Commander Royal Navy (42 results)

Condition: see description. first edition, 8vo, 319pp, original cloth, faded over spine and at edges of boards, corners slightly bruised, text pages clean, good.

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Traces of use. No Jacket. 319 pp. Index. B/w photographs. Maps inside boards. Back faded and upper corner a bit dammaged.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 266 pages. 9.13x6.02x0.83 inches. In Stock.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: 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 staining. 3cm surface split to rear hinge. Light sprinkling of foxing to few only pages. Binding is VG. Fldg chart clean & intact. 296p.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 8vo. Large bold signature - 'Richard F. Phillimore / 1920.', a third of the way down the page on what is clearly the fly leaf of a book. The rest of the leaf is blank. The side of the leaf with the signature is somewhat discoloured, the reverse not so much. In good condition otherwise.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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 displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 57197.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

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 disponibles. [261].

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 map of journey in 2 parts stored the Front Pocket. Very clean and tight inside, with "Numerous Illustrations" (full page plates) complete with tissue guards. Photos are of the actual book being offered.

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 PC this morning, sending it to the Controller of Shipping Office St James' Park'. That being the wrong address, he now attempts to arrange a meeting for lunch.

1p, 12mo. In fair condition, aged and lightly creased, with typed biographical details at head. Reads: 'My dear Henderson, | If you have not made other arrangements we hope you Mrs H & Judy will join our Christmas party for dinner. We shall be a small party, | Yours sincerely, | E R Fremantle'.

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 359pp Lower corner of Rear end papers with pale damp mark and affecting a few leaves of last pages in the lower margin - no printed area affected. The blank verso of a plate at page 304 small brown mark which was also offset onto the facing page. Award label to front pastedown by the School Board of London to Ben Jonson. All pages well bound and tight, paper clean and no underlining or other marginalia. * Exciting victorian travel adventure in Africa. 1 volume. Hardcover.

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. Hardcover.

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 Flugzeugträger, Kreuzer, Zerstörer, U-Boote, Schnellboote und Minenleger sowie die Versorgungsschiffe wie Tanker, Eisbrecher usw. Unverzichtbar, wenn man nach dem NATO-Beitritt Finnlands und Schwedens und nach dem Untergang vieler russischer Schiffe im Schwarzen Meer einen realistischen, historisch begründeten Einblick in die reale Stärke Russlands haben will. Die Tagespresse baut in ihrer Manipulation auf unzureichende geographische und geschichtliche Kenntnisse der Zeitungsleser, Blogleser und Anklicker. Betrifft natürlich auch die Krim und das Asowsche Meer. Für die Ostsee (BALTIK) gibt es sogar eine eigene Schiffsklasse der Sowjetunion. Von Atomraketen ganz zu schweigen. Kl Namensstemp. aVo, Buch innen sauber, keine Markierungen, Ebd. fest; sofort lieferbar.

3 items: Broadsheet 2003-2004 40 PP, plus large folded plate (4 folds) with Fleet List "Surface Fleet / Submarine Service / Fleet Air Arm - Calendar 2005 "Trafalgar 200" - CD "Your Navy Today and Tomorrow, MMIV. Stiff covers. Fine condition. 29.7 x 21.

6½'' x 4ĵ'' Gallipoli stamped flown cover. Member of the P.B.F.A. VICTORIA CROSS AWARDS.

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) opposite title page. End of text is signed-off: Woking, Surrey. 1928-29. 8pp. publisher's Catalogue to rear including listings for Charles Alden Seltzer, Zane Grey and Clarence E. Mulford (Hopalong Cassidy). H&S Yellow Jacket Series. 2/-. Binding is clean and firm and square with dusty top edge. Soft white paper throughout with no damage or foxing seen. Small neat name to front free end-paper. Jacket is more or less complete with very modest wear to some edges and 2.5 closed tear to front lower edge adjacent to spine hinge area - not normally visible. Light vertical line markings and darkened areas to folds. The wrapper has done its job. 20% price reduction now applied.

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 London publishers Hutchinsons have sent on her letter, and he is pleased to learn that she enjoyed her book, and is sending his autograph for her correction. 'I have just had published another book "Brass Hats and Bell Bottomed Trousers" dealing with the thrilling adventures of the famous "Harwich Striking Force" during the great war up to the time of the Battle of Jutland'. He is 'busy right now preparing a companion volume covering the activities of the same Force from Jutland until the end of the war'.

