74592 ADKINS, Roy & Lesley THE WAR FOR ALL THE OCEANS - From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
$25.00 AUD
Little, Brown. London. 2006. 1st Ed. XXVI, 534 PP with 18 maps and plans, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations, including 12 portraits. Eps: Sketches of a 100-Gun Ship of the Line (FEP: Patterns of Sails / REP: Standing Rigging, Masts and Decks). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780316728379
76305 ADMIRALTY BRITISH MERCHANT VESSELS LOST OR DAMAGED BY ENEMY ACTION DURING SECOND WORLD WAR AT SEA 1939-45
$45.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1947. 1st edition. IV, 103 PP with tables and indexes. Soft covers, title on front cover. Occasional foxing, covers lightly soiled, otherwise contents are near fine. 33.5 x 20.8.
3rd September 1939 to 2nd September 1945. 6 lists - Lost by enemy action: Merchant Vessels / Fishing Vessels / Merchant and Fishing Vessels damaged but not lost / Lost by miscellaneous war causes other than enemy action / Casualties to personnel / loss by enemy action each month of the war.
43412 AGAR, Captain Augustus FOOTPRINTS IN THE SEA
$60.00 AUD
Evans Brothers. London. 1959. 1st Ed. 336 PP, plus 32 pages with 1 map and 46 b/w photos. Fp: The Author. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.
Memoirs. Born 1890 in Ceylon, on the tea plantation of his father. Joined the Royal Navy on H.M.S. Britannia... WWI, WWII.
74217 AGAR, Captain Augustus BALTIC EPISODE. A Classic of Secret Service in Russian Waters
$30.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 255 PP with 2 plans, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of the Baltic sea. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Stamps of previous owner at top of front endpaper, front outside page edge and his name at top of title page. Top outside edge tinted. A very good copy. 21 x 14.
Mission on the Baltic in the spring and summer of 1919 to rescue a British agent from the Bolsheviks at Petrograd.
47892 ALLEN, Arthur B. (editor) TUDOR SHIPS AND SEAMEN - The Spacious Days of Queen Elizabeth
$5.00 AUD
Rockliff. London. c. 1960. 1st Ed. Background Book No. 3, in The Rockliff New Project series. 32 PP with 11 figures (4 period engravings and 7 drawings) . Soft cover. Rear cover with small chip. Ink stain on the inside of front cover and title page, o/wise good. 21.5 x 14.
Sir Francis Drake, Sir Martin Frobisher, the Hawkins Family...
45994 ANDREWS, Surgeon Captain O. W. SEAMARKS AND LANDMARKS, being leaves from the log of Surgeon Captain O. W. Andrews, C.B.E., R.N.
$60.00 AUD
Ernest Benn Limited. London. 1927. 1st Ed. (8), 360, X, PP with 1 musical score and 5 drawings, plus 34 plates with 48 b/w illustrations, and a folded map of the Dardanelles and a folded chart of the South West Pacific). Fp: Portrait of the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Faint foxing and light wear to covers, o/wise a fine copy. 22.7 x 14.5.
Pacific Islands between December 1891 and February 1894 (Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Hebrides ...). Dardanelles and Gallipoli landing...
40518 ARMSTRONG, Thomas DOVER HARBOUR
$10.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1949. 5th impression of the 1942 original. 576 PP. Eps: Maps of Straits of Dover, the Downs and town and fortifications of Dover. Cloth cover. Spine sunned. Ageing of paper. Stamp of previous owner on title page, and his signature on half title page. Good. 20.4 x 13.5.
Historical novel, set at the time of the French revolution and Napoleon Empire.
67206 ARON, Wellesley WHEELS IN THE STORM - The Genesis of the Israeli Defence Forces
$35.00 AUD
Roebuck Book. Canberra. 1974. 1st edition. Foreword by Major-General Cullen. Roebuck Society Publication No. 13. X, 196 PP, plus 20 pages with b/w illustrations (4 cartoons and 36 photos). FEP: Map of Eastern Mediterranean Sea. REP: Map of Cyrenaica. Pictorial hard covers, dj. Fine. 25.1 x 18.2. 0909434042
Jewish Palestinian troops with the British Army (Royal Army Service Corps): Egypt, Libya, Malta, Italy.
36799 ARTHUR, Max THE TRUE GLORY - The Royal Navy: 1914-1939
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1996. 1st Ed. XII, 292 PP, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Eps: Crew of H.M.S. Barham. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0340623012
72504 ASPINALL-OGLANDER, Cecil ROGER KEYES - Being the Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover
$20.00 AUD
The Hogarth Press. London. 1951. 2nd Impression of October 1951. XV, 478 PP with 5 maps and plans, plus 10 plates with 11 b/w illust. Fp: Roger Keyes: from the portrait by de Laszlo, 1923. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, price-clipped dust jacket which is in a protective mylar sleeve. Light foxing on outside page edges, name of previous owners at top of FFEP, o/wise contents near fine. 22.5 x 14.8.
Boxer uprising, relief of Peking legations... Gallipoli landings...
Mortons Media Group / Aviation Classics. Horncastle, Lincs. 2016. 2nd edition in the Aviation Classics. Edited by Jarrod Cotter. 132 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781909128910
Special 2nd edition to celebrate 80 years of the Spitfire.
38269 BACH, John THE AUSTRALIA STATION - A History of the Royal Navy in the South West Pacific, 1821-1913
$75.00 AUD
NSW University Press. Sydney. 1986. 1st Ed. XI, 259 PP with 3 maps & 53 b/w illust. Fp: HMS Wolverene. Eps: Boundaries of Australia Station. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 25 x 18.7. 0868403938
Royal Navy in Australian waters since 1821 when it was decided to detach a ship from the East Indies Station.
75456 BAILEY, Lieutenant-Colonel F. M. MISSION TO TASHKENT
$40.00 AUD
The Folio Society. London. 1999. 1st Folio edition, (reprint of the 1992 amended edition, 1946 original). Introduction and Epilogue by Peter Hopkirk. XXIV, 270 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations. Fp: Author as a Russian soldier. Quarter bound, gilt title on cloth spine, illustrated covers, slipcase. Fine. 25 x 17.
Collapse of the Russian Empire in 1918: aftermath in central Asia.
65072 BALLANTYNE, Iain GUIDE TO THE ROYAL NAVY 2014/15
$15.00 AUD
HPC Publishing / Warships International Fleet Review. St Leonards-on-sea, East Sussex. 2014. Special edition of Warships International Fleet Review. 68 PP with colour photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.
72463 BALLANTYNE, Iain H.M.S. RODNEY
$60.00 AUD
Pen & Sword Maritime. Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 2008. 1st Ed. in the "Warships of the Royal Navy" series. Foreword by Commander R. W. Morris, R.N. 304 PP with 9 b/w illustrations (ink drawing, crest, cartoon, photos), plus 16 pages with 53 b/w illustrations (line drawings, sketch plans, portraits and photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Neat ex-libris stamp of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 29.6 x 21. 9781844154067
72629 BARBER, Mark THE BRITISH FLEET AIR ARM IN WORLD WAR II
$25.00 AUD
Osprey Publishing. Oxford. 2008. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings and photos) and artwoks in colour by S. Walch & M. Postlethwaite on covers and on P.33 to 40. Pictorial stiff covers. Neat Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on title-page, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 18.5. 9781846032837
72438 BARKER, Ralph THE SHIP-BUSTERS. The Story of the R.A.F. Torpedo-Bombers
$15.00 AUD
The Quality Book Club. London. 1957. Book Club edition. 272 PP with 1 diagram and 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 35b/w photos. Fp: The men who torpedoed the Lutzow. Hard covers with light wear and browned around edges and spine, top edge tinted. Offsetting of endpapers and occasional foxing. Contents clean and still a very good copy. 20.2 x 14.
Includes the Beaufort attacks on the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the attack on the Prinz Eugen, the June Malta Convoy, Taranto to Benghazi .....
46148 BARTIMEUS GREAT SECURITY
$15.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1930. Popular edition of the 1925 original. (12), 300 PP. Cloth cover, decoration on front board. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages. Renewed endpapers. Very good. 19.2 x 12.8.
Sketches of life at sea before WWI.
48133 BARTIMEUS UNDER SEALED ORDERS. A Naval Adventure
$10.00 AUD
The Children's Press. London. 1958. Reprint. 256 PP, with 4 illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with pieces missing. Foxing throughout, o/wise good. 20 x 14.
HMS Vengeance, Royal Navy and African jungle in the late 19th century
61908 BARTIMEUS MALTA INVICTA
$15.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1943. 4th impression. 32 PP, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Small crease at top corner of front cover. War economy paper. Near fine. 19.8 x 13.
10800 BAUMBER, Michael GENERAL-AT-SEA - Robert Blake and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution in Naval Warfare
$15.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1989. 1st Ed. (X), 284 PP with 18 maps & battle plans, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 24 x 16. 0719547067
Biography of this soldier, turned sailor: actions during the English Civil War, the Dutch, the Spanish in the Mediterranean.
70623 BEAN, Charles THE LIFE & LOVE OF A SEAFARING MAN
$15.00 AUD
Charles Bean. Hobart, Tasmania. c. 2010.. 1st edition, with an introduction by Lorrie Neate. (4), 136 PP With b/w illustrations: 1 facsimile of document and 8 photos. Pictorial soft covers. Spine lightly rubbed. Name of previous owner at top of preliminary page, o/wise fine. 20.8 x 14.8.
Royal Navy during WWII. Migrated and settled in Tasmania.
67306 BEATSON, Robert NAVAL AND MILITARY MEMOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN from 1727 to 1783 - Volume 3
$25.00 AUD
Adamant Media Corporation. New York. 2005. 1st in the "Elibron Classics Replica Edition". Unabridged facsimile of the 1804 original. (4), XV, 448 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Covers have been laminated. Fine. 21x 13.5. 9781402178382
Vol. III: Appendix to Volumes First and Second.
18960 BEAVER, Paul ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE MODERN ROYAL NAVY, including the Fleet Air Arm & Royal Marines
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough, UK. 1987. 3rd Ed. of the 1982 original. 329 PP with maps, plans of ships, diagrams, and b/w photos. Title spread: Ark Royal and Illustrious, in late 1984. FEP: The Sharks in formation, flying the Gazelle HT 2. REP: Ballistic missile submarines. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Photo and part of text has been cut (removed) from the lower part of page 221/222, o/wise very good. 24 x 20. 0850598605
Royal Navy since 1945: organisation, role, warships... Naval equipment, weapons... Uniforms & insignia.
22284 BEAVER, Paul MODERN COMBAT SHIPS 2 - INVINCIBLE CLASS
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1984. 1st Ed., No. 2 in the Modern Combat Ships series. 96 PP with 3 organigrams, 5 figures & 117 b/w photos. Title spread: Invincible with only the Sea Dart Missile System. Half title page: Illustrious after its 1982 deployment in the South Atlantic. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 24 x 17.5. 0711013861
37712 BEAVER, Paul THE BRITISH AIRCRAFT CARRIER
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough, UK. 1984. Second edition of the 1982 original. 240 PP with 3 drawings and 159 b/w illustrations. Title spread: A Firefly landing on the Canadian carrier Magnificent. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 24 x 16. 0850597226
48578 BEAVER, Paul BRITISH NAVAL AIR POWER 1945 TO THE PRESENT
$15.00 AUD
Arms and Armour Press. London. 1985. 1st Ed., No. 33 in the Warbirds Illustrated series. 66 PP with 8 colour and 117 b/w photos. Title spread: Scimitar. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.6 x 18.6. 0853687102
63187 BEAVER, Paul MODERN ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Wellingborough. 1987. 1st Ed. 136 PP with 48 drawnings by Bob Downey and Ian Sturton, 16 colour and 94 b/w photos. Title spread: SSBN Revenge. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on half-title page. Very good. 19.8 x 13. 0850598613
Includes Royal Navy aircraft.
67293 BEAVER, Paul ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE MODERN ROYAL NAVY, including the Fleet Air Arm & Royal Marines
$10.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge, UK. 1982. 1st Ed. 329 PP with maps, plans of ships, organigrams & bw photos. Title spread: superb also known as Super Bee. FEP: Southampton, a type 42 destroyers. REP: Hermes, manoeuvred by two tugs of the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 24 x 20. 0850595606
Royal Navy since 1945: organisation, role, warships... Naval equipment, weapons... Uniforms & insignia.
61697 BELFAST HMS BELFAST - Guide
$5.00 AUD
Imperial War Museum. London. 1982. No pagination, 16 PP with 16 colour photos. Inside front cover: sketch plan on HMS Belfast. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.7 x 16.5. 09018627216
Floating museum, Symons Wharf, London.
48415 BELL, Douglas SEAMEN OF BRITAIN
$5.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson and Sons. London. 1943. 1st Ed. VII, 8-288 PP, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: Admiral Lord Nelson. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Head of spine of dust jacket chipped. Ex library copy with small stamp on title page, and pocket on rear endpaper. War economy paper, foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 15.
Accounts of British Seamen from the days of Chaucer's Shipman of Dartmouth to the men who boarded the Altmark in 1940.
10797 BENNETT, Geoffrey THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
$10.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1978. Reprint of the 1977 original. 256 PP with 23 maps, diagrams & illustrations, plus 8 pages with 19 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24.2 x 15.8. 0870219146
21st October, 1805.
38047 BENNETT, Geoffrey NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1974. 1st paperback edition, in the Grand Strategy series. X, 308 PP with 14 maps and diagrams, plus 24 pages with 54 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (rubbed). Spine creased, ageing of paper, foxing spots on edges. Good reading copy. 19.7 x 12.8. 0330238620
52473 BENNETT, Geoffrey NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1983. Reprint of the 1974 paperback edition, in the Grand Strategy series. X, 308 PP with 14 maps and diagrams, plus 8 pages with 18 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 19.7 x 13. 0330238620
43828 BENNETT, Vivienne (editor) IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM NORTH
$10.00 AUD
Imperial War Museum North. Manchester. 2002. 1st Ed. 48 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 23. 1901623858
Catalogue of this Museum opened in 2002, its purpose and the exhibitions.
19564 BENSTEAD, C.R. SHALLOW WATERS
$10.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 304 PP, plus 18 pages with 28 b/w illust. Fp: The "Royal Sovereign". FEP: Map of the "Shallow Waters", British Isles. REP: Maps of the East Coast of England and of the Orkneys Islands. Hard cover. Ex-library copy with label at foot of spine, and stamp on title-page and its verso. Flap of dust jacket pasted down on half-title page. Three other stamps in the margins, not affecting text. A very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.2.
A maritime history of the British Isles: fishermen, life-boatmen, smugglers, pilots of Trinity House, men of the Royal Navy and the Merchant service...
18238 BERCKMAN, Evelyn CREATORS AND DESTROYERS OF THE ENGLISH NAVY, as related by State Papers Domestic
$10.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1974. 1st Ed. XII, 212 PP, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w illustrations. Eps: Seals. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22 x 14. 241890349
In the 17th Century, the Royal Navy flourished under the guidance of Elizabeth I, Charles I & Charles II, but was neglected under James I & Oliver Cromwell.
38869 BETHELL, Nicholas LE FRONT RUSSE
$10.00 AUD
Editions Time-Life. Amsterdam. 1980. 1st French printing of the 1977 US original, in La Deuxième Guerre Mondiale series. 208 PP with 4 maps, 10 colour and 151 b/w illustrations. French text. Pictorial boards. Few foxing spots, o/wise fine. 28.8 x 24.
Barbarossa. Siege of Leningrad... Winter 1941.
74133 BISHOP, Patrick THE IRISH EMPIRE
$25.00 AUD
Boxtree / Macmillan. London. 1999. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard covers, dj. Small name label of previous owner at top of FFEP, o/wise fine (as new condition). 28.6 x 22.5. 9780752213958
The Story of the Irish abroad.
69620 BLACKMAN, Raymond V. B. SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$20.00 AUD
Macdonald & Jane's. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 104 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Note at top corner of front endpaper. Near fine. Oblong: 15 x 22. 035604596X
Aircraft carriers, commando carriers to auxiliary & ancillary vessels.
20617 BLACKMAN, Raymond V.B. SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Macdonald & Jane's. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 104 bw photos. Illustrated plastic cover. Occasional foxing. Very good. Oblong: 15 x 22. 0356045978
40438 BLACKMORE, Howard L. HUNTING WEAPONS
$20.00 AUD
Barrie & Jenkins. London. 1971. 1st Ed., in Arms and Armour series. XXX, 401 PP with 137 b/w illustrations, plus 40 pages with 151 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Light foxing on outside edges and the first and last leaves. Note on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 15.5. 0257656405
Swords, Knives and Bayonets, Staff Weapons...
10658 BLAKE, George BRITISH SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDERS
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1946. 1st Ed., in the Britain in Pictures series. 48 PP with 29 b/w illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Decorated hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 16.5.
The development of ships, and the people who design and build them.
69609 BLORE, Lieutenant-Commander Trevor COMMISSIONED BARGEES - The Story of the Landing Craft
$30.00 AUD
Hutchinson & Co. London. c. 1945. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear-Admiral Thomas H. Troubridge. 216 PP, plus 16 pages with 16 b/w photos. Blue cloth covers with a few marks and light shelf wear, gilt title on spine. War economy paper, remnants of tape marks on endpapers and a little light foxing. Otherwise, internally near fine. Scarce. Image shows the title-page. 23.5 x 15.5.
75780 BONE, David W. MERCHANTMAN REARMED
$50.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1949. 1st Ed. XX, 332 PP with 1 tailpiece, 16 head pieces and 16 plates (drawings by Muirhead Bone). Fp: Sir David W. Bone. Cloth cover, gilt lettering on spine. Light foxing. Upper and lower edges of covers a little worn/frayed. Copy lacking the half title page, otherwise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
The records of his WWII services: Master of "Cameronia", "Circasia" or landing ships. Convoy duties, troop carrying... The last chapter tells of the repatriation of Australian soldiers, former POW from Changi, to Australia, where the author spent his early days in windjammers.
12453 BONNER-SMITH, D. (editor) THE BARRINGTON PAPERS, Selected From the Letters and Papers of Admiral The Hon. Samuel Barrington - Volume I
$25.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1937. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, volume 77. Vol. I: X, 464, (14 members) PP, plus 1 b/w plate and 1 folded plate on the state and condition of the forts and settlements on the coast of Africa. Fp: Admiral The Hon. Samuel Barrington. Includes a folded table on the state and condition of the forts and settlement on the coast of Africa Navy blue/cream buckram buckram, gilt device on front cover and gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24.2 x 15.5.
Towards the peace of 1748 followed by his various commands: HMS Seahorse, 1748, HMS Crown, 1753, HMS Norwich, 1754, the war with France, HMS Achilles 1757...
65497 BOUTIN, Emile LES GRANDS NAUFRAGES DE L'ESTUAIRE: Le Saint-Philibert, le Lancastria, le Campbeltown et les autres
$55.00 AUD
Editions Rives Reines. Laval, France. 1992. 1st Ed. (6), 245, (5) PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, 1 musical score, facsimile of documents, 8 maps and 23 headpieces), plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Eps: Lancastria. Cloth cover, dj. Name of previous owner at top of preliminary page, o/wise near fine French text. 22.7 x 15.5. 2909191036
Lancastria, 17 June 1940 sunk by Luftwaffe: 5000 to 7000 deaths. HMS Campbelltown and the U-Boat base at Saint Nazaire.
53973 BOWEN, Frank FAMOUS SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Puffin / Penguin Books. London. c. 1946. 1st Ed. No. 39 in the Puffin Picture Book series. No pagination, 28 PP with b/w and colour illustrations by Frank Mason. Centrefold: The Victory at Trafalgar and the Victory today. Pictorial soft cover. Covers rubbed and worn at corner. Top corner of front cover missing. Occasional foxing, o/wise good. Oblong: 18.7 x 22.5.
49843 BOWEN, Frank C. THE KING'S NAVY
$20.00 AUD
Methuen. London. 1925. 1st Ed. VIII, 252 PP with 9 drawings, plus 30 plates with 46 b/w photos by Stephen Cribb. Fp: Hoisting the Colours. Cloth cover, device and title on front cover and spine. Offsetting on endpapers. Foxing, o/wise very good. 22 x 17.
73091 BOYD, Andrew THE ROYAL NAVY IN EASTERN WATERS - Linchpin of Victory 1935-1942
$45.00 AUD
Ridge Books / NUS Press / National University of Singapore. Singapore. 2017. 1st Ed. Foreword by N.A.M. Rodger. XXI, 538 PP with 4 maps and 10 tables, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w illustrations (1 painting and 29 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (mint condition). 23.3 x 15.5. 9789814722667
45767 BOYLE, Vice-Admiral W. H. D. (compiler) GALLANT DEEDS
$15.00 AUD
Gieves Ltd. Portsmouth. C. 1970. Facsimile reprint of the 1919 original. (8), 62 PP. Cloth cover, gilt device and title on front cover. Gilt lettering faded, o/wise contents near fine. 22 x 14.4.
Being a record of the circumstances under which the Victoria Cross, Conspicuous Gallantry, or Albert Medal were won by Petty Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the Reserve Forces during the years of War, 1914-1919.
49084 BRADFORD, Admiral Sir Edward E. LIFE OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR ARTHUR KNYVET WILSON
$55.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1923. 1st Ed. XII, 257, (2 publications) PP with 3 figures, plus 5 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine lightly sunned. Few foxing spots on outside edges and some pages. Name of previous owners on front endpaper. Very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.5 x 15.
19151 BRADFORD, Ernle THE MIGHTY HOOD
$15.00 AUD
Coronet. London. 1977. 4th impression by Coronet of the 1959 original. 224 PP with 1 ship plan, 1 table & 2 maps. Paperback. Very good. 17.8 x 11.
The life and death of the Royal Navy's proudest ship.
68405 BRADFORD, Ernle THE STORY OF THE MARY ROSE
$10.00 AUD
The Mary Rose Trust / Hamish Hamilton. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 207 PP with numerous b/w and 19 colour illustrations (engravings, paintings, photos, plans, sketches, ..). Title-page: The "Henry Grace à Dieu". Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Stamps and markings of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on endpapers and title page. Endpapers reinforced at gutter. Very good reading copy. 25.3 x 19.5. 0241107687
The warship which sank without firing a shot, in an engagement against the French fleet. Her story and salvage.
72314 BRADFORD, Ernle THE STORY OF THE MARY ROSE
$20.00 AUD
Book Club Assoc. London. 1982. Reprint. 207 PP with numerous b/w and 19 colour illust. (engravings, paintings, photos, plans, sketches, ..). Title-page: The "Henry Grace à Dieu". Hard cover, dj. Blind seal of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. . 25.3 x 19.5.
The warship which sank without firing a shot, in an engagement against the French fleet. Her story and salvage.
70418 BRAHMS, Caryl & SHERRIN, Ned BENBOW WAS HIS NAME
$25.00 AUD
Hutchinson of London. London. 1967. 1st Ed. (10), 209 PP with 9 headpieces, plus 8 pages with 1 colour and 6 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Admiral Benbow, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Library stamp on half title page and last page. Slight ageing of paper and foxing on outside edges. Very good. 21.( x 14.
A story of tall ships in battle compiled from literature of the sea and fashioned in a novel.
16951 BROCK, Rear Admiral P.W. & GREENHILL, Basil STEAM AND SAIL: IN BRITAIN AND NORTH AMERICA
$10.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1973. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 80 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing, o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 19.5. 0715359673
Eighty photographs, mainly from the National Maritime Museum, depicting British & North American naval, merchant & special purpose vessels of the period of transition from sail to steam.
65845 BRODIE, Fawn M. THE DEVIL DRIVES - A Life of Sir Richard Burton
$15.00 AUD
Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1968. Reprint of the 1967 original. 390 PP, plus 16 pages with 23 b/w illustrations. Eps: map "The search for the Nile 1858-1863. Cloth cover, title on a vignette on spine. Vignette with title badly rubbed. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Very good reading copy. 22.8 x 14.5.
21942 BROMLEY, J. S. (editor) THE MANNING OF THE ROYAL NAVY. Selected Public Pamphlets 1693-1873
$10.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1974. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 119. L, 409, (7 publications) PP, plus 4 pages with facsimile title page of 4 pamphlets. Blue buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.5.
25 pamphlets: on impressment, Marine Militia... Suggestions for improving the character of Merchant Seamen, and providing an efficient Naval Reserve.
48240 BROWN, David CARRIER OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II, Volume 1: The Royal Navy
$20.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1974. 2nd edition (completely reset) of the 1968 original. 160 PP, plus 64 pages with 136 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0711005125
55744 BROWN, David THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE FALKLANDS WAR
$35.00 AUD
Leo Cooper. London. 1987. 1st Ed. 384 PP with 7 maps and 135 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 16 colour photos. Eps: map of the Falklands Islands. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0850520592
Story of the fleet of vessels (Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Merchant Navy) sent 7000 miles from England to take back the Falkland Islands in 1982.
69629 BROWN, Malcolm, & MEEHAN, Patricia SCAPA FLOW, The reminiscences of men and women who served in Scapa Flow in the two World Wars
$10.00 AUD
Pan Books / Pan Macmillan. London. 2002. 1st Pan paperback edition of the 1968 original. 264 PP with 1 map, plus 24 pages with 41 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Very good. 19.6 x 12.9. 9781405007856
Royal Navy base set in the Orkney Islands. WWI: Battle of Jutland, internment then scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet... WWII: loss of the Royal Oak...
22515 BROWNLEE, Walter WARRIOR, The First Modern Battleship
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Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1990. 4th printing of the 1985 original, in the "Cambridge Introduction to the History" series. 48 PP with b/w illustrations by John E. Wigston (engravings, photos, sketches & plans). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new). Oblong: 20.2 x 21.2. 0521275792
Launched 1860 as a reply to the previous building of "Gloire" designed by Dupuy de Lome as a threat to the Royal Navy. Her brief career (1871-1884), her demise, and her restoration from 1979.
51915 BROWNLEE, Walter THE NAVY THAT BEAT NAPOLEON
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Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1980. .1st edition in the Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind series. 48 PP with b/w illustrations (engravings, photos, sketches & plans). Pictorial soft cover. Covers sunned close to the spine, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 20.2 x 21.2. 0521221455
Launched 1860 as a reply to the previous building of Gloire designed by Dupuy de Lome as a threat to the Royal Navy. Her brief career (1871-1884), her demise, and her restoration from 1979.
19075 BRYANT, Arthur SAMUEL PEPYS, The Years of Peril
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Collins. London. 1952. 3rd reprint of the 1948 new edition, (orig. of 1935). XIV, 466 PP, plus 6 full-page plates. Fp: The Britannia of 1682. FEP: The Thames and Medway. REP: London under Charles II. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing on outside edges, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.2.
The rising Admiralty servant: 1669-1683.
41727 BRYANT, Arthur SAMUEL PEPYS - The Saviour of the Navy
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The Reprint Society. London. 1953. Reprint of the 1949 edition published by Wm. Collins. VIII, 309 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Light foxing, o/wise very good. 18.8 x 13.
The dramatic story of Pepys' second secretaryship to the Admiralty 1683-1689. Voyage to Tangier in 1683, Imperial outpost and African stronghold of the Navy for 21 years, where he realized how decayed the Navy had become,...
54950 BRYANT, Arthur (editor) THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - April 29, 1950
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The Illustrated London News. London. 1950. No. 5793, Volume 216, 29 April 1950. 645-684 PP with advertisements and b/w illustrations (cut-aways, drawings & photos). Soft cover. Near fine. 37 x 26.
Madame Tussaud. The Royal Academy 1950: pictures by Mr. Winston Churchill. Escape from the twentieth century, by raft The Kon-Tiki expedition, by Thor Heyerdahl. Centrefold: A 20-knot Electric submarine. Marine Art at Greenwich.
54952 BRYANT, Arthur (editor) THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - January 3, 1953
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The Illustrated London News. London. 1953. No. 5933, Volume 222, January 3, 1953. 1-36 PP with advertisements and b/w illustrations (cut-aways, drawings & photos). Centrefold: the Vickers Valiant. Stapled soft covers. Near fine. 37 x 26.
Dr. Alain Bombard and the crossing of the Atlantic on L'Heretique. The French liner Champollion wrecked off Beirut, 22nd December 1952. Capture of the second fossil fish Coelacanth. Dr. Hans Hass in the Red Sea...
70698 BRYANT, Arthur & KENYON, Professor John FREEDOM'S OWN ISLAND: The British Oceanic Expansion
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Collins. London. 1986. 1st edition. Volume 2 in the "A History of Britain and the British People" series. (8), 568 PP with 1 genealogical tree and 7 maps or diagrams, plus 24 pages with 20 b/w plates for 21 illustrations. FEP: Map "Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the world". REP: Map "Iberian Peninsular Wars". Hard cover, gilt title on vignette on spine, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 0002174111
Chapter 13 "The Search for Stability", by Professor J. P. Kenyon.
36874 BULLOCKE, J. G. (editor) THE TOMLINSON PAPERS - selected from the correspondence and pamphlets of Captain Robert Tomlinson, R.N., & Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson
$20.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1935. 1st Ed., Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 74. XXIX, 400 PP, plus 2 folded tables. Fp: Portrait of Vice-Admiral Nicholas Tomlinson. Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Pages trimmed. Occasional foxing. Very good. 23.2 x 15.
Essay on manning the Royal Navy without recourse to Impressment. Essay on Timber Preservation.
68498 BURGESS, Douglas R., Jr. SEIZE THE TRIDENT, The Race for Superliner Supremacy and How It Altered the Great War
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International Marine / McGraw-Hill. Camden, Maine. 2005. 1st Ed. X, 296 PP, plus 6 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. . Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Stamps of "University of Tasmania" on endpapers, title page and top outside edge. Rubbed patch at foot of spine. Internally very good. 23.5 x 15.5 0071430091
18135 BURNS, Lt. Cdr. K. V. DEVONPORT BUILT WARSHIPS SINCE 1860
$5.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall. 1981. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 3 silhouettes and 60 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Very good. 20.6 x 14.8. 0950632376
From the Royalist of the Rosario Class, launched 1861, to the Scylla of the Leander Class, launched 1968.
20133 BURNS, Lt. Cdr. K. V. BADGES AND BATTLE HONOURS OF H.M. SHIPS
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Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall. 1986. 1st Ed. X, 11-208 PP with 1 bw crest, 115 bw photos of warships and 187 crests in colour. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 0907771262
Badges covering H.M. Ships in commission, or being built, in 1986.
22798 BURT, R. A. BRITISH DESTROYERS IN WORLD WAR ONE
$10.00 AUD
Arms and Armour Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed., No. 7 in the Warships Illustrated series. 64 PP with 121 b/w photos. Title spread: Kempenfelt, Mounsey and Rob Roy, about 1917. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.6 x 18.4. 0853687536
60681 CAIRNS, Lynne SECRET FLEETS - Fremantle's World War II Submarine Base
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Western Australian Museum & Australian Association for Maritime History. Perth. 2011. 2nd edition of the 1995 "Fremantle's Secret Fleets". 238 PP with tables and duotone illustrations (maps, plans, photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 16.5. 9781920843526
History of the Fremantle submarine base used during World War II by the U.S. Navy, the Royal Navy and the Royal Dutch Navy.
49275 CALLENDER, Geoffrey THE NAVAL SIDE OF BRITISH HISTORY
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Christophers. London. 1924. 1st Ed. IX, 10-305 PP, plus 18 bw plates. Fp: Sir Francis Drake. Eps: The Globe, after the map made by Martin Behaim of Nuremberg 1492. Cloth cover, gilt vignette on front cover and gilt title on spine. Spine slightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Signature of previous owner on verso of frontispiece. Near fine. 22 x 14.2.
Genesis of British sea-power, the Royal Navy...
51172 CALLENDER, Geoffrey THE QUEEN'S HOUSE GREENWICH. A Short History, 1617-1937
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Yelf Brothers Ltd. Newport, Isle of Wight. 1937. 1st Ed. (2), 28 PP with 2 plans and 2 b/w photos, plus 28 pages with 24 b/w plates. Title page: Queen's House. Stapled soft covers. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24.3 x 18.2.
46128 CALLENDER, Geoffrey (editor) SEA PASSAGES. A Naval Anthology and Introduction to the Study of English
$10.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1943. 1st Ed. VIII, 216 PP. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. War economy paper. Very good. 19 x 13.
From: The Coming of the Armada (1588), by Charles Kingsley, to The Navy is Here' (1940), by Winston S. Churchill.
75835 CALLENDER, Sir Geoffrey & HINSLEY, F. H. THE NAVAL SIDE OF BRITISH HISTORY 1485 - 1945
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Christophers. London. 1954. Reprint of the 1952 original. XI, 12-395 PP, plus 20 b/w plate with 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Nelson. Eps: The Globe, after the map made by Martin Behaim of Nuremberg 1492. Cloth cover, gilt vignette and title on front cover and spine. Spine slightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Library stamps on front endpaper and half title page and verso of frontispiece. Occasional foxing, otherwise contents are near fine. 19.8 x 14.2.
Genesis of British sea-power, the Royal Navy...
20580 CAMPBELL, Rear-Admiral Gordon MY MYSTERY SHIPS
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Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1929. Popular edition, reprint in December 1929 of the October 1928 original. XX, 300 with 20 text illust. by Lieutenant J.E. Broome, plus 9 b/w plates (1 plan, 2 sketches & 6 photos). Fp: Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell. Cloth cover. Renewed endpapers. Foxing. Good. 22.2 x 14.5.
Q-ships or decoy ships. 180 mystery ships were fitted during WWI, and helped to destroy 11 U-Boats.
34832 CAMPBELL, Rear-Admiral Gordon MY MYSTERY SHIPS
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Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1929. 1st popular edition in September 1929 of the October 1928 original. XVIII, 300 with 20 text illust. by Lieutenant J.E. Broome plus 7 b/w plates. Cloth cover (soiled). Renewed endpapers. Lacks Illustrations page, frontispiece and 1 plate. Reading copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
Q-ships or decoy ships. 180 mystery ships were fitted during WWI, and helped to destroy 11 U-Boats.
48833 CAMPBELL, Rear-Admiral Gordon MY MYSTERY SHIPS
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Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1932. 3rd reprint of the September 1929 Cheaper Edition, of the October 1928 original. XVIII, 300 PP with 20 text illustrations by Lieutenant J.E. Broome, plus 7 b/w plates. Cloth cover. Spine with a 1.5 cm tear at head and a 3 cms split at lower part of rear hinge. Foxing. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5.
Q-ships or decoy ships. 180 mystery ships were fitted during WWI, and helped to destroy 11 U-Boats.
75965 CAMPBELL, Rear-Admiral Gordon NUMBER THIRTEEN, being the autobiography of...
$40.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1936. Reprint of 1932 1st edition. (2), 352 PP, plus 16 plates with 19 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of Gordon Campbell. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine., price-clipped dust jacket. Light foxing on outside edges, small neat stamp of previous owner on FFEP and title-page, otherwise contents are near fine. Scarce with the dust jacket. 23.2 x 15.
