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$12.00
xxshl99361

The Wreck at Sharpnose Point: A Victorian Mystery


SEAL, JEREMY

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: Picador 2002

KEYWORDS: Morwenstow Cornwall Caledonia shipwreck nautical history travel travelogue

$200.00
1h95/35

Two Years Before the Mast; A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises; Narrative of a Residence in South Africa; Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; The Indicator and the Companion (Parts 1 & 2)


DANA, R. H. & CLEVELAND, RICHARD & PRINGLE, THOMAS & ELLIS, HENRY & HUNT, LEIGH

Five titles by five different authors bound as one, Cleveland is first edition, imperial octavo, half bound, textured green cloth boards, gilt lettering to black leather spine between five gilt stamped raised bands to spine, marbled page edges, marbled eps, 124pp, xii + 123pp, xvi + 116pp, map + xvi + 128pp, iv + 84pp + iv + 93pp, VG (slight fading & chaffing to spine, some light scuffing to boards, light fraying to board edges, light tanning to page edges, some foxing to prelims & terminals & sporadic light foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: William Tegg 1851; Edward Moxon 1842; William Tegg 1851; Edward Moxon 1840; Edward Moxon 1845

KEYWORDS: travel sailing nautical marine voyages South Africa China history

$17.50
xxshn99539

The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, Fastest Women on Water


SUMMERSCALE, KATE

octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate 1997

KEYWORDS: Biography nautical boats

$10.00
xxsho99592

The Romantic Challenge


CHICHESTER, FRANCIS

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Cassell & Co. Ltd 1971

KEYWORDS: autobiography nautical travel

$20.00
xxsho99603

A North Sea Diary 1914-1918


KING-HALL, STEPHEN

Ex library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Newnes 1937

KEYWORDS: nautical history Great Britain Royal Navy , World War One WW1

$8.50
xxshp99648

The Iron Pirate


REEMAN, DOUGLAS

paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1987

KEYWORDS: literature fiction boats nautical

$8.50
xxshq99683

H.M. U-Boat


DRUMMOND, JOHN D.

paperback (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Tatto 1977

KEYWORDS: military Great Britain Germany World War Two Naval nautical

$10.00
xxsib100221

Naval Challenge 1945-1961


GARBUTT, PAUL E.

Ex Library, lacks f.e.p, Super Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Macdonald 1961

KEYWORDS: Military Navy nautical

$225.00
1t23a/21

Headhunters of the Coral Sea


IDRIESS, ION L.

Octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, viii + 237pp, VG (heavy tanning, slight fading to spine, slight bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1941

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian Torres Strait nautical maritime Charles Eaton wreck Jack Ireland Will D'Oyly biography travel history

$8.50
xxsiv101386

The Devil's Triangle


WINER, RICHARD

paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Bantam Books 1974

KEYWORDS: nautical boats Bermuda Triangle Shipwrecks Mysteries

$20.00
2e18a/8

An Officer of the Blue: Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, South Sea Explorer 1724-1772


DUYKER, EDWARD

Ex library, imperial octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark blue eps, xvi + 229pp, illus, VG- (usual library markings, tape staining to boards & eps, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (library markings, light creasing & rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press1994

KEYWORDS: Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne exploration nautical biography history

$42.50
2f34b/15

Nautical Astronomy in New Zealand: The Voyages of James Cook


ORCHISTON, WAYNE

Large quarto, illus black light card covers with French flaps & white lettering, 131pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Carter Observatory Board 1998

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Captain James Cook nautical astronomy history

$50.00
2f34b/20

Yankee Whalers at the Bay of Islands


KENNY, ROBERT W.

Imperial octavo, cream light card stapled wrappers, 24pp, illus, VG- (some staining to covers, wear & tearing to spine, owner's name & address stamp to fep, sporadic slight foxing)

PUBLISHER: American Neptune Inc 1952

KEYWORDS: nautical marine history New Zealand Bay of Islands American whalers whaling

$32.50
xxskg102163

Deep Water Gold: The Story of RMS Niagara - The Quest for New Zealand's Greatest Shipwreck Treasure


GORDON, KEITH

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: SeaROV 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand nautical boats history shipwreck

$20.00
xxskh102179

Sailing Boats of the World: A Guide to Classes


BUDD, RHONDA (ed)

octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Bayard Books 1974

KEYWORDS: transport sailing sports nautical

$80.00
1c21a/20

Merchantmen-at-Arms: The British Merchants' Service in the War


BONE, DAVID W. & BONE, MUIRHEAD (Illus)

Large quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, t.e.g, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 260pp, illus, VG (owner's name & date in ink to title page, bruising to spine extrems, some foxing to page edges & eps, insect damage to lower edge of page 41)

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1919

KEYWORDS: Britain British merchants Merchant navy naval nautical maritime history

$425.00
2c19a/20

A List of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet: with the Dates of their First Commissions, as Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear-Admirals and Captains; and Alphabetical List of the Post Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants of His Majesty's Fleet with


n/a

Ex Royal Victoria Yacht Club library, octavo, red leather boards with green leather spine, gilt decorative rule to boards& spine, gilt lettering in red decorative leather panel to spine, a.e.g, gilt dentelle to eps, patterned eps, 149pp + 207pp, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & boards, red leather title label to spine almost completely torn off, some soiling to upper page edges, Yacht Club label to front pastedown, some staining to eps)

PUBLISHER: M & S Brooke 1805

KEYWORDS: reference maritime nautical naval history

$15.00
xxhic102247

Fastnet, Force 10


ROUSMANIERE, JOHN

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: WW Norton & Co 1980

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical sailing history Fastnet race yachting storm gale

$9.00
xxsjj103781

Collision Course


MOSCOW, ALVIN

Paperback (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1962

KEYWORDS: Shipwrecks nautical history

$24.50
xxgvc105456

The Wheel's Kick and the Wind's Song


COURSE, A.G.

octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

PUBLISHER: Percival Marshall 1951

KEYWORDS: nautical Seafaring life Sailing ships travel history

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