On 11 x 5.5 cm piece of grey paper. Good firm signature, with emphatic underlining, apparently in response to request for an autograph. Reads: 'Richmond Hill / Ontario / Canada. / William Guy Carr / June 13th. 1939.'.

Condition: Fine. 8½'' x 5''. Certified Copy No. 55 of 250 first day Royal Navy cover stamped envelope. SIGNED 'Brian G. Young, DSO Captain Royal Navy HMS Antrim'. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. FALKLAND ISLANDS.

Londres, William & Norgate LTD - 1932 - in-8 - Reliure editeur Percaline verte avec jaquette - 284 pp. + Notes et additions - Livres.

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 with the signature torn away. Addressed, with seal in black wax, to 'Benjamin Sharpe Esq | 19, Fleet Street, | London' (Sharpe's father had been resident partner at that address in the banking firm of Gosling & Sharpe. The first paragraph reads: 'Dear Sharpe, | I have just returned from the Gorgon, and my visit to her has verified the substance of our Conversation on Thursday last. | Her present armament consists of 4 32-pounder (bored) guns & 2 84-pounders (10-inch) on the weather deck. if properly armed she would also carry 12 32-pounders on the main-deck, but she is deficient in these. Her draft of water is about 15th. & 15 . 6 which, I believe, is what she ought to draw if her armament were complete, with the full compliment of men, water, provisions, munitions &c.' The letter continues with detailed criticism, with reference to a trail 'in the river in July last, with Ld Minto & other lords of the Admiralty on bd', the fact that 'her displacement had been sadly miscalculated',an incident on the coast of Spain, her engines and paddle-boards. 'To judge of Gorgon, whether she be a failure or otherwise, she should be tried as an armed vessel, carrying 16 32-pounders & 2 swivel guns [.] We have no more money that we know what to do with - no more workmen than we to keep pace with our wants in the shipwright department - & yet we are sacrificing both to the vain endeavours of adventurers in naval architecture, while there are plenty of persons in the service who might be advantageously employed in preventing the occurrence of these & other discreditable blunders if it were not the fashion to prefer speculative notions to the plain & unerring principles of the of naval Construction'.

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 to the exercise of guns, Sails, Boats - small arm | men landing, & Marines - on acting permission for the same from my Flag as he may find conducive to the instruction of the Ships of the Ships herein named of the squadron [five ships named at end of letter]'. Directions on reports and station orders.

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 Duties, Watchkeepung Duties, Administration. (c) Operation of Machinery. Vol. II contains Flight Deck Engineering. This item is being sold together with a 129-pages--pdf about the H.M.S Ark Royal (photo nr. 4). +++ Standing Orders are orders that remain in force until specifically changed or withdrawn; they establish 'standard operation procedures'. +++ A collector's set, extremely rare. +++ Need further photos and/or information? Just use the ĞAsk Booksellerğ button and we'll be pleased to help.

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 'the best possible reason for not doing so'. He asks to be remembered 'very kindly to your father on that day'. He asks if he can 'come on Wednesday week', as he has engaged a family (illegible) to meet him that day.

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 Maritime Museum. Also signature cut from letter from author (F.Leslie Robertson, Engr Comdr RN) and neatly affixed to title page. Unusual book paricularly as a "signed" association copy 0.0. Signed by Author(s).

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 & circumstance of war no doubt, but leaders in a forlorn hope are heroes all the same; and mere passive resignation to death in which the Chinese would surpass us is not so superior to the courage which induces a man to 'seek the bubble reputation e'en at the cannon's mouth' as you would put it- Excuse the criticism-". Note: I haven't managed to find a Poem about the sinking of the Titanic with the word "tinselled" in it.

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 possible were it not for each of you. Books over 2.2 lbs require additional shipping cost outside US, approximately $40USD ($25USD for Canada).

First edition. Portrait, 16 plates, some coloured. 4to (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches), 85-pages. Original blue and white cloth blocked in gilt. Foxing to prelims. and occasionally lightly elsewhere. A very nice copy indeed.