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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1866 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 37 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Published by London: Harrison., 1863
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. 8vo. Pp. 17-23, plus 7 plates, Loose Sections, Good with boards missing. Incomplete: first sixteen pages of text and four plates missing.
Published by [Harrison & Sons] [ca. 1863], [London], 1863
Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark, Svendborg, Denmark
LACKING wrappers. Disbound. Caption title. Good. 11 plates [5 folding] 21x13cm, 23,(11) pp, The first plate is stained. Includes 11 engraved plates, 5 of which are folding. ["Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, C.B., R.N., the son of the Reverend John Coles and his wife Mary Ann Goodhew Rogers, was an English naval Captain and inventor. He entered the Royal Navy at the age of eleven. Coles distinguished himself at the siege of Sevastopol during the 1850s in the Crimean War against Russia. It was at this time that he and other British naval officers and sailors constructed a raft named the Lady Nancy which sported a rotating protective turret. After the war, Coles patented his design for a rotating turret. The Royal Navy began looking at uses for his revolutionary turret design. Several early naval vessels, such as Prince Albert and Royal Sovereign, were constructed or modified and incorporated Coles' designs. He pressed, however, for the British Admiralty to allow him to build a low-freeboard turret warship and in 1866 the Royal Navy finally agreed. Coles became the lead designer for HMS Captain. The ship used most of Coles' design. However, extensive rigging was necessary to make the ship ocean- going. This forced the creation of a "hurricane deck" above the turrets, which raised the center of gravity of the vessel. This may have been instrumental in Captain's tragic capsize on the night of 6 September 1870. Coles perished in the disaster. In 1856, Coles married Emily Pearson, niece of Admiral Lord Lyons. Coles was himself a nephew, by marriage, of Admiral Lord Lyons, his mother being the sister of Augusta, Lyons' wife" - wikipedia]. LACKING wrappers. Disbound. Caption title. Good.
Published by London, Eyre and Spottiswood, published at the Great Seal Patent Office c, 1864
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18 cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London, Eyre and Spottiswood, published at the Great Seal Patent Office, 1866
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
No Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18 cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London, Eyre and Spottiswood, published at the Great Seal Patent Office, 1863
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
No Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18 cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London Eyre and Spottiswood published at the Great Seal Patent Office c, 1864
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
no binding. Condition: good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London Eyre and Spottiswood published at the Great Seal Patent Office c, 1864
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
No Binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18 cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London Eyre and Spottiswood published at the Great Seal Patent Office c, 1862
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London Eyre and Spottiswood published at the Great Seal Patent Office c, 1864
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London Eyre and Spottiswood published at the Great Seal Patent Office c, 1864
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London Eyre and Spottiswood published at the Great Seal Patent Office c, 1865
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by London Eyre and Spottiswood published at the Great Seal Patent Office c, 1869
Seller: M.A. Stroh., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Original Printed patent disbound with printed front blue wrapper present but not the back wrapper (both often lacking in early patents) About 27cm by 18cm some wear and tear due to the disbinding.
Published by Harrison, Pall Mall, London and sold at Griffin, Portsea. (No date, but 1863 penned at lower front.), 1863
Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
8vo, paperback, 23pp + 5 figures + 11 plates. Fair condition only. Good reading copy. Generally worn, spine backing missing and volume has been roughly stitched back together but hinge cracked and stitching has split between plate 8 and p17. Cover chipped along spine edges, front cover ink-stained and generally grubby and marked, 1.5in closed tear to surface of front with 1/4in chip in surface; slight burr to surface where label has been removed at some stage, rear cover grubby and a little loose. Pages age-toned and soiled, some pencilled notes and marks, blue pencilled underlining to last page, some browning to margins at rear pages, bookseller's sticker at lower rear cover. Contents clear and legible. This item is light and may attract less postage. Pictures available on request.
Manuscript. Condition: Good. Three page ALs. Ventnor, Dec 20th, 1867 to his printer/publisher in vexation over unnecessary delays in sending him copies of his pamphlet. Laid down. In 1861, Coles suggested building a turret-ship with low freeboard and heavy guns. The Captain was duly constructed, and commissioned in 1870. Ships and all the crew including Coles went down off Cape Finisterre the same year. WITH . extensive Times coverage of the loss of the Captain, in a series of cuttings from Sept, 1870.
Published by [s.n.] [1860], [s.i.], 1860
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition. 12pp. With four engraved plates (two folding), and three engraved illustrations in the text. [Bound with:] COLES, Cowper Phipps. Our national defences. [London]. Mitchell's Military Library, 1861. First trade edition. 40pp. With two hand-coloured engraved folding maps - paper repair to verso of second. [And:] COLES, Cowper Phipps. Spithead forts. Reply to the Royal Commissioner's Second Report on our national defences. [London]. Published at Mitchell's Military Library, 1861. First edition. 34pp. [And:] COLES, Cowper Phipps. Iron-clad sea-going shield ships. A Lecture delivered at the Royal United Service Institution. [London]. [Printed by Harrison and Son], [1863]. First edition. 23pp, [1]. With 11 engraved plates (five folding) and several engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] COLES, Cowper Phipps. English versus american cupolas. A comparison between capt. coles's & capt. ericsson's turrets. Portsea. James Griffin, 1864. First edition. 11pp, [1]. With two engraved folding plates. [And:] COLES, Cowper Phipps. Letters from captain cowper coles to the secretary of the admiralty on sea-going turret-ships. Auckland villa, southsea, august 12th, 1865. Portsea. James Griffin and Co., [1865]. 78pp. With four engraved folding plates. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'With the Author's compliments'. [And:] COLES, Cowper Phipps. Captain coles's letters, &c., and the opinion of the press on turrets. Madeira villa, ventor, January, 1866. London. Printed by William Clowes and Sons, [1866]. 137pp, [1]. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: 'With CPC's compliments'. [And:] [COLES, Cowper Phipps]. The turret v. the broadside system. [London]. [Harrison and Son], [1867]. First edition. 52pp, [2]. With six engraved plates (four folding). [And:] [Extracts from Blackwood's Magazine, January, 1867, including articles entitled 'Our Naval Defences: Where are we?' and 'The Turret-Ships of England and America']. [Edinburgh and London]. [William Blackwood and Sons], [1867]. 48, 165-288pp. 8vo. Contemporary black half-morocco, marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Armorial bookplate of Richard Benyon Croft to FEP, occasional chipping/short tears to lower margins. A coherent sammelband of eight publications by Royal Navy officer Cowper Phipps Coles (1819-1870) on the contemporary state of England's naval defences and the construction and effectiveness of turret ships. As a young man, Coles saw active service in the Crimean War, and distinguished himself at the siege of Sevastopol. Following his return to England he devoted himself to the study of defensive armour for ships and forts. His research ultimately led to the innovation of the revolving gun turret for shipboard mounting. The turret would transform the design of modern warships in the space of a decade, cementing Coles as a significant figure in the mid-nineteenth century naval technical revolution. In 1870, Coles perished aboard his prototype vessel HMS Captain, when, due to an error in construction, she capsized and sank taking the majority of her crew with her.