48859 CAMPBELL, Vice-Admiral Gordon MY MYSTERY SHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1937. 13th edition of the 1928 original, with a foreword by Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly. 219 PP with 17 illustrations by Lieutenant J.E. Broome. Cloth cover. Spine sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages. Good. 18 x 12.
Q-ships or decoy ships. 180 mystery ships were fitted during WWI, and helped to destroy 11 U-Boats.
30120 CAPPER, D. P. MOAT DEFENSIVE - A History of the Waters of the Nore Command 55 BC to 1961
$10.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1963. 1st Ed. XI, 251 PP with 2 drawings and 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illust. Vignette on title page. Eps: A prospect of Chatham Dock. Hard cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5..
Published at the time of the closing of the Nore Command (South East corner of England).
40539 CAPPER, D. P. MOAT DEFENSIVE - A History of the Waters of the Nore Command 55 BC to 1961
$15.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1963. 1st Ed. XI, 251 PP with 2 drawings and 8 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w illust. Vignette on title page. Eps: A prospect of Chatham Dock. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped and a few chips). Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5..
Published at the time of the closing of the Nore Command (South East corner of England).
76308 CARR, William Guy BY GUESS AND BY GOD, The Story of the British Submarines in the War
$15.00 AUD
Hutchinson & Co. London. 1934?. Paperback edition in the "Hutchinson Pocket Library" series, (55th Thousand). Preface by Admiral S.S. Hall. XII, 13-252, (4 publications) PP. Soft covers, dj. Dust jacket with chipped spine. Ageing of paper. Discreet stamp of previous owner at top of title page. Very good condition. 18 x 11.
Early actions of the E-14 and E-11 in the Sea of Marmora... to the end of WWI.
40511 CHACK, Paul LA ROUTE DES INDES SAUVEE PAR LA FRANCE
$10.00 AUD
Les Editions de France. Paris. 1937. 1st Ed., in the Marins à la Bataille series. (4), 122 PP with 2 maps and 12 drawings by Haffner. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, few foxing spots on edges. Very good. French text. 19 x 14.
In February 1915, the guns of 2 French warships Requin and d'Entrecasteaux repelled an attack by Turkish forces on the Suez Canal (The Way to India).
35206 CHATTERTON, E. Keble BATTLES BY SEA
$10.00 AUD
EP Publishing. London. 1975. Republication of the 1925 original. XV, 271 PP with 1 map, and 1 battle plan, plus 32 b/w plates. Fp: H.M.S. Invincible. Hard cover, simile velum, dj (price clipped). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0715810774
Battles of the Galley period, the Sailing-Ship period, and the age of Steam.
42618 CHATTERTON, E. Keble THE BIG BLOCKADE
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Hurst & Blackett. London. c. 1934. Reprint (6th thousand) of the 1932 original. X, 11-287 PP with 3 maps, plus 1 colour plate and 16 b/w plates with 28 photos. Fp (in colour): Engagement between H.M.S. Alcantara and S.M.S Greif, painting by Charles Dixon. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges, occasional foxing in text, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.5.
42619 CHATTERTON, E. Keble GALLANT GENTLEMEN
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Hurst & Blackett. London. 1934. 6th impression of the 1931 original. 296 PP with 1 plan, 1 sketch, 4 maps, plus 16 b/w plates with 31 photos. Fp: After the Falklands Battle. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, occasional foxing in text, o/wise a near fine copy. 22 x 14.5.
44162 CHATTERTON, E. Keble GALLANT GENTLEMEN
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Hurst & Blackett. London. 1934. 6th impression of the 1931 original. 296 PP with 1 plan, 1 sketch, 4 maps, plus 16 b/w plates with 31 photos. Fp: After the Falklands Battle. Cloth cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Spine sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges, occasional foxing in text, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.5.
49075 CHATTERTON, E. Keble BATTLES BY SEA
$15.00 AUD
Sidgwick and Jackson. London. 1925. 1st Ed. XV, 271 PP with 1 map and 1 battle plan, plus 32 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Very little foxing. Near fine. 21.4 x 15.
Battles of the Galley period, the Sailing-Ship period, and the age of Steam.
49227 CHATTERTON, E. Keble VALIANT SAILORMEN
$15.00 AUD
Hurst & Blackett. London. 1936. Reprint, 7th thousand. X, 11-287 PP with 1 map, plus 16 plates with 29 b/w photos. Fp: Hero of the Hurricane, Captain D.L.C. Evans of the S.S. Phemius. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22 x 14.
40433 CHERRY, Commander A. H. YANKEE R.N. - Being the story of a Wall Street Banker who voluntered for active duty in the Royal Navy before America came into war
$15.00 AUD
Jarrolds. London. 1954. 7th reprint in December 1954 of the June 1951 original. 544 PP with 3 b/w illustrations, plus 32 b/w plates. Fp: I join the Royal Navy. FEP: Map of the North Atlantic Ocean. REP: Map of the south part of the North Sea. Cloth covers with wear around edges and extremities of spine, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on a faded spine, top edge tinted. Signature of previous owner at top of title-page, o/wise contents clean and still a very good copy. 23.6 x 16.5.
65018 CHESNEAU, Roger & RIMELL, Ray SEA HARRIER - British Aerospace Sea Harrier FRS MK 1
$20.00 AUD
Linewrights Ltd Publication. Chipping Ongar, Essex. 1984. 1st Ed. No. 3 in the Aeroguide series. 32 PP with 69 b/w photos and 9 line drawings and colour profile by Steve Archibald. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29/7 x 21. 0946958025
10822 CHILDERS, Colonel Spencer (editor) A MARINER OF ENGLAND - An Account of the Career of William Richardson from Cabin Boy in the Merchant Service to Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy [1780 to 1819] as told by Himself
$20.00 AUD
Conway / United States Naval Institute. London / Annapolis. 1970. New impression of the 1908 original. XVI, 317 PP. Fp: Basque roads, 12 April 1809. Eps: Fight between Formidable and Caesar. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, dj (spine sunned). Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.8 x 14.5. 0870218468
Slave trade, war in the Indian Ocean and the West Indies. Lisbon and the Peninsular War.
75698 CHILDERS, Erskine THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS - A record of Secret Service Recently Achieved
$30.00 AUD
Macmillan. London. 2008. 1st edition in the Macmillan Collector's Library series of the 1903 original. Afterword by Ned Halley. 397, (3) PP with 1 "rough sketch", 2 drawings and 4 maps on double page. Illustrated endpapers, gilt edges and ribbon page marker. Cloth cover, bespoke illustrated front cover, dj. Fine. 15.6 x 10. 9781509843152
Spying and small boat cruising in the South East of the North Sea, a decade before the Great War.
72871 CLARK, Alan THE FALL OF CRETE
$15.00 AUD
Cassell Military Paperbacks. London. 2001. 1st paperback edition of the 1962 original. 211 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 19.7 x 12.8. 9780304353484
72411 CLEUGH, James CAPTAIN THOMAS JOHNSTONE 1772-1839 - Smuggler's Reach
$45.00 AUD
Andrew Melrose. London. 1955. 1st Ed. No. 2, in The Rogues Gallery series. 318 PP, plus 24 PP with 23 old engravings. Fp: View of the Ton & Harbour of Portsmouth in Hamlpshire. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with small tears (repaired), now in a protective sleeve. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 23.2 x 16.
74337 CLINKER KNOCKER "AYE, AYE, SIR" - A Saga of the Lower Deck
$150.00 AUD
Rich & Cowan, Ltd. London. c. 1935. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas J. Spence Lyne. X, 310 PP, plus 15 plates with b/w photos. Fp: A Stokehold in Pre-War Days. Blue cloth cover faded, gilt title on faded spine. Front gutter a little shaky and reinforced. Faint discreet name and address stamp of previous owner at top of FFEP, minimal foxing around edges. A very good clean copy of a scarce title. Image shows Frontispiece and title-page. 22 x 14.
25 years at sea: Merchant Navy: Joined the S.S. Tokio, of Wilson Line in 1908... Service in the Royal Navy up to 1920?... Return to the Merchant Navy: on "Port Caroline" to New Zealand. ... Reservist with Royal Canadian Navy.
71578 COLEMAN, Lieutenant E.C. R.N. THE ROYAL NAVY IN LINCOLNSHIRE
$20.00 AUD
Richard Kay. Lincolnshire. 1992. 1st Ed. ix, 82 PP with 78 b/w illust. Fp: Edward Fiennes Clinton - Lord High Admiral. Hard cover, dust jacket. Dedicatory note, signed by the author on title page. A near fine copy. 27 x 18.8. 0902662996
56646 COLLEDGE, J. J. SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY: An Historical Index - Volume 1: Major Ships (Excluding Trawlers, Drifters, Tugs, Etc.)
$20.00 AUD
David & Charles. London. 1969. 1st Ed. 624 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Newspaper clipping tipped in on front endpaper. Dust jacket rubbed. Faint foxing. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 071534353X
Covers about 13,000 ships. From "Abelard Submarine 1945 "A" Class, Portsmouth Dockyard, to "Zulu" Frigate, 2300 Tons ..
74440 COLLINS, John & DODDS, James RIVER COLNE SHIPBUILDERS - A Portrait of Shipbuilding 1786-1988
$65.00 AUD
Jardine Press Ltd. London. 2009. 1st paperback edition. Foreword by Richard Woodman. (X), 314 PP with 6 headpieces (map of the River Colne) and over 170 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. 2 light creases on spine, o/wise fine. 32 x 24. 9780955203589
39140 COOK, Graeme NONE BUT THE VALIANT - Stories of War at Sea
$10.00 AUD
Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 154 PP, plus 16 pages with 1 painting and 26 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Small felt mark at top of front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 13.7. 0246105399
Submarine Patrol. U-Boat Attack... Raider at Large... Raid on St Nazaire...
70413 CORBETT, Sir Julian S. NAVAL OPERATIONS - History of the Great War based on Official Documents - Volume II
$20.00 AUD
Naval & Military Press & The Imperial War Museum. London. c. 2009. Paperback reprint of the 2nd edition of 1929. XII, 448 PP with 2 maps "Gallipoli, the southern beaches" in text, plus16 plates (5 of them on double page). Pictorial soft cover. Front cover with a crease. 5 pages with some hightlighting of text. Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 23.5 x 15.5 1843424908
53690 CORNISH, John B. (editor) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CORNISH SMUGGLER (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809
$15.00 AUD
D. Bradford Barton Ltd. Truro, Cornwall. 1971. Reprint of the 1894 edition. XXII, 103 PP with a map English Channel on double page. Fp: Bessie's Cove from the Enez Point. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 18.5 x 12.
40607 CORNISH, Richard, FENTON, Roy, LOUGHRAN, Louis, OSBORNE, Richard, PEIN, Joachim & SPONG, Harry FIFTY DYNAMIC YEARS
$10.00 AUD
World Ship Society. Gravesend. 2000. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 72 b/w photos of ships and 24 colour illustrations of Flags and Funnels. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0905627940
Fifty years with the World Ship Society. Clipped wings: British aircraft carrier development 1947-1999 by Richard Osborne... Plus ça change: Fifty years of fashions in Flags and Funnels by J.l. Loughran... Cargo ships: The Blue Funnel experience Post War, by Robert Cornish...
22872 COSTELLO, J. & HUGHES, Terry THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
$5.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1977. 1st Ed. (6), 314 PP with b/w illust. (maps, photos, tables). Title-page: Convoy. FEP: Mappemonde of WWII. REP: Type VIIc U-Boat. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Sellotape marks on endpapers, and stamp of previous owner on title page. Very good. 26 x 19.6. 021604810
The battle which spanned all the war years in European waters.
Kelsey Publishing / Aeroplane Magazine. Cudham, Kent.. 2013. 1st edition. 132 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos), plus a large folded plate with 2 plans (scale1:144). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781907426520
64330 COURTNEY, Nicholas GALE FORCE 10 - The Life and Legacy of Admiral Beaufort 1774-1857
$10.00 AUD
Review. London. 2002. 1st edition. XII, 340 PP with 2 maps and 10 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 3 b/w and 14 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 19.7 x 13. 0747272107
Hydrographer of the Navy for 26 years, who gave the world the Beaufort Scale.
65774 CRABBE, Raoul LES GRANDES HEURES DE LA ROYAL NAVY
$20.00 AUD
Les Oeuvres, Ad. Goemaere, editeur. Bruxelles. 1946. 1st Ed. 478 PP with 2 tables and 13 battle plans, plus 16 plates with 24 b/w illustrations (2 engravings and 22 photos). Card covers a little cocked, illustrated front. Spine and back cover soiled. Light ageing of paper and foxing. Very good. French text. 21.5 x 13.7.
History of the Royal Navy
73955 CREASY, John (compiler & editor) ACTION STATIONS ! - An Account of H.M.S. Dorsetshire, and her earlier namesakes
$100.00 AUD
H.M.S. Dorsetshire Replacement Campaign Committee. London. c.1943. 1st Ed. Tribute by Captain A.W.S. Agar, her last Commanding Officer, Foreword by the Earl of Shaftesbury. 36 PP with 10 b/w illustrations: 1 painting and 9 photos. Soft wrappers, pictorial front. Front cover with a rubbed patch, staples removed. Contents very good. Scarce. 21.5 x 14.
Sinking of the German Cruiser Bismark. ... Her loss in the Indian Ocean.
22656 CREE, Edward H. THE CREE JOURNALS, The Voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R.N. as Related in his Private Journals 1837-1856
$35.00 AUD
Webb & Bower. Exeter, UK. 1981. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Michael Levien. 276 PP with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Edward Hodges Cree. Eps: Chart of South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin. Hard cover, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24 x 19. 0906671361
Personal narrative of Dr. Edward H. Cree, recording his cruises between 1837 & 1856: Notebook & sketch book.
17172 CREIGHTON, Rear-Admiral Sir Kenelm CONVOY COMMODORE
$45.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1956. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet, The Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope. 205, (3 adv.) PP, plus 6 pages with 12 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of Rear-Admiral Sir Kenelm Creighton. Eps: Maps of the approaches to Newfoundland and to the British isles. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, nice dust jacket. A little light foxing, o/wise contents near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.
Five years after his retirement, called back by the Admiralty for service as Commodore of ocean convoys.
20533 CRITCHLEY, Mike SILVER JUBILEE REVIEW 24-29 JUNE 1977, H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH II
$10.00 AUD
Author. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 88 PP with 2 maps on double page, 7 badges and 80 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (front cover: D 80. Back cover: a Sea Harrier and a Lynx helicopter). Covers lightly rubbed. Very good. 21 x 15.
The Jubilee Review of the Fleet, 24-29 June 1977.
39778 CRITCHLEY, Mike BRITISH WARSHIPS & AUXILIARIES (1985/86 Edition)
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. 1985. 1st Ed. 112 PP with tables, silhouettes, 8 colour & 93 b/w photos. Title page: RFA Blue Rover. Pictorial soft cover. Outside edges lightly soiled. Very good. 21 x 14.8. 0907771157
Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service, Army Vessels and Fleet Air Arm.
62746 CRITCHLEY, Mike BRITISH WARSHIPS SINCE 1945 - Part 1: Major Ships
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. c.1985. Reprint. Introduction by Admiral Sir Guy Grantham. 104 PP with tables, and 58 b/w photos. Title page: H.M.S. Rodney. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0950632341
Battleships, aircraft carriers, aircraft maintenance ships, cruisers and monitors.
68064 CRITCHLEY, Mike BRITISH WARSHIPS & AUXILIARIES (1984/5 edition)
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. 1983. 1st Ed. 112 PP with tables, silhouettes, 12 colour & 93 b/w photos. Title page: RFA Blue Rover. Pictorial soft cover. Outside edges lightly soiled. Very good. 21 x 14.8. 0907771092
Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service, Army Vessels and Fleet Air Arm.
70011 CRITCHLEY, Mike BRITISH WARSHIPS SINCE 1945, (Part 2)
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. 1981. 1st edition, introduced by Vice-Admiral Sir John Roxburgh. 104 PP with tables, and 50 b/w photos. Title page: H.M. Submarine. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.8. 0950632368
Submarines, Submarine Depot Ships, Depot Ships and Maintenance/Repairs Ships.
18914 CRITCHLEY, Mike (editor) THE ROYAL NAVY IN FOCUS 1960-69
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall, UK. 1985?. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 158 b/w photos on full page. Title page: HMS Abdiel, November 1967. Pictorial card cover. Fine. Oblong: 17.7 x 24. 0907771335
Photographs by Messrs. Wright & Logan, with short caption. From HMS Abdiel, to RFA Wave Ruler.
59196 CROWE, Russell and WEIR, Peter MASTER AND COMMANDER: The Far Side of the World
$40.00 AUD
Fox Promotional. Los Angeles. 2003. No pagination, 24 PP with 1 b/w portrait of Patrick O'Brian and 26 colour photos. Inside front covers: Captain Jack Aubrey is the Master of the ship and the Commander of the men. Inside back covers: lists of the Key Cast and the Key Crew. Pictorial soft cover. Contained in a protecting folder. Fine. Oblong 29.5 x 37.
The movie.
75092 DALLAS BRETT, R. HISTORY OF BRITISH AVIATION 1908-1914 - Volume I
$25.00 AUD
Aviation Book Club. London. c. 1930. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Right Honourable Sir Philip Sassoon, Bart. 216 PP, plus 36 pages with b/w illustrations (9 diagrams and 29 photos). Fp: Mr Henry Farman, the Anglo-French Designer, Constructor and Pilot. Cloth cover, title on spine. Head and foot of spine sunned on 2.5 cms. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Contents near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22 x 14.5.
70921 DARMAN, Pete, EVANS, Deborah ... (editors) WORLD WAR II - The Battle of Britain and the Blitz
$10.00 AUD
The Brown Reference Group Ltd. London. 2010. 1st edition. 96 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.8 x 21.3. 9781840443257
60303 DAVENPORT ADAMS, W. H. FAMOUS SHIPS OF THE BRITISH NAVY; or, Stories of Enterprise and Daring collected from our Naval Chronicles, and an appendix on iron-clad ships by N. Barnaby
$35.00 AUD
James Hogg. London. 1863. 1st Ed. XIV, 15-316, (4 publications) PP with 9 b/w illustrations, plus 7 b/w plates (Drake, Blake, Anson, Collingwood, Broke, Jarvis, Nelson). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, all edges gilt. Covers rubbed and worn. Renewed endpapers. Good reading copy. 17.5 x 12.
12067 DAVIS, Ralph ENGLISH MERCHANT SHIPPING AND ANGLO-DUTCH RIVALRY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
$30.00 AUD
HMSO / National Maritime Museum. London. 1975. 1st Ed. (4), 36 PP with 24 b/w illustrations (charts, paintings ...). FEP: Dutch whale ships in the Arctic. REP: Fitting out. Stiff covers, Illustrated front cover. Fine. Oblong: 18.2. x 24.2. 0118807617
England's maritime expansion. The ships, the seamen, the politics.
46762 DAVISON, Julian TURNING THE TIDE. British Naval Engagements during the Napoleonic Era
$10.00 AUD
Antiques of the Orient. Singapore. 1994. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 14 b/w illustrations (3 portraits and 11 paintings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 9810055773
An Introductory Essay to an Exhibition and Sale of hand-coloured aquatints from James Jenkins: The Naval Achievements of Great Britain from the Year 1793-1817.
46463 DAWSON, C. M. ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, GREENWICH
$5.00 AUD
Photo Precision Ltd. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 12 PP with 1 b/w illustration (The Royal Naval College Coat of Arms), and 7 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Small format: 18.2 x 14.
63588 DE BEAUPLAN, Robert & SORBETS, Gaston S.M. GEORGE V, Roi du Royaume-Uni de la Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande, Empereur des Indes, mort dans la nuit du 20 au 21 Janvier 1936 (in L'ILLUSTRATION, Journal Hebdomadaire Universel - No. 4847, 25 January 1936)
$10.00 AUD
L'illustration. Paris. 1936. VIII, 84-112, IX-XVI PP. Contains article beteen pages 84 A and 84 H (8 pages) with 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. French text. Large format: 37.5 x 28.
Death of King George V, 20/21 January 1936. Same issue: Death of Rudyard Kipling, by Aldéric Cahuet and J. Coudurier de Chassaigne. Navies of the USA and Japan, by Raymond Lestonnat. Military Operations in Ethiopia: 1 map, 7 b/w photos and 11 illustrations by Geo Ham (3 b/w and 8 in colour).
36338 DE CHAIR, Admiral Sir Dudley THE SEA IS STRONG
$5.00 AUD
Harrap. London. 1961. 1st Ed. 248 PP with 3 facsimiles of letters and 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illust. Fp: Portrait of Vice-Admiral Dudley de Chair, 1936. Hard cover. Renewed endpapers, few foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.5 x 14.2.
Autobiography: Naval Secretary in 1913... Governor of NSW from 1923 to 1930...
53776 DE LA CROIX, Robert JOHN PAUL JONES
$10.00 AUD
Frederick Muller. London. 1962. 1st UK edition, translated from the 1960 French original by Edward Fitzgerald. 222 PP. Fp: Portrait of J.P. Jones. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Very good. 20.2 x 13.2.
One of the greatest figures in American naval history.
73476 DE MARIGNY, Alfred & HERSKOWITZ, Mickey A CONSPIRACY OF CROWNS
$25.00 AUD
Bantam Press. London. 1990. 1st Ed. X, (2), 308 PP, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, git title on spine, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16.5. 9780593015360
The true story of the Duke of Windsor and the murder of Sir Harry Oakes.
36070 DEAR, Ian MARINES AT WAR
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 20 maps and plans, and 174 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Fine. 29.8 x 22. 0711011478
Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima... Walcheren.
53002 DEWING, Michael & BATCHELOR, Chris (editors) MARITIME ENGLAND
$10.00 AUD
The English Tourist Board. London. c. 1982. 1st Ed. 68 PP with 9 maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
How to enjoy England's colourful Maritime Heritage. Beside the seaside. Nelson and the Royal Navy. Brunel and shipbuilding... Inland waterways.
69313 DICKENS, Admiral Sir Gerald (compiler) THE DRESS OF THE BRITISH SAILOR
$15.00 AUD
Trustees of the National Maritime Museum / HMSO. London. 1977. 2nd edition of the 1957 original. 24 PP with 6 colour and 30 b/w illustrations. Inside covers: colour photos of Ordinary Seamen and Non Commissioned Officers. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner at top corner of front cover. Near fine. 19.8 x 21. 0118814001
72875 DICKENS, Captain Peter NIGHT ACTION - MTB Flotilla at War
$20.00 AUD
Seaforth Publishing. Barnsley, UK. 2008. 1st Seaforth paperback edition of the 1974 original. Introduction by Captain Trevor Robotham. XIII, 242 PP with 1 map on double page and 25 maps of operations, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on preliminary page. Near fine. 19.8 x 11.7. 9781848320123
Account of a young naval officer in charge of the 21st Flotilla of motor torpedo-boats.
76309 DIMBLEBY, Jonathan THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC - How the Allies won the War
$15.00 AUD
Penguin Books. London. 2016. Soft cover edition of the 2015 original. XXX, 530 PP with 5 maps (1 on double page, plus 24 pages with 40 b/w illustrations (1 poster, 7 portraits and 32 photos). Pictorial soft covers with light wear otherwise near fine. 19.7 x 12.8. 9780972106241
74932 Directorate of Naval Staff Studies THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BRITISH MARITIME DOCTRINE - BR 1806
$25.00 AUD
The Defence Council / HMSO. London. 1996. 2nd impression of the 1995 original. Foreword by Admiral Sir Jock Slater. 256 PP with 9 head pieces with colour, organization charts and 54 b/w photos. Stiff covers (laminated), pictorial front. Sticker of previous owner inside front cover, o/wise near fine. 21 x 14.8.. 011772470X
Security and Defence policy ... to Maritime Combat Capablities. Pages 197 to 241: Glossary from Access ... to Work Up
76280 Directorate of Public Relations (Royal Navy) THE ROYAL NAVY TODAY: Its ships, aircraft and missiles
$5.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1971 June 1971. 36 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches and 52 photos. Inside front cover: (1 fighter Jet, 1 helicopter, 5 warships). Inside rear cover: 9 sketches of missiles. Soft covers, pictorial front.. Near fine. Oblong: 15.2 x 20.2.
The Royal Navy in June 1971.
70639 DIVING RAN DIVING MANUAL - ABR 155 - Volume 2: Regulations and Practical Diving
$100.00 AUD
Department of Defence (Navy) Canberra. 1980 / 1983. 1st July 1980 original ABR 155 (updated 1983). Volume 2, Chapters 8 to 18. (4), XIV, 248 PP (14 of them large folded) with tables and b/w or colour figures (drawings, flages, graphs ...). Pages with 4 punch holes contained in a special ring binder. Covers of binder somewhat soiled. Contents fine. 32 x 25.
Last updated pages (1983), inserted on 5 July 1984.
70640 DIVING RAN DIVING MANUAL - ABR 155 : Volume 3: Specialised Diving Techniques and Equipment & Volume 4: Diving Equipment , Description and Maintenance
$150.00 AUD
Department of Defence (Navy). Canberra. 1980 / 1983. 1st July 1980 original ABR 155 (updated 1983). Volume 3, Chapters 19 to 23: (4), XIV, 114 PP with tables and b/w figures (drawings, photos ...). Volume 4, Chapters 24 to 29: (6), XIV, 194 PP (3 of them large folded), with tables and b/w figures (drawings, photos, sketches). Pages with 4 punch holes contained in a special ring binder. Covers of binder a little soiled. Contents near fine. 32 x 25.
Last updated pages (1983), inserted on 5 July 1984.
73575 DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles W. (editor) THE SEAGOER - An Illustrated Quarterly of the Sea, Land and Air - Volume XVII, No. 3
$10.00 AUD
Seagoer Publishing Co. Ltd. Bristol. 1952 Volume XVII, No. 3 (Spring 1952). No. 2: 74 PP with 36 b/w and duotone photos. No. 3: 74 PP with 47 b/w and duotone photos. Pictorial soft cover with remnants of book shop sticker. Very good. 19.7 x 13.5.
No. 3: Last of the last, barque Garthpool, by A. J. Pazolt. In the land of Not-Quite, the seaport of Darwin, by Geoff Waye. ...
74290 DOUGLAS-MORRIS, Kenneth THE NAVAL LONG SERVICE MEDALS
$40.00 AUD
K. Douglas-Morris / The Naval & Military Press. London. 2005. 1st Ed. XVI, 288, (2) PP, plus 18 plates with 55 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781843421740
Naval Long Service Medals awarded between 1830 and 1990.
48924 DOWNER, Martyn NELSON'S PURSE. An extraordinary historical detective story shedding new light on the life of Britain's greatest naval hero
$5.00 AUD
Bantam Press. London. 2004. 1st Ed. (8), 424 PP with 18 head pieces and 28 b/w illustrations (engravings, facsimiles of documents or letters, paintings), plus 32 pages with 1 b/w and 48 colour photos. Eps: Plan of the attack of Lord Nelson on the combined fleet, October 21st 1805. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0593051807
75972 DREW, Nicholas AMATEUR SAILOR
$15.00 AUD
Constable. London. 1944.. May 1944 reprint of the February 1944 original. VIII, 292 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page and bird at top of contents page). Cloth cover, silver title on spine. War economy paper. Near fine condition. 19 x 13..
75657 DUFFY, M., FISHER, S, GREENHILL, B. ... (editors) THE NEW MARITIME HISTORY OF DEVON, Volume I: From Early Times to the Late Eighteenth Century
$75.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press & University of Exeter. London. 1992. 1st Ed. Introduction by Michael Duffy and Joyce Youings. 256 PP with 14 maps, 62 tables and 217 figures in text. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 30.2 x 25. 9780851776118
History of Navigation, by Alan Stimson. Shipbuilding, fishing, dockyards... Naval events, by J. D. Davies. Prince William's landing in Torbay, by J L Anderson ...
72402 DUNN, Steve SECURING THE NARROW SEA - The Dover Patrol 1914-1918
$40.00 AUD
Seaforth Publishing. Barnsley, UK. 2017. 1st Ed. 288 PP, plus 16 plates with 37 b/w illustrations: 1 map, portraits and photos (18 of them Royal Navy warships). Hard cover, dj. As new. 24 x 16. 9781848322493
74285 DUNSTERVILLE, Major-General L. C. THE ADVENTURES OF DUNSTERFORCE
$15.00 AUD
The Naval and Military Press. Uckfield, Sussex. 2007. Facsimile reprint of the 1920 original. XII, 324 PP, plus 3 maps (2 on double page) and 17 plates with b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 9781847347299
49078 EARDLEY-WILMOT, Rear-Admiral, Sir S. OUR NAVY FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, A Concise Account of all the Principal Operations in which the British Navy has been Engaged from the Reign of King Alfred to the Present Time
$25.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London. c. 1923. 4th Ed. XII, 436 PP plus full-page plans & 32 pages with 38 b/w illust. Fp: Colour portrait of Lord Nelson. Cloth cover. Covers lightly soiled, light foxing on outside edges, spine a little faded. Still a nice bright copy. 22.8 x 14.6.
33676 EARLE, Peter THE LAST FIGHT OF THE "REVENGE"
$30.00 AUD
Collins & Brown. London. 1992. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 2 diagrams and 4 tables, plus 12 pages with 1 diagram and 13 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781855851061
30th / 31st August 1591: Seafight off Flores, Azores Islands between the lone English galleon "Revenge" of Sir Richard Grenville and a 53 strong Spanish armada.
70910 EDEN, Paul E. (editor) ROYAL AIR FORCE SALUTE 2014 - "D-DAY" 70th Anniversary
$10.00 AUD
Royal Air Force Media and Communications / Key Publishing. Stamford, Lincs.. 2013. 1st edition. Foreword by Air Chief Marshall Sir Andrew Pukford. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
70911 EDEN, Paul E. (editor) ROYAL AIR FORCE SALUTE - "BATTLE OF BRITAIN" 75th Anniversary
$10.00 AUD
Royal Air Force Media and Communications / Key Publishing. Stamford, Lincs.. 2015. 1st edition. Foreword by Air Chief Marshall Sir Andrew Pukford. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
10791 EDWARDS, Herbert THEIR LAWFUL OCCASIONS - A True Story
$10.00 AUD
Percival Marshall. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 256 PP, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Fp: Captain Herbert Edwards, R.N. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with short closed tears. Occasional foxing. Very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.2.
Sequel of the autobiography Under Four Flags, the Royal Navy years and the two World Wars.
30819 EDWARDS, Herbert THEIR LAWFUL OCCASIONS, A True Story
$5.00 AUD
Percival Marshall. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 256 PP, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Fp: Capt. Edwards, R.N. Green hard cover. Some foxing, o/wise a good clean reading copy. 22.2 x 14.2.
Sequel of the autobiography Under Four Flags, the Royal Navy years and the two World Wars.
74939 EDWARDS, Herbert W. UNDER FOUR FLAGS
$35.00 AUD
Percival Marshall. London. 1954. 1st Ed. 223 PP plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos. Fp: Steel-built three-masted barque at the end of the nineteenth century. Hard cover, chipped dust jacket is in a protective sleeve, o/wise contents are fine. 22.2 x 15.
Apprentice on the Norwegian square-rigger Solheim. Under the Red Ensign of the British Merchant Service, the Blue Ensign of the RNR and the White Ensign of the RN.
48287 EDWARDS, Lieut.-Commander Kenneth THE NAVY OF TO-DAY
$15.00 AUD
Blackie & Son. London. 1940. July 1940 reprint of the June 1939 original. 206 PP, plus 16 plates with 29 b/w photos. Fp: A destroyer at high speed laying a smoke screen. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Brief note on front endpaper. Foxing, mostly on prelims and around outside edges. Very good. 23.2 x 17.4.
Armed merchant ships, the big ships, the small ships, the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Marines ....
66465 ELLIOTT, Peter THE CROSS AND THE ENSIGN - A Naval History of Malta 1798-1979
$45.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1980. 1st Ed. 217 PP with 4 maps and 4 full-page plans & many bw illust. (photos, paintings, engravings). Title-spread: Battleship Africa. FEP: Vanguard, Grand Harbour. REP: Ark Royal. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 15.5. 0850504251
Brief history, the Great Mediterranean Chase (Bonaparte vs. Nelson), WWI, siege & survival of WWII, towards independence from UK and Republic.
72468 ELLIOTT, Peter ALLIED ESCORT SHIPS OF WORLD WAR II, A Complete Survey
$80.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1977. 1st US edition. 575 PP with tables, drawings, plans & 292 b/w photos. Title spread: Escort at speed in a choppy sea. Hard cover, dj. Front endpaper with bookplate and Ex Libris stamp and bookplate of previous owners. Cover of dust jacket with a small chip. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0870218018
Allied escort ships built during WWII and used in anti-submarine, anti-aircraft, surface and assault operations. Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Indian Navy, Royal New Zealand Navy, South African Naval Forces and United States Navy.
44768 ELLIS, Ken (compiler) WRECKS AND RELICS
$10.00 AUD
Midland Publishing. Leicester. 1994. 14th edition. 334, (2 publications) PP with 5 maps and 151 b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 21.7 x 15.2. 1857800257
The biennial survey of preserved, instructional and derelict airframes in the UK and Ireland.
70916 ELLIS, Ken (editor) SPITFIRE 80 - Flypast Special Edition
$10.00 AUD
Key Publishing Ltd / FlyPast. Stamford, Lincs.. 2016. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Saluting Supermarine's Masterpiece.
38866 ELSON, Robert T. LES ANNEES D' ILLUSION
$10.00 AUD
Editions Time-Life. Amsterdam. 1979. 2nd French printing of the 1976 US original, in La Deuxième Guerre Mondiale series. 216 PP with 6 maps, 9 colour and 176 b/w photos. French text. Pictorial boards. Fine. 28.8 x 24.
Versailles Treaty. Civil war in Russia... Spain before World War II...
74644 ENDSOR, Richard THE RESTORATION WARSHIP - The Design, Construction and Career of a Third Rate of CHARLES II'S NAVY
$70.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 2009. 1st US edition. Foreword by The Duke of Richmond, Lennon and Gordon. 256 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page: "Lenox" general arrangement, body lines. Title page Spread: "Lenox" at sea in a gale. Eps: "Lenox" by Willem Van de Velde the Elder (FEP: Larboard quarter / REP: Starboard Beam. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj (inside dust jacket: Draught of "Lenox"). Fine (as new condition). 30 x 25.2. 9781591147121
Construction and career of the "Lenox" A 70-gun third rate warship.
