Captain S Eardley Wilmot (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: VG. pp600 - 608, illus, printed in double columns, salvaged from a ruined copy of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XIV, #5, March, 1893. Illus include views of contemporary ships engaging in battle, a model of the Ramillies, and photos of the Rodney, Iris, Nile, and Sanspareil. Very scarce.…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 11pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with drawings and photos, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XIV, #4, February, 1893. The British Navy. Illus include numerous drawings of ships, and photos of the Agincourt, Warrior, Monarch, Alexandra, and Dreadnought. Very scarce. J. O. Davidson (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 287 pp; fine overview that reviews the changes that took place in the world's navies during half-century prior to wtiting; 41 b & w photos, numerous line drawings; boards are scuffed on edges; spine loose; this copy is ex-library; hinges partially split but intact; interior pages all clean and free of marks; 2 of the plates have come loose from the binding. …

Condition: Good. Boards have some wear, scuffs. Cracking to hinge. Content has light toning. Heavy toning to end papers. No DJ.

Condition: Fair. 1900. No Edition Remarks. 329 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and sticker to front pastedown. Small tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light wear marks overall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1982. Seeley & Co, London, 1892. Hard Cover. Book Condition : Very Good, clean text, superb illustrations. Covers has shelf wear, spine bumped, blank front page missing section, pages browned. Binding exposed at back. Bookseller Inventory #003660. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N/A (illustrator). N/A.…

Hardback. Condition: Good Reading Copy. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - as issued. 5 x 7.75"; 394pp; blue cloth with gilt titles, illustrations to front and spine, spine lightly faded; lacks free front end paper and frontispiece; good copy; A concise account of all the principal operations in which the British navy has been engaged from the time of King Alfred to the recapture of Khartoum.…

Octavo, pp. 295, illustrations, original terra-cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Early private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Damp staining to upper part of cover, wear to spine ends and corners, a sound reading copy with fine, clean interior. (#147096). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback book bound in decorated boards (395 pages) illustrated with black and white reproductions. Boards show light rubbing - moderate foxing on some pages. Bookseller since 1995 (ULTV-TS-Down-L) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library, usual markings, hinges cracked, one plate loose but laid-in (pg. 24-25). Covers are scuffed and slighlty soiled. Contents are bright. A Good copy for reading or reference.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dj. First. Brown cover boards, gold embossed lettering and detail on front and spine. Some tanning and foxing throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. A fair hardcover copy without a dustcover. The covers are marked, the page ends are spotted plus there's a little spotting on the text and prelims. The spine was straight and the binding is good. The fep is missing. More of a reading copy. Please see photos.

hardback, 8vo, xvi,329,(4)pp, illustrated, owner's name on endpaper and title page, edges browned, text clen and sound, inner hinges cracked, red cloth gilt, bumped and rubbed, spine edges fraying and partly cracked; Fair condition.

Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

1st edition. ppxvi 295. illustrated with engravings and drawings. good condition hardback, the binding a little shabby. ex-Cruising Association library. [please see our storefront page for shipping information] a good study of the Royal Navy during the second half of the 19th century. 1703.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, illustd,295pp, orig tan cloth gilt, just a small bit rubbed top and bottom of spine,owners name in pencil to front end paper, a vg clean tight copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not Given. Cloth stained; mark in margin one plate. Revised and with additional chapters on the Navy in the Great War, by Captain A. C. Dewar, bringing it up to 1918, so presumably published shortly after. Black cloth, 435 pages, b/w plates, plans. Account of all principal operations since Alfred the Great. Bookseller's label Edwin Jones, Southampton. Heavy - may need extra shipping to some locations. 3B5.…

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Good. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners of the binding with a little rubbing to the leather. The contents complete, clean and tight but with sparse, light, spotting more conspicuously to the start and end; Hardback. Blue boards with gilt on 5 raised bands titles to the spine; Measures 8" x 5¼" (1 kg); pp (xvi) 329; Index; Includes: Tissue-guarded Frontispiece; Black & white profiles; Black & white plates; Diagrams; Tables; Marbled lining papers; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203311 ||.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st ed. Roy 8vo. xiv437pp. Illus plates & maps. The career of a distinguished Naval Officer. Ex Smith's subscription library with their sticker on front paste. No other signs of Library id that I can see. Signature on front paste. Occasional foxing & tanning. The hinges are a little strained but generally a sound copy. The boards are rubbed & sl. stained & the spine joint is splitting at the back. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1894, first edition; two volumes, 8vo, pp ix, 399 and viii, 360. . . NOTE that volume I in particular is only in fair condition, hence the low price for the item. Each volume is blue cloth gilt but the spine of vol I has discoloured to while the sides are duller than those of vol II; ex-library with a library stamp, annotated neatly in ink, on one of the prelims and the end papers of each volume; the front hinge of vol I has a 25mm tear at the foot while at the head of the spine a similar sized patch has been roughly glued back into place; the back cover, variously up to around 50mm from the back hinge has suffered water damage and consequent discolouration and damage to the covering fabric and with the hinge now weak; some foxing in both volumes but the contents, particularly of vol II, generally clean. . . Brassey was a Liberal politican, serving under both W E Gladstone and Lord Roseberry. He headed the Royal Opium Commission and was Governor of Victoria, Australia, from 1895 to 1900. In 1886 he founded the eponymous Naval Annual which brought together expert articles on naval developments. . . NOTE that as the two volumes together weigh some 1.5kg there will be a carriage supplement for overseas (but not domestic UK) orders, the exact amount depending on destination and form of carriage.…

