Sir John Fleet (9 results)
NAVAL WARFARE: An Introductory Study
Creswell, Commander John/Keyes, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger (Foreword)
Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Company Ltd., London
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Second Edition. (1942) 302 pp. Original dark blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed. Covers a bit bowed. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner's name stamp on front paste-down and title page. DJ lightly soiled w/… wear and light chipping to edges. Approx. 2 3/4" closed tear at top edge of front panel w/ few short tears to rear panel edges. Illust. w/ fold-out maps.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Blue hardback with silver titles to spine, in glossy dust-jacket. 144 x 222 x 27mm. 279pp. A few b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Apart from very minor spotting on top edges, both book and jacket appear almost as new. NB: An extra shipping charge…may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.
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Language: English
Published by H.M. Stationery Office, London, 1929
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. f/piece (photo of attrition testing machine)+ v+84+5 plates (photomicrographs) and descriptions+reports list paginated to vii, corners rounded. Internally very good - clean, tight, unmarked & tissue guards on plates; Yellow cloth on boards covers somewhat worn and grubby, esp.bottom sp.&… fr., with a square dust-shadow on back. Issued by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and Geological Survey of Great Britain as a 'Memoir of the Geological Survey and Museum of Practical Geology'. If you want to know whether to lay Enderby porphyry or Sligo gneiss on your drive, this is the book for you (the porphyry looks the better bet to me).
The Milne Papers - The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne (1806-1896), Volume 3: The Royal Navy and the American Civil War, 1862-1864. Edited by John Beeler. (= Navy Records Society, Vol. 170).
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne / Beeler, John (Ed.).
Language: English
Published by Routledge for Navy Records Society, London and New York, 2023
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Seller: Antiquariat Andree Schulte, Grafschaft-Ringen, GermanyAntiquariat Andree Schulte
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Add to basketLXIII/556 pp., binding slightly rubbed, else very good and clean, text in English, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 original hardcover (no dust jacket).
Published by Fleet Street London 11 September, 1838
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Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Add to basket3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged. Handwriting practice in a nineteenth-century hand on the blank reverse of the second leaf. He 'must beg to correct' Nichols's 'intended Paragraph' (in the Gentleman's Magazine obituary of Sir Richard Colt Hoare) on the question of 'my Father's Christian names'. He has writte…n 'Hugh Henry', 'which must be reversed to Henry Hugh'. He proceeds to give a transcription of how 'the paragraph will run': 'The Baronetcy devolves on his eldest Half-Brother Henry Hugh Hoare Esqr. the head of the eminent banking house in Fleet St. and the whole of the landed as well as personal property is strictly entailed on the Mae Descendants of the Family'. The text featured as a correction in the 'Minor Correspondence' section of the Gentleman's Magazine, October 1838.
Published by On letterhead of the House of Lords Library. 31 May no year but or after, 1944
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Add to basket2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Brooks may make whatever use he wishes of Templewood's speech. He agrees generally with 'Selby as to F[oreign]. O[ffice]. reorganisation', but is at present 'conentrating my attention to the points I raised in my speech. Whether we like it or not, we must now assume that public opinio…n will control our foreign policy. This being so, public opinion must be better instructed than it is at present.'.
Published by 30 September On letterhead of HMS Albemarle Atlantic Fleet, 1907
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Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Add to basket3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with a few light stains from mount. Folded once. Having seen the Times announcement of the birth of Cecil's son the previous Saturday, Jellicoe sends his 'Most hearty congratulations' on the birth of Cecil's son, and is 'so delighted that all is going so satisfactorily & that… you can come to see us on the 14th. [.] My wife will be filled with jealousy, I feel sure.' He will send him 'further details as to joining' as soon as he can 'ascertain from the C in C [Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe (1850-1911), to whom Jellicoe had been appointed second-in-command the previous August] his proposed time of arrival at Weymouth. He is at present attending a conference in London [?]'. He ends his 'best wishes for a very speedy recovery for Lady Adelaide', i.e. Colville's wife, born Lady Adelaide Jane Meade. In a postscript he reports: 'I hear rumours of a command for you. If they are correct please accept my very heartiest congratulations'. The child was Colville's second son, the future Commander Sir Richard Colville (1907-1975).