31352 ENGLISH, Adrian & WATTS, Anthony BATTLE FOR THE FALKLANDS (2) - Naval Forces
$10.00 AUD
Osprey. London. 1982. 1st Ed., No. 134 in the Men-at-Arms series. 40 PP with 1 map, 43 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 17 colour plates. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 24.7 x 18.3. 0850454921
12382 FABB, J. (editor) VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN NAVY FROM OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
$15.00 AUD
B. T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1976. 1st Ed. Introduction by A. P. McGowan. No pagination. 144 pages with 172 b/w photos. Fp: Flag Captain HMS Majestic. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 25.4 x 19.2. 0713431229
Life and work at sea, training and leisure, campaigns, Royal Marines, Royal Navy, personalities and uniforms.
Patrick Stephens Limited. London. 1991. 1st Ed., in the Action Stations series. 192 PP with hundreds of b/w photos. Eps: Map with principal British Military Overseas Airfields. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.7. 1852603194
60 of the most prominent overseas stations: WWII, Palestine... Berlin airlift... Falkland conflict.
66168 FARWELL, Byron PRISONERS OF THE MAHDI
$10.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1967. 1st US edition. Foreword by Les Courtils. XXII, 356 PP with 1 map with location map and 2 engravings, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on a sunned spine. Ex library copy with few stamps on endpapers, title page and outside edges, and library pocket on rear endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 21.7 x 14.5.
The story of the Mahdist Revolt which frustrated Queen Victoria's designs on the Sudan, humbled Egypt, and led to the fall of Khartoum, the death of Gordon, and Kitchener's victory at Omdurman fourteen years later.
62271 FAWCETT, H. W. & HOOPER, G. W. W. THE FIGHTING AT JUTLAND
$70.00 AUD
Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1921. September 1921 "abridged edition" of the April 1921 original. XVI, 231 PP with 14 Pen and Ink drawings and 19 maps & diagrams, plus 39 b/w plates (1 map, 1 folded battle plan, 2 plans, 3 Pen and Ink drawings, 4 from Oil Paintings and 28 with 43 photos). Rebacked copy, retaining original front and back covers. Cloth covers, gilt device and title on front board, gilt title on a new cloth spine. Top edge gilt. Renewed endpapers. Covers a little soiled and rubbed around edges. Signature of previous owner on preliminary page. Foxing and ageing of paper. Overall still a very good clean copy. 26 x 20.5.
44787 FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe THE SPANISH ARMADA - The Experience of War in 1588
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1989. 1st paperback edition of the 1988 original. XII, 300 PP with 2 maps and 87 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper around outside edges. 23 pages with lines highlighted. A good reading copy. 23.4 x 15.6. 192851969
74287 FEVYER, W. H. & WILSON, J. W. THE 1914 STAR TO THE ROYAL NAVY & ROYAL MARINES
$20.00 AUD
The Naval & Military Press. London. 1995. 1st Ed. VI, 254 PP with 1 plate with "Naming on the 1914 Star" and 1 table. Pictorial soft covers. Fine (as new condition). 29.7 x 21. 9781897632345
49064 FIELD, Col. Cyril THE MASTERY OF THE SEA
$10.00 AUD
Blackie & Son. London. 1929. 1st Ed., in the Enterprise Library series. 239 PP with 35 b/w illustrations, plus 24 b/w plates. Fp: H. M. S. Hood. Cloth cover, illustration on front cover and spine. Few fleck marks on covers, o/wise very good. 19 x 13.5.
55590 FIELD, Colonel C. OLD TIMES AFLOAT: A Naval Anthology
$10.00 AUD
Andrew Melrose Ltd. London. 1932. 1st Ed. 320 PP, plus 30 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Fp: Britannia. Cloth cover. Lacks plates facing pages 50 (Anson's Seamen at the capture of Payta) and 51 (Ducking under the equator). Free fly of front endpaper pasted down. Ingleton bookplate on recto of the free fly. Occasional foxing. Very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 19 x 13.8.
60667 FISHER, Victoria (editor) AUSTRALIAN WAR DIARY - Australian Armed Forces in a Changing World: 1870-2010
$25.00 AUD
Random House. Sydney. 2010. 1st Ed. 304 PP profusely illustrated in b/w and colour. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24.2 x 19.5. 9781864711203
55620 FITZSIMONS, Bernard (editor) ILLUSTRATED MODERN WARFARE
$10.00 AUD
Phoebus Publishing. London. 1978. Bound copies of 12 weekly issues of Purnell's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons and Warfare. A total of 240 PP with b/w photos and coloured illustrations by John Batchelor, plus 12 original wrappers. Pictorial Laminated boards. Very good. 30 x 22.5.
Issues 25, 55, 77, 87 to 90, 92 to 95 and 97.
38816 FLACK, Jeremy TODAY'S ROYAL NAVY IN COLOUR
$15.00 AUD
Arms and Armour Press. London. 1995. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 395 colour photos. Title spread: Fleet aircraft carrier. Half title page: At the periscope. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). 25.2 x 19.5. 185409162X
Submarines, Aircraft Carriers... Shore Establishements, Royal Marines, Royal Naval Reserve.
69656 FLEET, Vice-Admiral H.L. MY LIFE AND A FEW YARNS
$15.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1922. 1st Ed. 344 PP. Fp: The " Constance". Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Covers rubbed, spine in poor condition with creases and pieces missing. Ingleton Bookplate on front endpaper. Foxing. A good reading copy. 22.2 x 15.
Autobiography. Joined the Royal Navy in 1864.... Captain of the Western District of Coastguard and Naval Reserves, in 1903. ...
34170 LE FLEMING, H. M. WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR I, No. 2 - Cruisers (British and German)
$20.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1962. Reprint of the 1960 original. 73 PP with tables & 67 b/w photos. Title page: Light cruiser H.M.S. Dublin at sea. Stiff covers, pictorial front (HMS Shannon in 1915). Front cover with a few small rubs, o/wise fine. 18 x 12.
41574 LE FLEMING, H. M. ABC OF BRITISH WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1955. 2nd Ed. 64 PP with tables, & 61 b/w photos. Title page: H.M.S. Scorpion. Pictorial card cover (Aircraft Carrier). Stamp of previous owner on title page. Near fine. 15.8 x 10.3.
Including ships of the RAN, RCN, RNZN, IN, PI, RCyN, SAN and MNF.
41575 LE FLEMING, H. M. ABC BRITISH WARSHIPS
$5.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1956. 3rd Ed. 64 PP with tables, & 51 b/w photos. Title page: H.M.S. Vanguard. Pictorial (Light cruiser) soft cover. Stamp of previous owner on title page. Near fine. 15.3 x 10.3.
Including ships of the RAN, RCN, RNZN, IN, PI, RCyN, SAN and RMN.
41576 LE FLEMING, H. M. ABC BRITISH WARSHIPS
$5.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1958. 4th Ed. 64 PP with tables, & 56 b/w photos. Centrefold: The 4th Destroyer Flotilla. Title page: Sea Slug guided weapon being fired from H.M.S. Girdle Ness. Pictorial soft cover (Destroyer). Near fine. 15.3 x 10.3.
Including ships of the RAN, RCN, RNZN, IN, PI, RCyN, and SAN.
39161 FLETCHER, Commandant M. H. THE WRNS - A History of the Women's Royal Naval Service
$20.00 AUD
B. T. Batsford. London. 1989. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 152 b/w photos. Fp: Crest of W.R.N.S. Hard cover, dj. Note on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 28.3 x 22.5. 0713461853
Illustrated history of the WRNS with extensive appendices including a complete list of names from the WRNS Book of Remembrance.
74753 FORESTER, C. S. Mr. MIDSHIPMAN HORNBLOWER
$5.00 AUD
Penguin / Michael Joseph. London. 1965. Reprint of the 1956 Penguin edition. 253, (3) PP. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Faint foxing. Very good. 18 x 11.
Novel. Captain Hornblower.
74754 FORESTER, C. S. HORNBLOWER GOES TO SEA
$5.00 AUD
Penguin / Michael Joseph. London. 1969. Reprint of the 1963 in the Peacock Book series. Selection by G. P. Griggs. 187, (4) PP with b/w illustrations by Geoffrey Whittam. Fp: Soames standing up in the sternsheet... Pictorial stiff covers. Occasional foxing. Very good. 20.2 x 13.7.
46825 FRANKS, Norman AIRCRAFT VERSUS AIRCRAFT. The Illustrated Story of Fighter Pilot Combat since 1914
$10.00 AUD
Bantam Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (diagrams, plans, photos and artwork by Peter Endsleigh Castle and Terry Hadler). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25.8 x 22.2. 0593010213
45206 FRANTZ, Douglas & COLLINS, Catherine DEATH ON THE BLACK SEA - The untold story of the Struma and World War II's holocaust at sea
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. Sydney. 2003. 1st Australian edition. XIV, 352 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 23 b/w illustration. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 0732278244
Sailed from Constanta, Romania on the 12th December 1941... Torpedoed on the 24th February 1942, 1 survivor, around 800 dead.
49080 FRASER, Edward THE LONDONS OF THE BRITISH FLEET. How they faced the Enemy on the day of Battle and what their story means for us to-day
$30.00 AUD
John Lane The Bodley Head. London. c. 1910. 1st Ed. XVI, 456, (8 publications) PP, plus 20 plates with 8 colour and 18 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): The Loyall London's flags. Green cloth cover, gilt vignette on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 19.2 x 13.5.
65747 FRASER, Edward & GIBBONS, John SOLDIER AND SAILOR WORDS AND PHRASES
$50.00 AUD
George Routledge. London. 1925. 1st Ed. VIII, 372 PP, plus 5 b/w plates. Fp: Scene near Loos. Cloth cover, gilt title on a simile leather spine. Newspaper clipping pasted down at top of half title page. Foxing. Very good. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5.
... including slang of the trenches and the Air Force, British and American war-words ... The Battle-Honours of the Great War awarded to the British Army.
65839 FRENCH, Lieut-Colonel The Hon. E. G. GOOD-BYE TO BOOT AND SADDLE, or The Tragic Passing of British Cavalry
$10.00 AUD
Hutchinson & Co. London. 1951. 1st Ed. Foreword by General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough. 283 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 drawing and 31 figures), plus 1 folded map of "The Balaklava Charges" and 16 pages with 24 b/w illustrations. Illustrations by the Earl of Ypres. Fp (in colour): Field Marhall The Earl of Ypres. Cloth cover, gilt title on a lightly sunned spine. Covers with speckle patches. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing. Very good. 23.4 x 16.
75458 FROST, Alan THE GLOBAL REACH OF EMPIRE: Britain's Maritime Expansion in the Indian and Pacific Oceans 1764 - 1815
$75.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 2003. 1st edition, limited to 1000 copies, No. 46 in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah Volumes. XIV, 33, (3) PP with 4 tables, 6 figures and 9 maps (4 on double page), plus 4 pages with 5 colour illustrations. FEP: "Typus Orbis Terrarum" (1570), by Ortelius. REP: World Map from G/. A. Cook. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.3 x 16. 0522850502
49278 FROUDE, James Anthony ENGLISH SEAMEN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Lectures delivered at Oxford, Easter Terms 1893-4
$10.00 AUD
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1901. New Impression of the 1895 original edition. (6), 309 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light wear to covers. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page. Occasional foxing. Very good. 19.5 x 13.5.
9 lectures explaining how the English Navy ruled the waves and could spread the English race over the globe. Hawkins, Drake, expeditions to the West Indies, the Armada...
49279 FROUDE, James Anthony ENGLISH SEAMEN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Lectures delivered at Oxford, Easter Terms 1893-4
$10.00 AUD
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1917. New Impression of the 1895 original edition. (6), 309 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 19.5 x 13.5.
9 lectures explaining how the English Navy ruled the waves and could spread the English race over the globe. Hawkins, Drake, expeditions to the West Indies, the Armada...
72846 GANNON, Michael BLACK MAY - The Epic Story of the Allie's Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943
$15.00 AUD
Dell Publishing / Random House. New York. 1999. 1st Paperback edition of the 1998 original. XXXI, 541 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 pages with 23 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Name and stamp of previous owner on prelim, o/wise near fine. 17.5 x 10.5. 9780440235644
The epic story of the Allies defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943.
76154 GARDINER, Robert (editor) THE CAMPAIGN OF TRAFALGAR 1803-1805
$20.00 AUD
Caxton Editions & The National Maritime Museum. London. 2001. Reprint in the Caxton Pictorial Histories series of the 1997 original published by Chatham. 192 PP with tables and over 300 b/w illustrations. Title spread: climax of the greatest battle of the age of sail. 'Victory of Trafalgar', in the Rear. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Near fine. 29.5 x 24.8. 1840673583
Trafalgar: the culmination of a campaign that began as soon as war between England and France was resumed in May 1803.
37592 GARDNER, Richard E. THE FLYING NAVY
$15.00 AUD
Almark Publishing. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w illustrations (2 profiles, 9 sets of plans and photos) and 8 colour photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket lightly rubbed, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 15. 0855240407
75349 GATACRE, E. V. ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO MADAME TUSSAUD'S
$10.00 AUD
Madame Tussaud's Ltd. London. 1977 1977 edition: "The Queen's Silver Jubilee". 40 PP with 1 b/w print and 40 colour photos, centrefold: Princess Anne and Captain Phillips, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Queen Mother. Soft covers, illustrated front. Note on the back cover, otherwise near fine. 23 x 14..
41354 GIBSON, Walter THE BOAT
$10.00 AUD
A Star Book/W.H. Allen. London. 1974 Paperback edition of the 1952 original. 96 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. 18 x 11. 0352300116
Dutch ship "Rooseboom" with 500 evacuees from Padang, Sumatra Island, torpedoed on the way to Ceylon. Of the 135 survivors of one lifeboat, 4 survived after drifting 28 days...
51119 GIDLEY, Charles THE RAGING OF THE SEA
$15.00 AUD
Andre Deutsch. London. 1984. 1st Ed. 543 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 15.5. 0233976477
Novel. Royal Navy and Naval life at sea.
75701 GIFFARD, Edward DEEDS OF NAVAL DARING - Anecdotes of the British Navy
$25.00 AUD
John Muray. London. 1910. Reprint. X, 410 PP. Cloth covers with light wear, illustration in blind on front cover and gilt title on lightly faded spine. Previous owner's signature and date on title-page (see image). Rear gutter repaired, otherwise contents are near fine. 19.5 x 13.
93 anecdotes. Admiral Lord Nelson: 10 of them (... Battle of the Nile or Aboukir) / Bonaparte: 7 of them (from Invasion of British India to Interference with English trade). .
46730 GILLETT, Ross & JEFFERY, Vic THE ROYAL NAVY IN AUSTRALIA 1900 - 2000
$25.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall. 2002. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 124 b/w photos. Title page: HMS Perseus, a Colossus class light fleet aircraft carrier alongside dolphins at Kirribilli. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 20.7 x 27.7. 0907771920
Box Books. London. 1968. 1st Ed. No.2 in the Boxed Books series. 50 sheets including: title page, preface page, index page and 7 head of chapters. Each sheet: recto with b/w illustrations (photographs and artists' impressions) and accompanying text, verso with details of warships. Box with illustrated front (aircraft carrier). Lid of box missing. Foxing spots on box. Very good. Scarce. 24 x 20.5.
45589 GLADSTONE, E. W. THE ROYAL NAVY
$5.00 AUD
Basil Blackwell. Oxford. 1958. 1st Ed. (8), 79 PP with 10 figures, plus 12 b/w plates. Fp: THe Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October, 1805. Hard cover, spine sunned. Ex library copy with stamps on recto and verso of title page. Number on spine. Renewed endpapers. Foxing. Good reading copy. 19 x 13.
67468 GLASCOCK, William Nugent / An Officer NAVAL SKETCH-BOOK: or, The Service Afloat and Ashore; with characteristic reminiscences, fragments and opinions, by An Officer (Volume I)
$40.00 AUD
E.L. Carey. Philadelphia. 1835. Volume I (only): (IV), XV-XXIII, 24-212 PP. Papered boards, cloth spine with paper label for title "The Naval Sketch-Book, in two volumes - Vol I" pasted down on spine. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed. Ageing of paper and light foxing. Very good. 20.7 x 12.2.
39403 GLIKSMAN, Alain & DELECLUSE, Jacques LA GRANDE FETE DE LA VOILE
$20.00 AUD
Editions Parkstone / Editions du Pen Duick. Bournemouth, U.K. / Paris. 1994. 1st Ed., with a preface by Eric Tabarly. 172 PP with b/w illustrations and colour photos by Gilles Klein. FEP: The port of Rouen, 19th century. REP: Rouen in 1620. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. French text. 30.7 x 24.5. 1859950043
Gathering of tall ships in Rouen, at the time of the 50th anniversary of the D Day landing of June 1944.
42361 GODDEN, John (editor) HARRIER - Ski-Jump to Victory
$20.00 AUD
Brassey's Defence Publishers. Oxford. 1983. 1st Ed. XI, 132 PP with 2 maps, b/w illustrations (drawings & plans, 92 b/w photos), plus 6 plates with 12 colour photos. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 25.4 x 19. 0080311660
Operation corporate - Falklands War..
65029 GORDON PUGH, P. D. NELSON AND HIS SURGEONS / Nelson Chirurgiique
$15.00 AUD
E. & S. Livingstone Ltd. Edinburgh. 1968. Soft cover edition. Foreword by H. Jackson Burrows. (6), 68 PP with 47 plates (2 colour and 45 b/w). Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on front cover and the outer edges, o/wise a fine copy. 24.4 x 18.3. 0443006067
Monograph based on an Exhibition held at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, on 15 April 1967.
30859 GORDON, G. A. H. BRITISH SEAPOWER AND PROCUREMENT BETWEEN THE WARS - A Reappraisal of Rearmament
$30.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1988. 1st US Ed. IX, 321 PP with 2 organisation diagrams. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Bookplate and Ex Libris stamps (in blind) on front endpaper. Near fine. 22.4 x 14.5. 0870218948
The industrial roots of the Royal Navy: interdependence between Admiralty and the heavy armament firms.
53007 GORDON, Major Lawrence L. MILITARY ORIGINS
$10.00 AUD
Kaye & Ward. London. 1971. 1st Ed. Edited by Lieutenant-colonel J. B. R. Nicholson. 256 PP with 26 line drawings, plus 4 b/w plates with 6 illustrations and 8 colour plates. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Sellotape marks on endpapers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5. 0718208765
41580 GOSS, J. W. BRITISH WARSHIPS 1975
$5.00 AUD
Marinart Ltd. Deal, Kent. 1975. 1st Ed. 88 PP with tables, 5 drawings & 57 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (HMS Ark Royal). Stamp of previous owner inside front cover. Near fine. 15.3 x 10.
72408 GRAHAM, Gerald S. GREAT BRITAIN IN THE INDIAN OCEAN - A Study of Maritime Enterprise 1810-1850
$70.00 AUD
Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1967. XIV, 480 PP with 9 maps (No. 1 to No. 9), plus 1 folded map "The Indian Ocean" (No. 10). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Signature of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
16827 GRAY, Ernest (editor) MAN MIDWIFE, The further experiences of John Knyveton, M.D., late Surgeon in the British Fleet, during the years 1763-1809
$20.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1946. 1st Ed. 211 PP plus 6 bw plates. Hard cover, dj (a few chips). War economy paper. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2
Life ashore as a fashionable consultant after swallowing the anchor after the end of the Seven Years War.
18087 GREGOR, Hugh FIGHTING SHIPS IN BRITAIN
$10.00 AUD
Macmillan. London. 1972. 1st Ed., in the History Picture Topics series. 40 PP with 20 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Very good. Oblong: 18.5 x 24.5. 333106660
From the Roman galleys and Viking longships to HMS Dreadnought.
69906 GREHAN, Julian (editor) DUNKIRK 1940 - The Real Story of "Operation Dynamo"
$10.00 AUD
Key Publishing. Stamford, Lincolnshire. 2017. 1st Ed. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
The miracle evacuation that saved the British Army: 26 May to 3rd June 1940.
46364 GRENFELL, Captain Russell NELSON THE SAILOR
$10.00 AUD
The Macmillan Company. New York. 1950. 1st printing of the US edition. (10), 235 PP with 4 diagrams (St. Vincent, Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar), plus 5 b/w plates. Fp: Nelson, a bust by Flaxman. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket rubbed and chipped. Foxing spots on outside edges. Internally a very good copy. 20.8 x 14.
44945 GRETTON, Vice-Admiral Sir Peter FORMER NAVAL PERSON, Winston Churchill and the Royal Navy
$10.00 AUD
London. Cassell. 1968. 1st Ed. (XIV), 338 PP plus 16 pages with 22 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Top and bottom edges of covers speckled. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, and stains on front outside edge. Very good. 21.6 x 14. 304931608
Firm believer in the roles of the Royal Navy, First Lord in 1911, his contribution to reconstruct the Navy. The Dardanelles fiasco, return as First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister in 1939.
52517 GREY, C. G. SEA-FLYERS
$5.00 AUD
Faber and Faber. London. 1942. 1st Ed. 256 PP, plus 18 plates with 46 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait of 4 of the Men who made Sea-Flying. Cloth cover. Covers lightly soiled. War economy paper with little foxing. Few annotations and scoring. Very good. 19 x 13.
65864 GRINNELL-MILNE, Duncan BADEN-POWELL AT MAFEKING
$15.00 AUD
The Bodley Head. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by General Sir A. Godley. 224 PP with facsimile of a document, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustions (1 drawing and 14 photos) and a folded map "Mafeking and Surrounding" at rear of book. Fp: portrait of colonel Baden-Powell. Eps: map of southern Africa. Hard cover, gilt title on a sunned spine. Book plate of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
62258 GROOM, Linda A STEADY HAND: Governor Hunter & His First Fleet Sketchbook
$50.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2012. 1st Ed. Foreword by Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. VI, 229 PP with 19 b/w illustrations, 16 maps or plans, 57 colour illustrations and 100 plates in colour. Fp: Portrait of Vice-Admiral John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales. Pictorial boards, dj. New. 29 x 24. 9780642277077
30163 GROVE, Eric GREAT BATTLES OF THE ROYAL NAVY, as commemorated in the gunroom, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
$15.00 AUD
Arms and Armour Press. London. 1994. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 26 maps in colour, 45 colour and 119 bw illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 1854091840
From Alfred the Danes, 897 by W.A. Allard to the war in the Falklands, 1982 by Eric Grove.
18917 GWYN, Julian THE ROYAL NAVY AND NORTH AMERICA: The Warren Papers, 1736-1752
$10.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. Greenwich. 1973. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 118. XLV, (1 errata), 463 PP with 2 maps, plus 10 pages with 8 b/w plates. Fp: Sir Peter Warren, K.B., Vice-Admiral of the Red. Navy blue buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.5.
War with France in Canada. Siege and occupation of the French fortress of Louisbourg, conquest of Canada...
72986 H.M.S. CONSORT Association LOYAL and STEADFAST - The Story of H.M.S. CONSORT
$35.00 AUD
H.M.S. CONSORT Association. London. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Commander R. R. A. Cowan. (8), 123 PP with 2 b/w phoitos, plus 4 plates with 4 b/w photos. FP: HMS Consort in Hong Kong, 1948. Vignette on title page with crest of HMS Consort. Hard covers, dj. Fine (mint condition). 21.8 x 15.3.
First deployment: Hong Kong and the Far East. Malayan Insurgency. The Yangtze Incident. Montebello Island nuclear tests, off the coast of West Australia...
66940 H.M.S. EURYALUS (Cruiser) CROSSING THE LINE AGAIN, or why Sailors put in for shore Jobs - Thursday, 1st February 1945
$100.00 AUD
On board. 1945. Edited for Thursday, 1st February 1945. 16 PP with 1 illustration by Tanner. Inside front cover: Master of Ceremonies "Lieutenant John Gordon Baskcomb, R.N.R". Soft cover, illustration on front cover by Tanner. Dedicatory note inside front cover "To Mavis with Love" dated 6 November 1945 and signed John. Covers reinforced at spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 18.5 x 12.5.
HMS Euryalus, Cruiser of 5,450 Tons, built Chatham Dock Yard in 1939. Crossing the line ceremony between Trincomalee and Australia. Original crossing of the Equator at 88° East, on 19th January 1945. The ceremony of this crossing was held on 1st February 1946 by 19° South & 102° East, following 2 successful Air Raids on the Japanese held oil refinery at Palembang, Sumatra. A scarce item.
45878 H.M.S.O. A SEAMAN'S POCKETBOOK, B.R. 827 (52)
$10.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1952. 1st Ed. VII, 136 PP with 73 figures, plus 5 colour plates. Fp: Advertisement for Player's Navy Cut. Eps: 6 advertisments. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Previous owner's stamp on advert prelim, and signature on verso of title-page, o/wise very good. 18.8 x 12.6.
Sea terms, steering the ship, boatwork... A.B.C.D. (Atomic, Biological and Chemical protection and Damage control).
69993 HACKFORTH-JONES, Gilbert ONE-ONE-ONE, Stories of the Navy
$20.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1943. January 1943 reprint of the October 1942 original. 223, (1 publications) PP. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped and plastic protected). Covers with a few small chips or closed tears, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 19 x 13.
43159 HADFIELD, Robert L. MUTINY AT SEA
$20.00 AUD
Geoffrey Bles. London. 1937. 1st Ed. VIII, 246 PP, plus 8 plates with 9 b/w illustrations. Fp: An East Indiaman Earl Balcarres. Cloth cover. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
47017 HADFIELD, Robert L. MUTINY AT SEA
$10.00 AUD
Earl M. Coleman. New York. 1979. Facsimile reprint of the 1938 original, in the Seafaring Men: Their Ships and Times series. (4), VIII, 246 PP, plus 8 plates with 9 b/w illustrations. Fp: An East Indiaman Earl Balcarres. Eps: Map of North East Canada / USA. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.2 x 14.5. 0930576276
72440 HAINES, Gregory DESTROYERS AT WAR
$25.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 1 track chart (St Nazaire) and 185 b/w photos. Title spread: HMS Intrepid. Hard cover, dj (in a protective sleeve). Neat name stamp on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 29.8 x 22. 0711011109
42427 HALL, Captain Basil VOYAGES AND TRAVELS OF CAPTAIN BASIL HALL R.N.
$50.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson and Sons. London. 1895. 1st Ed. VIII, 9-387 PP, plus 6 b/w plates. Fp: Burial of Sir John Moore. Title page: Fast Castle, (Wolf's Crag). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Rebacked copy, retaining most of original cloth cover, repaired fold of endpapers. Old watermarks on 3 or 4 leaves, slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 20.7 x 15.
First 10 years of his time at sea. Entered the Royal Navy in 1802. Halifax Station to 1808. Off the coast of Spain to 1811. Sailed in 1812 for the Far East.
16893 HAMILTON CURREY, Commander E. THE MAN-OF-WAR - What She has Done, and What She is Doing
$10.00 AUD
T.C. & E.C. Jack. London. c.1915? 1st Ed., No. 2 in the Romance of Reality series. X, 298 PP with 7 figures and 15 illustrations on full page, plus 16 plates with 21 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): The carrack in which the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem arrived at Malta in 1530. Cloth cover, b/w illustrations pasted down on front endpaper. Covers lightly rubbed, spine sunned. Foxing on outside edges and few pages. Frontispiece and plate XVI are facsimile (laser) prints. Good. 21 x 15.5.
Stories of the Royal Navy: oared ships, Tudor ships, buccaneers, slavers, torpedo craft,...
49277 HAMILTON CURREY, Commander E. THE MAN-OF-WAR - What She has Done, and What She is Doing
$20.00 AUD
T. C. & E. C. Jack. London. c.1915. 1st deluxe edition, in the Romance of Reality series. X, 298 PP with 7 figures and 15 illustrations on full page, plus 16 plates with 19 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): The carrack in which the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem arrived at Malta in 1530. Red leather binding, gilt decoration and title on spine, all edges are red. Spine lightly sunned. Near fine. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 21.5 x 15.5.
Stories of the Royal Navy: oared ships, Tudor ships, buccaneers, slavers, torpedo craft,...
36875 HAMILTON, Admiral Sir Richard Vesey (editor) LETTERS AND PAPERS OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR THOS. BYAM MARTIN - Vol. II
$25.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1898. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, volume 12. Vol. II: XVI, 416 PP, plus 3 b/w plates. Fp: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin, Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom. Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Most pages uncut, ageing of outside edges, top of spine frayed. Ex library copy with stamp on front endpaper and number on spine. Very good. 24.2 x 16.
76037 HAMPSHIRE, A. Cecil JUST AN OLD NAVY CUSTOM
$30.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1979. 1st Ed. 238 PP with 48 b/w illustrations (1 menu, 1 sketch of "Boatswain calls", sketches, prints, photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket with a few small nicks. Spine and back of dust jacket a little sunned. Bookplate of previous owner pasted down on front endpaper, otherwise contents are near fine. 24 x 15.5. 0718304861
.
55084 HANNING, Hugh (editor) THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION - Vol. CXIII, No. 651
$15.00 AUD
Royal United Service Institution. London. 1968. August 1968. (10), 189 -278 PP with 1 graph and 4 b/w photos. Fp: Professor Arthur Marder. Soft covers. Very good. 26.5 x 20.5.
Lectures (4) on the Navy and Defence. Sea Power and Modern Strategy, by Professor L. W. Martin. The Royal Navy in the next decade, by Rear-Admiral T. T. Lewin. The greatest single factor: The Officer and the Rating, by Rear-Admiral G.C. Crowley. ... The Soviets against the Germans at sea: 1941-45, by Donald W. Mitchell. The High Seas Fleet 1917-18, by David Woodward...
41618 HANRAHAN, Brian & FOX, Robert I COUNTED THEM ALL OUT AND I COUNTED THEM ALL BACK - The Battle for the Falklands
$10.00 AUD
B B C. London. 1982. 3rd reprint of the 1982 original. 139 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, foxing on outside edges. Very good. 17.8 x 11.2. 0563201479
2nd April to 15th June 1982.
40720 HARDY, A. C. EVERYMAN'S HISTORY OF THE SEA WAR - Volume I: September 1939 - December 1941
$25.00 AUD
Nicholson and Watson. London. 1946. 1st Ed. VI, 7-350 PP with 2 maps, organigrams, tables and 78 profiles of ships, plus 1 folded table and 20 b/w plates with 33 photos. Fp: Command of the seas. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Internally very good. 22.2 x 14.5.
Calendar of Naval War (pages 9 to 33). Losses of principal warships (pages 279 to 305). Losses of Merchant shipping (pages 308 to 321)...
40721 HARDY, A. C. EVERYMAN'S HISTORY OF THE SEA WAR - Volume II: December 1941 - September 1943
$25.00 AUD
Nicholson and Watson. London. 1949. 1st Ed. XXXII, 271 PP with organigrams and tables, plus 20 b/w plates with 37 photos. Fp: The Dawn Patrol. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Internally very good. 22.2 x 14.5.
Calendar of Naval War (pages XI to XXXI). Losses of principal warships (pages 251to 271).
74641 HARDY, A. C. YOU AND YOUR SHIPS - A Guide to Merchant Navy Power
$25.00 AUD
Nicholson and Watson. London. 1942. 1st edition with the preface of the 1939 edition of "Ships at Work". 159 PP with b/w illustrations: family tree of ships that work, 17 head pieces, text drawings (inclusing cut-aways, maps, silouhettes, sketches ...). Fp: A Cargo Liner seen from inside. Hard cover, pictorial front. Covers rubbed and worn. War economy paper. A very good copy of a scarce item. 17.8 x 11.5.
A WWII, shorter version of "Ships at Work", published when the Merchant Marine became Merchant Navy.
30146 HARKER, Jack ALMOST HMNZS NEPTUNE
$30.00 AUD
Moana Press. Wellington. 1991. 1st Ed. 335 PP with 19 sketch-maps and 53 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 21 x 14.7. 0908705727
Story of the Royal Navy Cruiser Neptune, diverted to the Mediterranean Fleet before going to New Zealand for her New Zealand commissioning, and sunk in an Italian minefield off Tripoli, 19 December 1941.
74779 HAROLD, Anthony (editor) CAMERA ABOVE THE CLOUDS - Volume 2: The Aviation Photographs of Charles E. Brown
$30.00 AUD
Airlife Publishing Ltd. Shrewsbury, UK. 1985. 1st Ed. Foreword by Harald Penrose. 175 PP with 124 b/w and 32 colour photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 27.3 x 21.5. 0906393507
12451 HARPER, Rear-Admiral J.E.T. THE TRUTH ABOUT JUTLAND
$25.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1927. 1st Ed. 200 PP with 9 b/w diagrams. Original blue cloth cover with light wear, faded title on spine. Light offsetting of endpapers. Foxing on outside edges. Contents very good. Image shows title-page. 19.2 x 13.
10782 HARPER, Vice-Admiral J.E.T. THE ROYAL NAVY AT WAR
$15.00 AUD
John Murray / Pilot Press. London. 1941. 2nd impression in August 1941 of the July 1941 original. 72 PP with 2 maps, 26 silhouettes of ships, and 79 b/w photos. Fp: Warships anchored in the road. Soft cloth cover, gilt device and title on front cover, dj (price clipped). Small ink stains in the margins of P8 and 9. Very good. 27 x 21.5.
The role & history of the Royal Navy. Life in the Navy. Battleships to submarines, aircraft carriers, ... Training, shipbuilding.
31977 HARRIS, David (editor) THE NELSON ALMANAC - A book of days recording Nelson's Life and the Events that shaped his Era
$25.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press & Warwick Leadlay Gallery. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 150 b/w and colour illust. Half title page: quotation taken from "Nelson" by Carola Oman. Title spread: "Victory of Trafalgar in the Van", by Robert Dodd. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28 x 22. 0851777554
72454 HARRIS, John THE SEA SHALL NOT HAVE THEM
$10.00 AUD
Readers Book Club. Melbourne. 1956. Reprint of the original published by Hurst & Blackett. 288 PP, plus 20 pages with 28 b/w photos (taken from the film of the book). Cloth cover with light wear, chipped dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. Neat name stamp of previous owner on FFEP. Contents near fine. 18.8 x 12.8.
With the Air-Sea Rescue High-Speed Launch Flotillas, in 1944.
39164 HARVEY, Maurice GIBRALTAR
$15.00 AUD
Spellmount. Staplehurst, Kent, UK. 1996. 1st Ed. IX, 10-192 PP with 2 maps, 3 plans and 97 b/w illustrations (engravings, paintings and photos), plus 8 pages with 12 colour paintings. Fp: Portrait of General George Eliott. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.2 x 22.5. 187337657X
38799 HASTINGS, Max VICTORY IN EUROPE - D-Day to V-E Day
$15.00 AUD
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 9 maps, and b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 28.2 x 20.2. 0297786504
73308 HASWELL MILLER, A. E. & DAWNAY, N. P. MILITARY DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS IN THE COLLECTION OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN - Volume One: Plates
$40.00 AUD
Phaidon Press. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 223 PP with 187 plates with 478 illustrations (22 in colour tipped in and 4550 in b/w. Cloth covers, gilt title on front board and spine, top edge tinted, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has a few repaired chips or closed tears. Errata slip tipped in on page 21. Contents near fine. 30 x 23.
