Books - "nautical"
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Ports And Happy Havens
Octavo hardcover (VG, frontispiece loose); 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: Hodder and Stoughton (date?)
KEYWORDS: travel history nautical ports
The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh R.N., F.R.S.
Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xi + 573pp, VG+ (tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown, owner's name to f.e.p. verso, v slight tanning to eps) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, slight creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1951
KEYWORDS: William Bligh biography nautical maritime history
Alone Over the Tasman Sea
First edition thus, octavo, blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, folding maps, 314pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, slight soiling to boards, light bruising to board edges, v light foxing to eps & folding maps, moderate soiling to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1945
KEYWORDS: Francis Chichester nautical maritime aviation seaplane New Zealand Britain autobiography memoir
Blue Water: By Arthur Sturges Hilderbrand: The Travellers' Library
Octavo hardcover (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: Jonathan Cape 1927
KEYWORDS: autobiography nautical Arthur Sturges Hilderbrand
Journey To Java
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: Constable 1957
KEYWORDS: travel nautical Java ships cruise literary criticism
Designing Small Craft
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: Nautical Publishing 1976
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical transport history engineering boats
The Philippine Coast Guard: Legacy to the Nation: 109 Years of Dedicated and Glorious Service
Oblong quarto, illus boards with lettering to spine & boards, illus eps, Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: (n/d)
KEYWORDS: philippine nautical Coast Guard history
The Safety of Nuclear Powered Ships: report / of the Special Committee on Nuclear Propulsion
Quarto, green light card covers with lettering to front cover, vi + 269pp, illus, VG+ (moderate rubbing to cover)
PUBLISHER: Dept. of the Prime Minister and Cabinet 1992
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nuclear ships nautical history,
William Bligh of the Bounty in Fact and in Fable
Folding chart at rear, first edition, scarce in d/w, Super octavo, blue cloth boards with red lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 309pp, illus, VG (owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims, light foxing & tanning to eps & page edges, folding chart is in excellent condition) in d/w, VG- (heavy soiling, creasing & small tears & chips to edges some repaired with tape inside, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Williams & Norgate 1937
KEYWORDS: William Bligh Australia History autobiography Bounty Ship nautical exploration
A Journal of a Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771
Super octavo, white & beige boards with gilt lettering to spine, 133pp, VG+ (very light soiling to boards) in d/w VG (moderate rubbing, 8cm closed tear to rear cover, 7cm tear with loss & 3cm tear with loss to bottom of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 1967
KEYWORDS: Endeavour Ship nautical Voyages travel Cook James autobiography history H M S Endeavour
I.C.S. Reference Library: Nautical Definitions, Heat, Gases and Steam, Shell Boilers, Water-Tube Boilers, Marine-Boiler Mountings, Combustion, Fuels and Firing, Smoke Prevention and Draught, Marine-Boiler Repairs, Marine-Boiler Inspection
Super octavo, half bound, brown boards with gilt lettering to leather spine, patterned eps, il + 678pp, illus, VG- (front board detached but present, heavy bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate rubbing to spine, light rubbing to boards, light tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to page edges, owner's name in ink written across text on title page)
PUBLISHER: International Correspondence Schools (n/d)
KEYWORDS: engineering repairs nautical technology marine boilers reference fuel combustion physics
Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks
Second printing, quarto, green cloth boards with gil lettering to spine, xiii + 314pp, illus, NR FINE in d/w, VG+ (slight creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Chatham Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: wooden ships boats ship boat building contruction shipwrecks nautical maritime history archaeology
Enemy in Sight!
First edition, super octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 350pp, VG+ (light tanning & very slight foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light bruising to spine extrems, some bubbling to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1970
KEYWORDS: fiction literature modern first edition naval nautical seamanship
Memoir of Commodore Goodenough: With Extracts From His Letters and Journals
Octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine & front boards, gilt illus to front board, green eps, Frontispiece, 223pp + 46pp adverts, VG- (heavy soiling to rear board, moderate rubbing to boards, light tanning to page edges, a small gouge to lower spine, closed tear to spine extrem reapired with archival tape, moderate bruising to soine extrems & board corners, previous owner's name & date to fep in ink, some staining to frontispiece)
PUBLISHER: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1878
KEYWORDS: Royal Navy nautical history autobiography
Jane's Fighting Ships 1985-1986: Eighty-Eigth Year of Issue
Quarto, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 816pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to board, light soiling to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate creasing, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Jane's Publishing 1985
KEYWORDS: nautical military fighting ships history
Jane's Fighting Ships 1975-1976: Seventy-Eigth Year of Issue
Quarto, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, 688pp, illus, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light creasing, light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Jane's Publishing 1975
KEYWORDS: nautical military fighting ships history
Jane's Fighting Ships 1968-1969: Seventy-First Year of Issue
Quarto, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, VG (dust jacket wrapped in plastic glued to boards, light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1969
KEYWORDS: nautical military fighting ships history
Wherrries and Waterways: The Story of the Norfolk and Suffolk Wherry and the Waterways on Which it Sailed
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: Terence Dalton 1986
KEYWORDS: history England wherry nautical maritime norfolk suffolk transport archaeology
Sea Classics of New Zealand: Stories of New Zealand's Yachting Pioneers
Quarto softcover, stapled light card covers (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: Paul Titchener Publications 1981
KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime nautical yachting articles history biographies
The Forlorn Hope: a sea saga of the sixties
inscribed & signed by author, first edition, octavo, blue & brown stapled wrapper, 31pp, VG (moderate tanning to wrapper & pages)
PUBLISHER: Hawthorn Press 1945
KEYWORDS: signed travel forlorn hope ship nautical history