Published by Sybille Singapore 18 Nov, 1854
Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Add to basketFour pages, 8vo, fold marks, good condition. He congratulates his correspondent on promotion, adding, "We may call you chancellor in good earnest now, and a very respectable title it is too, for a lawyer". He speculates on the consequences of his promotion, suggesting he might eventually become a Bishop (jokingly)., continuing,…"Now I will not write any more as I have had enough of that work today - tho I forgot that I have not written to any of you home people - as I suppose my Father will be abroad again when this reaches. Lotty's [wife?] letter was the 5 Oct. from Minto when you had not yet heard particulars of the battle of Alma - our latest papers give us he details - with the List of killed & wounded, which I confess it was a great relief to get altho it is a long one - We knew a fortnight ago of the action having taken place, & heard the account of loss - amonst which we were told the number of officers was great - and amongst some regiments it certainly has been heavy - We are now told that our troops are in possession of the heights commanding Sebastopol but know little about how they got there or what they have been about since the battle of Alma - but I won't write about that as I have [been] doing so all day, & this is no good in my telling; you know how much I don't know, but I look out anxiously to hear from you & others what you do know. | Collinson [Admiral Richard Collinson] in the Enterprise has arrived at Hong Kong. So I hope we now have back all the Franklin searchers." Notes from Wikipedia: "[.] Promoted to lieutenant on 27 June 1838, he was appointed to the second-rate HMS Rodney in August 1838. He transferred to the sixth-rate HMS Talbot in the Mediterranean Fleet in October 1838. Promoted to commander on 16 July 1840, he became commanding officer of the sloop HMS Hazard in July 1840 and was involved in the bombardment of Acre in November 1840 during the EgyptianOttoman War. Promoted to captain on 16 August 1841, he went on to be commanding officer of the sixth-rate HMS Spartan on the North America and West Indies Station in August 1841 and commanding officer of the fifth-rate HMS Sybille on the East Indies and China Station in May 1853 [.] Elliott became commodore on the East Indies and China Station, with his broad pennant in the screw gunboat HMS Haughty, in January 1855. In October 1856 a small unit of Chinese soldiers boarded the British-flagged lorcha Arrow and kidnapped twelve of the crew so initiating the Second Opium War. The British Consul, Harry Parkes, demanded return of the men, an apology and assurances of respect for the British flag. The crew were released but without any apology or assurances. In response the Commander-in-Chief on the East Indies and China Station, Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, decided to enter Canton. In late October 1856, Eliott led a unit of 300 sailors and marines which successfully breached the walls of the city and then, in early November 1856, he led another unit which destroyed 23 Chinese war-junks in the estuary South of Canton. After that, in May 1857, he led a small squadron of British ships which pursued a fleet of 41 Chinese war-junks at the Battle of Escape Creek: his squadron chased the war-junks upriver and then, once the British ships were grounded as the river narrowed, they chased them in the ships' boats until all the war-junks had been overhauled. Elliot also took part in the larger action, under Commodore Henry Keppel, involving around 100 war-junks at the Battle of Fatshan Creek in June 1857. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 12 September 1857. ETC.".
Published by Three from London addresses: The Shamrock Club 28 Hertford Street; 38 Knightsbridge Court Sloane Street; letterhead of 5 Morpeth Mansions. One from Glaslough County Monaghan Eire Ireland. 2 1948 1959, 1945
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Add to basketThe four letters are in good condition, lightly aged and worn. Each 1p., 12mo. The first three letters are written to Brooks, as editor of 'Truth'; the fourth is a letter of condolence to Brooks's wife. In the first letter (14 April 1945) he apologises for the delay in sending in a review: 'I have been two months out of the coun…try and nothing could be forwarded.' He adds: 'I wish I saw more of Charles Webster. He is one of my very few surviving friends of Cambridge days.' The second letter (5 July 1945) begins: 'News has been so earthy of the earth lately that I think a good ghost story would thrill your readers'. He is enclosing 'a few lines of Introduction', and suggests that Brooks edits the story down. Postscript: 'Put his signature by all means.' The third letter (6 March 1948) congratulates Brooks on his book, and thanks him 'for Stefan Zweig which I will read & review next week'. The last (7 April 1959) is a letter of condolence to Brooks's wife. 'It recalls to me many visits to the offices of Turth. It was always a pride and a please to contribute to columns edited by Collin Brooks. Quid est veritas? will be his epitaph'. Accompanying the four letters is a Typed Letter Signed from Brooks to Leslie, 14 February 1945, on letterhead of "Truth" Buildings, Carteret Street, Quyeen Anne's Gate, London. (There is nothing to indicate that the letter is a copy.) He apologises for 'a breach of etiquette', sends a book to review ('To "Make the page" in any given week, reviews must reach me not later than the Monday this because we have now to print in the country.') He concludes with an enquiry after 'our common friend, C. K. Webster'.