Cloth Bound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1899 first edition. 395-page text in very good, tight, clean condition, with no inscriptions. Attractive pictorial cloth binding good and tight, with light edge wear, some fading of edges and darkening of spine. Illustrated. See photographs attached. Weight 606g. (H-11).…

dark blue cloth boards with gilt illustration to front board and gilt lettering to spine xiv + 437pp VG- (moderate wear to extremities, light rubbing, cracking to gutters, moderate foxing).

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. A biography of Edmund Lyons,1st Baron Lyrons and famous naval commander during the Crimean War. First edition. With numerous tissue-guarded plates throughout. Armorial bookplate of 'Foley' to the front pastedown. In a blue cloth binding. Externally quite smart, though with a few marks to the boards and cockling and some wear to the heads and tails of the spine. Front hinge strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are quite bright and clean, with just the odd patch of foxing and some light marginal age-toning. Good. None (illustrator). book. …

, xiii, 437 pages, 25 tissue guarded plates including frontispiece of Lord Lyons and 2 maps, some pages unopened First Edition , spine is faded, a few scratches on the leather, stains from leather around edges of the free endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, occasional foxing on leaves and on fore and bottom book block edges, some edges untrimmed, very good condition. , bound in blue cloth with half morocco binding, raised bands and gilt titles and decoration on spine, gilt top edge of book block, coloured pastedowns and free endpapers , Octavo, 24.5 x 17 cm Hardback ISBN.…

1900 London, hardcover 329 pages. With a fleetlist and a index. Our Fleet To-day and Its Development During the Last Half-Century is a technical yet accessible survey of the evolution of the British Royal Navy from the mid-19th century to around 1900, written by Rear-Admiral Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot. The book traces changes in ship design, armament, armor, and tactics, with chapters on torpedo warfare and recent naval wars, to explain how Britainâs modern fleet emerged and why sea power remained vital to the empire. In very good condition Â.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A greatly revised second edition copy of Captain S. Eardley-Wilmot work of naval history, with numerous illustrations of naval ships throughout. Second edition. In its first edition the work charted the changes and history of naval fleets across the globe, up until its publication in 1890. This second edition, published 10 year later, reworks the volume include then naval systems at the time of publishing, that being 1900. This comprehensive look at the progression of naval fleets explore the development from 'sail to steam, wood to iron', during this period of quick technological growth and change. Written by Sydney Eardley-Wilmot, a Naval Officer and Captain. An interesting look at the history of naval fleets of the 19th century. In a full cloth binding. Externally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and also to the extremities. Light patches of rubbing to the front and rear joint. Front hinge is lightly strained, but firm. Offsetting to the front and rear endpapers and pastedowns. Small amount of loss to the rear endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound, strained in places. The odd spot and handling mark throughout. Very Good Indeed. Unamed (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. Scarce first edition complete in two volumes of Lord Brassey's voyages and travels, illustrated with folding maps. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes. A scarce copy. Containing an account of Lord Brassey's voyages and travels from 1862 to 1894, arranged and edited by Captain S. Eardley-Wilmot. Narrating of voyages to Algeria, Europe, the Suez Canal, a cruise around the world, the United States, and more.Illustrated with four maps to vol. I, of which three folding in colour. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, boards lightly marked, slightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Few spots scattered to occasional leaves. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

(6),343; (6),292 pp. 2 volumes. Octavo. Original pattern dark green cloth. Gilt title on spine. blind decoration on boards. Original dark green coated endpapers. Edged untrimmed. Top edge dust soiled. 4 folding maps. Corners a bit bumped otherwise in very nice clean condition. Uncommon set. Detailed summary of his travels to many places in the world including Algeria, the Suez Canal, West Indies, Austrailia and the United States.…

London: Sampson Low. 1898. 8vo. Original illustrated cloth, top edge gilt; pp. xiv, [2], 437, [2, publisher's catalogue], lithographic portrait-frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous plates with tissue guards after painitngs and drawings, minimal marking to cloth, offsetting from endpapers to initial and final few leaves, extensivve pencil annotations by previous bookdealer to endpapers; a very good copy.First edition of th first full-length biography of Edmund Lyons,1st Baron Lyrons (1790-1858) and famous naval commander during the Crimean War. He contributed largely to the British advancement on Crimea and beyond. He had gone first to sea on board HMS Terrible in 1798 and served the Royal Navy with great panache and intitiative until the end of the Crimean War.…