe in his bibliography as it follows closely in the Steel tradition and marks the end of the sailing ship era. The Marine Research Society of Salem reproduced Biddlecombe s work here in 1925. This is #8 in their series. Biddlecombe divides his work into five parts. (1) Alphabetical Explanation of the Terms and Phrases used in Rigging. (2) Directions for the Performing of Operations Incidental to Rigging, and for Preparing it on Shore. (3) Progressive Method of Rigging Ships. (4) Description of Reeving the Running Rigging and Bending the Sails. (5) Tables of the Quantities and Dimensions of the Standing and Running Rigging of Ships, Brigs, Fore-and-Aft Schooners, and Cutters, etc. This copy lacks the DJ.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. 155 pages. Many detailed black and white drawings. "Originally compiled for the use of the students in a Naval Academy and believed by modern experts to be the best manual ever produced on rigging the sailing ship." - Preface. An excellent guide for builders of ship models. Title handwritten upon backstrip of plain brown dust jacket. Prior owner's handwritten details atop front free endpaper, otherwise book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Binding tight. Appears unread. A superb copy. …

Salem: Marine Research Society, 1925. "Containing an explanation of terms and phrases and the progressive method of rigging expressly adapted for sailing ships." Marine Research Publication #8. A near fine copy. 24 cm. xix, (1), 15, (1 publisher's ads) pp. b/w plates. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1925 1st edition of the revision by Capt. Biddlecombe of an 1848 work by Charles Wilson. Hardback bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in original dust wrapper. In very good condition, dust wrapper clipped, aged, particularly on spine, corners and edges rubbed, extensive old reinforcements and repairs to loss on inside and outside of wrapper, some slight foxing on endpapers only, otherwise tight and clean. Attractive owners bookplate for Thomas Burton Gabriel, with inscribed date March 1925. Xixpp with Preface and Introduction by Capt. Ernest H Pentecost RNR, 153pp including 17 black and white plates and extensive tables.…