38232 HAWKEY, Arthur BLACK NIGHT OFF FINISTERRE - The Tragic Tale of an Early British Ironclad
$10.00 AUD
Airlife. London. 1999. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 1 map, 1 drawing and 5 figures, plus 12 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 1840370955
Definitive account of the loss of HMS Captain. Four months after commissioning she lay at the bottom of the Atlantic, off Cape Finisterre, Spain. 18 survivors from a complement of over 500.
72416 HAY, Ian THE SHIP OF REMEMBRANCE, Gallipoli - Salonika
$50.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. c. 1920. 1st Ed. 43 PP, plus 10 pages with 8 b/w photo plates. Fp: Last Post. Inside front cover: map of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Cloth covers, title on front board and spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. Scarce. 19 x 12.7.
Pilgrimage to the battlefields of World War One: Salonika and Gallipoli, September on board the white liner.
40183 HAYTER, Alethea A VOYAGE IN VAIN - Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804
$15.00 AUD
Faber and Faber. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 188 P, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, offsetting of the front endpaper. Very good. 22.5 x 14. 0571102409
49487 HAYTER, Alethea A VOYAGE IN VAIN - Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804
$10.00 AUD
Faber and Faber. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 188 P, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover. Dust jacket tipped in on rear endpaper. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Few foxing spots on outside edges and some pages. Near fine. 22.5 x 14. 0571102409
16767 HEARSEY, John E.N. YOUNG MR PEPYS
$10.00 AUD
History Book Club. London. 1973. Reprint. (12), 307 PP plus 12 pages with b/w illust. Fp: Portrait of Samuel Pepys. Eps: The Dutch off Sheerness, 1667. Hard cover, dj. Small vignette pasted down on half-title page, two pages with a vertical marker pen line (not affecting text legibility), and an otherwise very good clean copy. 22.3 x 13.8. 094591407
In 1660, he was made Clerk of the Acts at the Navy Office and by reorganizing it, became one of the Fathers of the Royal Navy.
54732 HENDERSON, Professor G. C. THE WAR AT SEA (in Syllabus of a Course of three Lectures)
$5.00 AUD
The University of Adelaide. Adelaide. 1916. 1st Ed. 8 PP. Soft cover repaired. Rusty staples. Good. 18 x 12.5.
Lecture I: Clearing the Seas. Lecture II: The War of Attrition. Lecture III: The Grand Fleet.
49821 HEPWORTH DIXON, William ROBERT BLAKE, Admiral and General at Sea. Based on family and state papers
$50.00 AUD
Bickers and Son. London. 1885. New edition. XVII, (3), 300 PP, plus 10 plates with 10 b/w illustrations in permanent photography pasted down. Fp: Robert Blake. Cloth cover, gilt decorations and title on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. Spine lightly sunned. Near fine. Scarce. 21.5 x 14.5.
63399 HIBBERT, Christopher CORUNNA
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1967. Paperback edition in the British Battles series of the 1961 original. 223, (1) PP with 5 maps (1 on double page) and 9 tailpieces, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations.. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Very good. 17.7 x 11.
50874 HICKS, Major J. S. SALVOES FROM A STONE FRIGATES. Drawings and Verses
$10.00 AUD
Methuen & Co. London. 1946. 1st Ed. 48 PP with illustrations by the author. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots. Very good. 29 x 22.3.
A book of illustrated war verses.
43534 HIGGINSON, Rear-Admiral Francis J. NAVAL BATTLES IN THE CENTURY
$30.00 AUD
The Linscott Publishing. Toronto & Philadelphia. 1906. 1st edition in the Nineteenth Century series. XXIV, 472 PP. Brown cloth cover, gilt title (dulled). Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. Image shows title-page. 20.6 x 14.
Contents: Battle of Copenhagen, Algesiras and Gut of Gibraltar, Trafalgar, ... Schomberg's Action off Tamatave, Battle of Lake Erie, The Battle of Maniila Bay, The Battle of Santiago, .. Single Ship Actions, ... Engagements with Batteries and Passage of Forts..
47581 HILL, J. R. & RANFT, Bryan (editors) THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$20.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK. 2002. 1st paperback edition of the 1995 original. XIV, (2), 480 PP with 15 head-pieces, 23 maps, 6 ships' plans Action Stations, and hundreds of b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 26 colour illust. Title spread: Bombardment of Algiers 1816. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.6 x 19. 198602577
The wall of England. From the King's ships to the Royal Navy (1500-1642),... Endeavour, discovery and idealism,... the Royal Navy and the post-war naval revolution, 1948 to the present.
74591 HILL, Richard THE PRIZES OF WAR - The Naval Prizes System in the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815
$125.00 AUD
Royal Naval Museum / Sutton Publishing. London. 1998. 1st Ed. XX, 268 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24 x 15.7. 9780750918169
18308 HILL, W.S. THE SAILING SHIPS OF GREAT BRITAIN
$10.00 AUD
Jupiter Books. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 16 b/w text illustrations and 24 colour plates on full page. Fp: The Henry Grace à Dieu. Hard cover, dj. Some foxing, o/wise very good. 33.5 x 23.5. 0904041190
A tribute to Great Britain's maritime traditions. History & development of British sailing ships since the Middle Ages.
69918 HMSO OCEAN FRONT - The Story of the War in the Pacific 1941-1944
$25.00 AUD
HMSO / Ministry of Information. London. 1945. 68 PP with b/w illustrations: 8 maps and 90 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 35 x 14.
From the battles of the the Coral Sea and Midway, to the landings in the Marianas and Peleliu (Palau).
71485 HMSO HANDLING SHIPS - B.R. 2092
$75.00 AUD
Navigation and Direction Department / Admiralty. London. 1954. Restricted edition. VI, 166 PP with 1 chart, 2 diagrams, over 7 tables & curves and over 70 figures. Plus 3 plates with b/w photos (figures 8, 37 & 38) and 2 folded plates (figures 9, 19, 20, 21a & 21b). Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Addendum B.R. 2092 (1958): soft cover and 16 PP with 9 figures, plus large folded plate for 2 figures (71 & 76), pasted down inside back cover. Stamp in blind of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a very good clean copy. Scarce item. 24.5 x 15.5.
76327 HMSO MANUAL OF SEAMANSHIP - 1926 - Volume I
$35.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1926. Revised reprint of the 1908 original. (12 adverts), IV, 474, (13-24 adverts) PP with hundreds of figures (2 of them folded), plus 25 colour plates (8 plates with flags of Great Britain and the Commonwealth - 6 plates with 74 National flags and ensigns - 4 plates on signalling - 5 plates on the Rules of the Road...), and 4 b/w plates (3 of them folded). Cloth covers soiled with wear around edges and fraying at top and bottom of spine. gilt title on spine. Correction slip "1927", tipped in on page 1. Folded plate: "Boatswain ... " with repaired tears. Foxing spots on outside edges and some of the plates. Name of previous owner on advert page and verso of correction slip, otherwise contents are near fine and this is a very good copy of an early edition. 22 x 14.3.
Chapter I: Bag and Hammock instruction / Time and Seamen Watches. Chapter II: Signals... Chapter VIII: Boat work. Chapter IX: Anchor Work. Chapter X: Rigging. Chapter XIV: Boatswain's Call and Sea Terms.
70376 HOLLAND, James THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN - Five Months that Changed History
$15.00 AUD
Corgi Book. London. 2011. 1st paperback edition of the 2010 original. 924, (4 publications) with 19 maps and figures, plus 32 pages with b/w illustrations (2 drawings and 100 photos). Pictorial soft cover (design by Tom Poland). Near fine. 19.8 x 12.7. 9780552156103
73162 HOLLAND, James THE WAR IN THE WEST: A New History - Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
$10.00 AUD
Corgi Book. London. 2016. 1st "Corgi" edition of the 2015 original. 860, (4 publications) PP with 12 maps, plus 24 pages with 97 b/w illustrations (1 map and 96 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 19.8 x 12.7. 9780552169202
73163 HOLLAND, James THE WAR IN THE WEST: A New History - Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-1943
$15.00 AUD
Bantam Press. London. 2017. 1st paperback edition. XXVI, (2), 720, (2) PP with 4 head pieces on double page and 22 maps and diagrams, plus 16 pages with 1 colour illustration and 67 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780595071687
53458 HOLMAN, Gordon THE KING'S CRUISERS
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1947. 1st Ed. 264 PP with 3 charts in text plus 8 warships' silhouettes (tail pieces) plus 30 pages with 30 b/w photos. Fp: Ocean Vigil. FEP: The World. REP: Mediterranean Sea. Cloth cover. Spine sunned and frayed with a few tears. Signature on FFEP. A very good clean reading copy. Image shows title-page and Frontispiece. 22.8 x 14.6.
The triumphs & vicissitudes as well as the good & bad times of WWII.
69605 HOLMAN, Gordon STAND BY TO BEACH !
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1945. 2nd reprint of the December 1944 original. 224 PP, plus 24 pages with 1 painting and 22 b/w photos. Fp: "The First Foothold Gained!". Cloth cover, spine & edges a little worn & soiled. Copy lacking the free fly of front endpaper. War economy paper. Good reading copy. 19 x 12.4.
From the landing in Normandy to the fall of Cherbourg.
74115 HOOD, Mike (editor) TRAFALGAR 200 - ROYAL NAVY
$25.00 AUD
E.P. Homan Associates / Minstry of Defrense. West Moseley, UK. 2005. 1st Ed. Message from H.M. Queen Elizabeth II. Forewords by First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Alan West and Director General "Trafalgar 200", Rear Admiral James Rapp. 112 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers a little rubbed, o/wise fine. 29.5 x 21.
Trafalgar 200: Past Glories, Future Horizons.
40400 HOOK, F. A. MERCHANT ADVENTURERS 1914-1918
$30.00 AUD
A. & C. Black. London. 1920. 1st Ed. VIII, 319 PP, plus 2 folded maps at rear and 32 plates with 35 b/w illust. Fp: Four-point-seven. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Bookplate of "The Royal Cruising Club" on front endpaper. Ageing of paper and foxing (not affecting plates). Top of spine missing on 2 cm. Covers protected by a dust jacket (laser print). Good reading copy. 21.4 x 13.5.
War records during the first World War of: P. & O., British India, and their Associated Lines.
75226 HOPTON, Richard A RELUCTANT HERO - The Life of Captain Robert Ryder, VC
$30.00 AUD
Pen & Sword Maritime. Barnley, UK. 2011 1st Ed. XVI, 224 PP with with 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 41 b/w illustrations (1 graph, 2 documents, 4 ink drawingsby Robert Ryder, and 34 photos). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781848843707
Crossing on board the Tai-Mo-Shan, from Hong Kong to Dartmouth (1931-33). British Graham Land Expedition, on the Penola (1934-37). Campbeltown and Raid on St Nazaire 1942.
12369 HOUGH, Richard NELSON
$15.00 AUD
Books for Pleasure. Sydney. 1980. 1st Australian edition. 192 PP with 111 b/w & 55 colour illust. Fp: Nelson by Leonardo Guzzardi. Eps: 18th Century English coverlet embroidered in silks and gold. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25 x 19. 092602060
A biography of the national hero, victor of Cape St.Vincent, the Nile (Aboukir) and Trafalgar, who died while defeating the Franco-Spanish Fleet at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
34769 HOUGH, Richard THE LONGEST BATTLE - The War at Sea 1939-45
$15.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1986. 1st Ed. XI, 371 PP with 6 maps, plus 24 pages with 56 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj., Foxing on outside edges and a small mark on bottom outside edge, o/wise very good. 24 x 16. 029778983X
60400 HOWARD, Richard (compiler) WOLFE AT QUEBEC (Jackdaw No. 23)
$15.00 AUD
Jackdaw Publications. London. 1969. Reprint of the 1966 edition (original: Jonathan Cape, 1965). Folder with 8 of the 9 facsimile of documents and the 6 broadsheets. Lacks document No.:7 "The Taking of Quebec". Special card folder with tape binding. Very good. Format (oblong): 23.5 x 34.5. 0305610279
18825 HOWARTH, David SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, The Story of British Sea Power
$10.00 AUD
Book Club Associates. London. 1974. Reprint of the 1974 original. 382 PP with 5 maps & 2 diagrams, plus 48 pages with 27 b/w and 19 colour illust. Eps: World Map. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24.7 x 17.
The growth of British power at sea, since the 5th Century voyages of Celtic monks across the Atlantic...
20664 HOWARTH, David SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, The Story of British Sea Power
$15.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1974. 1st Ed. 382 PP with 5 maps & 2 diagrams, plus 48 pages with 27 bw & 19 colour illust. Eps: World Map. Hard cover, dj. (small piece missing on spine). Foxing spots on outside edges. A very good clean copy. 24.7 x 17. 0002167557
The growth of British power at sea, since the 5th Century voyages of Celtic monks across the Atlantic...
20755 HOWARTH, David & Stephen NELSON, The Immortal Memory
$20.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press. London. 1997. Reprint in the Conway Classics series of the 1988 original. IX, 390 PP plus 16 pages with 21 bw illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 0851777201
34364 HOWARTH, David & Stephen LORD NELSON - The Immortal Memory
$15.00 AUD
Viking Press. New York. 1989. 1st US edition. IX, 390 PP plus 16 pages with 22 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Remainder mark on lower edge, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0670817295
35947 HOWARTH, David & Stephen NELSON - The Immortal Memory
$20.00 AUD
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London. 1988. 1st Ed. IX, 390 PP plus 16 pages with 22 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0460070088
72460 HOYT, Edwin P. SUNK BY THE BISMARCK. The Life and Death of the Battleship HMS Hood
$30.00 AUD
Military Heritage Press. New York. 1988. Reprint of the 1977 original. (6), 149 PP, plus 4 pages with 10 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing on top outside edge. Near fine. 23.8 x 16. 0880292199
Convoy duty, against the French at Oran, chasing German raiders. Her fatal encounter with the Bismarck in May, 1941.
71930 HUGHES, Major General Bil & Al. REGIMENTAL HERITAGE - A Pictorial Record of the Paintings and Silver of the The Royal Regiment of Artillery
$100.00 AUD
Royal Regiment of Artillery / Europa Publications Limited. London. 1984. 1st edition. Introduction by General Sir Thomas Morony, Master Gunner. 236 PP with 8 headpieces by Joan Wanklyn. over 103 colour plates and over 315 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Her Majesty The Queen, Our Captain General. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title and device on front cover. Slipcase, cloth cover and with gilt device and title. Fine. Oblong: 29 x 35. 0946653062
Contents include: The Indian Artilleries and the Crimea, The Colonial Period (1860-1914), The First World War, The Regiment in Peace, The Second World War, and after. An impressive work.
18499 HUMBLE, Richard THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Queen Anne Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 256 PP with tables, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 24 x 15. 0356122271
From the Tudor Navy to victory against Japan, the Royal Navy fought and survived. Since then, it has diminished and lost its importance as a naval force.
68603 HUMBLE, Richard THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH NAVY
$5.00 AUD
Queen Anne Press. London. 1986. 1st Ed. 256 PP with tables, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. STamps "University of Tasmania" / "Australia Maritime College" on endpapers and title page. Faint foxing. Very good. 24 x 15. 0356122271
From the Tudor Navy to victory against Japan, the Royal Navy fought and survived. Since then, it has diminished and lost its importance as a naval force.
71553 HURD, Archibald A MERCHANT FLEET AT WAR
$60.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1920. 1st Ed. XXIV, 140 PP with 1 drawing, plus 13 colour plates and 50 b/w plates with 70 photos. Title page: vignette with crest of Cunard Line. Fp (in colour): "Aquitania" leading the Transports. FEP: Map of Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. REP: Map of the routes served by Cunard ships during the war. Covers with light shelf wear (rubbing around edges mostly) and spine is somewhat faded. Light foxing around page edges, o/wise a near fine copy. 20.7 x 14.
The Cunard Line during First World War.
18804 HURD, Sir Archibald THE BATTLE OF THE SEAS - The Fighting Merchantmen
$5.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1941. June 1941 reprint of the May 1941 original. 160 PP, plus 40 pages with 52 b/w photos. Fp: Ships of Commerce Guarded by Ships of War. Hard cover a little soiled and rubbed around edges. Occasional foxing, o/wise very good. 19.4 x 13.
A tribute to the skill, endurance & courage of the fighting merchantmen who supplied food & raw materials to the forces thus contributing to the defeat of Italy & Germany.
44961 HURD, Sir Archibald THE BATTLE OF THE SEAS, The Fighting Merchantmen
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1941. 1st Printing. 160 PP plus 40 pages with 52 b/w photos. Fp: Ships of Commerce Guarded by Ships of War. Hard cover with a few marks, scarce dust jacket. Light foxing, renewed endpapers, o/wise very good. 19.4 x 13.
A tribute to the skill, endurance & courage of the fighting merchantmen who supplied food & raw materials to the forces thus contributing to the defeat of Italy & Germany.
74244 HURD, Sir Archibald (editor) BRITAIN'S MERCHANT NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Odhams Press. London. c. 1943. 1st Ed. 256 PP with b/w illustrations: over 40 explanatory drawings by L. Ashwell Wood & over 100 photos/paintings. Eps: Convoy. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine. War economy paper. Name of previous owner on endpapers. Very good.. 22.8 x 15.5.
Men & ships of the Merchant Navy, at peace or at war. Chapters by Adm. R.G. Evans, A.C. Hardy, Cmr. A.B. Campbell... covering many aspects including shipbuilding, navigation, life on board a tramp, the first two years of WWII..
43994 HYTHE, Viscount (editor) THE NAVAL ANNUAL 1913
$25.00 AUD
Arco Publishing. New York. 1970. Reprint of the 1913 original. Library edition. (4), VIII, 520 PP with tables & b/w illustrations, plus 1 diagram and 9 b/w plates. Fp: H.M.S. King George V. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 25.4 x 16. 0668022671
The state of various navies prior to WWI. British and foreign navies. Personnel of the German Navy... The Turco-Italian war. The Dominion and Imperial defence.
44186 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE] THE STATE VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC - No. 6298, Volume 236 -16th April 1960
$10.00 AUD
The Illustrated London News and Sketch Limited. London. 1960. P625-672. Contains article by Arthur Bryant from P. 633 to 649 with 34 b/w illustrations. Stapled soft covers (crossed flags of France and the United Kingdom in colour). Near fine. 36.5 x 25.8.
The state visit of President De Gaulle, April 5-8 1960.
68648 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE] PICTURE RECORDS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR / SOUVENIRS DE LA GUERRE EUROPEENNE
$10.00 AUD
Newspaper Illustrations / The Illustrated London News & Sketch. London. 1917. 1st Ed. 12 b/w photographic plates selected from the Official Photographs of the French Government 1914-1917. All captions in English and French. Soft cover, illustrated front "The Soldier's Divertisements / Les Divertissements du Soldat". Plates and covers bound with a tie. Covers with a little light wear/soiling, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 16.2 x 22.7.
Selection of Official photographs of the French Government, 1914-1917 : ... Sabot Wood, Somme Battles ...
68649 ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS [THE] PICTURE RECORDS OF THE EUROPEAN WAR / SOUVENIRS DE LA GUERRE EUROPEENNE
$10.00 AUD
Newspaper Illustrations / The Illustrated London News & Sketch. London. 1917. 1st Ed. 12 b/w photographic plates selected from the Official Photographs of the French Government 1914-1917. All captions in English and French. Soft cover, illustrated front "Another One: Shells ... / Encore Un: Obus ...". Plates and covers bound with a tie. Covers with light wear/soiling, o/wise near fine. Oblong. 16.2 x 22.7.
Selection of official photographs of the French Government, 1914-1917 : Midnight Mass at Fort Douaumont, 24th December 1916 ... Verdun. Somme Front ... Destroyed Churches (Betheny, Arras, Reims).
74837 INNES, Hammond THE MARY DEARE
$10.00 AUD
The Companion Book Club. London. 1983. Book Club edition of the 1956 original published by Collins. 288 PP. FEP: map of the Gulf of Saint Malo. REP: map of Plateau des Minquiers. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Ageing of paper around outside edges. Near fine. 19 x 13.
Novel.
34210 IRVING, Commander John THE SMOKE SCREEN OF JUTLAND
$15.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1966. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 13 maps and diagrams, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Small chips on corners of dust jacket, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16.
69687 IVE, Ruth THE WOMAN WHO CENSORED CHURCHILL
$15.00 AUD
The History Press. Stroud, Gloucestershire. 2008. 1st Ed. 159, (1) PP with 5 "Churchill Documents", plus 8 pages with 12 b/w illustrations (1 document, 1 map and 10 photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 22.2 x 14. 9780752447162
36672 JACKSON, Robert HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Parragon. Bath, UK. 1999. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title spread: Aircraft carrier of the Invincible class. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 30 x 23.5. 0752532197
39138 JACKSON, Robert THE ROYAL NAVY IN WORLD WAR II
$15.00 AUD
Airlife. London. 1997. 1st UK edition. 176 PP with 6 maps and 169 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 185310714X
44082 JACKSON, Robert THE ROYAL NAVY IN WORLD WAR II
$10.00 AUD
Airlife. London. 1997. 1st UK edition. 176 PP with 6 maps and 169 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Remainder mark on lower outside edge, o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 185310714X
71248 JACKSON, Robert STRIKE FROM THE SEA, A History of British Naval Air Power
$15.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1970. 1st Ed. 234 PP with appendices, plus 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Ex-libris of previous owner on FFEP with remnants of sellotape marks on endpapers and flaps of dust jacket. Contents near fine. 22 x 14. 0213001586
From the hunt for the Graf Spee to the final assault on Japan and Kamikaze attacks on the carriers of the British Pacific Fleet.
74333 JAMES, Admiral Sir William A GREAT SEAMAN - The Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver
$40.00 AUD
H. F. & G. Witherby. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 190 PP, plus 8 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Some foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.2.
44760 JAMES, Lawrence THE ILLUSTRATED RISE & FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
$15.00 AUD
New York. 1999. St. Martin's Press. Illustrated edition of the 1994 original, abridged by Helen Lowie. 352 PP with 16 maps, hundreds of illustrations (71 of them in colour). Fp: Portrait of Henry Morton Stanley with scenes from his expeditions in the Dark Continent. Half title page: HM The Queen arriving in Fiji. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 27.8 x 23.2. 0312264291
72503 JAMESON, Rear-Admiral William ARK ROYAL 1939-1941
$20.00 AUD
Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 371 PP with 17 maps and diagrams, plus 18 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: Off Trondheim, 16.45 on May 1st 1940, the Luftwaffe misses just ahead. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket is price-clipped and laminated. Light fowing on outside page edges. Stamps of previous owners at top of FFEP with an ex-libris blind stamp at the bottom, o/wise contents are clean and overall, still a very good copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
Hunt for the Graf Spee ... sinking of the Bismarck ... torpedoed and sunk by U-Boat U-81, 13 November 1941.
19664 JANE, Fred T. THE BRITISH BATTLE-FLEET, Its Inception and Growth throughout the Centuries
$30.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press. London. 1997. Reprint of the 1912 original, in the Conway Classics Series. Introduction by Anthony Preston. XVI, 406 PP with b/w illust. (plans & photos) in text plus 48 pages with bw & many colour plates including 24 by W.L. Wyllie. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dedicatory note at top of FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 23.5 x 15. 0851777236
30245 JARRETT, Cmdr. Hugh THE ROYAL NAVY'S INFLUENCE ON AUSTRALIAN HISTORY, Circa 1800-1897
$5.00 AUD
Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed., Monograph No. 43 of the Society. 11 PP (typescript on recto only), plus 2 pages with b/w illustrations (photocopy quality). Pictorial soft cover, clear plastic folder. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Transcript of a lecture given to the Society, 1994.
72548 JASPER, Willi LUSITANIA: The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
$25.00 AUD
Yale University Press. New Haven & London. 2016. 1st US edition. Translated from the German original of 2015 by Stewart Spencer. VI, 233 PP, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w illustrations (drawings & cartoons, posters, photos). Hard covers, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 9780300221381
76080 JAY, Lieutenant-Commander L. M. A. (editor) HMS VICTORY - Souvenir Guidebook
$10.00 AUD
Pitkin Pictorials. London. 1988. New edition of the 1972 original. 20 PP with colour illustrations (1 "exploded" drawing of H.M.S. Victory, 1 sketch map of the Battle of Trafalgar and 27 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania on title page. Near fine. 24 x 17. 9780853724544
The pictorial story .
76270 JAY, Lieutenant-Commander L. M. A. (editor) HMS VICTORY - Souvenir Guidebook
$15.00 AUD
Pitkin Pictorials. London. 1991. Reprint of the 1988 edition, (original of 1972). 20 PP with colour illustrations (1 "exploded" drawing of H.M.S. Victory, 1 sketch map of the Battle of Trafalgar and 27 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24 x 17. 9780853724544
The pictorial story.
60826 JEFFREYS, Commander R. E. A NAVAL OPERATION IN SAMOA - An Example of Imperial Police Work (in the Journal)
$10.00 AUD
Royal United Service Institution. London. c. 1933. Pulled out article fropm the "Journal of the RUSI". Pages 501 to 513. Soft cover. Foxing. 25 x 17.5.
H.M.S. Dunedin and the Mau /Society in Western Samoa (slogan: Samoa for the Samoans).
13602 JELLICOE, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount of Scapa THE CRISIS OF THE NAVAL WAR
$70.00 AUD
Cassell and Company. London. 1920. October 1920 reprint of the July 1920 original. XVIII, 331 PP, plus 8 plates with 15 b/w photos and 6 folded maps in rear pocket. Cloth cover, device (crest) in blind on front board, gilt device and title on spine. Name of previous owner at top corner of front endpaper. Light foxing (endpapers, outside edges and text) but not on plates. One page with a small crease at corner (dog-ear), o/wise a very good clean copy. 24 x 16.5.
39938 JOHNSTON, George H. BATTLE OF THE SEAWAYS
$10.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1941. 1st Australian edition. XVI, 240 PP, plus 12 b/w plates. Fp: British bomber circling German oil tanker. Cloth cover, gilt title on sunned spine. War economy paper, foxing spots on outside edges and few pages. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
Early stages (up to April 1941) of World War II: submarine warfare, blockade of Germany, mine warfare,...
73590 JOHNSTON, Michael H-BOMBS & HULA GIRLS - Operation Grapple 1957 and the Last Royal Navy Gunroom at Sea
$80.00 AUD
Uniform / Unicorn Publishing. London. 2017. 1st Ed. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. 319 PP with 1 colour painting and b/w illustrations: diagrams, drawings, sketches, maps (Christmas, Malden, Penrhyn, Pitcairn , postal stamps and photos. Illustrated stiff covers with flaps. Dedicatory note dated and signed by one of the ten National Servicemen. Fine (as new condition). 24.5 x 20.3. 9781910500682
Tale of 10 young men brought together through National Service in the Royal Navy, taking part while serving on HMS Warrior to Britain's secret thermonuclear weapons tests, near Christmas Island, Line Islands, Central Pacific. .
40724 JONES, Noah JOURNALS OF TWO CRUISES ABOARD THE AMERICAN PRIVATEER YANKEE, by a Wanderer
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. New York. 1967. 1st printing, with an introduction by Admiral E. M. Eller. XXXII, 156 PP with 2 maps on double page and 6 illustrations. Fp: The brig Nancy Ann, of the same size and period as the Yankee. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 21.7 x 14.7.
The Anglo American war of 1812.
44394 JORDAN, Humfrey TIDE STILL FLOWING
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1952. Paperback reprint of the 1940 original. 190 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.
Novel.
69949 JORDAN, Roger W. THE WORLD'S MERCHANT FLEETS 1939. The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships
$70.00 AUD
Chatham Publishing. London. 1999. 1st Ed. XVI, 624 PP with 300 b/w photos. Title spread: Umtali, built for the Natal Line service. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges and light crease on half-title page. Near fine. 30.2 x 21.5. 186176023X
74218 JORDAN, Roger W. THE WORLD'S MERCHANT FLEETS 1939. The Particulars and Wartime Fates of 6,000 Ships
$75.00 AUD
Chatham Publishing. London. 2006. New edition of the 1999 original. XVI, 624 PP with 300 b/w photos. Title spread: Umtali, built for the Natal Line service. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket sightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. 27.5 x 20. 9781861762931
63617 JUBELIN, Rear-Admiral André THE FLYING SAILOR
$5.00 AUD
Hurst and Blackett. London. 1953. 1st English edition, translated from the 1951 French original "Marin de Métier - Pilote de Fortune". 276 PP, plus 20 pages with 34 b/w photos. Cloth cover. Ex Library copy (Australian Red Crosss Hospital Library Service), with tape marks on endpapers, few stamps and colour photo pasted down on front cover. Foxing. Very good reading copy. 21.7 x 14.5.
World War II with the French Navy, the Free French Navy (after leaving his post in Indo-China to join the British forces in Malaya) and as a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force.
75531 KEE, Robert MUNICH: The Eleventh Hour
$10.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1988. 1st Ed. XII, (2), 242 PP with 1 map and an inset, plus 12 pages with 24 b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Ex Library copy with stamps on endpapers. Ageing of paper, and binding reinforced in the gutters of endpapers. Very good reading copy. 24.3 x 15.5.. 0241125375
61298 KEMP, Lieut.-Commander P. K. FLEET AIR ARM
$10.00 AUD
Herbert Jenkins. London. 1954. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip L. Vian. 232 PP, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w photos. Fp: H. M. S. Eagle. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket price-clipped and chipped. Top part of front endpaper clipped. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages but still a good copy. 22.2 x 14.2.
69984 KEMP, Lieut.-Commander P. K. FLEET AIR ARM
$20.00 AUD
Herbert Jenkins. London. 1954. 2nd impression (December 1954) of the November 1954 original. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip L. Vian. 232 PP, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w photos. Fp: H. M. S. Eagle. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few small chips, signature of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.2.
48874 KEMP, Lieutenant-Commander P. K. NINE VANGUARDS
$20.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1951. 1st Ed. 236 PP, plus 16 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Fp: H.M.S. Vanguard, 1947. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with a few chips and protected. Foxing spots on outside edges and a few pages, o/wise a very good clean copy. 23.5 x 16.
The 9 warships of the British and Royal Navy, named Vanguard.
72869 KEMP, Paul CONVOY ! - Drama in Arctic Waters
$10.00 AUD
Cassell Military Paperbacks. London. 2000. 1st paperback edition of the 1993 original. 256 PP with tables, plus 48 pages with 112 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page, o/wise fine. 19.7 x 12.8. 9780304354511
72070 KEMP, Peter THE CAMPAIGN OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
$25.00 AUD
Phaidon Press. Oxford. 1988. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread (in colour): Ships of the Spanish Armada in the River Tagus. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24.7 x 21.6. 9780714825038
One of the aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic. During WWII, the author was working in the U-Boat tracking room of the British Admiralty.
68465 KEMP, Peter (editor) HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$25.00 AUD
Arthur Barker, Ltd. London. 1969. 1st Ed. 304 PP with 18 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (maps paintings, photos). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket. A few chips or closed tears to the dust jacket which is in a protective sleeve. Name of previous owner has been covered with white-out on inside front cover. Front endpaper has a vertical crease, otherwise this is a near fine copy. 28.5 x 22.5. 213179113
46405 KENNEDY, Gavin CAPTAIN BLIGH: The Man and his Mutinies
$30.00 AUD
Duckworth. London. 1989. 1st Ed. XIV, 321 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of the Western Pacific with routes of the Bounty, the Bounty's launch and the Pandora. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780715622315
Voyage with Cook on the Resolution, Breadfruit voyages and mutiny on the Bounty, Governor of New South Wales...
45373 KERR, George F. BUSINESS IN GREAT WATERS, The War History of the P. & O. (1939-1945)
$10.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1951. 1st Ed. 196 PP, plus 2 colour plates, 6 pages with 13 photos & 1 large folded photo (panoramic view of Table Bay Harbour in April 1941). Fp: The North African Landing 1942. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Stamp "With Compliments of the P & O S. N.Co." on half-title page. Light foxing. Very good. 20.5 x 14.
The world's greatest merchant fleet during WWII. Armed merchant cruisers, troopships ...
16811 KERR, J. Lennox & GRANVILLE, Wilfred THE R. N. V. R. - A Record of Achievement
$10.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear-Admiral G. Thistleton-Smith. 304 PP with 1 line drawing, plus 24 pages with 47 b/w photos. Fp: M.L. 282 at Zeebrugge. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Ex-Library copy with 1 stamp on front endpaper and dust jacket blurb pasted down on FFEP. A very good clean copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 21.5 x 14.5.
History of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve since its inception in 1903. Its organization and some of its valorous deeds.
65527 KESSLER, Contre-Amiral Jean (editor) FRANCAIS ET ANGLAIS EN MEDITERRANEE 1789-1830
$100.00 AUD
Service Historique de la Marine. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword and Epilogue by Vice Amiral d'Escadre Michel Tripier. Introduction by Contre-Amiral Jean Kessler. 330 PP with tables and 5 maps. Texts: 11 in English and 14 in French. Pictorial card cover. Name of previous owner at top corner of title page. Occasional faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 15.5.
3rd seminar of the Anglo-French studies of Maritime History, held in Toulon 14, 15 & 16th November 1990. 21 papers "... from the French Revolution, to the Independence of Greece ..." : 10 in French, by Jean Tulard, Jacques Ferrier, Martine Acerra ... Michèle Battesti ... and 11 in English, by Christopher Ware, Nicholas Tracy, Anthony Ryan, David J. Lyon, Brian Lavery ... John B. Hattendorf, William S. Dudley.
73498 KILVINGTON, Patrick THE LAST LANC'
$120.00 AUD
Boolarong Publication. Brisbane. 1982. 1st Ed. XX, 162 PP with b/w illustrations: 11 portraits and 40 photos. Hard cover, dust jacket with a few small chips and is now in a protective sleeve. A near fine copy. Scarce. 24.5 x 17. 0908175329
The last flight of "Spirit of Surfers Paradise" in 1965 from Sydney to Biggin Hill, Kent, United Kingdom. List of the 7,376 other Lancasters built between P.120 and 162.
16920 KING, Cecil RULE BRITANNIA
$10.00 AUD
Studio Publications. London. 1942. 2nd printing of the September 1941 original. XII, PP.13-280 with line drawings and 56 b/w plates. FEP: Map of Europe/Africa. REP: Map of W. Atlantic & Indian/Pacific region. Gilt-decorated cloth cover. Ex-library copy (2 unobtrusive stamps), o/wise very good copy. 24.8 x 15.
A parallel between the naval events after 2 years of WWII and past action, showing that the Navy is a worthy successor of its distinguished forbears.
