Commander Royal Navy (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by previous owner. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and uncut edges. There is foxing around the block of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services…

Hb. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Faint dusting of dusty whiteness to green cloth on boards with gilt titles. Spine: very faint sunning; head & foot with thin bumping and mild rubbing. Light bumping to fore corners. Edges: moderate soiling and foxing. Front hinges at half-title page lightly split open with light thin stain…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Fourth Edition. Some notation to first page. Rest of book appears clear. Light age and reading wear. 140 pages. No torn or missing pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Military & Warfare; Ships & the Sea. Pictures of this item not already displ…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Charles Elsden Gladstone (1855-ap.1904), bibliophile, commander de la Royal Navy (HMS Fearless). L.A.S., Sitia (Crète), 17 mars 1897, 3p in-8. Il demande à Durel de lui envoyer huit livres de son catalogue de septembre 1896 et lui donne une adresse à Malte. Seuls deux ouvrages étaient disponibl…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very nice copy of the First U.S. EDITION issued in 1877. No dust jacket. 508 pages, including index. 8 additional pages devoted to Harper catalog of "Valuable & Interesting Works for Public and Private Libraries." 29 Full Page Plates and Woodcuts. Includes original folding…

Card with printed stamp. In fair condition, lightly aged. Central vertical fold line and two punch holes at head. Addressed to 'Dr. B. Guisburg | 18 King's Bench Walk | EC 4', with address corrected in another rhand to 3 Downside Crescent | Haverstock Hill | London | N.W.' Begins: 'Dear Dr. Guisburg, | I wrote you a letter no a…

Condition: Good. Engraved plates [32 including 31 full-paage and half page engraving to pictorial titlepage as listed in plate list] Octavo pale blue cloth with gilt and brown and green pictorial cover and spine on bevelled boards [edges rubbed/corners sl.bumped/plain blue lower cover with some discoloration] All Edges Gilt 359p…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Plates including Victorian photos (as listed). Octavo textured blue cloth gilt spine title in edge chipped dust jacket (tips sl.bumped/jacket with a few creases but nearly complete) 251pp includes index. Neat pencil name to endpaper else V.G in V.G dust wrapper. 1 volume. Hardco…

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Leichtere Gebrauchsspuren. 1. Auflage. Leinen mit SU, Mit 7 Fotos, 5 Karten, Schiffsskizzen und Tabellen. Das Original von Saunders erschien in England, das bis 1945 die Weltmacht war und auf dem Meer sowieso. Da interessiert man sich naturgemäß für Schlachtschiffe und Flugz…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A Very Good First Edition hardback (no date on title page but 1929) in the rare dustwrapper which also, unusually, is in Good+ condition. Blind-stamped red cloth with titles to spine in black. Plain end-papers; other Works by Taffrail (with dates) opposit…

The recipient Eileen Margaret Cond (1911-1984) was an enthusiastic collector of autographs, with the ability to draw a more than perfunctory response from her targets. 1p, 8vo. Good firm signature, 'William Guy Carr', above typed 'Wm. Guy Carr.' On lightly browned paper with nicks and short closed tears to extremities. His Londo…

HMS Gorgon was designed by Sir William Symonds and launched in 1837. Her direct-acting engines (in which the engine's cylinders are placed under the crankshaft), built by Seaward and Company, were the first to be fitted in any vessel. She was scrapped in 1864. 4pp., 4to. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, but wi…

12mo, 2 pp. On Drummond's embossed crested letterhead. Good: on lightly aged paper with corners a little dogeared and slight discoloration along one margin. Small glue stain from previous mounting at foot of reverse (not affecting text). Headed 'General Memo -'. Instructing Randolph 'to conduct all necessary evolutions relative…

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Shipping costs to GB € 30. +++ 2 Vol. set (of 3), consisting of more than 1000 unpaginated pp. (Vol. I) and 192 pp. (Vol. II), typed and photocopied in A4 size (21x29,7cm). Vol. I being "copy No 16", Vol. II stated as "Copy No 1". Vol. I containing (a) expanded terms of reference, (b) General Duti…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. With thin mourning border. Extraction from an album has resulted in some wear to the border at the right of the page: otherwise in good condition, lightly aged. Addressed to 'My dear Major' and signed 'Thos Sabine Pasley'. He is sorry the recipient 'can't come on Wednesday', but he has…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Rare 1st edition 1921 of this classic reference. 307pp.,plates, ills., in text. index. Some wear to spine edge at top and rubbing at bottom, also corners a little rubbed, still overall a good+ copy. Owned by Geoffrey Callender (signature 1921) first Director of the National Mar…

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, very good condition. Text: "A line to acknowledge your stirring poem on the loss of the Titanic which I admire much. | I suppose & hope that the story of the band is true, but it requires some corroboration. | May I make one criticism - Why 'tinselled' heroes- There is something in the pomp & circums…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 29 Full Page Plates and Woodcuts. Large Folding Map in the Front Pocket. First U.S. EDITION. Very clean and tight inside, with the full page plates complete with tissue guards. We, at Coalesce Bookstore, thank our customers and supporters, acknowledging that what we do would not be p…

Hardcover. First edition. This first edition is the author's inscribed presentation copy to Winston S. Churchill. The work is the author's study of naval warfare between Britain and France in the early eighteenth century during the reign of Queen Anne. It was written concurrent to the author's work as a naval history research co…