Donaldson Captain A (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. vi, 80pp, 2 folding maps in the text, 1 additional folding map in pocket at the rear. Light wear to the edges of the covers, small stamp of the Officers's Mess Stanley Barracks on the free front endpaper, otherwise a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardback without wrapper with blue cloth boards with shelf wear, rubbing and signs of use, corners rubbed and bumped. Front end paper removed, heavy spotting to edges and end papers and sporadic spotting throughout. This edition with 2 plans and one map. Plan 2 Battle of Waterloo is missing, Map to rear pocket Waterloo campaign 1815 and Plan 1 Theatre of Operations 1815 still intact, Plan 1 with a couple of pencil marks. Scarce edition, solid used copy showing its age. f1.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING.INTERNALLY CLEAN BUT TORN CORNER BOARDS.MAP PRESENT IN BACK FOLDER Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. ."A guide to the study of Military History exemplified by studies of the Campaigns of Austerlitz, Jena, Vimiero, Corunna, Salamanca, Waterloo, and the Shenandoah Valley." The second edition, revised and enlarged. xxiv, 395pp, 16 maps and plans, 7 of which are in a pocket at the rear of the book.…

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good small octavo 328pp., frontis., b/w pls., Author served under Sail from 1891, rising to captain Liners. Much of Australian interest. Rather worn but a Vg reading copy of an uncommon title.

8vo. 328pp. Original boards in chipped dustwrapper. Black and white illustrations; a very good copy. . First edition. Commodore of the Burns Philp line's memories from the days of sailing ships.

1st edition orig. cloth Nice Copy small octavo 328pp., frontis., b/w pls., Author served under Sail from 1891, rising to captain Liners. Much of Australian interest. Rather worn but a Vg reading copy of an uncommon title.

First Edition. BINDING: Original publishers blue cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine CONDITION: Covers a little worn and with dust stain to top of front cover; The attractive Armorial Bookplate of Denzil Morton Stanley (W. H. Stanleys son) to front pastedown; browning to endpapers; otherwise very good. Size: 22 X 14 Cms. With a Large Folding Map in the Pocket Plus Two Folding Plans (one Coloured) (illustrator). …

Boards. Original green textured boards, front endpaper map, b&w illustrations, pp 156. Some loss (1.5 cm) to the top edge of the spine (15 x 18mm), pages toned, good condition. The SMS "Wolf" was an armed merchant surface raider of the Imperial German Navy in World War I. An authentic record from the log of Captain A. Donaldson of the S.S. Matunga whose crew were captured by the German raider, under the command of Captain Karl Nerger, on 6th August 1917, leaving Donaldson with some officers on the Matunga. The two vessels arrived off north-west Dutch New Guinea on 14th August and at the remote island of Waigeo on the 26th and all usable supplies and cargo on the Matunga were transferred to the Wolf. SS Matunga was taken into deeper water, where the ship was sunk by the Germans.…

1st edition chipped dust jacket Very Good small octavo 328pp., frontis., b/w pls., Author served under Sail from 1891, rising to captain Liners. Much of Australian interest. Uncommon.