75997 KING, Cecil H. M. S. HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS AND THEIR FORBEARS
$25.00 AUD
The Studio Publications. London. 1941. 3rd edition in June 1941 of the September 1940 original. Foreword by Admiral Sir Edward R. G. R. Evans. XI, 12- 28 PP with 38 text illustrations by the author, and 56 b/w plates, each with caption and comments. Eps: Mappemonde by author. Cloth covers, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Edges of covers rubbed and worn. Head and foot of spine rubbed and with a few tears. Back cover with old damp marks. War economy paper. Newspaper cliipping "Warship Names", by C. Bowen, Argus, dated 24 September 1942 loosely inserted. Signature of previous owner at top of front endpaper A very good clean copy internally. 25.2 x 16.
From Acasta and Achates to Warspite and Warwick.
16676 KIPLING, Rudyard A FLEET IN BEING, Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron
$10.00 AUD
Macmillan. London. 1916. Reprint of 1898 original. (4), 84 PP. Decorated cloth cover (water damage stain on top half & on top of pages not affecting text) light foxing of edges, renewed endpapers, o/wise good. 19.5 x 13.
45770 KIPLING, Rudyard THE FRINGES OF THE FLEET
$20.00 AUD
Macmillan. London. 1916. 3rd reprint in February 1916 of the December 1915 original. (4), 72 PP, (2 adverts: on the works of Rudyard Kipling). Pictorial soft cover (White Ensign) . Very good. 16 x 11.5.
Poems and thoughts: on the auxiliary ships or craft of the Royal Navy, trawlers transformed into mine-sweepers, submarines, ...
74320 KIPLING, Rudyard A FLEET IN BEING - Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron
$35.00 AUD
Macmillan and Co. Ltd. London. 1899. October 1899 reprint of the 1898 original. (4), 84 PP. Title on front cover with a painting by N. Wilkinson. Front endpaper with bookplate of Tasmanian Collector "W.L. Crowther", dated 20.7.1911), and small neat stamp of last owner on FFEP. A near fine copy. 19.7 x 13.
16943 KITSON, Linda THE FALKLANDS WAR, A Visual Diary
$15.00 AUD
Mitchell Beazley & Imperial War Museum. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 112 PP with drawings & comments by the author/artist. Eps: Map of the Falkland Islands. Pict. card cover. Top corner of 3 first leaves clipped. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 34 x 24. 0855334576
The artist was the first female and only war artist attached to the British Task Force. A selection of over 100 drawings.
43015 KNIGHT, E. F. THE UNION-CASTLE AND THE WAR 1914-1919
$55.00 AUD
The Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co. Ltd. London. 1920. 1st Ed. 64, (14) PP with 1 colour and 20 b/w illustrations by Edmund G. Fuller. Fp (colour): A camouflaged Union-Castle Liner. Last page: House Flag. Illustrated endpapers (crest and caravelle). Cloth cover, gilt device and title on front cover, gilt crest of UC on back cover. Top of covers slightly sunned with a small crease in the cloth on bottom of front cover. Light foxing on the last few pages, o/wise a near fine copy of a scarce title. 28.2 x 20.2.
Record of some of the more important activities of the Fleet and Staff of the Union-Castle liners in the Great War. 13 pages with Roll of Honour.
69764 LAFFIN, John DAMN THE DARDANELLES! - The Agony of Gallipoli
$10.00 AUD
Sun Papermac / Macmillan. Sydney. 1985. 1st paperback edition of the 1980 original. 224 PP with 1 sketch, 5 plans & 71 b/w illustrations (photos, posters). Laminated soft cover, pictorial front. Spine sunned. Ex Library copy with stamp on verso of title page and renewed endpapers. Very good. 23.2 x 15.4. 0725104643
A critical and challenging analysis of the Gallipoli campaign, designed to knock Turkey out of the War and open a supply route to Russia.
10111 LAMBERT, John & ROSS, Al ALLIED COASTAL FORCES OF WORLD WAR II - Volume I: Fairmile Designs and US Submarine Chasers
$75.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1990. 1st Ed. Foreword by Commander Christopher W Dreyer. 256 PP with tables & b/w illust. (plans, detailed sketches & photos). Fp: Scene at HMS Hornet, Gosport, in June 1944. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 30.2 x 25. 9780851775197
Fairmile Marine Co, the harbour defense motor launch... their technical details in words, photos & line drawings. Design, construction, equipment & subsequent development.
10112 LAMBERT, John & ROSS, Al ALLIED COASTAL FORCES OF WORLD WAR II, Volume II: Vosper MTBs & U.S. ELCOs
$75.00 AUD
Conway. London. 1993. 1st Ed. 256 PP with tables and many b/w illust. (plans, detailed sketches & photos). Title spread: A feast of Vospers at HMS Beehive, March 1943. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 30.2 x 25. 9780851776026
The 16 different types of Vosper MTB, as well as the 70 Ft, 77 Ft and 80 Ft US Elco types. Design, construction, equipment & subsequent development. Construction lists, ...
69928 LAMING, Tim THE VULCAN STORY 1952-2002
$30.00 AUD
Silverdale Books. London. 2002. Revised edition of the 1993 original. 231 PP with b/w illustrations: sketches, plans, cutaways and photos. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 28 x 22.5. 1856057011
72884 LANDSBOROUGH, Gordon THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE
$15.00 AUD
Panther Book. London. 1956. 1st paperback edition. 160 PP with 1 sketch on ranges of amminitions, 1 sketch map of the South Atlantic Ocean and 1 chart track of the action, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos . Pictorial stiff covers. Slight ageing of paper. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on preliminary page. Very good. 18 x 11.2.
Last stand of the Graf Spee, off Montevideo.
16774 LANGMAID, Capt. Kenneth CLEAR FOR ACTION! The Royal Navy in Defence and in Attack
$10.00 AUD
Jarrolds. London. 1970. 1st Ed. XVI, 176 PP plus 8 pages with 16 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0091038405
Record of the sequence of foreign invasions which led to the establishment & growth of British naval strength; to control, eliminate them and counter attack!
52479 LANGSFORD, A. E. H.M.S. MARATHON
$10.00 AUD
Barrie & Jenkins. London. 1989. Reprint of the 1989 original. 240 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0712620036
Novel set in the Mediterranean, 1942.
22032 LAPPING, Brian END OF EMPIRE
$10.00 AUD
Book Club Associates / Guild Publishing. London. 1985. 1st Ed. XVI, 560 PP with 17 maps and 133 bw illust. FEP: British Empire: dates of acquisition. REP: The end of British rule. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on FFEP and half-title page, o/wise a near fine copy. 25.3 x 18.5.
The Route to Independence : India, Palestine, Malaya, Iran, Egypt, Aden, Cyprus, Gold Coast, Kenya, Rhodesia.
69138 LARSON, Erik DEAD WAKE - The Last Crossing of the LUSITANIA
$15.00 AUD
Doubleday. London. 2015. 1st paperback edition. XVI, 430, (2) PP with 1 map "Great Britain and Environs - 1914". Fp: Lusitania. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 23.3 x 15. 9780857521828
47518 LASSAQUE, Jean GUERRE NAVALE EN NORVEGE. 8 Avril - 28 Juillet 1940
$10.00 AUD
Editions du Gerfaut. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed. 336 PP with 18 maps, 36 profiles of warships and 22 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21.9 x 14.5. 2914622295
War at sea and on land in Norway: 8th April to 28 July 1940.
67286 LAUGHTON, John Knox (editor) STATE PAPERS RELATING TO THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA, Anno 1588 (two volumes)
$70.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1981. Reprint of the 1895 & 1900 originals. Volume I: LXXXIV, 365 PP. Fp: sketch map of the estuary of the Thames. Volume II: (VI), 418 PP. Original Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 08593726 42 & 50
67295 LAUGHTON, John Knox (editor) THE NAVAL MISCELLANY - Volume I
$70.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1902. 1st Ed. Volume XX of the Navy Records Society. XI, 463, (4 publications) PP, plus 4 b/w plates (1 map & 3 folded maps) and 4 plates in colour. Cloth cover, cream and navy blue, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Front and back hinge split at head and repaired. Relevant pencil annotations on "Contents" pages. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24 x 16.
Book of war by sea and land, anno 1543, by Jehan Bytharne. Relation of the voyage to Cadiz, 1596 by Sir William Slyngisbie... Seizure of Helgoland, 1807.
67285 LAUGHTON, Sir John Knox (editor) THE NAVAL MISCELLANY - Volume II
$35.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. c. 1970. Reprint (?) of the 1912 original. Volume XL of the Navy Records Society. X, 430 PP with tables, plus 7 plates (3 of them folded). Navy cloth cover (gilt device on front, gilt title on spine. Covers with light shelf wear, a few relevant pencil annotations in "Contents" page which has a small repaired closed tear. Stamp of previous owner at top of front endpaper. An otherwise very good copy. 24 x 16.
Voyage of the Barbara to Brazil, anno 1540. The taking of the Madre de Dios, anno 1592. Operations on the coast of Egypt, 1801... Frustration of the plan for the escape of Napoleon Bonaparte from Bordeaux in July 1815...
36863 LAUGHTON, Sir John Knox (editor) LETTERS AND PAPERS OF CHARLES, LORD BARHAM, Admiral of the Red Squadron 1758-1813 - Volume III
$15.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1911. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 39. Vol. III: XXXVIII, 413, (4 publications) PP. Fp: The Right Hon. Lord Barham, Admiral of the Red Squadron. Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Covers with light wear and light soiling, 2 stamps "MOD Library Services" on front endpaper and recto of frontispiece. Hinge of front cover starting. Pages untrimmed, slight ageing of paper. Still a very good copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 24.2 x 16.5.
71273 LAVERY, Brian IN WHICH THEY SERVED : The Royal Navy Officer Experience in the Second World War
$15.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 2008. 1st US Ed. 384 PP with b/w illustrations and maps in text, Index, Bibliography & Notes, plus 32 pages with 58 b/w photos/plates. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9781591144014
Script Media, Ltd / Blitz Publications. Barnsley, UK. 2013. 1st Ed. Commemorative Collector's series - Part Seven. 116 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 22 9772207900001 07
71393 LAWTHER, Rebecca (editor) BEHIND ENEMY LINES - Secret Operations in World War Two
$10.00 AUD
Wharncliffe History Magazines / Blitz Publications. Barnsley, UK. 2008. 1st Ed. Commemorative Collector's series - Part Eleven. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 22. 9772207900001 11
69916 LAWTHER, Rebecca & WRIGHT, Jonathan (editors) D-DAY, 70 YEARS ON - The Normandy Campaign Remembered
$15.00 AUD
Script Media / Pen & Sword Military Books. Barnsley, South Yorkshire. 2014. 70th Anniversary edition. 112 PP, (6 Images of War, D-Day) with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 23. 9781848841710
The story of 6 June 1944: D-Day. 2nd of August 1944, very first flight of the Arado AR234, a jet aeroplane.
44819 LEGG, Stuart (editor) TRAFALGAR - An Eye-Witness Account of a Great Battle
$20.00 AUD
John Day. New York. c. 1967. 1st US edition. 133 PP with 4 maps & battle plans, 24 drawings (3 in text, 21 in the margin), and 8 b/w plates. Cloth cover, device on front cover, dj (rubbed). Name of previous owner on front endpaper (not very discreet). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 21.7 x 17.
21st October 1805: quotations from contemporary written records. Page 70: Flag signal from Nelson to Fleet: England expects that every man will do his duty.
75490 LEGGETT, Eric THE CORFU INCIDENT
$10.00 AUD
New English Library. London. 1976. March 1976 paperback edition of the 1974 original. 176 PP with 1 map (North Corfu Channel). Pictorial soft covers rubbed and with creases. Initials at top of half-title page, foxing. Good clean reading copy. 18 x 10.8. 0450024741
22nd October 1946, damage to the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Saumarez and HMS Volage which struck mines in the Corfu Channel, mined by the Yugoslavs for Albania. Death of 45 sailors.
65030 LEMONOFIDES, Dino BRITISH INFANTRY COLOURS
$15.00 AUD
Almark Publishing Co. Ltd. London. 1972. Soft cover edition. July 1972 reprint of the February 1971 original. 56 PP with b/w illustrations and 6 plates with 39 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 15. 0855240210
21606 LENTON, H. T. BRITISH FLEET & ESCORT DESTROYERS 2
$10.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1970. 1st Ed., in the "Navies of the Second World War" series. 136 PP with tables, 1 plan and 81 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.5. 0356031225
34121 LENTON, H. T. BRITISH SUBMARINES
$25.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1972. 1st Ed., in the "Navies of the Second World War" series. 160 PP with tables, 5 plans and 65 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.5. 035603612X
41579 LENTON, H. T. ABC BRITISH WARSHIPS
$5.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1964. 7th Ed. 72 PP with tables, & 30 b/w photos. recto of title page: H.M.S. Hermes, the Royal Navy's newest aircraft carrier. Pictorial soft cover (Frigate). Stamp of previous owner on title page, o/wise near fine. 15.3 x 10.3.
48275 LENTON, H. T. ABC BRITISH WARSHIPS
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1962. 6th Ed. 72 PP with tables, & 38 b/w photos. Title page: H.M.S. Duncan, type 14 Frigate. Pictorial soft cover (HMS Victorious, aircraft carrier). Rubbed patch at lower corner of front cover. A very good clean copy. 15.3 x 10.3.
69079 LENTON, H. T. BRITISH BATTLESHIPS AND AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
$15.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1972. 1st Ed., in the "Navies of the Second World War" series. 160 PP with tables, 1 plan and 68 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.5. 356038696
76088 LENTON, H. T. BRITISH FLEET & ESCORT DESTROYERS 1
$10.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1970. 1st Ed., in the "Navies of the Second World War" series. 136 PP with tables, some 20 sketch-plans and 76 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 15.5. 0356029506
14158 LENTON, H. T. & COLLEDGE, J. J. WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II - Part 3: Sloops of the Royal and Dominion Navies
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 96 PP with tables & 47 b/w photos. Card covers, pictorial front. Covers rubbed and short tear at lower part of front cover (rubbed), o/wise contents clean and still a very good copy. 18 x 12.
48274 LENTON, H. T. & COLLEDGE, J. J. WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II - Part 2: Destroyers and Submarines of the Royal and Dominion Navies
$30.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 81 PP with tables & 50 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Faint foxing. Very good. 18 x 12.
73832 LENTON, H. T. & COLLEDGE, J. J. WARSHIPS OF WORLD WAR II - Part 1: Capital ships, Cruisers and Aircraft carriers of the Royal and Dominion Navies
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 72 PP with tables & 56 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover (HMS Warspite in Malta harbour). Covers rubbed and with sellotape marks on spine. Contents very good. 18.5 x 12.3.
69253 LEPINE, Mike DUNKIRK - The Disaster ... and the Miracle
$25.00 AUD
Dannan Publishing Ltd. London. 2017. 3 items: 1 magazine: 1st edition. 80 PP with 10 maps in colour and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. New. 29.5 x 23. Together with 2 DVD: "Little Ships" (60 minutes) by Dan Snow, published in 2010 / "Churchill, a Giant in the Century" (90 minutes), published in 2013. 9780995479494
May & June 1940.
72089 LEPOTIER, Rear-Admiral RAIDERS FROM THE SEA
$15.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1954. 1st English edition, with a foreword by Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. 200, (8 publications) PP, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: British craft going ashore under fire at Dieppe. Blue cloth cover sunned near spine which is also sunned. Light foxing on first few pages, o/wise contents clean and still a very good copy. 22 x 14.5.
During WWII combined operations with commando raiders on the Channel Islands, Lofoten Islands, Norway, on the Atlantic Defences at Dieppe and at Saint Nazaire.
69767 LEWIS, Jon E. (editor) D-DAY, As They Saw It
$10.00 AUD
Robinson Publishing. London. 2004. Paperback revised edition of the 1994 original. Foreword by Field Marshal Lord Carver. XIV, (314, (4), (12 blank) PP, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine with light creases. Near fine. 19.5 x 13. 9781841199412
35556 LEWIS, Michael SPITHEAD - An Informal History
$10.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 4 figures, plus 12 pages with 19 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 22.4 x 14.2. 049420968
Arm of the sea found between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
41795 LEWIS, Michael THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH NAVY
$5.00 AUD
Penguin Books. London. 1957. Paperback edition. 288 PP. Soft covers a little soiled and worn. Ageing of paper, foxing. Good reading copy. 18.1 x 11.1.
The old Navy: Pre-Tudor.. to The Commonwealth. The Royal Navy: the later Stuarts... to the Napoleonic War. The New Navy.
42492 LEWIS, Michael BRITISH SHIPS AND BRITISH SEAMEN
$10.00 AUD
The British Council / Longmans Green. London. 1942. January 1942 reprint of the revised edition of 1941 (original of 1940). British Life and Thought series, No. 7. 56 PP, (2), plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illustrations (8 paintings & 3 photos). Soft cover (reinforced at spine). Stamp at lower corner of half title page. Foxing. Very good. 21.8 x 14.
Britain and the sea, British ships and seamen and what they stand for: British Empire, Pax Britannica, freedom and safety of the seas.
49639 LEWIS, Michael BRITISH SHIPS AND BRITISH SEAMEN
$15.00 AUD
The British Council / Longmans Green. London. 1944. Reprint of the 3rd revised edition of 1944 (original of 1940). No. 7 in the British Life and Thought series. 54 PP, (2), plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illustrations (8 paintings & 3 photos). Soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of half-title page, o/wise near fine. 21.8 x 14.
Britain and the sea, British ships and seamen and what they stand for: British Empire, Pax Britannica, freedom and safety of the seas.
63304 LEWIS, Michael THE SPANISH ARMADA
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1970. 2nd printing of the 1966 paperback edition (original of 1960). 239, (1) PP with 1 map, 3 tail-pieces and 5 line drawings, plus 16 pages with 19 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Very good. 17.8 x 11.2. 0330201638
44761 LITTLEWOOD, Kevin & BUTLER, Beverley OF SHIPS AND STARS - Maritime heritage and the founding of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
$15.00 AUD
The Athlone Press / National Maritime Museum. London. 1998. 1st paperback edition. XXIV, 275 PP with tables, plus 42 pages with 54 b/w illustrations. Fp: The flagship Britannia, in a gale, 1669. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.7. 0485121468
Museum founded in 1934.
18175 LLOYD, Christopher THE NATION AND THE NAVY. A History of Naval Life and Policy
$5.00 AUD
Cresset. London. 1954. 1st Ed. XIV, 288 PP, plus 10 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): The Sovereign of the Seas 1837. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers lightly soiled and with a lightly sunned spine. Foxing throughout, o/wise a good copy. 22.2 x 13.5.
A brief social history of the Royal Navy and its use as an instrument of national policy.
63289 LLOYD, Christopher THE BRITISH SEAMAN, 1200-1860 - A Social Survey
$5.00 AUD
Paladin / Granada Publishing. London. 1970. 1st paperback edition of the 1968 original. 287, (1) PP, plus 16 pages with 20 bw illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.7 x 11.4.
Their achievements, in spite of horrible living conditions, disgusting food, cruel punishments, interference with personal freedom...
68674 LLOYD, Christopher CAPTAIN MARRYAT AND THE OLD NAVY
$25.00 AUD
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1939. 1st Ed. XIII, 286 PP with 1 map, plus 8 plates with 9 b/w illustrations. Errata slip tipped on page 1. Fp: Portrait of Frederick Marryat. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers slightly rubbed and soiled. Bookplate on front endpaper and stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page, remainder mark on bottom outside edge. Occasional foxing. Overall, contents very clean and still a very good copy. 22.3 x 14.5.
Joined the Royal Navy a year after Trafalgar... Retired from the Navy in 1830, after his last command on H.M.S. Ariadne, after the first Burmese war. Then a novelist.
76369 LLOYD, Christopher (editor) THE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK ROUND THE WORLD
$25.00 AUD
The Cresset Press. London. 1949. 1st edition in "The Cresset Library" series, selected from his Journals, and edited by Christopher LLoyd.. XXIV, 384 PP with 2 maps (2nd & 3rd Voyages). Eps: Cook's sketch of tracks of the Endeavour and the Coasts discovered on his First Voyage. Cloth cover, gilt decorations and title on front cover and spine, top outside edge tinted. Occasional foxing. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP, otherwise a very good copy. 20.2 x 13.5.
73116 LLOYD, Lieutenant Commander S J & ROYAL NAVY (editors) BROADSHEET- Overview of the Year 2003-2004 / Calendar 2005 "Trafalgar 200, Past Glories, Future Horizons / DVD "Your Navy Today and Tomorrow"
$50.00 AUD
Broadsheet / DDef Pub (Navy). London. 2004. 3 items: Broadsheet 2003-2004 40 PP, plus large folded plate (4 folds) with Fleet List "Surface Fleet / Submarine Service / Fleet Air Arm - Calendar 2005 "Trafalgar 200" - CD "Your Navy Today and Tomorrow, MMIV. Stiff covers. Fine condition. 29.7 x 21.
18790 LOCKHART, J.G. THE SEA, OUR HERITAGE
$10.00 AUD
Geoffrey Bles. London. 1940. October 1940 enlarged edition of the February 1940 original. VII, 257 PP with 5 maps, plus 7 bw plates. Fp: H.M.S. Vindictive after Zeebrugge. Cloth cover, dj. (rubbed and chipped). Previous owner's signature and date on FFEP. War economy paper, scattered foxing, water marks, 1 plate missing (H.M.S. Vindictive at Ostend), o/wise a good copy. 22.5 x 14.5.
Account of Shackleton's heroic voyage. Exploits of the men of the Royal Navy: tragedy of Coronel, beaching of the River Clyde at Gallipoli, submarines in the Sea of Marmora... Exploits of men of the merchant navy: the 1400 mile boat journey of the crew of the Trevessa...
Wilkinson Publishing. Melbourne. 2014. 1st Ed., in the WP Discovery series. No pagination, 88 PP with 6 maps in colour, b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 32 x 24. 9781922178350
Wilkinson Publishing. Melbourne. 2014. 70th Anniversary edition. No pagination, 84 with b/w and colour illustrations (including 6 maps/sketch maps). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 32 x 24. 9781922178350
30350 LORD, Walter THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK
$15.00 AUD
Allen Lane. London. 1983. 1st UK edition of the 1982 US original. X, (2), 323 PP with 1 plan and 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Channel Ports. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24.2 x 16. 0713912111
Evacuation between 24th May and 4th June 1940 of 338,000 Allied troops trapped by the German advance near the port of Dunkirk.
74182 LOWIS, Commander Geoffrey L. (compiler) FABULOUS ADMIRALS and some Naval Fragments
$20.00 AUD
Putnam. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral Sir Denis Boyd. 292 PP, plus 8 b/w illustrations (2 photos and 6 illustrations by Captain Jack Broome). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.2.
... Being a brief account of some of the froth on the characters who enlivened the Royal Navy a generation or two ago.
73527 LUCAS PHILLIPS, C. E. ESCAPE OF THE AMETHYST
$40.00 AUD
Heinemann. London. 1957. 1st Edition. X, 274 PP with 1 head piece and 9 line drawings, plus 10 pages with 16 b/w photos. Fp: HMS Amethyst at Devonport. Eps: Plans of the river Yangtse Kiang. Hard cover, title on spine, bright price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 21.6 x 14.
In April 1949, while patrolling the Yangtse, HMS Amethyst of the 3rd frigate flotilla was attacked by the Chinese People Liberation Army. She later escaped to Shanghai.
72716 LUCAS PHILLIPS, C. E. and HASLER, H.G. COCKLESHELL HEROES
$10.00 AUD
Bantam Books. New York. 1979. March 1979 paperback edition in the "Bantam War Book" series. A reset copy of the 1956 original. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. (10), 244 PP with maps by Benjamin F. Klaessig and 16 line drawings by Robert Blanchard, plus 1 folded plate as frontispiece: painting in colour by Uldis Klavins. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Outside edges tinted. Faint foxing. Very good. 17.7 x 10.7. 0553126646
10811 LUND, Paul & LUDLAM, Harry TRAWLERS GO TO WAR, The Story of Harry Tate's Navy
$50.00 AUD
W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 271 PP, plus 16 pages with 34 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Small discreet stamp of previous owner at top of front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14. 057200768X
The converted trawlers, drifters and whalers of the Royal Naval Patrol Service on many fronts and their duties during WWII. Loss of almost 500 craft. Arctic convoys, Tobruk protection, ...
69611 LUND, Paul & LUDLAM, Harry THE WAR OF THE LANDING CRAFT
$25.00 AUD
London. 1976. W. Foulsham & Co. 1st edition. 256 PP, plus 16 pages with 48 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0572009356
They had no names only numbers, and were regarded with distaste by the 'pusser Navy'. But they laboured and fought their way to Normandy via the beaches of North Africa, Sicily, Serno and Anzio, ...
71817 LUNNEY, Bill & FINCH, Frank FORGOTTEN FLEET - A history of the part played by Australian men and ships in the U.S. Army Small Ships Section in New Guinea, 1942-1945
$125.00 AUD
Forfleet Publishing. Medowie, NSW. 1996. Reprint of the 1995 original. Foreword by Con Sciacca, Minister for Veteran's Affairs. 192 PP with 5 maps, 46 drawings and 105 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note on title page, dated and signed by Bill Lunney, co-auhor. 1 flyer for this title and 2 letters to the editor of the "The Mercury" of Hobart, signed by Bill Lunney, loosely inserted. Top corner of front cover with a short crease. Near fine. Scarce. 29.6 x 21. 0646260480
History and personal narratives of some of the 3000 Australians who served with the Americans. P.130 to 153: List of ships with known information on their history.
65278 LUSITANIA LUSITANIA TORPEDOED (in Great Newspapers Reprinted)
$15.00 AUD
Great Newspapers Reprinted / Peter Way Ltd. London. 1972. Reprint of "The Daily Mirror", Saturday, May 8, 1915. 16 PP with b/w illustrations and a 4 pages pictorial wrapper "PGNR No. 14". Fine. 37 x 29.
48607 LYAUTEY, Pierre SOLDATS ET MARINS BRITANNIQUES. L'Angleterre en Guerre
$10.00 AUD
Librairie Plon. Paris. 1940. 1st Ed. 95 PP (pages uncut). Pictorial soft cover with 5 b/w photos. French text. Occasional foxing, paper ageing, o/wise near fine. 20.2 x 14.
Published in 1940 after Narvik and before Oran / Mers El Kebir.
34851 LÜTZOW, Konteradmiral Friedrich SKAGERRAK
$10.00 AUD
Georg Müller. Munchen. 1936. Edition for young adults in Die Junge Reihe series. 82 PP, with 6 maps, plus 4 b/w plates (portraits of the British and German protagonists). Illustrated soft cover. Name of previous owner on the inside of the front cover. German text in Gothic script. Very good. Scarce. 17.5 x 10.5.
The Battle of Jutland, 31st May 1916.
34366 MacARTHUR, Lieut. D. Wilson THE ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1941. 3rd reprint in June 1941 of the September 1940 original. 72 PP with 2 sets of drawings, 3 colour plates and 48 b/w photos. Title page: Crest of the Royal Navy. EPS: Distinguishing Rank (Shoulder straps and caps). Cloth cover a little faded around edges, device and crest on front cover. Some foxing, o/wise very good. 23.8 x 18.6.
70772 MACDOUGALL, Philip CHATHAM BUILT WARSHIPS SINCE 1860
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard. 1982. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 50 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise very good. 21 x 15. 0907771076
69907 MACE, Martin & GREHAN, Julian (editors) D-DAY, 6 JUNE 1944
$10.00 AUD
Key Publishing. Stamford, Lincolnshire. 2014. 1st Ed. 132 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
The most crucial 24 Hours of WW2.
20825 MACINTYRE, Captain Donald JUTLAND
$10.00 AUD
Evans Brothers. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 210 PP with 14 battle diagrams, plus 12 pages with 21 b/w illust. FEP: Map of the North SEa Opening moves of the Battle of Jutland. REP: Map with tracks of the two fleets during night 31st May-1st June. Hard cover. Name of previous owner at top corner of half title page. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
The clash of 31st May/1st June 1916 which opposed off the coast of Denmark the Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy.
72464 MACINTYRE, Donald THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
$20.00 AUD
The Macmillan Co. New York. 1961. 1st US edition. 208 PP with 54 b/w illustrations (maps, plans & photos) in text. Cloth cover, dj. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Dust jacket rubbed and in a protective sleeve. Ex Library copy with stamps at top of title page, on outside edges and envelope on rear endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 22.7 x 15.5.
73182 MACKANESS, George THE LIFE OF VICE-ADMIRAL WILLIAM BLIGH - R.N., F.R.S. (Two Volumes in One)
$45.00 AUD
Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. New York. c. 1931. 1st US edition from the 1931 Australian original. Vol. I: (14), 369 PP. Vol. II: (3), 348, ( 25 bibliography), (23 index) PP. Copy with 2 b/w portraits (frontispiece of Vol. I & Vol. II), plus 56 plates with 68 b/w illustrations and 1 large folded map at end of book. Top edge tinted. Green cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine (dulled). Back and head of spine of dust jacket is missing and is now repaired and in a protective sleeve. Ageing of paper, and occasional foxing. Still a very good clean copy. 24 x 15.7.
41160 MACKAY, James I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT - A Life of John Paul Jones
$15.00 AUD
Mainstream Publishing. Edinburgh. 1998. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 1 plan and 2 maps, plus 12 pages with 17 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 24 x 16. 1840180579
62972 MACKENDRICK, Lt.-Col. W. G. GOD'S PLAN FOR FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
$35.00 AUD
Commonwealth Publishers Ltd. Toronto. 1935. 2nd edition of the 1929 original. XVI, 207, (4) PP, plus frontispiece and 2 folded charts. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Dedicatory note on front endpaper signed by the author. Lettering lightly faded. Some underlining and annotations with pencil. Occasional foxing. Very good. 19.6 x 13.5.
52569 MACNEIL, Calum SAN DEMETRIO
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1957. 1st Ed. 127 PP with 17 decorations by Frank Norton. Illustrated title spread & endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, gilt device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket has been repaired and is in a protective sleeve. Three names written at top of half-title page, light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise contents are near fine. 20.5 x 13.5.
Epic of the tanker "San Demetrio", set on fire by the German battleship "Admiral Scheer" while in convoy between Halifax and the Clyde. During this action, the armed escort vessel "Jervis Bay" was sunk protecting the convoy of 37 merchant ships.
20394 MACPHERSON, A.G.H. (editor) THE MACPHERSON COLLECTION, The Sea Story of the English-Speaking Race
$15.00 AUD
Gallery, Cavendish Square. London. 1927. 1st Ed. (4), 52 PP with 2 tail pieces, 4 colour and 8 b/w plates. Vignette on title page and on back cover. Soft covers chipped around edges and a little foxed, illustration on back cover (The Portuguese Ship St. Paul, wrecked off Sumatra, 1561). Very good. 24.5 x 18.5.
An impression on the Macpherson collection: Discovery, naval actions, portraits... Whaling, Atlases.
67584 MAGGS THE WINTERTON COLLECTION - Catalogue 1343: From the Abyssinian Expedition to the Mau Mau Insurrection
$25.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2003. 1st Ed. Introduction by Humphrey Winterton. VIII, 156 PP with 28 b/w illustrations, plus XII plates with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside covers: 3 colour photos illustrating 24 items. Pictorial soft cover (General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, by Fritz Grothemeyer). Near fine. 27 x 21.
100 years of Military and Naval Operations in Eastern and North-Eastern Africa (1860s - 1960s). A Collection of 842 items.
67585 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1214
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 1996. 1st Ed. (2), 128 PP with 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers [Uniforms of the German Army and Navy (front) and British (back) Armies]. Near fine. 25 x 17.
A Selection of 607 items.
67586 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1225
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 1997. 1st Ed. (2), 146 PP with 30 b/w illustrations. Inside covers: 3 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 17.
A Selection of 624 items.
67587 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1254
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 1998. 1st Ed. (2), 174 PP with 48 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 17.
A Selection of 882 items.
67588 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1271
$20.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 1999. 1st Ed. (2), 190 PP with 5 colour and 53 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 17 x 25.
Pages 1 to 11: The Ivor Beddoes "El Alamein" Archive with 2 colour and 5 b/w illustrations, followed by a Selection of 884 items.
67589 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1291
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 136 PP with 5 colour and 2 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.
A Selection of 602 items.
67590 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1296
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2001. 1st Ed. 176 PP with 5 colour and 24 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.
A Selection of 846 items.
67591 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1308
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2001. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 7 colour and 47 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.
A Selection of 447 items.
67592 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1347
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2003. 1st Ed. 120 PP with 3 colour and 24 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.
A Selection of 446 items.
67593 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1355
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2004. 1st Ed. 168 PP with colour and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.
Pages 4 to 17: the Archive of Rodney Foster, followed by a selection of 532 items.
67594 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1394
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2006. 1st Ed. 120 PP with colour and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.
Selection of 347 items.
67595 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1375
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2005. 1st Ed. 76 PP with colour and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Creases on lower corner of covers. Very good. 22.3 x 24.5.
Selection of 312 items.
67623 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1318
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2001. 1st Ed. 144 PP with colour and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 16.5.
Selection of 491 items.
67624 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1323
$10.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2002. 1st Ed. 124 PP with colour and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 16.5.
Selection of 390 items.
67625 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1334
$5.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2002. 1st Ed. No pagination, 113 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Selection of 258 items.
67626 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1329
$5.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 2002. 1st Ed. No pagination, 135 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Selection of 304 items.
67627 MAGGS MILITARY & NAVAL HISTORY - Catalogue 1276
$5.00 AUD
Maggs Bros. Ltd. London. 1999. Summer 1999 edition. No pagination, 142 PP. Soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Selection of 437 items.
41796 MAGUIRE, Eric DIEPPE, August 19th 1942
$15.00 AUD
Corgi Books. London. 1974. Paperback edition of the 1963 original published by Jonathan Cape. 185, (6 publications) PP with 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (rubbed). Ageing of paper, foxing. Very good. 18 x 11. 0552095753
Anglo-Canadian landing to test German defence, in occupied France.
20334 MANNING, Captain T.D. THE BRITISH DESTROYER
$15.00 AUD
Putnam. London. 1961. 1st Ed. 148 PP, plus 70 pages with 1 plan and 135 b/w photos. Fp: Hornet and Diamond on their trials. Cloth cover. Some speckling around edges and spine of covers. Internally contents fine. 25.4 x 19.5.
Their names, builders, development. The various classes: River, Tribals, G, H, I,... V, W... Weapon, Hunt, ..
68984 MANWARING, G. E. & DOBREE, Bonamy THE FLOATING REPUBLIC - An Account of the Mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797
$5.00 AUD
Pelican Books. London. 1937. 1st edition of the paperback copy of the 1935 original. XI, 12-288 PP. Soft covers soiled. Name and stamp of previous owner on half title page. Fore hinge starting. Ageing of paper and foxing. Good reading copy. 18.2 x 11.5.
