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$15.00
xxcta188195

The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca: His Account of the Disastrous First European Exploration of the American Southwest


DE VACA, ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA & COVEY, CYCLONE (Trans & Ed)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Dover Publications 2003

KEYWORDS: exploration history Cabeza de Vaca European maritime disasters nautical adventures

$32.50
xxctm188253

Conway's History of the Ship: The Earliest Ships: The Evolution of Boats Into Ships


GARDINER, ROBERT (Ed) & CHRISTENSEN, ARNE EMIL (Consultant Ed)

Quarto 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 1996

KEYWORDS: maritime history nautical boats ships archaeology archeology

$15.00
xxcwd188422

Atlantic Four-Master: The Story of the Schooner Herbert L Rawding 1919-1947


BOWKER, Captain FRANCIS E.

Oblong 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Mystic Sea Port 1986

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history coastwise navigation merchant ships schooners seafarers Herbert L Rawding schooners

$16.50
xxsjt188562

Selkirk's Island


SOUHAMI, DIANA & [SELKIRK, ALEXANDER]

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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001

KEYWORDS: alexander selkirk scotland scottish sailor nautical maritime sailing juan fernandez south pacific survival desert island deserted history biography souhami diana

$15.00
xxsjt188578

The Dog Watch: A Farrago of Sea Yarns


No. 47

N/A

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: The Shiplovers' Society of Victoria 1990

KEYWORDS: dog watch sailing ship ships nautical maritime shiplovers' society of victoria sail sea yarns

$15.00
xxsjo188727

The New Zealand Maritime Record: The Twin Screw Motor Vesel MATUA 1935-1970 Story & Pictures


N/A

Oblong imperial 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Maritime Record 2006

KEYWORDS: New Zealand maritime history record twin screw motor vessel nautical

$30.00
xxsjo188728

The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages A.D. 1492-1616


MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1974

KEYWORDS: European history America southern voyages travel exploration Ferdinand Magellan Sir Francis Drake maritime nautical

$25.00
xxezp188910

Before the Mast: Naval Ratings of the Nineteenth Century


BAYNHAM, HENRY

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1971

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical naval history navies 19th nineteenth century

$9.50
xxkda189069

Treason's Harbour


O'BRIAN, PATRICK

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: Fontana/Collins 1985

KEYWORDS: patrick o'brian britain british england english aubrey-maturin nautical fiction seafaring napoleonic wars maritime sailing

$9.50
xxkda189071

The Ionian Mission


O'BRIAN, PATRICK

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: Fontana/Collins 1982

KEYWORDS: patrick o'brian britain british england english aubrey-maturin nautical fiction seafaring napoleonic wars maritime sailing historical literature

$70.00
1c9a/20

Building the Kaiser's Navy: The Imperial Navy Office and German Industry in the von Tirpitz Era 1890-1919


WEIR, GARY E.

Super octavo, grey buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 289pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press 1991

KEYWORDS: military history German Germany marine nautical navy naval imperial industry Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz reichsmarineamt rma

$65.00
1c9a/26

Illustrated Marine Encyclopedia


PAASCH, Capt. H. & MacGREGOR, DAVID R. (Intro)

FACSIMILE EDITION WITH TIDY HOMEMADE DUST WRAPPER, super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 306pp + plates + unpaginated index to rear, VG (light bruising & tanning to base of spine & boards, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, prev. ownership ink stamp to ffep, moderate cracking to some gutters) in d/w- homemade, VG+ (light creasing to spine & edges)

PUBLISHER: Argus Boos 1977

KEYWORDS: maritime marine nautical history encyclopedia encyclopaedia terminology

$175.00
1c9a/57

Sea Gypsy


TANGVALD, PETER

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, beige heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 198pp, VG (light bruising & discolouration to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss, moderate scuffing & surface loss to spine, moderate tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions history nautical maritime sailing exploration Peter Tangvald adventure autobiography memoir

$60.00
1c9a/66

Christmas at Sea


KLEBINGAT, CAPTAIN FRED K. & WEINSTEIN, ROBERT A. (Illus Collected & Ed by)

Oblong quarto, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, illus title page, 105pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy creasing & cracking/closed tearing to spine & edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling/foxing to page edges, light cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1974

KEYWORDS: maritime history nautical literature Christmas stories

$15.00
xxkfa189183

The Set of the Sails: The Story of a Cape Horn Seaman


VILLIERS, ALAN

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy/tatty) heavy cracks to some gutters; 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1952

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history Cape Horn exploration

$20.00
xxkfa189184

Shipwreck on Middleton Reef


BELCHER, BILL and AILEEN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: William Collins Publishers 1979

KEYWORDS: travel writing exploration Tasman maritime nautical disasters shipwrecks Bill Belcher

$8.50
xxkfb189196

Battlecruiser


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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Arrow Books 1998

KEYWORDS: novels maritime nautical fiction literature Douglas Reeman

$40.00
1c27a/3

The Boatswain's Manual


McLEOD, WILLIAM A. & MILLER, CAPTAIN A. G. W. (Revised by)

Octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine & front board, x + 332pp, illus, folding ship diagram, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Brown, Son & Ferguson 2006

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical boatswain manual sailing ships boats

$15.00
xxkkb189591

Flagships Three


BEAN, C. E. W.

SCRUFFY ex-library, reading copy only, octavo hardcover (scruffy); 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Alston Rivers 1915

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical flagships history Australia

$60.00
1c40a/19

Naval Yarns of Sea Fights and Wrecks, Pirates and Privateers From 1616-1831 (As Told By Men of Wars' Men)


LONG, W. H. (Collected & Ed)

REBACKED, INCORPORATING ORIGINAL BINDING, octavo, blu eheavy boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, gilt motif to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, xi + 327pp, VG- (light bruising to extrems, moderate staining to boards, heavy tanning to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims, moderate tanning throughout, pgs 1-16 missing)

PUBLISHER: Francis P. Harper 1899

KEYWORDS: maritime nautical anecdotes seafaring tales navy naval history sailing

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