Wharton Captain (29 results)

Flexible Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green leatherettecover with gilt illustration and title. 125 pages w Both title and illustration are faded. Two previous owner indications; A return to 2nd Lt. F. A. Seymour. written onto front pastedown as well as a stamp of Seymour on back pastedown; second ownership an…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. A Short History of H.M.S. ´Victory´ | Captain W. J. L. Wharton | Taschenbuch | 44 S. | Englisch | 2018 | Outlook Verlag | EAN 9783732652600 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Europäischer Geschichtsverlag, ein Imprint von Outlook Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Zeilweg 44, 60439 Frankfurt, salzwasser[at]l…

, pages 777-874, 2 page of advertisements at front, articles include: Address on the Opening of the Session 1885-6, An Exploration of the Goajira Peninsula, U.S. of Colombia, Report on Admiralty Surveys for the Year 1884 and Letters from Colonel Prejevalsky, A map of The Goajira Peninsula, U.S. of Colombia, Compete monthly issue…

First edition. 8vo. 718 pp. Illustrations. Hardcover binding, red cloth, green and black titles and pictorial decoration cover and spine, very good condition. (100320). A graphic account of the heroic efforts of intrepid and daring travelers and explorers in the land of the midnight sun : an impressive recital of adventures enco…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Chart 70x102cm. Very good, folded, with light creasing. Prepared under the superintendence of Captain WJL Wharton in 1884, first published by the Admiralty on 1 June 1885, new editions to 1917, small corrections to 1969. Scale 1:2,189,000. This also includes quite a lot of land detail, including…

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition - an excellent copy. Cream cloth boards, green title patch to spine. Australiana Facsimile Editions No 188. Black & white plates and facsimile documents (2) & fold-out maps and charts. Robust, professional packaging a…

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. Book measures 27x20.cm. lvi, 400pp, portrait frontis, 6 maps, 2 facsimiles, 2 plates, [ LACKING ONE MAP FROM POCKET ]. Bound in original publishers green cloth, with gilt lines and lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed, abrasion wear on edges, corners. Generally binding in good clean condition. Intern…

lvi, 400 pp. Quarto. Original green cloth. Gilt letting on the spine. Gilt border and signature of James Cook stamped on the front board. Light wear to the head and tail of the spine. Top edges trimmed. Other edges uncut and moderately dust soiled. Some staining and light foxing to the extremities inside the volume. Former owner…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 400 pages. Index. Three maps in pocket at back. Three fold-out maps, the first of these "Modern Chart of South Pacific Ocean" has been cut in half with each half bound separately at page 32. A portion of this map is detached but present. Two fascimile pages of portions from Cook's origi…

4to, hardback, lvi + 400pp + 3 fold-out maps at rear and 2 in text. Very good condition. No dustwrapper. Linen covered boards, green title panel on spine with gilt lettering. Bumped, a few light marks to page edges. Light offsetting to front endpapers, owner's name in label at front pastedown. This item is heavy and may attract…

No Binding. Condition: Fair. B/w chart with red hand colouring 70x103cm. Fair, neatly folded but with two chips to the top left corner, one of which partially affects the image, and some closed tears. First published on 1 June 1885, the latest edition stated is 23 Feb 1917 with small corrections up to 1964, and ms correction dat…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. B/w chart with red hand colouring 70x103cm. Very good, folded. First published on 1 June 1885, the latest edition stated is 23 Feb 1917 with small corrections up to 1969, and ms correction for Jeddah dated 1970. Mercator Projection drawn on a Natural Scale of 1:2,189,000. Coverage extends to Mag…

A literal transcription of the original MSS. With notes and introduction. Illustrated by maps and facsimiles. London : Elliot Stock, 1893. Large octavo, contemporary blue half calf over marbled papered boards (edges rubbed), spine in compartments, ruled in gilt, contrasting Morocco title label, lettered in gilt, pp. lvi; 400; ma…

First Wharton edition. First Wharton edition. Frontispiece portrait, 4 folding map and charts, 4 plates including two manuscript facsimiles, 3 folding maps in pocket at rear as issued. lvi, 400 pp. 4to. Beddie 683. Provenance: W.K. Bixby (bookplate); Missouri Historical Society (presentation stamp from Bixby and a few other disc…

unbound. Condition: very good. Sea chart. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 38.75" x 25.5". Shows the northeast coastal region of Italy, with Chioggia and Venice in beautiful detail. Includes soundings in fathoms and lighthouses are denoted with red and yellow hand coloring. Based on Italian surveys from 1886. Minor chipping a…

Sin Encuadernar. Condition: Muy bien. Rio de la Plata, Montevideo to Buenos Ayres with Archimedes and English Banks : from survey by Captain Sulivan, 1840; Lieutenant Sidney, 1856; Lieutenant Dawson, 1871 and Captain W.J.L. Wharton and the Officers of H.M.S. Sylvia, 1882-3. London: Admiralty,1872. Additions and Correction 1884.…