18594 MARCOMBE, David THE VICTORIAN SAILOR
$5.00 AUD
Shire Publications. London. 1995. No.31 in Shire Album Series. Amended Ed. of 1985 orig. 32 PP with 50 b/w illust. Pict. card cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0852637136
Life of Britain's Navy and Merchant Marine sailors: their art, literature & legends, their handicrafts.
36650 MARCUS, G. J. THE AGE OF NELSON
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. London. 1971. 1st Ed. Volume 2 in A Naval History of England series. 532 PP with 18 maps. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. A small mark/bump on front cover, occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 23 x 15.8. 0043590063
67984 MARCUS, G. J. HEART OF OAK - A survey of British sea power in the Georgian era
$25.00 AUD
O.U.P. London. 1975. 1st Ed. XII, 308 PP with 4 maps and 53 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped and a little rubbed or creased around edges). A near fine copy. 24.2 x 16. 0192158120
12131 MARDER, Arthur J. FROM THE DARDANELLES TO ORAN - Studies of the Royal Navy in War and Peace 1915-1940
$15.00 AUD
O.U.P. London. 1974. 1st UK Ed. XIII, (5), 301 PP with 1 facsimile of letter, plus 10 pages with 14 b/w photos and 5 folded charts at end of book. Fp: Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, 14 October 1939. Hard cover with light shelf wear and old tape marks, very good dust jacket. Ex-library copy with stamps of the Library of Tasmania on a few pages. Renewed FFEP. Overall, still a very good clean reading copy. 22.5 x 14.2. 0192158023
46937 MARINES THE ROYAL MARINES, The Admiralty Account of their Achievement 1939-1943
$5.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1944. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 3 maps in text plus 16 pages with 21 bw photos. FEP: Marines in a landing boat. REP: Review of Royal Marines on deck. Decorated wrappers. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
Actions in the Faeroes and Iceland - Norway - Crete - Singapore and Burma - Madagascar - Dieppe.
14386 MARRIOTT, Leo TYPE 22 - MODERN COMBAT SHIPS 4
$30.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1986. 1st Ed., No. 4 in the Modern Combat Ships series. 112 PP with b/w photos throughout. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (light shelf wear). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24 x 17.5. 0711015937
Class of Frigates of the Royal Navy.
48284 MARRIOTT, Leo ROYAL NAVY FRIGATES 1945-1983
$20.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1983. 1st Ed. 128 PP with tables, 19 waterline profiles, 1 sketch plan and 110 b/w photos. Title spread: HMS Brilliant. Half title page: HMS Ashanti. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24 x 17.7. 0711013225
66260 MARRIOTT, Leo FROM THE BRIDGE - HMS INVINCIBLE
$15.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 1 map of the British Isles, 1 plan of the bridge and 103 b/w photos. Title spread: HMS Invincible arriving at Port Jackson, end of 1983. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 23.5 x 17. 0711019401
72838 MARS, Alastair SUBMARINE ATTACK
$15.00 AUD
Horwitz Publications Inc. Sydney. 1961. 2nd edition of the 1959 original. 162 PP. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Slight ageing of paper. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on preliminary page. Very good. 17.8 x 11.5.
69981 MARSH, Bryn J. & ALMOND, Sue THE HOME PORT: Bootle, the Blitz and the Battle of the Atlantic
$15.00 AUD
Metropolitan Borough of Sefton. Sefton, UK. 1993. 1st ed., with a foreword by Joe Benton. (5), III, 72 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 095213120X
49085 MARTIN, Paymaster Rear-Admiral W. E. R. THE ADVENTURES OF A NAVAL PAYMASTER
$40.00 AUD
Herbert Jenkins. London. 1924. 1st Ed. XIV, 306 PP, plus 16 plates with 24 b/w photos. Fp: Paymaster Rear-Admiral W. E. R. Martin. Cloth cover with a few marks, title on front board and lightly sunned spine. Extremities of spine have shelf wear with a little fraying and small tear at bottom, light foxing, mostly on prelims or around edges, o/wise contents are near fine. 21.6 x 15.
67128 MARY ROSE The MARY ROSE Drama
$15.00 AUD
The Mary Rose Society / Trust. Portsmouth. 1981. 5 brochures. 1- The Mary Rose Society, Occasional Paper No. 1 of June 1981 (signed by Nigel Walter, co-editor): 12 PP with 2 organisation charts. 2 - The Mary Rose Society, Occasional Paper No. 2 of October 1981 (signed by Nigel Walter co-editor): 12 PP with 1 sketch map of "The Battle of Spithead, 19th July 1545'' and 1 drawing of the Mary Rose. 3 - The Mary Rose drama: 3 folds flyer with 15 b/w illustrations. 4 - Progress Report 15th September 1981: 2 PP. 5 - Bulletin of The Mary Rose Trust, No. 14 of October 1981: 4 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. 6 - Catalogue "Mary Rose Trading Ltd", for Autumn 1981: 4 PP. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.
48629 MASEFIELD, John THE NINE DAYS WONDER (THE OPERATION DYNAMO)
$10.00 AUD
William Heinemann. London. 1941. April 1941 reprint of the March 1941 original. XVI, 61, (3) PP, plus 1 folded map and 6 pages with 12 b/w photos. Blue cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine (faded). Head of spine slightly worn, foxing spots. Brief note on front endpaper. Very good. 19.6 x 13.2.
The lifting of the First French Army and the B. E. F. from the beaches of Dunkirk.
18235 MASON, Michael, GREENHILL, Basil & CRAIG, Robin THE BRITISH SEAFARER
$10.00 AUD
Hutchinson / BBC & National Maritime Museum. London. 1980. 1st Ed. No pagination, (4), 158 PP with 3 colour photos and hundreds of b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.5 x 19.8. 0091419514
A mosaic of what the seafarer saw and thought about, expressed in his own words. Enjoyable voyage of discovery in the seafarer's world.
76138 MASSIE, Robert K. CASTLES OF STEEL - Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
$10.00 AUD
Vintage Books. London. 2007.1993. Reprint. (8), 865 PP with 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 19.7 x 13 9780099523789
12089 MATHEW, David THE NAVAL HERITAGE
$15.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1944. 1st Ed. XXIV, 264 PP, plus 8 plates. Fp: John, First Earl of St.Vincent. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). War economy paper. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Analysis of all the formative influences in the making of the Royal Navy. Development of naval life and the interaction with general life in England.
18232 MATHEW, David BRITISH SEAMEN
$10.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 26 b/w illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Decorated hard cover, dj (rubbed). Faint foxing. Very good. 22.8 x 16.5.
Great naval engagements of the Royal Navy, the ships and the men.
20004 MATHEW, David THE NAVAL HERITAGE
$5.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1945. Second impression (May 1945) of the January 1945 original. XXIII, 264 PP, plus 8 bw plates. Fp: John, First Earl of St. Vincent. Cloth cover with sunned spine. War economy paper. Very good. 22 x 14.3.
Tudor scene, Navy of the Commonwealth, Restoration Navy. The Hanoverian Navy... Nelson... Age of the Ironclads... German wars.
16782 MATRAT, Jean HISTOIRE DES RELATIONS FRANCO-ANGLAISES
$20.00 AUD
Nouvelles Editions Latines. Paris. 1953. 1st Ed. 126 PP. Pictorial card cover. Pages uncut. Occasional foxing and paper ageing. Very good. French text. 18.7 x 12.
History of the links between France and England. The numerous wars leading to the Entente Cordiale and the birth of the European Union.
18079 MATTINGLY, Garrett THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
$15.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape. London. 1959. Second impression of October 1959. 382 PP with 2 maps plus 16 pages with 20 bw illust. Fp: Queen Elizabeth I, the Armada Portrait. Eps: The track of the Spanish Armada. Hard cover: marbled boards and cloth spine, dj (rubbed). Foxing of first and last pages, and on outside edges, o/wise very good. 23.5 x 16.
Operations of 1587 & 1588. Battles along the South Coast of Cornwall and England: 29th July to 9th of August 1588.
30916 MATTINGLY, Garrett THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA
$10.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape / Book Society. London. 1959. 3rd impression of the October 1959 original. 382 PP with 2 maps, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w illust. Fp: Queen Elizabeth I, the Armada Portrait. Eps: The track of the Spanish Armada. Hard cover (marbled boards), cloth spine, dj (price-clipped). Bookplate previous owner on half title page, light foxing on prelims. and outside edges. Very good. 23.5 x 16.
Operations of 1587 & 1588. Battles along the South Coast of Cornwall and England: 29th July to 9th of August 1588.
74264 MAURICE, Colonel J. F. MILITARY HISTORY OF THE CAMPAIGN OF 1881 IN EGYPT
$40.00 AUD
Tle London Stamp Exchange Ltd. London. c. 1973. Reprint of the 1887 original. VI, 221 PP with tables and 2 sketches of battles. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with a few rubs/nicks, o/wise a fine copy. 22 x 15. 0948130008
76300 MAY, Commander W. E. THE BOATS OF MEN OF WAR - Maritime Monographs and Reports no.15
$20.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum. London. 1974. 35 PP, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 29.8 x 20.8. 09501764
Study on subsidiary vessels employed by warships of all types from the earliest days to the beginning of the 20th century.
67274 MAY, Commander W. E. & STEPHENS, Simon THE BOATS OF MEN-OF-WAR
$20.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum & Naval Institute Press. London & Annapolis. 1999. New edition of the 1974 edition with additions by Simon Stephens. Foreword by Basil Greenhill. 128 PP with colour and b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.2. 1557501904
72564 McGEOCH, Ian AN AFFAIR OF CHANCES - A Submariner's Odyssey 1939-44
$45.00 AUD
Imperial War Museum. London. 1991. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Terence Lewin. Preface by Alan Borg, Director General Imperial War Museum. 221, (2 maps) PP with b/w illustrations (Crest of submarine Splendid, 2 maps, documents, newspaper clipping and over 30 photos). Cloth cover, dj (with protective sleeve). Small chip at top of front cover of dust jacket. Small Ex-libris stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 25.6 x 18. 9780901627667
Active service in the central Mediterranean Sea, sunk off Naples (21/04/1943). Escape From Naples to Portsmouth via Switzerland, France, Spain and Gibraltar.
30158 MCGOWAN, A. P. (editor) THE JACOBEAN COMMISSIONS OF ENQUIRY 1608 and 1618
$10.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1971. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 116. XXVII, 319 PP, (30 adv. & members), plus 3 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of King James I, 1603-1625. Navy blue buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.5.
Scandal caused by embezzlement and other forms of corruption following the decision to maintain a standing force of ships. Graft in the dockyards, use of Navy ships for commercial ventures...
74200 McGRATH, John & BARTON, Mark BRITISH NAVAL SWORDS & SWORDMANSHIP
$150.00 AUD
Seaforth Publishing. Barnsley. 2013. 1st Ed. 144 PP with c. 200 b/w and 74 colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): range of uniform items required by an officer in the RN, in 1898. Title page: "boarding party", c. 1890. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). Scarce. 25.2 x 19. 9781848321359
75837 McKEE, Alexander BLACK SATURDAY, The Tragedy of the "Royal Oak"
$30.00 AUD
Souvenir Press. London. 1959 1st Ed. 220 PP with 2 plans & 2 sketches, plus 12 pages with 24 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has a few chips and is in a protective sleeve. Contents are near fine. 22 x 14.5.
The loss of the battleship "Royal Oak" on 14th Oct. 1939, sunk by the German submarine U.47 while at anchor inside the Home Fleet base of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
66315 McLEAN, John A MISSION OF HONOUR: The Royal Navy in the Pacific, 1769-1997
$30.00 AUD
Winter Productions. Wellington. 2010. 1st Ed. 518 PP, plus 16 pages with 4 sketch maps and 22 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 15.8. 9781872970233
Great Britain, Royal Navy and the Pacific Ocean: from the arrival of Captain Cook in the Pacific, to the handover of Hong Kong to China.
70887 McLELLAND, Tim (editor) F-4 PHANTOM, The St. Louis Slugger - Aeroplane Icons Series (No.17)
$10.00 AUD
Key Publishing / Aeroplane Illustrated Magazine. Stamford, Lincs.. c. 2015. 116 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos), plus a large folded plate with 2 plans (scale 1:144). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781909786813
Kelsey Publishing Group / Aeroplane Special Magazine. Cudham, Kent. 2013. 132 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9781907426780
62655 McMURTRIE, Francis E. THE WORLD'S WARSHIPS 1944
$20.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston & Co. London. 1944. 1st Ed. 148 PP with 72 b/w photos. Fp: Duke of York. Cloth cover (rubbed), gilt title on dulled spine. War economy paper with signs of ageing. An otherwise very good clean copy. Oblong: 13.8 x 22.3.
Pages 140 to 148: War losses.
71396 McMURTRIE, Francis E. (editor) JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS 1942 (issued June 1943)
$100.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston. London. 1942. 1st Ed., 46th year of issue. Edited by Francis E. McMurtrie. 64 adv., XXI, 582 PP with hundreds of b/w illustrations (photographs, plans, profiles & silhouettes, uniforms and flags). Fp: H.M.S Exeter. Navy cloth cover, gilt title on spine, title in blind on covers. 1 errata slip tipped in on page 24. The Advertisers' Index page has 2 repaired closed tears and the following page with adverts 4 and 5 has a crease. The spine has been reinforced as have the inside gutters. The covers have some shelf wear around the edges. Overall, a very good copy of a scarce wartime edition. Oblong: 21.5 x 33.5.
War loss section, P.517 to 582. A massive volume.
38540 MEACHAM, Ellis K. THE EAST INDIAMAN
$20.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1969. 1st UK edition of the 1968 US original. (8), 337 PP with decorations and map by Samuel H. Bryant. Title page: vignette of an East Indiaman. Eps: Map of the route followed by the East Indiamen. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Note on dedication page and name of previous owner on preliminary page. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0340042982
Historic novel. Naval Service of the East India Company during the Napoleonic wars.
53917 MEACHAM, Ellis K. THE EAST INDIAMAN
$5.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1969. 1st UK edition of the 1968 US original. (8), 337 PP with decorations and map by Samuel H. Bryant. Title page: vignette of an East Indiaman. Eps: Map of the route followed by the East Indiamen. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (reinforced). Ex library copy with stamps on title page and sellotape marks on endpapers & covers. Good reading copy . 22.2 x 14.5. 0340042982
Novel. Naval Service of the East India Company. during the Napoleonic wars.
73648 MEADE, Lieut. The Hon. Herbert A RIDE THROUGH THE DISTURBED DISTRICT OF NEW ZEALAND; Together with some account of the SOUTH SEAS ISLANDS.
$360.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1870. 1st edited by his brother R.H. Meade with a preface (including a letter by Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand). XII, 375 PP with 18 cuts (b/w illustrations), plus 2 maps in colour (1 of them folded) and 3 chromolithographic plates. Fp (in colour): "Geyser, Boiling Cataracts, and Steam-Jets on the Waikato". Rebacked copy with new endpapers. Half bound covers retaining the original cloth and the spine pasted down on leather spine. Ageing of paper. Copy lacking the colour plate "Gate Pah Redoubt, Tauranga", facing page 9. An otherwise near fine copy. Scarce. 22.7 x 16.
... being selections from the Journals and Letters of Lieut. The Honorable Herbert Meade, R.N. The author served (1864, 1865) on "HMS Curaçoa" and "HMS Esk". Ingleton catalogue No. 5476.
35404 MELLEFONT, Jeffrey & HOSTY, Kieran (editors) MARY ROSE - Life & Death on Henry VIII's Lost Warship
$15.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed. Forteword by Dr. Kevin Fewster, Director. 16 PP with b/willustrations ( 6 sketches, 4 photos), and 25 colour photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 28 x 21. 0646188089
Catalogue of an Australian touring exhibition in 1994/95.
36778 MERRIMAN, Commander R.D. (editor) THE SERGISON PAPERS
$25.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. Greenwich. 1950. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 89. (XII), 382 PP, (20 publications & members), plus 4 b/w plates. Fp: Charles Sergison, Clerk of the Acts, 1690-1719. Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.5.
69874 MESSENGER, Charles WORLD WAR II IN THE ATLANTIC
$10.00 AUD
Bison Books. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page: Gunther Prien on U-47. Title spread: Atlantic convoy preparing to sail. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Very good. 31.5 x 23.5. 0861245989
70061 MIDDLEMISS, Norman L. (editor) WARTIME WITH SHELL - The Autobiography of Capt. R. S. (Bob) Allen
$30.00 AUD
Shield Publications. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 1996. 1st Ed. 144 PP with 1 drawing, 1 b/w photo and 2 plans, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.4 x 17.5. 1871128137
World War II: 6 years of convoy duties, including 18 months on Merchant Aircraft Carriers converted from tankers.
37652 MILITARY OUR ARMY AND NAVY - Sixty-Four large plates illustrating the British Forces by Land and Sea with explanatory letterpress
$70.00 AUD
Thomas Nelson and Sons. London. c. 1915. 1st Ed. No pagination, 4, 64 PP with 64 b/w plates. Hard covers, pictorial front cover, cloth spine. Foxing spots on both endpapers, few pages with closed tears. Edges of covers lightly rubbed. Very good. Scarce. Oblong: 28 x 34.8.
70692 MILLER, Alice Duer THE WHITE CLIFFS
$10.00 AUD
Hicks, Smith & Wright. Melbourne & Sydney. 1944. 8th Australian edition of the 1941 original. Preface by Sir Walter Layton. (6), 42 PP. Stapled card covers, soiled dust jacket. Signature of previous owner on half title page. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 18.3 x 12.5.
Poem on the USA/United Kingdom relationship.
44153 MILLER, Nathan THE NAVAL AIR WAR, 1939-1945
$10.00 AUD
The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America. New York. 1980. 1st Ed. XII, 224 PP with 3 maps, 172 b/w illustrations (170 photos). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 23.4 x 15.8. 0933852118
44631 MILLER, William H. & HUTCHINGS, David F. TRANSATLANTIC LINERS AT WAR - The Story of the Queens
$20.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot, UK. 1985. 1st UK Ed. 175 PP with 1 map, 3 profiles of ships and 30 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. A little light foxing on prelims and dust jacket flaps, o/wise fine. 24 x 16.2. 0715385119
The distinguished war roles of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth during WWII and the QE2 during the Falklands War of 1982.
48239 MILNE, Lt. Cdr. J. M. FLASHING BLADES OVER THE SEA - The Development & History of Helicopters in the Royal Navy
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall. c. 1978. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 1 table, 14 colour and 68 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover a little rubbed, o/wise near fine. 21 x 15. 0950632325
41336 MILSOM, C. H. (editor) VERSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA - An Anthology of Nautical Doggerel, Parodies and other Previously Unpublished Poems
$15.00 AUD
Sea Breezes Publication. Liverpool. 1992. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 8 line drawings. Soft covers with light foxing, otherwise fine. 21.1 x 14.5. 0951320238
72626 MOFFAT, John & ROSSITER, Mike I SANK THE BISMARCK
$25.00 AUD
Bantam Press / Transworld Publishers. London. 2009. 1st paperbackedition. (10), 294 PP, plus 8 pages with 3 colour and 28 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Neat Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.2.. 9780593063514
Memoirs of a Second World War Navy Pilot.
75655 MOLLO, John UNIFORMS OF THE ROYAL NAVY, During the Napoleonic Wars
$75.00 AUD
Hugh Evelyn. London. 1965. 1st Ed. (8), 44 PP with 18 b/w figures and XX colour plates in text. Eps: illustrated. Hard cover, title and gilt devices on font cover. Near fine. Oblong: 26 x 38.5.
The different patterns of uniforms worn by officers of the Royal Navy, based on contemporary sources.
45124 MONDEY, David (editor) THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD'S AIRCRAFT
$10.00 AUD
New Burlington Books. London. 1988. Reprint of the 1978 original. 320 PP with over 1000 reference illustrations (b/w or colour). Fp: Boeing 747-124. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on the inside of the dust jacket and on half title page, o/wise near fine. 30.2 x 23. 0906286395
History..., A-Z directory of almost 1500 manufacturers.
16695 MONSARRAT, Nicholas EAST COAST CORVETTE
$5.00 AUD
Cassell. Melbourne. 1943. 1st Australian edition. 80 PP, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w photos. Fp: A modern corvette. Card cover. Spine sunned, traces of glue on front cover. Very good. 18.5 x 12.
Collection of notes taken while on coastal patrol or convoy duty.
16732 MONSARRAT, Nicholas CORVETTE COMMAND
$30.00 AUD
Cassell. Melbourne. 1945. 1st Aust. Ed. (orig. UK 1944). 104 PP plus 8 pages with 9 b/w photos. Fp: The multiple 5" gun. Card boards with dust jacket. Jacket has a few chips and is in a protective sleeve. A near fine copy. 18.2 x 12.
Record of 62 short convoys and 38 night patrols.
35399 MONSARRAT, Nicholas HMS MARLBOROUGH WILL ENTER HARBOUR - Leave Cancelled, Heavy Rescue
$5.00 AUD
Mayflower. London. 1972. Reprint of the 1972 paperback edition (original of 1947). 220, (3 adv.) PP. Pictorial card cover. Spine faded and creased. Foxing. A good reading copy. 17.8 x 11.
41233 MONSARRAT, Nicholas HMS MARLBOROUGH WILL ENTER HARBOUR
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1952. December reprint of the November 1952. Originally published in 1947 as Depends What You Mean by Love. 96 PP with 19 illustrations by James Holland. Cloth cover, device on front cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with pieces missing at tope front and back. Offsetting on endpapers, occasional foxing. Contents near fine and overall a very good clean copy. 24.2 x 18.8.
52747 MONSARRAT, Nicholas MONSARRAT AT SEA
$10.00 AUD
Companion Book Club. London. 1977. 1st edition of the 1975 original published by Cassell & Company. 352 PP. Hard cover, green vellum, gilt title on spine, tinted edges. Fine. 19 x 13.
Anthology of all his writings about the sea, except The Cruel Sea.
69636 MONSARRAT, Nicholas HMS MARLBOROUGH WILL ENTER HARBOUR
$5.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1952. December reprint of the November 1952. Originally published in 1947 in "Depends What You Mean by Love". 96 PP with 19 illustrations by James Holland. Cloth cover, device on front cover. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. 0ccasional foxing. Very good. 24.2 x 18.8.
73887 MONSARRAT, Nicholas THREE CORVETTES - comprising H.M. Corvette, East Coast Corvette, Corvette Command
$100.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1945. 1st Ed. (2), 268 PP, plus 8 pages with 9 b/w photos. Fp: Author on afternoon watch. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Name of previous owner on front endpaper and a hand-wrtten number on inside front cover. Dust jacket rubbed with parts missing (head and foot of spine and back cover) and is now in a protective sleeve. Foxing spots on outside edges. War economy paper. An otherwise very good clean copy of the scarce first edition. 19 x 12.6.
Experiences of the author during the Battle of the Atlantic.
50251 MONSARRAT, Nicholas (editor) THE BOYS' BOOK OF THE SEA
$15.00 AUD
Cassell & Co. London. 1954. 1st Ed. Foreword by Nicholas Monsarrat. X, 197 PP with 15 b/w illustrations by James Holland (6 head pieces and 9 on full page). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Head of spine of dust jacket with piece missing and now in a protective sleeve. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing. Very good. 21.8 x 14.
32104 MOORE, Captain John E. WARSHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Jane's. London. 1981. New edition of the 1979 original. 120 PP with tables, and 135 b/w photos (including 5 on double page detailing armaments and equipment). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Renewed endpapers, o/wise near fine. 26.4 x 20.6. 0710601050
34161 MOORE, Captain John E. WARSHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Macdonald and Jane's. London. 1979. 1st Ed. 136 PP with tables, and 135 b/w photos (including 5 on double page detailing armaments and equipment). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 26.4 x 20.6. 0354011316
73777 MOOREHEAD, Alan THE DESERT WAR, The North African Campaign 1940-1943
$35.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1965. 1st Ed. (7), 250 PP with b/w photos throughout, including a fold-out map of the Mediterranean. Hard cover, price-clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has some chips and small pieces missing and is in a protective sleeve. Dedicatory note to "Sir Charles, In appreciaiton of your interest and hospitality, from the Rhodes Scholar representatives on the 1965 Selection Committee".
Abridged edition (text) of the African Trilogy: Mediterranean Front, A Year of Battle and The End in Africa.
52183 MOORHOUSE, Geoffrey GREAT HARRY'S NAVY. How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power
$15.00 AUD
Phoenix. London. 2006. 1st paperback edition of the 2005 original. XXVIII, 372 PP with 2 diagrams and 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 11 b/w and 12 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing mostly on outside page edges, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 13.5. 0753820994
45581 MORGAN R.N.V.R., Lieut. Guy STAND BY TO RAM - A stirring and graphic account of the dramatic episodes in the Great Battle of the Atlantic
$15.00 AUD
Crosby Lockwood & Son. London. 1945. December reprint of the November 1943 original. 118 PP, plus 12 pages with 11 b/w photographs. Cloth cover, faded spine, otherwise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
38352 MORIZE, André (editor) FACTS ABOUT FIGHTING FRANCE
$100.00 AUD
Fighting France Publications / Société des Editions de la France Libre Ltd. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 36 PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Inside front cover: To All Frenchmen.. France has lost a Battle! (in colour). Inside back cover: Ultimatum sent by Rommel to General Koenig, June 3rd, 1942 (Battle of Bir Hacheim). Illustrated soft cover with a few small chips, spine repaired, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 21.6 x 14.
The Leader: Général De Gaulle - his life, his thoughts, his military doctrine. Fighting France: When? Where? Why? What it's done, what it's doing, what it wants to do. Administration Organization of Fighting France. The Trustee of French Democracy.
21494 MORTON, H. V. ATLANTIC MEETING - An Account of Mr. Churchill's Voyage in H.M.S. Prince of Wales, in August, 1941, and the Conference with President Roosevelt which resulted in the Atlantic Charter
$5.00 AUD
Methuen. Melbourne. 1943. 1st Australian Ed. 160 PP, plus 16 b/w plates. Fp: Card with the Longfellow verse in Mr. Roosevelt's message to Mr. Churchill. Eps: North Atlantic map and track of HMS Prince of Wales, August, 1941. Cloth cover (lightly soiled). Very good. 19.2 x 12.5.
17773 MORTON, H.V. ATLANTIC MEETING, An Account of Mr. Churchill's Voyage in H.M.S. Prince of Wales, in August, 1941, and the Conference with President Roosevelt which resulted in the Atlantic Charter
$5.00 AUD
Methuen. Melbourne. 1945. 3rd Australasian Ed. 160 PP plus 16 pages with 16 b/w photos. Fp: Card with the Longfellow verse in Mr. Roosevelt's message to Mr. Churchill. Eps: North Atlantic map and track of HMS Prince of Wales, August, 1941. Cloth cover. Top corner of FFEP clipped, signatures and stamp on half-title page, o/wise a good copy. 19.2 x 12.5.
49220 MOSES, Henry VISIT OF WILLIAM THE FOURTH WHEN DUKE OF CLARENCE, AS LORD HIGH ADMIRAL, TO PORTSMOUTH, IN THE YEAR 1827, WITH VIEWS OF THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON
$1500.00 AUD
Henry Moses. Portland Place. 1831. 1st Ed. (IV), 23, (3) PP with 2 vignettes (title page and dedicatory page), plus 17 b/w plates (these 2 pages and 17 plates protected with tissue guard). Vignette on title page: Vessel represented is most probably HMS Victory, as she was the flagship at Portsmouth between 1825 and 1869. Loosely inserted letter by John Barton, Windsor Castle, dated 5th March 1831, giving assent to Henry Moses, Esq. (the author), to dedicate this work to Her Most Gracious Majesty Adelaide, Queen of the United Kingdom. Rebacked copy retaining original front cover, leather spine. All the plates are present and in the right place, however, four are mis-numbered, ie, they don't have the same number as that given on the List of the Plates. A very nice copy. 38.7 x 28.7.
38862 MOSLEY, Leonard THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
$15.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1979. 4th printing (revised) of the 1977 original, in the World War II series. 208 PP with 2 maps, 2 sets of plans of planes (in colour), 20 colour and 174 b/w illustrations. Half title page: RAF pilots scrambling for their airplanes. Pictorial boards. Fine. 28.8 x 24.
Hitler's nibble at the Channel Islands. The redoutable Mr. Churchill. The grandiose Herr Göring... Germany's fallen eagles.
49172 MOULTON, Major-General (editor) BRASSEY'S ANNUAL 1973. Defence and the Armed Forces
$20.00 AUD
William Clowes. London. 1974. 84th year of publication. VI adv., XVI, 346 PP, plus 1 folded map, 2 folded charts and 16 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine lightly sunned. Occasional foxing. Internally near fine. 24.3 x 16.
16660 MOUNTBATTEN, Earl of Burma MOUNTBATTEN - Eighty Years in Pictures
$10.00 AUD
Macmillan. London. 1979. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 23 colour illust, 4 cartoons, and 266 b/w photos. Half-title page: Crest. Eps: Genealogical trees. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.4 x 19. 0333265580
Photographic biography: Royal Navy years (on HMS Renown, to Australia and the Pacific, Captain of HMS Kelly in WWII), ... Viceroy of India,...
68670 MUMBY, Frank A. (editor) THE GREAT WORLD WAR - A HISTORY (complete set of 9 Volumes with 27 Issues)
$450.00 AUD
The Gresham Publishing Company. London. 1915 /1922. 1st edition. Set of 9 Volumes in 27 Issues for a total of 3126 pages with b/w illustrations, plus a 4 pages "Roll of Honour" (in colour), 27 b/w portraits (some with tissue guard paper) and 35 coloured maps and plans (few folded) . Vol. I (issues I to III), 1915: (6), 336, (10 "Title page, Preface, Contents, List of Plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 b/w portraits and 9 coloured maps and plans. Vol. II (issues IV to VI), 1916: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 b/w portraits and 2 coloured maps. Vol. III (issues VII to IX), 1916: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of Plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 b/w portraits and 4 coloured maps and plans). Vol. IV issues X to XII), 1916: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List opf Plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits and 4 coloured maps and plans. Vol. V (issues XIII to XV), 1917: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits and 4 coloured maps and plans. Vol. VI (issues XVI to XVIII), 1917: (6), 336, (8 " Title page, Contents, List of plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits, 4 coloured maps and a 4 pages coloured "Roll of Honour 1914 - 191. Vol. VII (issues XIX to XXI), 1919: (6), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of plates") PP with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits and 3 coloured maps. Vol. VIII (issues XXII to XXIV): (2), 336, (8 "Title page, Contents, List of plates") with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits (misbound) and 2 coloured maps. Vol. IX (issues XXV to XXII), 1920: (6), 344, (10 "Title page, Preface, Contents, List of plates") with b/w illustrations, plus 3 portraits and 3 coloured maps (1 portrait and 1 map are misbound). Card covers, illustrated front in colour, cloth spine with Title and No. of Issue. Except for a small sticker on front cover of issues XXV and XXVII, and 5 misbound plates, this set is complete and in a very fine condition. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25 x 18.5.
Preface of Volume IX starts: "The present volume completes a task ...". Front covers with the Coat of Arms of France, Great Britain, Russia, Serbia, Japan and Belgium.
74289 MUNRO, Captain D. J. CONVOYS, BLOCKADES AND MYSTERY TOWERS
$35.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston. London. c. 1932. 1st edition with a foreword by Commander Carlyon Bellairs, R.N. XIV, (2), 208 PP, plus 15 plates with 18 b/w illustrations (1 map, 3 plans and 14 photos). Fp: Captain D.J. Munro. FEP: An attack on a convoy by submarines off Malta. REP: Map showing track of Convoy out to Port Said and Back Home. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Offsetting on endpapers and occasional foxing. Cloth cover with light shelf wear, gilt title on spine. A very good copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 24 x 16.5.
43892 MUSEUMS H.M.S. VICTORY - Official Guide and Short History
$5.00 AUD
C. O. HMS Victory. London. 1973. 16th impression. 16 PP with 2 drawings and 11 colour illustrations. Inside front cover: HMS Victory, principal dimensions and armament. Inside back cover: Lower Gun Deck. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 16.5 x 24.
51986 MUSEUMS H.M.S. VICTORY, Official Guide and Short History
$5.00 AUD
Commanding Officer HMS Victory. London. 1972. 15th impression. 16 PP with 2 b/w. and 11 colour illustrations. FEP: table with principal dimensions and armament. REP: Tiller, looking forward, Lower Gun Deck. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. Oblong: 16.3 x 24.1.
22737 N/A JANE'S FIGHTING SHIPS OF WORLD WAR I
$30.00 AUD
Studio Editions. London. 1990. Reprint of the 1919 original with a supplement by Captain John Moore. 320 PP with over 1000 b/w illustrations: 86 maps and plans of ports, naval bases and Dockyards - Hundreds of ships (plans, line drawings, profiles and photos) - Flags, Ensigns and details of uniforms. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 32 x 25.5. 1851703780
The 1919 original has been supplemented by extracting entries on significant ships from the 1914 edition.
47558 N/A Plan d'attaque de / Plan van den aanval op: ZEEBRUGGE
$35.00 AUD
Edition J. Revyn. Bruxelles. c. 1920. Booklet containing 20 illustrated post cards with their protective tissue guard. 1 map, 22 b/w photos (1 vignette, 2 portraits and 19 views). Soft cover with crest (in colour) of the city of Zeebrugge on front cover. Covers lightly soiled and with small chip on front. Slight ageing of paper. Text (captions) in Dutch, English and French. Near fine. Scarce. Oblong: 9 x 15.
Blocking the base used by German U-Boats, by the Captain of HMS Vindictive who gained the Victoria Cross for the exploit. Attack took place midnight 22/23 April 1918.
L'Illustration. Paris. 1940. Issue No. 5060, 24 February 1940. VIII (adverts.), 177-200 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps, 66 photos) and on a double page: comparisons of the fleets of Great Britain, France, Poland and Finland, versus Germany and U.S.S.R. Pictorial soft cover (Anthony Eden, welcomes the ANZACS in Suez). Covers reinforced, o/wise near fine. French text. 38 x 28.5.
HMS Cossack and the Altmark in Joesing Fjord, Norway. War in Carelia, Finland. Stand off in the Vosges, France. Mechanical War, by Camille Rougeron. Inside occupied Poland.
L'Illustration. Paris. 1940. Issue No. 5060, 2 March 1940. VI (adverts.), 201-226 PP with 7 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (10 maps, 1 cartoon, 3 facsimiles of documents, 7 drawings, and 34 photos). Pictorial soft cover (Altmark trapped in Jösingsfjord). French text. Near fine copy. 38 x 28.5.
HMS Cossack and the Altmark in Joesing Fjord, Norway. War in Finland. French army on the move, by Paul-Emile Cadilhac. Ships in uniforms / Camouflage. New recruits for the French Foreign Legion.
62884 N/A THE NAVAL CHRONICLE FOR 1808 - Vol. XIX
$80.00 AUD
Joyce Gold. London. 1808. Nineteenth Volume. III-VIII, 514, (6 index) PP with 2 headpieces, plus 12 of the b/w plates (on the 13 called for): CCXLIX to CCXLX. FP: Monument of Captain Richard Rundle Burgess. Original covers, slit at hinges. Copy in need of rebacking and lacking title page, pages 1 to 8, pages A to H of the index, and plate CCXLVIII (Portrait of Captain Joseph Ellison). Ageing of paper and foxing. Some pages "dog eared", loose or soiled, (page 465/466 repaired). Sold as is. Format: 25 x 16.
... Containing a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom; with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects. Volume the Nineteenth (from January to July 1808).
Joyce Gold. London. 1805 / 1806 / 1811 & 1812. 7 parts of various "Naval Chronicles" bound together. 1 - Vol. XXV, 1811: VIII PP (title page & preface), plus plate"Monument erected in Guidhall, London, to the Memory of the late Vice Admiral Horatio, Viscount Nelson & Duke of Bronti". 2 - Vol. XIV, 1805: 353 to 440 PP, plus plate "Philips Crosby", Admiral of the Red Squadron. 3 - Vol. XIV, 1805: 177 to 264 PP, plus plate "John Bazely, Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron. 4 - Vol. XIV, 1805: 89-176 PP, plus plate "Hon. Richard Walpole". 5 - Vol. XXV, 1811: 441-515 PP (516) - (527) for index, plus 2 plates "Capt. Arthur Forrest", and Port of Valette, Malta. 6 - Vol. XV, 1806: 265-352 PP. 7 - Vol XXVII, 1813: 1-176 PP, plus 2 plates "Arthur Phillip" Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron, and "Nicholas Haddock" Admiral of the Blue Squadron. 7 parts for a total of 607 pages and 8 plates. Half bound, with rubbed patches, mostly near the spine. Occasional foxing. Very good copy. 22.5 x 14.
Volume XIV: Horatio Nelson, pages 384/385, 386/415 & 416/419. Volume XXVII: Arthur Phillip, Esq., pages 1 to 9.
67308 N/A THE NAVAL AND MILITARY MAGAZINE - Vol. II, Nos. III & IV.
$350.00 AUD
G. Mills. London. 1827. 1st edition. Vol. II: (2), 722 PP. No. III, September 1827: pages 1 to 344 with 2 facsimiles of signatures and the frontispiece "Portrait of His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral". No. IV, December 1827: pages 345 to 722. Rebacked in modern black cloth, gilt title on spine. Few pages with short tears or chips. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Image shows frontispiece and title-page. Near fine. Rare. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 21.6 x 14.
Contents include: Memoir of Thomas Dahl, First Grenadier of France, Widows of Officers, Royal Artillery and Marines, Record of Services of British Regiments, The War Game of the Continent, The Waterloo Vase, American War, Observations on the Campaigns in Ceylon .... A mine of information.
67309 N/A THE NAVAL AND MILITARY MAGAZINE - Vol. III, Nos. V & VI
$350.00 AUD
Saunders and Otley. London. 1828. 1st edition. Vol. III: (2), 576, CCIV PP. No. V, March 1828: pages 1 to 280, plus 1 folded plate "Plan of Onore" and the frontispiece: portrait of "Field Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington". No. VI, July 1828: pages 281 to 576 with 1 plan, plus 1 plate: plan of "Bhurtpoor", then pages I to CCIV. Rebacked in modern black cloth, gilt title on spine. Image shows frontispiece and title-page. Few pages with short tears or chips. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Near fine. Rare. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 21.6 x 14.
Contents include: The Order of the Bath, Mercenaries in the Christian Armies, Desertions from Regiments in Canada, Proceedings in Portugal, Between the Russians and the Persians, Defence of Onore, Naval Construction, The War in the Peninsula ... plus the Naval and Military Miscellany, Mutiny Bill, - Corporal Punishment, Naval Promotions and Appointments, Births, Marriages, and Deaths.
67310 N/A THE NAVAL AND MILITARY MAGAZINE - Vol. IV - Nos. VII & VIII
$350.00 AUD
Saunders and Otley. London. 1828. 1st edition. Vol. IV: (2), 590, CLVI PP. No. VII, September 1828: pages 1 to 280, plus 1 folded plate "Stevens Improved Paddles" and the frontispiece "God Save the King", then pages I to LXXXVIII. No. VIII, December 1828: pages 281 to 590 with 1 plan , plus 1 plate: "map of the western sea board of the Black Sea", then pages LXXXIX to CLVI, and (4 Index). Rebacked in modern black cloth, gilt title on spine. Image shows frontispiece and title-page. A few pages with short tears or chips. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Near fine. Rare. 21.6 x 14.
Contents include: New Method of Propelling Steam Vessels, The English in France, The New System of Tactics, Narrative of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, The Peninsular War, Distribution of Religious Tracts to the Navy, Origin and Progress of Shipbuilding, Campaigns in India, History of the Siege of Vienna, Sketch of the Military Power of Prussia, The Red Flag at the Fore, A New System of Signals by Rear-Admiral Raper, Naval and Military Miscellany, Promotions, Court Martials, ...
70804 N/A THE LOG OF THE COMMISSION of H.M.S. "ASTRAEA", on the Mediterranean and China Stations
$30.00 AUD
Nabu Public Domain Reprint. La Vergne, TN, USA. c. 2010. A Nabu facsimile reprint of the 1902 original. (2), 134, (6 blank) PP with tables. Soft cover, title on front cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 19. 9781294371373
Sailed from Chatham 22 June 1899. Mediterranean Station: 3rd July to 18 September 1900. China Station: Mid October 1900 to April 1902. Returned to Chatham on 23rd May 1902.
74586 N/A COMMEMORATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE YANGTZE INCIDENT, 20-21 April, 1949 : H.M.S. Amethyst, H.M.S. Consort, H.M.S. London & H.M.S. Black Swan
$25.00 AUD
CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire. 2009. 24 PP booklet plus 3 pages loosely inserted of a summary of the Yangtze Incident. Pictorial card covers. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
"During a short period on 20th and 21st April, 1949, one thousand, two hundred officers and rates of the Royal Navy were bound together and forever more in sacrifice on a distant river in a distant land". Not the official commemorative booklet but one that recounts the events. Includes a list of those killed in action or later died of their wounds.
16637 NAISH, G. P. B. H.M.S. VICTORY
$15.00 AUD
Pitkin Pictorials. London. 1972. 1st Ed. in the Pride of Britain series. 24 PP with 12 colour, 15 b/w illustrations, and 1 exploded drawing of HMS Victory. Inside front cover: the Victory stern as altered in 1803. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 23 x 18. 0853721033
66437 NAISH, Lieut.-Commader G. P. B. FLYING IN THE ROYAL NAVY 1914-64
$10.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. / National Maritime Museum. London. 1964. 1st Ed. No pagination, 56 PP with 55 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 16.3 x 21.3.
71378 NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM GREENWICH 2018 CALENDAR BATTLES AT SEA
$10.00 AUD
Flame Tree Publishing. London. 2017. 2018 Calendar. No pagination, 28 PP with caption in English for each of the 14 colour photograph. Pictorial stiff covers. English text. Unused with no markings. Fine. 30 x 30. 9781786642783
48879 NAVAL SHIPS SHIPS. Book One
$10.00 AUD
Collins / Orbit Books. London. c. 1960. 1st Ed., in the Orbit Book series. No pagination, 28 PP with 17 b/w profiles and 22 colour illustrations (7 flags and 15 paintings). Inside front cover: 7 Naval Ensigns. Inside back cover: U.S.S. Nautilus. Pictorial card cover, dj. Near fine. Small format: 10 x 10.
Naval warships: 2 US Navy (Enterprise & Nautilus) and 12 Royal Navy (Bulwark, Dreadnought ... Wolverton, Zulu).
50488 NAVY LEAGUE THE NAVY YEAR BOOK AND DIARY 1953
$15.00 AUD
Navy League. London. 1952. Yearly edition. 236 PP with many adverts, b/w photos, and 7 colour plates (1 on double page). Diary between pages 173 and 235. Soft cover, gilt device and title on front cover, dj (chipped). Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine internally. 24 x 18.5.
An annual review with articles including: The Queen and her Crown - World front-pages Royal Navy - Review of Naval Aviation - The Fishing Fleets by David Divine. Thomas Neill, by Taffrail...
50489 NAVY LEAGUE THE NAVY YEAR BOOK AND DIARY 1951
$15.00 AUD
Navy League. London. 1950. Yearly edition. 208 PP with many adverts, b/w photos, and 4 colour plates on double page. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover. Faint foxing on outside edges, front cover has a few small marks, o/wise near fine internally. 24.2 x 18.5.
An annual review with articles including: Royal Families and the Sea - Sea Power of the Empire - Sea Power against world communism - Ships that pass in the night, by Godfrey Winn...
50490 NAVY LEAGUE THE NAVY YEAR BOOK AND DIARY 1949
$15.00 AUD
Navy League. London. 1948. Yearly edition. 240 PP with many adverts, b/w photos, and 4 colour plates on double page. Diary between pages 187 and 240. Soft cover, gilt device and title on front cover. Lower corner of leaf 7/8 damaged. 3 leaves of the article Commonwealth Navies with lower part 77/78 or upper part 81/82 , 83/84 cut. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine internally. 24 x 18.5.
An annual review with articles including: Royal Progress - Royal Marines in the Atomic Age - Commonwealth navies by Lt. Commander Kemp... The Bus that went to France, by Bartimeus.
50491 NAVY LEAGUE THE NAVY YEAR BOOK AND DIARY 1948
$15.00 AUD
Navy League. London. 1947. Yearly edition. 230 PP with many adverts, b/w photos. Diary between P.179 and 230. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover. With compliments note from the South Australian Branch of the Navy League. Faint foxing on outside edges, rear cover a little soiled, o/wise near fine internally. 24 x 18.5.
An annual review with articles including: The Mountbatten Tradition - The Navy and the Atom Bomb - Air and the Atom... Drama at Westminster, by Beverley Baxter...
16860 NEILLANDS, Robin BY SEA AND LAND, The Royal Marines Commandos, A History 1942-1982
$15.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1987. 1st Ed. XVIII, 269 PP with 6 full-page maps in text plus 16 pages with 36 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing around outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24 x 15.8. 0297790641
Brief history of the Sea Soldiers 1604 to 1942, followed by the operations from the Dieppe Raid to the Falklands War.
45874 NEWHAM COLLINGWOOD, G. L. A SELECTION FROM THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF VICE-ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD: INTERSPERSED WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE
$100.00 AUD
James Ridgway. London. 1828. 3rd Ed. XVI, 578 PP. Fp: Vice Admiral, Lord Collingwood, by F. Howard. Folded engraved battle plan of Trafalgar between pages 126/127. Pages 197/198 misbound, viz: P.199/200 precedes them. Signature of previous owner at top of title page. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and last pages. Half bound, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Outside edges of covers and hinges rubbed. Covers have become detached and now in need of rebacking/rebinding. Internal hinges still tight. Overall, a very good copy of a scarce item. 21.5 x 13.8.
Covers the period from 1785 until his death in 1810.
74684 NHSA NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA - Monograph No. 14: H.M.A.S. PERTH
$5.00 AUD
The Naval Historical Society of Australia, Inc. Garden Island, Sydney. c. 1990. Monograph No. 14: 19 PP (recto only) with 7 maps or battle diagrams, 5 sketches and 4 b/w photos (photocopy quality/ Illustrated cover. Monograph protected in a clear plastic file. Very good. 29.7 x 21.
No. 14: H.M.A.S. Perth 1941 & 1942, lecture to the Society on 3 February 1989. by John C. Date. Part 1: Battle of Matapan 1941 / Part 2: Battle of Java Sea and Sunda Strait 1942.
74685 NHSA NAVAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA - Monograph No. 13 : "The British Pacific Fleet 1945"
$5.00 AUD
The Naval Historical Society of Australia, Inc. Garden Island, Sydney. c. 1992. Monograph No. 13: 19 PP (recto only) with chronology, 2 maps and 4 b/w photos (of photocopy quality). Illustrated cover. Errata slip to Appendix A loosely inserted.. Monograph protected in a clear plastic file. Very good. 29.7 x 21..
No. 13: The British Pacific Fleet 1945. Lecture to the Society read in May 1983, by Lt. Cdr. W. O. C. Roberts.
65830 NICHOLSON, J. B. R. THE GURKHA RIFLES
$10.00 AUD
Osprey Publishing. London. 1974. 1st Ed., in the Men-at-Arms series. 40 PP printed on 2 columns with 32 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with colour plates by Michael Roffe. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.7 x 18.2. 0850451965
36902 NORGAARD, Christian (Naval Architect & Editor) THE GOLDEN HINDE (replica)
$8.00 AUD
Jarrold & Sons. London. 1973. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP with 31 colour photos on b/w illustrated historial background. Inside covers: text and 3 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover with a rubbed patch at bottom of front cover and a few stamps of the University of Tasmania not obstructing any of the contents. Still a very good copy of a scarce item. 28.5 x 22.4. 83506444X
On Drake, admiral, explorer, entrepreneur, privateer and imperialist, and on his ship the Golden Hinde. Building of the replica and preparation for the re-enactment voyage Plymouth to San Francisco of 1973.
12315 NORTHCOTE PARKINSON, C. PORTSMOUTH POINT, The British Navy in Fiction 1793-1815
$15.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1949. 1st US Ed. 154 PP with 20 b/w illustrations (plans & tail-pieces), plus 12 pages with 8 b/w photos. Fp: Portsmouth Point, c.1799. Eps: Maps of Spithead and Portsmouth/Portsea. Cloth cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 22 x 14.
An anthology of naval fiction, giving a picture of naval life afloat and ashore during the Napoleonic Wars. (All the writers had firsthand experience of the sea).
64459 NORTHCOTE PARKINSON, C. PORTSMOUTH POINT, The British Navy in Fiction 1793-1815
$5.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1948. 1st Ed. 154 PP with b/w illustrations in text, plus 14 b/w plates.. Fp: Portsmouth Point, c.1799. Eps: Maps of Spithead and Portsmouth/Portsea. Navy cloth covers mottled and gilt title on spine is dulled. No dj. A few pages dog-eared, o/wise contents are clean and a good reading copy. 22 x 14.
An anthology of naval fiction, giving a picture of naval life afloat and ashore during the Napoleonic Wars. (All the writers had firsthand experience of the sea).
35191 O'BRIAN, Patrick THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
$5.00 AUD
Fontana. London. 1989. 3rd paperback impression of the 1984 original. 366 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Spine with light creases. Near fine. 17.8 x 11.2. 000617017X
War of 1812 with the USA and protection of Whaling ships in the Southern Atlantic and the Pacific.
41347 O'BRIAN, Patrick BLUE AT THE MIZZEN
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. London. 1999. 1st UK edition. (6), 262 PP with 1 sails plan of a square-rigged ship. Pictorial stiff covers. Light ageing of paper. Very good. 23.3 x 15.2. 9780002261289
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin off to South America on the "Surprise".
43689 O'BRIAN, Patrick THE HUNDRED DAYS
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. London. 1999. 1st paperback edition of the 1988 original by Harper Collins. (6), 281 PP with 1 sail plan of a square-rigged ship. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 19.7 x 13. 9780006512110
Actions in the Western Mediterranean Sea after Napoleon's escape fom Elba Island.
55358 O'BRIAN, Patrick THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
$5.00 AUD
Fontana. London. 1986. 2nd paperback impression of the 1984 original. 371, (5 publications) PP. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Near fine. 17.8 x 11.2. 000617017X
War of 1812 with the USA and protection of Whaling ships in the Southern Atlantic and the Pacific.
64385 O'BRIAN, Patrick DESOLATION ISLAND
$5.00 AUD
HarperCollins. London. 2003. Paperback reprint. 325 PP. Inside covers: colour jackets of other titles. Pictorial soft cover. Creases on spine and light edgewear. Very good. 17.8 x 11.2. 0006499244
Voyage to New South Wales with a ship load of convicts.
73407 O'DRISCOLL, Gerald A DICTIONARY OF NAVAL SLANG
$30.00 AUD
Swift Press. London. 2021. 1st edition of the 1943 original publication by W.H. Allen. Foreword dated July 2021, by Richards Humphreys. 122 PP. Hard covers, pictorial front. New. 20.5 x 13.5. 9781800750654
35561 OAKESHOTT, Walter FOUNDED UPON THE SEAS - A Narrative of Some English Maritime and Overseas Enterprises during the period 1550 to 1616
$25.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1942. 1st Ed. XII, 200 PP with 1 plan, plus 12 b/w plates. Fp: Queen Elizabeth, aged 59. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Signature of previous owner on front endpaper, dust jacket with small pieces missing. Contents are near fine. 23 x 14.5.
Search for the North-East passage. Hawkins in the West Indies. Drake in the Caribbean and the Pacific...
72496 OGDEN, Graeme MY SEA LADY - The Story of H.M.S. Lady Madeleine, from February 1941 to February 1943
$20.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1963. 1st Ed. 201, (3) PP with 16 b/w illustrations by Richard Elsden. Hard cover, dj. Ex Library copy with stamps on endpapers and a few pages with pen marks. Very good reading copy. 21.5 x 14.5.
A personal narrative of the author's escort duty on the Arctic convoys. The Lady Madeleine was the largest of the fishing trawlers converted for anti-submarine duties in WWII.
47602 OLLARD, Richard MAN OF WAR. Sir Robert Holmes and the Restoration Navy
$10.00 AUD
Phoenix Press. London. 2001. Paperback edition of the 1969 original. 240 PP with 1 genealogical table, 3 maps and 3 battle diagrams, plus 24 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing, o/wise fine. 23.3 x 15.5. 1842122363
20830 OMAN, Carola NELSON
$15.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1948. March 1948 reprint of June 1947 original. XVI, 734 PP with 6 maps, plus 12 b/w plates & 1 large folded sheet with The Nelson Family at back of book. Fp: Portraits of HMS Agamemnon, Captain, Vanguard, Elephant & Victory. Cloth cover, spine sunned. Renewed endpapers. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and around outside page edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. 25 x 15.5.
67282 OPPENHEIM, M. A HISTORY OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND OF MERCHANT SHIPPING IN RELATION TO THE NAVY, From MDIX to MDCLX with an introduction treating of the preceding period
$80.00 AUD
The Shoe String Press, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1961. Reprint of the 1896 1st edition. XIII, 411 PP with 3 b/w illust. in text, plus 3 plates. Title page: recto & verso of the Wyard's Medal, 1650. Fp: the "Tiger" of Henry VIII. Navy cloth cover with gilt title on spine (a little dulled). A near fine copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
The Navy between the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and the Commonwealth (1649-1660).
74178 ORPEN, Neil EAST AFRICAN AND ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGNS
$100.00 AUD
Purnell. Cape Town, South Africa. 1968. 1st Ed. Volume I in the South African Forces, World War II series. Foreword by C. G. Kerr. Introduction by Lt. -General George E. Brink. XIV, 390 PP with 17 maps, plus 30 plates with 69 b/w photos and 3 maps in colour (2 of them folded). Hard covers gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edge. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 25.3 x 16.
16802 ORTZEN, Len GUNS AT SEA, The World's Great Naval Battles
$10.00 AUD
Galahad. New York. 1976. 1st U.S. edition, with a foreword by Ludovic Kennedy. 160 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title-page: Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Eps: The Bismarck in Action against HMS Hood. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Very good. 28.5 x 22. 088365363X
Sixteen main naval battles. From the Battle of Sluys in 1340 to the Battle of Midway in 1942.
37910 ORTZEN, Len STORIES OF FAMOUS FIGHTING SHIPS - Volume one: In the Days of Sail
$10.00 AUD
Arthur Barker. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 160 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0213166704
69913 OVERY, Richard All About HISTORY - Book of WORLD WAR II
$15.00 AUD
Imagine Publishing Ltd. Bournemouth, Dorset. 2014. 1st edition by Jon White & Alex Hoskins. 260 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Closed tear on front cover (repaired). Fine. 29.7 x 23. 9781910155295
The events, people and places that shaped the war.
61340 OWEN, Charles NO MORE HEROES - The Royal Navy in the Twentieth Century: Anatomy of a Legend
$10.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 248 PP with 1 organigram , plus 8 pages with 19 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.2 x 14. 0043590071
72456 PACK, S. W. C. NIGHT ACTION OFF CAPE MATAPAN (Sea Battles in Close-Up No.2)
$25.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 146 PP with 7 diagrams, plus 24 pages with 45 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Neat name stamp on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 17.8 x 11.5. 711002574
Battle between British & Italian fleets on the 28/29 March, 1941, South West of Crete. First main fleet action where carrier-borne aircraft played a vital role.
Martin H. Packard / W.S. Cowell. Ipswich. 1963. 1st Ed. 120 PP with b/w photos & illustrations throughout on quality glossy paper. Hard cover, gilt badge on front, pictorial dj. Near fine. Oblong: 28.4 x 22.2.
A lighthearted and humouristic kaleidoscope of the commission voyage of this cruiser and her crew.
41526 PACKER, Joy DEEP AS THE SEA
$10.00 AUD
Eyre Methuen. London. 1976. 1st Uk edition of the 1975 South Africa original. X, 246 PP, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w photos. Fp: Lieutenant-Commander H. A. Packer, 1925. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.2.
Career in the Royal Navy, 1907 to 1953. WWI: Battle of Jutland in 1916... WWII: Hunting the Bismarck.. Defeat of the Italian Fleet...
44425 PACKER, Joy DEEP AS THE SEA
$5.00 AUD
Eyre Methuen. London. 1976. 1st Uk edition of the 1975 South Africa original. X, 246 PP, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w photos. Fp: Lieutenant-Commander H. A. Packer, 1925. Hard cover, dj (flaps trimmed). Ex library copy with stamps on title page and its verso, and renewed endpapers. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.2.
Career in the Royal Navy, 1907 to 1953. WWI: Battle of Jutland in 1916... WWII: Hunting the Bismarck.. Defeat of the Italian Fleet...
48055 PACKER, Joy HOME FROM SEA
$5.00 AUD
Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1963. 2nd impression of the 1963 original. 251 PP, plus 10 pages with 12 b/w photos. Errata slip tipped on page 135. Fp: Joy Packer at Cressage. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with flaps trimmed and repaired at spine. Ex library copy with card pasted down on front endpaper and number on title page. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.2.
Life in South Africa and in England.
52487 PACKER, Joy DEEP AS THE SEA
$5.00 AUD
Readers Union. Newton Abbot. 1977. 1st Book Club edition of the 1975 South Africa original. X, 246 PP, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (soiled). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 21.8 x 13.5.
Career in the Royal Navy, 1907 to 1953. WWI: Battle of Jutland in 1916... WWII: Hunting the Bismarck.. Defeat of the Italian Fleet...
30500 PADFIELD, Peter TIDE OF EMPIRES - Decisive Naval Campaigns in the Rise of the West - Volume Two: 1654-1763
$15.00 AUD
Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. 1982. 1st Ed. X, 270 PP with 14 head-pieces, 4 maps and 11 battle diagrams in text, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w illust. Eps: Sketch of Dutch attack on the Medway, 9-10 June, 1667. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 15.8. 0710092156
Supremacy of England over Holland and France, finally giving her sovereignty of the seas.
35202 PADFIELD, Peter NELSON'S WAR
$10.00 AUD
Book Club Associates. London. 1976. Reprint of the 1976 original published by Granada, in the British at War series. 200 PP with 7 maps, 8 colour and 77 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 24.2 x 18.8.
The Glorious First of June. St Vincent, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar.
64357 PADFIELD, Peter MARITIME SUPREMACY & THE OPENING OF THE WESTERN MIND - Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World
$20.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1999. 1st Ed. XII, 340 PP with 7 maps and 7 battle diagrams, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.4 x 15.6. 0719556554
67298 PADFIELD, Peter THE GREAT NAVAL RACE: Anglo-German Naval Rivalry 1900-1914
$10.00 AUD
Hart-Davis. London. 1974. 1st Ed. 382 PP plus 12 pages with 20 b/w illust. Hard cover. Slight ageing of paper and stains on front outside edge (not affecting the text). Good. 22.2 x 14.2. 024610578X
Deadly competition in dreadnought battleships between Great Britain and Imperial Germany, fueled by Kaiser Wilhelm II and his dreams of imperial destiny.
69801 PADFIELD, Peter MARITIME DOMINION and the Triumph of the Free World - Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1852-2001
$20.00 AUD
The Overlook Press. New York. 2010. 1st US edition. XIV, 369 PP with 4 maps and 4 battle diagrams, plus 16 pages with 41 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Remainder mark on lower outside edge. Near fine. 23.5 x 16. 9781590203323
12080 PARKINSON, C. Northcote BRITANNIA RULES - The Classic Age of Naval History 1793-1815
$10.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 1977. 1st Ed. (8), 199 PP with 7 battle plans on full page, plus 16 pages with 33 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 0297772872
The importance of the events of 1805-1816. There was no inherent superiority of the British over the French as the French Navy, crippled by the Revolution, began to recover about 1810.
37095 PARRY, A. (editor) THE ADMIRALS FREMANTLE 1788-1920
$25.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 286 PP with 1 genealogical tree and 5 maps, plus 24 pages with 40 b/w illust. Fp: Portrait of Thomas Francis Fremantle. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 22.4 x 14.5. 070111603X
The biographies of Thomas Francis Fremantle (a close friend of Nelson's), Charles Howe Fremantle (Port of Fremantle and Battle of Balaklava), Edmund Robert Fremantle (Maori wars) and Sydney Robert Fremantle (WWI).
71001 PATTEN, Chris EAST and WEST - The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. Sydney. 1998. 2nd printing. X, 340, (2) PP, plus 16 pages with 33 b/w photos. Eps: Royal Yacht Britannia, leaving Hong Kong. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16 9780333747872
60829 PAYNTER, Lieutenant-Commander Hugh H. A MIDSHIPMAN IN THE EGYPTIAN WAR / A BATTLESHIP ADVENTURE: The Voyage of the "Kasuga" / BATTLESHIP LIFE IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES (in the Journal)
$10.00 AUD
Royal United Service Institution. London. c. 1930. 3 articles pulled out from "The Journal of the RUSI". A total of 15 pages. Soft cover. Foxing. 25 x 17.5.
12088 PEARS, Commander Randolph YOUNG SEA DOGS, Some Adventures of Midshipmen of the Fleet
$15.00 AUD
Putnam. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 252 PP, plus 8 pages with 8 b/w illustrations. Fp: A gunroom of Napoleonic days. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing, mostly on prelims and outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.
Early days at sea of Fisher, Jellicoe, Lord Charles Beresford,... Midshipman Heywood of the Bounty,..
74334 PELLY, Admiral Sir Henry 300,000 SEA MILES - An Autobiography
$150.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1938. 1st Ed. XI, 223 PP with 3 position diagrams plus 1 folded map & 8 bw plates. Cloth cover, gilt signature on front cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. Quite scarce. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22.6 x 14.5.
Far East: 1881-1886. West Indies: 1886-1890. The South Seas 1891-1899 with duties such as supervising the blackbirding trade to Queensland, with HMS "Tauranga" based in Nouméa... HMS "Tiger" and the Battle of Dogger Bank.
69799 PEREIRA, W. D. BOAT IN THE BLUE - The wartime story of an RAF Air Sea Rescue crew and their boat
$30.00 AUD
Line One Publishing. Cheltenham, Glos. 1985. 1st Ed. Foreword by Group Captain L. R. Flower. 208 PP with b/w illustrations: 3 set of line drawings and 29 photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 21.7 x 15. 0907036228
16919 PERRIN, W. G. (editor) BOTELER'S DIALOGUES
$20.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1929. 1st Ed. Publication of the Navy Records Society, Volume LXV. XXXIX, 341, 7 (publications of N.R.S.) PP with 1 facsimile page of A Dialogical Discourse Concerning Marine Affaires. Buckram cover, gilt device on front cover and gilt title on spine. Spine a little faded, occasional foxing. Very good. 24.2 x 15.5.
An insight into naval affairs in the reign of Charles I, represented as six dialogues or discourses: Commanders-in-Chief, Common Mariner, Victualling, Sea Terms & Signals,...
30969 PETERSEN, Kaare THE SAGA OF NORWEGIAN SHIPPING - An Outline of the History of a Modern Merchant Marine
$70.00 AUD
Dreyers Forlag. Oslo. 1955. 1st Ed. 240 PP on coated art paper with 2 maps, 4 graphs and hundreds of b/w photos, plus 4 colour plates. Presentation leaf by the shipping line A/S THOR DAHL with their House Flag in colour and 3 b/w photos tipped in front of the half title page. Fp: H.M. King Haakon VII. Illustrated endpapers. Leather cover with gilt devices, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Covers with shelf wear of spine (frayed at top and bottom), o/wise near fine. Scarce. 26.7 x 19.5.
Since the Viking expeditions... From sail to steam. Norwegian shipping in the Great War. A fighting merchant marine during World War II... Shipping and the Norwegian economy.
60270 PIMLOTT, Dr. John IMAGES OF WAR 1939 -1945, the real story of World War II (Issue 5, Volume I)
$5.00 AUD
Marshall Cavendish / Imperial War Museum. London. 1988. 1988. 113-140 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. "News Chronicle, May 28, 1941", and folded maps Atlantic War September 1939 to May 1941, loosely inserted. Fine. 28.5 x 23.
Sea Battle, the Bismarck and Atlantic Sea Hunt: pages 113 to 133.
72619 PLEVY, Harry DESTROYER ACTIONS - September 1939 to June 1940
$20.00 AUD
The History Press. Stroud, UK. 2008. 1st paperback edition of the 2006 original. XVI, 272 PP with 4 maps, plus 16 pages with 19 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Neat Ex Libris stamp on half title page. Fine/as new condition. 23.3 x 15.5. 9781862274839
The Altmark Affair. Norwegian campaign and Narvik... Dunkirk and the Fall of France.
70125 PLUMRIDGE, Lt-Colonel John H. HOSPITAL SHIPS AND AMBULANCE TRAINS
$25.00 AUD
Seeley, Service & Co. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 203 PP with tables and 45 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0854220879
48912 POCOCK, Reverend Frank Lovell WITH THOSE IN PERIL. The Journal of a Royal Naval Chaplain during and after the Second World War
$20.00 AUD
Temple House Books. Lewes, Sussex. 1986. 1st Ed. (10), 380 PP with 9 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 863321526
North Sea. Singapore and escape. Italy campaign...
34294 POCOCK, Tom REMEMBER NELSON - The Life of Captain Sir William Hoste
$10.00 AUD
Readers Union. Newton Abbot. 1978. Reprint of the 1977 original published by William Collins. 256 PP with 3 battle plans and 5 maps, plus 16 pages with 23 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Stamp of previous owner on both front endpapers, o/wise very good. 22 x 13.7.
A second Nelson.
35576 POCOCK, Tom NELSON AND HIS WORLD
$10.00 AUD
A Studio Book / Viking Press. New York. 1968. 1st US Ed. 144 PP with 130 b/w illust. Fp: Horatio Nelson, aged 39, by Lemuel Abbott. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Some foxing, o/wise near fine. 23.8 x 18.5. 670505978
39902 POCOCK, Tom NELSON 'S WOMEN
$15.00 AUD
André Deutsch. London. 1999. 1st Ed. X, 278 PP, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 0233994793
41364 POCOCK, Tom HORATIO NELSON
$15.00 AUD
Brockhampton Press. London. 1999. Reprint of the 1987 original published by The Bodley Head. XX, 364 PP with 5 maps and diagrams, plus 24 pages with 55 b/w illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. All illustrations are present but 4 pages of them are misbound. Faint foxing. Very good. 24 x 16. 1860199089
48381 POCOCK, Tom CAPTAIN MARRYAT, Seaman, Writer and Adventurer
$10.00 AUD
Chatham Publishing. London. 2000. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 1 map (Lower Canada), plus 16 pages with 29 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 1861761309
74318 POLISH Air Force Association DESTINY CAN WAIT - The Polish Air Force in the Second World War
$100.00 AUD
William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1949. 1st Ed. Foreword by Viscount Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Ai Force. XVI, 402 PP with tables and over 12 tail-pieces by J. Faczynski & A.W. Gürtler, plus 12 pages with 12 b/w drawings by Feliks Topolski, 16 pages for 8 plates in colour by J.M. Miszewski & W. D. Wlodarczyk, and 40 pages with over 108 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): "These Were Polish Targets". Cloth covers, decoration and title on spine. An Ex Circulating Library copy with small remnant of label on FFEP. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise a very good copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 23.8 x 17.
49288 POLLEN, Arthur Hungerford THE NAVY IN BATTLE
$10.00 AUD
Chatto & Windus. London. 1919. 3rd Impression in January 1919 of the November 1918 original. XX, (2), 372 PP with 20 figures (diagrams, maps and sketches), plus 1 large folded plate with 5 Jutland Diagrams, third phase. FP (in colour): Admiral Sir David Beatty. Cloth cover, gilt decorations at top of front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.
10917 POOLMAN, Kenneth GUNS OFF CAPE ANN - The Story of the Shannon and the Chesapeake
$25.00 AUD
Evans Brothers. London. 1961. 1st Ed. 175 PP, plus 10 pages with 11 b/w illust. Fp: Sir Philip Vere Broke. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.2.
The war of 1812 between the United States and England. Battle of the 1st June, 1813.
13976 POOLMAN, Kenneth THE KELLY
$10.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1954. 2nd Ed. 219 PP (5 adv.) with 1 map in text. Fp: "More Like a Submarine". Eps: Map Mediterranean Sea. Cloth cover, gilt title on faded spine. Covers with light wear, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
The record of HMS Kelly by her only captain. A destroyer which fought on many fronts: North Sea, Norwegian waters, Malta & Crete where she was sunk on May 23rd, 1941.
72506 POOLMAN, Kenneth ILLUSTRIOUS
$30.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1955. 1st Ed. 246, (10 adv.) PP, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, very good dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Very light foxing on outside edges. Small ex-libris name stamp at top of front endpaper, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.2.
Built as No. 732 by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow. World War II with actions in the Mediterranean and the Far East... December 1954: Reserve Fleet.
72829 POOLMAN, Kenneth ARK ROYAL
$5.00 AUD
NEL / New English Library. London. 1978. June 1978 reprint of the 1975 NEL paperback edition (of the 1956 original). 173, (3 publications) PP. Pictorial soft cover. Stamp of previous owner on half title page. Slight ageing of paper. Very good reading copy. 17.8 x 10.8. 0450039536
Pursuit of the "Graf Spee" - Against Vichy battleships at Oran - Fight against the Bismark - Torpedoed off Gibralter in Nov. 1941.
73533 POOLMAN, Kenneth THE KELLY
$30.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1954. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. XII, 13-219, (5 adv.) PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 18 bw photos. Fp: "More Like a Submarine", H.M.S. Kelly returning to harbour after being torpedoed in the North Sea. Eps: Map of the Mediterranean Sea. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket has part of the spine missing and is in a protective sleeve. Foxing on prelims and on outside page edges, o/wise contents near fine. 22 x 14.5.
The record of HMS Kelly by her only captain. A destroyer which fought on many fronts: North Sea, Norwegian waters, Malta, then Crete where she was sunk on 23rd May 1941.
16760 POPE, Dudley THE DEVIL HIMSELF - The Mutiny of 1800
$15.00 AUD
Alison Press / Secker & Warburg. London. 1987. 1st Ed. XVI, 186 PP with 1 map & 2 insets on double page and 1 facsimile of a document (American Protection Form). Hard cover, dj. Top corner of front endpaper clipped. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0436377519
The French Corvette La Vaillante, built in 1796, captured & renamed Danae by the Royal Navy. Taken back in March 1800 by the French, following a mutiny of her crew.
72883 POPE, Dudley 73 NORTH - The Battle of the Barents Sea
$10.00 AUD
Pan Books Ltd; London. 1976 1st paperback edition of the 1958 original. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Tovey. 320 PP with 1 map ("Route of convoy JW 51B), 1 sketch plan of the HMS Onslow, 2 tables and 12 battle diagrams, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Occasional foxing and foxing spots on outside edges. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on preliminary page. Very good. 17.8 x 11. 0330244418
30556 POPE, Steve HORNBLOWER'S NAVY - Life at Sea in the Age of Nelson
$20.00 AUD
Orion Media. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w and colour illust. Fp: A Tribute to Nelson, c. 1820, (English School). Title page: Napoleon Bonaparte aboard H.M.S. Bellerophon at Plymouth, 1815. FEP: Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 14th February 1797. REP: Battle of Trafalgar, 21st October 1805. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29.7 x 24. 9780752817743
Fighting ships and weapons. Jolly tars and Navy blues ...
73413 POPE, Steve HORNBLOWER'S NAVY - Life at Sea in the Age of Nelson
$20.00 AUD
Orion Media. London. 1998. 1st soft cover edition.. 112 PP with b/w and colour illust. Fp: A Tribute to Nelson, c. 1820, (English School). Title page: Napoleon Bonaparte aboard H.M.S. Bellerophon at Plymouth, 1815. Page 4: The Battle of Dogger Bank ... Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 24. 9780752818412
Fighting ships and weapons. Jolly tars and Navy blues ...
53226 POWELL, Michael SPITHEAD - The Navy's Anvil
$5.00 AUD
Redan & Vedette. London. 1977. 1st Ed. 60 PP with 1 chart, 4 diagrams, 13 plans or maps and 47 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.7. 0950544604
49828 POWLEY, Edward B. THE ENGLISH NAVY IN THE REVOLUTION OF 1688
$35.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1928. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Jellicoe. XII, 188 PP with 2 tables, plus 1 large folded chart at end of book. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing on prelims and last pages, and around outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. 22.5 x 14.5.
62667 POWLEY, Edward B. THE NAVAL SIDE OF KING WILLIAM'S WAR - 16th / 26th November 1688 - 14th June 1690
$35.00 AUD
John Baker. London. 1972. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Sir Arthur Bryant. 392 PP, plus 16 pages with 5 charts and 12 b/w illustrations. Fp: Koning Stashouder Willem III. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
12343 PRESTON, Antony SEA COMBAT OFF THE FALKLANDS
$15.00 AUD
Willow Books. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w illust. (maps, plans, ships profiles, photos) in text plus 16 pages with 24 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 002180464
Battles off the islands, victories and setbacks. Experience gained, lessons to be learned.
30407 PRESTON, Antony HISTORY OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$15.00 AUD
Bison Books. Greenwich, Ct., USA. 1983. 1st US Ed. 192 PP with over 220 illust. (maps, paintings, photos...). Half title-page: Submarine G.13 alongside battleship Queen Elizabeth. Title-page: Capture of St Lucia in the West Indies by a British squadron in February 1762. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31.2 x 23.6. 0861241215
Formed during the reign of Henry VIII: from its victory on the Spanish Armada in 1588 to the Falklands War of 1982 and the landing at San Carlos.
22659 PRICE, Petty Officer Harry THE ROYAL TOUR 1901 or the Cruise of the H.M.S. Ophir
$5.00 AUD
Webb & Bower. Exeter. 1980. Facsimile edition of the 1901 manuscripts. No pagination. (8), 192 pages of manuscript with delightful watercolours of daily life at sea, ports of call, etc... Fp: Harry Price in uniform. Eps. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 19.7. 0906671108
Being a lower deck account of their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York's voyage around the British Empire.
76333 PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR & PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES THE CRUISE OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP "BACCHANTE". 1879-1882 (in two volumes)
$375.00 AUD
Macmillan and Co. London. 1886. 1st edition with Preface and Additions by John Neale Dalton. Volume I: XXVIII, 676 PP with tables, 27 charts and maps and 25 b/w illustrations, plus 1 folded chart and 9 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): folded map of the Cruise of H.M.S Bacchante, 1879-82. Volume II: XII, 803 PP with 34 charts, maps, and plans, and 26 b/w illustrations, plus 6 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt device and title on front covers and spine. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Henry L. White of the "Australian Ornithology Philately and Bibliography". Lower edge of covers rubbed at fore corners and foot of spine. Occasional foxing . Small bump of cover at top corner of Volume I. Gutter of endpapers starting, otherwise a very nice set. Scarce. 23 x 16.
Volume I: The West and the South - The Mediterranean, Teneriffe, West Indies, Bermudas, Vigo, Ferrol, St. Vincent, the Plate, Falkland islands, Cape of Good Hope, Australia, Fiji. Volume II: The East - Japan, China, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Egypt, Palestine, the Mediterranean. Ferguson: 5795 - Ingleton: 12181.
65522 PRITCHETT, V. S. BUILD THE SHIPS - The Official Story of the Shipyards in Wartime
$30.00 AUD
HMSO / Ministry of Information. London. 1946. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 55 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (slightly rubbed). Very good. 22.5 x 17.7.
60808 PURNELL'S STRUGGLE FOR THE SEALANES (in Purnell"s History of the Second World War, No. 11)
$5.00 AUD
Purnell & Sons Ltd. London. c. 1974. No. 11 in Purnell's History of the Second World War series. Edited by Barrie Pitt. 281-308 PP with 1 map, and b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.7 x 22.5.
Articles by Lt-Cmdr Peter KEMP & Arthur SLATER. Struggles for the Sealanes. Bomber Command.
75939 PYM, Richard RICHARD PYM'S VOYAGE TO DESTINY
$15.00 AUD
Pathfinder Holdings Pty. Ltd. Lane Cove, NSW. c. 1994. 1st Ed. Book I. 275 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps, drawings & prints, portraits...). Pictorial stiff covers with light wear. Near fine. 24 x 16. 9780646192130
Historical novel.
72586 QUIGLEY, Dave J. (editor) UNDER THE JOLLY ROGER - British Submariners at War 1939 - 1945
$30.00 AUD
Portsmouth Publishing and Printing. Portsmouth. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Captain J.S. Stevens. 120 PP with 25 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Small name stamp of previous owner on title-page, o/wise fine. 25 x 17. 1871182034
75911 QUINN, David B. DRAKE'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE - A Review
$15.00 AUD
University of Exeter. Exeter, UK. 1981 1st Ed. (2), 14 PP with 2 figures (sketches: map & plan). Stapled soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 15. 08569891976
The 15th Harte Lecture, delivered at the University of Exeter, on 14 November 1980.
13575 QUINN, David B. & RYAN, A. N. ENGLAND'S SEA EMPIRE 1550-1642
$30.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin London. 1983. 1st edition, in the Early Modern Europe Today series. XIV, 257 PP with 9 maps. Pictorial laminated boards. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper, o/wise a fine copy. 22.2 x 14.5. 0049421794
38452 RAHS THE BRITISH NAVAL OFFICER AND THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES: An Aspect of Nineteenth Century Colonial History (Volume 54, Part 1, March 1968)
$15.00 AUD
R.A.H.S.. Sydney. 1968. Contains article by Philip M. COWBURN between P.1 and 21. Soft cover. Browning of outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.3.
69047 RAN "ENGLAND EXPECTS..." - Trafalgar Sesqui Centenary / Garden Island, Sydney / 22nd October 1955
$25.00 AUD
Navy League of Australia (N.S.W. Division) & White Ensign Club. Nowra, N.S.W. 1955. 1st edition with the "Trafalgar Day" message from Rear-Admiral H. J. Buchanan. 28 PP with period advertisements and b/w illustrations, Trafalgar Day Programme, Timetable and plan of Garden Island at centrefold. Pictorial soft cover (HMAS "Anzac"). Very good. 21.5 x 13.7.
Nelson's tradition is part of the R.A.N., by the Honourable Jos. Francis, Minister for the Navy.
48276 RANSOME-WALLIS, P. ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1962. 3rd edition. 64 PP with 2 cut-aways, 47 b/w photos, and 1 page with Marks of Ranks of Royal Navy Officers and Badges of Royal Navy Ratings. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 18.4 x 12.4.
64468 RANSOME-WALLIS, P. ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Ian Allan. London. 1961. 2nd edition. 64 PP with 2 cut-aways, 47 b/w photos, and 1 page with Marks of Ranks of Royal Navy Officers and Badges of Royal Navy Ratings. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 18.4 x 12.4.
72576 RAVEN, Alan ENSIGN 1 - KING GEORGE THE FIFTH CLASS BATTLESHIPS
$45.00 AUD
Bivouac Books. London. 1972. 1st edition. No pagination, 44 PP with tables, 46 b/w photos, 12 plans, and 1 double length centrefold with 4 colour artworks (profile). Pictorial stiff covers. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner at top corner of first page, o/wise near fine. 25.5 x 20.2. 0858600023
72575 RAVEN, Alan & ROBERTS, John BATTLESHIPS RODNEY AND NELSON, No. 3 in the Man O'War series
$50.00 AUD
RSV Publications & Arms & Armour Press. New York & London. 1979. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w illust. throughout and 1 double-length centrefold in colour. Pictorial stiff covers. Small name stamp on inside front cover, o/wise fine. Scarce. 25.5 x 20. 0853682631
72578 RAVEN, Alan & ROBERTS, John ENSIGN 5 - TOWN CLASS CRUISERS
$50.00 AUD
Bivouac Books. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 52 PP with tables, 2 large plans, 8 sketch plans, 9 b/w profiles, and 1 double length centrefold with 8 colour artworks (profile). Pictorial card covers. Small name stamp on inside front cover. Near fine. Scarce. 25.5 x 20.2. 0856800082
13126 RAYNER, Commander D. A. ESCORT - The Battle of the Atlantic
$20.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1955. Second edition, October 1955 of the September 1955 original. Edited by Captain S. W. Roskill. XVIII, 19-250, (6 adv.) PP with 4 maps, plus 12 pages with 17 b/w photos. Fp: Author. FEP: Map to show approximate distances on convoy routes. REP: Map to show limits of escort at various dates & the air gap. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips and a small piece missing on top of rear. Occasional foxing, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
75492 READER'S DIGEST SECRETS AND STORIES OF THE WAR - Volume 1
$10.00 AUD
The Reader's Digest Association, Ltd. London. 1963 1st Ed. Foreword by Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks. 360 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on cloth spine. Slight ageing of paper, otherwise fine. 19.4 x 14.
A selection of 37 articles and book condensations from the Second World War.
65126 REEMAN, Douglas TORPEDO RUN
$10.00 AUD
Arrow Books. London. 1982. 1st paperback edition of the 1981 original. 290 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Signed by the author on title page. Near fine. 17.8 x 11. 0099283808
70067 REVELL CARR, J. ALL BRAVE SAILORS - The Sinking of the "Anglo-Saxon", 21 August 1940
$20.00 AUD
Coronet Paperback / Hodder and Stoughton. London. 2004. 1st edition as a "Coronet" ' paperback. XVI, 365 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (1 map and 1 sketch), plus 8 plates with 23 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Slight ageing of paper. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on preliminary page. Near fine. 19.6 x 12.8. 9780340825785
72835 REYNOLDS, L. C. GUNBOAT 658
$5.00 AUD
New English Library. London. 1974. 1st NEL paperback edition of the 1955 original. 192 PP with 4 maps. Pictorial soft covers. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page. Very good. 17.8 x 10.8.
Operations of a motor gunboat in the Mediterranean from the fall of Tunisia to the German surrender.
35715 REYNOLDS, Quentin ONLY THE STARS ARE NEUTRAL
$35.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1942. 1st Australian edition. XI, 277 PP. Cloth cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, ageing of paper, some foxing, fold of front endpaper split. Very good. 22.2 x 14.
A year's roving from one theatre of war to another (Britain / Russia) by one of America's most famous Foreign Correspondents.
35783 REYNOLDS, Quentin THE CURTAIN RISES
$15.00 AUD
Cassell. Melbourne. 1944. 1st Australian edition. 291 PP. Green cloth cover with chipped dust jacket, now in a protective sleeve. Paper ageing and light foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy. 22 x 14.3.
Editorials of the American war correspondent between March and December 1943: Iran, Russia, Sicily...
45751 RICE, Desmond & GAVSHON, Arthur THE SINKING OF THE BELGRANO
$15.00 AUD
Secker & Warburg. London. 1984. 1st Ed. XV, 218 PP with 2 maps and 1 facsimile of document, plus 4 pages with 7 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (spine sunned) . Foxing, o/wise near fine. 24 x 16. 0436413329
The Falklands War of 1982 and the torpedoing of the Argentinian Cruiser Belgrano (decision and aftermath).
75094 RICHARDS, Denis ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945 - Volume I: The Fight at Odds
$20.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1953. 1st Ed. Preface by Denis Richards & Hilary St. G. Saunders. XII, 430 PP with 12 maps or diagrams, plus 9 plates with maps (3 of them folded) and 20 plates with 18 photos. Fp: Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall. Hard covers, title on a sunned spine. Library stamp and label on front endpaer. Very good copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 21.7 x 14.
75095 RICHARDS, Denis & SAUNDERS, Hilary St. G. ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945 - Volume II: The Fight Avails
$30.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1954. 1st Ed. Preface by Denis Richards. X, 416 PP with 10 maps or diagrams, plus 9 plates b/w or coloured with maps (3 of them folded) and 24 plates with 23 photos. Fp: Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Air Vice-Marshal A. Coningham in the desert. Cloth covers, title on spine, dj (price clipped). Library stamp and label on front endpaer. Dust jacket with rubbed patches and chips and now in a protective sleeve. Very good copy. 21.7 x 14.
49834 RILEY, Patrick MEMORIES OF A BLUE-JACKET 1872-1918
$30.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston. London. c. 1920. 1st Ed. XII, 308 PP, plus 24 b/w plates. Fp: The Wheels of Time. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots. Near fine. 24.6 x 17.5.
Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1943. 1st Ed. XII, 312, 8 (Addenda, up to 15th July 1943) PP with hundreds of b/w illust. (maps, plans and photos). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Name of previous owner on ffep. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 18.
The Naval warfare in 1942, Naval constructions, portfolio of capital ships, aircraft carriers... United States Fleet list, Checklist of the principal combat ships of the world's navies. Corrected to July 15th 1943.
Dodd, Mead and Co. New York. 1942. 5th Printing (October 1942) of the March 1942 original. XII, 240 PP, plus 4A PP (Appendix added to 5th Printing), with tables, 18 b/w illust. (drawings, profiles, sketches) and 300 b/w photos, index of ships, etc... Blue cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise a near fine copy. 22.5 x 17.
A comprehensive picture of the ships and plans of the fighting fleets of the world. This 6th printing of November 1942 gives the ship casualties after 10 months of US involvement in an appendix of 4 pages at back of book.
44346 RIMINGTON, Critchell FIGHTING FLEETS - A Survey of the Navies of the World - 1944 Edition
$20.00 AUD
Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1944. 1st Ed. XII, 348 PP with hundreds of b/w illust. (maps, cut aways, plans and photos). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and spine. Covers slightly marked, and hinges rubbed. Lacks the free front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 18.
The Naval warfare in 1943, Naval constructions, portfolio of capital ships, aircraft carriers... United States Fleet list, Checklist of the principal combat ships of the world's navies. Loss as of June 15 1944.
Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1943. 1st Ed. XII, 312 PP with hundreds of b/w illust. (maps, plans and photos). Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover, gilt title on a sunned and rubbed spine. Name of previous owner on ffep. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 18.
The Naval warfare in 1942, Naval constructions, portfolio of capital ships, aircraft carriers... United States Fleet list, Checklist of the principal combat ships of the world's navies.
76283 RN NAVY DAYS CHATHAM: May 28 & 29 1978 - Souvenir Booklet
$20.00 AUD
RN / Ministry of Defence (Navy). London. 1978 1st Ed. Foreword by Rear Admiral C. M. Bevan, Flag Officer Medway. 36 PP with 6 colour photos "The Royal Naval Supply School - HMS Pembroke", and 37 b/w illustrations. Back cover with "Plan of Open Days Area" (in colour). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24.2 x 18.5.
"Navy Open Days - Chatham"
72443 ROBERTS, John THE BATTLECRUISER HOOD
$60.00 AUD
Conway Maritime Press. London. 1982. 1st Ed., in the "Anatomy of the Ship" Series. 127 PP with 11 tables, 24 b/w photos and up to 300 perspective and 3-view drawings. Title spread: H.M.S. Hood. Hard cover, dj. Errata slip pasted down on verso of title page. Neat stamp of previous owner on FFEP and another signature at top corner of title-page. Paper ageing a little around edges, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. Oblong: 25 x 26. 0851772501
46131 ROBERTS, Shirley CHARLES HOTHAM. A Biography
$15.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed. XII, 201 PP with 1 Family Tree and 41 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.7. 0522842879
Naval officer (squadron of the Plata Estuary), suppression of the transatlantic slave trade... and Governor of the colony of Victoria (at the time of the Eureka Stockade).
17332 ROBERTSON, R. G. HMS HOOD / BATTLE-CRUISER 1916-1941
$20.00 AUD
Profile Publications. London. 1972. May 1972 edition. No. 19 in the Warship Profile series. 28 PP (P. 145 to 172) with 1 colour double length centrefold (badge, flag, profile), 1 badge, 2 plans and 54 bw photos. Inside front cover: Crest of HMS Hood. Pictorial soft cover. Neat name stamp of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 18.7.
Sunk by the Bismarck on 24th May 1941.
70771 ROBERTSON, Terence THE SHIP WITH TWO CAPTAINS
$15.00 AUD
Evans Brothers. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 14 pages with 23 b/w photos. Fp: The two captains. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket is rubbed and soiled. Offsetting on front endpaper, o/wise a very good copy. 22 x 14.2.
The war records of HMS Seraph/USS Seraph. Launched in May 1942, she sunk a whale for her first patrol. Her use before the Anglo-American landing in French North Africa.
46824 ROBINSON, Anthony (editor) IN THE COCKPIT. Flying the World's Great Aircraft
$10.00 AUD
Black Cat / Macdonald. London. 1988. Reprint of the 1979 original. Introduction by Jeffrey Quill. (8), 312 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page: Swedish Saab J21A. Titlespread: Northrop F-5F. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edges. Very good. 30.8 x 23.2. 0748101152
47392 RODGER, N. A. M. THE ARMADA in the Public Records
$10.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 76 PP with 8 colour, 13 b/w ilustrations and 17 facsimile of documents on 26 pages. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 22. 0114402159
67304 RODGER, N. A. M. THE SAFEGUARD OF THE SEA. A Naval History of Britain - Volume one: 660-1649
$10.00 AUD
Penguin Books & National Maritime Museum. London. 2004. Reprint (7) of the 1997 paperback edition. XXVI, 691 PP with 20 maps and 4 b/w illustrations, plus 24 pages with 59 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Covers with light creases on front and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 19.5 x 13.. 9780140297249
60264 ROHWER, Jürgen LA RADIOTELEGRAPHIE, AUXILIAIRE DU COMMANDEMENT DANS LA GUERRE SOUS-MARINE (in Revue d'Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale)
$5.00 AUD
Presses Universitaires de France. Paris. 1966. Extrait / Off-Print. 41-66 PP. Soft cover, staples. French text. Very good. 24 x 15.7.
Radiotelegraphy and Antisubmarine Warfare
18462 ROLLESTON, Charles H. (Editor) WITH THE.. RENOWN IN AUSTRALASIA. Authentic Record and Account of the Visit of H.M.S. Renown to Australasia
$40.00 AUD
Australasian Publishing. Sydney. c. 1920. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 64 pages with 50 b/w photos. Fp: H.R.H. The Prince of Wales. Green card cover faded gilt title and crest. Jacket is chipped and has tape repairs. Spine split (reinforced). Ageing of paper. Contents near fine. Image shows text (P.78) and photo of Port Stephens. 24.5 x 18.5.
The magazine of the HMS Renown, December 1919 to October 1920 with contributions from different members of the crew: Captain, Gunmen,... The Prince of Wales was on board for the voyage from Portsmouth and back. Section on the Australia visit between P.49 and 89 : Jenolan Caves, Parramatta, Tamworth, Toowoomba, Port Stephens. Ports of call included Panama, Honolulu, Fiji, Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Samoa, Acapulco, St. Lucia, Bermuda...
30155 ROSE, Susan (editor) THE NAVY OF THE LANCASTRIAN KINGS. Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King's Ships, 1422-1427
$15.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1982. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 123. (XIV), 288, (6) PP. Fp: Folio No. 42 of the Accounts and Inventories of William Soper. Hard cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. Image shows title-page & frontispiece. 23 x 15.5. 0049421751
Accounts by the clerk of the King's ships covering the period during which the Navy built up by Henry V for the French war was largely dispersed by sale following his death.
45134 ROSKILL, Capt. S. W. A MERCHANT FLEET IN WAR - Alfred Holt & Co. 1939-1945
$50.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1963. 3rd impression in May 1963 of the September 1962 original. XIV, 352 PP. FEP: The Alfred Holt Fleet, Ships Sunk in the War of 1939-1945. REP: General plan of M/V Priam. Red cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). A few small nicks/chips in the dust jacket, o/wise near fine. 22.8 x 14.5.
The long and ferocious struggle for seaborne supplies on the ships of the Holt Line. Loss of 44 owned and 8 managed ships, including Centaur off the coast of Queensland and 4 French ships.
22578 ROSKILL, Captain S. W. A MERCHANT FLEET IN WAR - Alfred Holt & Co 1939-1945
$60.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1962. 1st Ed. XIV, 352 PP. FEP: The Alfred Holt Fleet, Ships Sunk in the War of 1939-1945. REP: General plan of M/V Priam. Cloth cover, dust jacket (price-clipped). A few small nicks/chips in dust jacket , o/wise a near fine copy of the first edition. 22.8 x 14.5.
The long and ferocious struggle for seaborne supplies on the ships of the Holt Line. Loss of 44 owned and 8 managed ships, including 4 French ships.
62358 ROSKILL, Captain S. W. THE WAR AT SEA 1939-1945 (set of 3 Volumes in 4)
$275.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1954, 1956, 1960 & 1961. Edited by J. R. M. Butler (then Sir James Butler), in the History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military series. Volume I: 1st Ed. XXII, (2), 664 PP with 8 maps and 26 tables, plus 37 folded maps and 44 pages with 56 b/w photos. Fp: Admiral of the Fleet Sir A. Dudley P.R. Pound. Volume II: 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 523 PP with 7 maps and 38 tables, plus 35 folded maps and 36 pages with 64 b/w photos. Fp: The Tilting of the Balance. Volume III, Part I: 1st Ed. XVI, 413 PP with 1 map and 20 tables, plus 20 maps (9 of them folded) and 32 pages with 72 b/w photos. Fp: The submission of the Italian Navy, 10th September 1943. 1 errata slip tipped in on title page. Volume III, Part II: 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 502 PP with 4 maps and 20 tables, plus 21 maps (8 of them folded) and 38 pages with 80 b/w photos. Fp: The defeat of the German Navy 1945. Errata slip tipped on title page. All volumes with dark green cloth covers, gilt title on black label on spines and dust jackets. Dust jackets slightly defective: top of spine of Volume II with piece missing, Volumes II and III are price clipped, and all are lightly soiled and with sunned spine. Front endpaper: Volume I with bookplate and Volume II with name of previous owner. Some foxing spots on outside edges, the endpapers and a very few pages, o/wise a nice set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25 x 17.
Volume I: The Defensive, from the start of WWII to December 1941 and the fall of Hong Kong. Volume II: The Period of Balance, January 1942 to May 1943. Volume III: The offensive, Part I: 1st June 1943-31st May 1944. Part II: 1st June 1944 -14th August 1945.
72810 ROSKILL, Captain S. W. THE WAR AT SEA 1939-1945 (set of 3 Volumes in 4)
$300.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1957, 1956, 1960 & 1961. Edited by J. R. M. Butler (then Sir James Butler), in the History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military series. Volume I: 4th impression of the 1954 original. XXII, (2), 664 PP with 8 maps and 26 tables, plus 37 folded maps and 44 pages with 56 b/w photos. Fp: Admiral of the Fleet Sir A. Dudley P.R. Pound. Volume II: 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 523 PP with 7 maps and 38 tables, plus 35 folded maps and 36 pages with 64 b/w photos. Fp: The Tilting of the Balance. Volume III, Part I: 1st Ed. XVI, 413 PP with 1 map and 20 tables, plus 20 maps (9 of them folded) and 32 pages with 72 b/w photos. Fp: The submission of the Italian Navy, 10th September 1943. 1 errata slip tipped in on title page. Volume III, Part II: 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 502 PP with 4 maps and 20 tables, plus 21 maps (8 of them folded) and 38 pages with 80 b/w photos. Fp: The defeat of the German Navy 1945. Errata slip tipped on title page. All volumes with dark green cloth covers, gilt title on black label on spines and dust jackets. Lower corner of front cover of volume bumped. All dust jackets are in a near fine condition and in protective sleeves. Minimal light foxing. A very nice set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25 x 17.
Volume I: The Defensive, from the start of WWII to December 1941 and the fall of Hong Kong. Volume II: The Period of Balance, January 1942 to May 1943. Volume III: The offensive, Part I: 1st June 1943-31st May 1944. Part II: 1st June 1944 -14th August 1945.
70768 ROSKILL, Captain S. W. D.S.C., Royal Navy (Retired) WHITE ENSIGN - THE BRITISH NAVY AT WAR, 1939-1945
$35.00 AUD
United States Naval Institute. Annapolis. 1966. November 1966 reprint of the 1960 UK original The Navy at War, 1939-1945. 480 PP with 24 maps. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic Ocean. Navy blue cloth cover, colour device (White Ensign) on front cover and spine, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has some chips/small pieces missing and old tape marks on flaps and is plastic protected. Bookplate of previous owner on verso of front endpaper, o/wise contents near fine. 23.5 x 16
A comprehensive work.
30104 ROWSE, A. L. SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE OF THE 'REVENGE'
$10.00 AUD
Jonathan Cape. London. 1977. Reissue of the 1937 original. 367 PP with 1 map (Island of Flores, Azores). Cloth cover, dj. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 22.4 x 14. 0224013564
Legendary hero of Elizabethan warfare: Drake and Raleigh, the Armada, First Virginia voyage... Fight of the 'Revenge' off Flores Islands in the Azores..
10593 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY WARSHIPS IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS
$5.00 AUD
View Productions. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 123 b & w illustrations. Inside front cover: The U.S.A. Warship Brooklyn, 1901. Inside rear cover: H.M.S. Royal George, 1901. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 30 x 21.3.
Collectors Edition. Arrival Australian Fleet Unit in 1913...
16650 ROYAL NAVY SPOT THEM AT SEA! Identification Drawings of H.M. Ships of the Royal Navy
$10.00 AUD
Daily Mirror. London. 1940. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 14 b/w full-page photos and 63 ship silhouettes (scale 1 inch to 160 feet), of which 57 are Royal Navy and 6 German Navy. REP with update of vessels sunk (up to the Campaign of Norway). Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly soiled, staples removed. Very good. 24.1 x 15.1.
The battle cruisers, battleships, aircraft cariers, cruisers, anti-aircraft ships, flotilla leaders and destroyer submarines of the Royal Navy with German battleships and cruisers, each unit with brief information.
16836 ROYAL NAVY FLEET AIR ARM, The Admiralty Account of Naval Air Operations
$5.00 AUD
HMSO / Ministry of Information. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 3 maps, 6 Arm Badges and 94 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 22.8 x 17.5.
Naval air power - Eyes of the Fleet - Striking forces - Escort duties...
32381 ROYAL NAVY ARK ROYAL - The Admiralty Account of her Achievement
$10.00 AUD
Admiralty / Ministry of Information - HMSO. London. 1942. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 2 maps and 1 engraving and 62 b/w photos. FEP: And the Ark went upon the face of the waters. REP: Gallant company. Soft cover, crest of Ark Royal on front cover. Closed tear to back cover, o/wise very good. 22.7 x 17.5.
Launch 13th April 1937, trials completed 12th January 1939, sunk by a German U-Boat on 13th of November 1941 within sight of Gibraltar.
33734 ROYAL NAVY COASTAL COMMAND - The Air Ministry account of the part played by Coastal Command in the Battle of the Seas 1939-1942
$10.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. c. 1943. 1st Ed. 143 PP with 2 maps and 134 b/w photos. Fp: plotting the course. FEP: Catalina in flight. REP: Aerial view of convoy. Soft cover. Very good. 22.7 x 17.8.
Battle of the narrow seas. Protecting ocean convoys... Blockade by mine and bomb...
35572 ROYAL NAVY THE WONDER BOOK OF THE NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. London. c.1956. 12th Ed., with foreword The British Navy by Earl Jellicoe. 224 PP with nearly 300 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 9 colour illustrations. Half-title page: Scrubbing deck & inspection of Sea Cadet. Title page: White Ensign. Fp: Visitors on board HMS Vanguard. Eps: Cartoons on life in the Navy by Thomas Maybank. Illustrated hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket with small creases and 2 chips at top and bottom of spine. Near fine. 25.3 x 19.
Why we need a Navy. The Navy's work in times of peace... The Navy and the Commonwealth, by Commander Gordon Franklin... The Women's Royal Naval Service.
35573 ROYAL NAVY THE WONDER BOOK OF THE NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. London. c.1954. 10th Ed., with foreword The British Navy by Earl Jellicoe. 256 PP with nearly 300 b/w photos and 2 pages with 40 arm badges, plus 8 pages with 9 colour illustrations. Half-title page: Scrubbing deck & inspection of Sea Cadet. Title page: White Ensign. Fp: A Depth Charge. Eps: Cartoons on life in the Navy by Thomas Maybank. Illustrated hard cover. Closed tear to front endpaper, few foxing spots. Very good. 25.3 x 19.
Why we need a Navy. The Navy's work in times of peace... The Navy and the Empire, by Commander Gordon Franklin... The Women's Royal Naval Service.
37216 ROYAL NAVY FALKLANDS: TASK FORCE PORTFOLIO - Part 1
$30.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall. 1982. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 21. 0907771025
Photographs with brief caption on the ships (Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxiliary & Merchant ships) gathered to retake the Falkland Islands in April and May 1982.
39385 ROYAL NAVY THE WONDER BOOK OF THE NAVY
$5.00 AUD
Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. London. c.1956. 12th Ed., with foreword The British Navy by Earl Jellicoe. 224 PP with nearly 300 b/w photos, plus 8 pages with 9 colour illustrations. Half-title page: Scrubbing deck & inspection of Sea Cadet. Title page: White Ensign. Fp: Visitors on board HMS Vanguard. Eps: Cartoons on life in the Navy by Thomas Maybank. Illustrated hard cover. Front cover rubbed around edges and with water damage to its fore part. Water damage affecting the margin of 13 first leaves. 2 pages lightly soiled in fore margin. Good. 25.3 x 19.
Why we need a Navy. The Navy's work in times of peace... The Navy and the Commonwealth, by Commander Gordon Franklin... The Women's Royal Naval Service.
43883 ROYAL NAVY EAST OF MALTA, WEST OF SUEZ - The Admiralty Account of the Naval War in the Eastern Mediterranean, September 1939 to March 1941
$10.00 AUD
Admiralty / Ministry of Information. London. 1943. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 1 battle diagram (Matapan), 4 paintings by Lieut.-Cdr. Rowland Langmaid, 7 maps and 40 b/w photos. Fp: The fight begins. FEP: Map The Italian Challenge. REP: The Navy holds the narrow seas. Pictorial soft cover. Front edged rubbed, o/wise very good. 23 x 17.8.
44588 ROYAL NAVY THE NAVY LEAGUE ANNUAL 1911-12 (corrected to October 10th, 1911)
$50.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1911. 1st Ed., 5th year of issue. Edited by Alan H. BURGOYNE. 342, (XXIV adverts.) PP with 10 plans, plus 16 b/w plates with 2 plans, and 14 illustrations by Oscar Parkes. Fp: H.M.S. Orion. Eps: Adverts. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Spine lightly sunned. Ex library copy with 2 unobtrusive stamps. Fold of front endpaper split. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages. Very good. 22.4 x 14.5.
Published on October 21st (Trafalgar Day) 1911.
44589 ROYAL NAVY THE NAVY LEAGUE ANNUAL 1912-13 (corrected to October 10th, 1912)
$50.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1912. 1st Ed., 6th year of issue. Edited by Alan H. BURGOYNE. 392, (XIV adverts.) PP with 12 plans, plus 14 b/w plates. All illustrations by Oscar Parkes. Fp: H.M.S. King George V. Eps: Adverts. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Spine lightly sunned. Ex library copy with 2 unobtrusive stamps. Fold of front endpaper split. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages. Very good. 22.4 x 14.5.
Published on October 21st (Trafalgar Day) 1912.
48223 ROYAL NAVY ROYAL NAVY TODAY
$10.00 AUD
Odhams Press. London. 1942. 1st Ed., with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty. 128 PP with b/w illustrations (badges, crests, cutaways, engravings, photos), plus 4 pages with 3 colour plates. Inside front cover: Guardians of Freedom from The World Crisis, by Winston Churchill. Inside rear cover: Prayers to be used at sea. Pictorial soft cover. Sellotape marks on endpapers. Light foxing. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.
48288 ROYAL NAVY RANKS & MEDAL RIBBONS OF THE FIGHTING SERVICES
$10.00 AUD
Daily Mirror. London. c. 1940. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 7 pages with b/w illustrations and 19 pages with colour illustrations. Soft cover. Covers, chipped worn and with creases. Staples removed. Internally very good. 20.3 x 12.6.
Royal Navy, The Army and the Royal Air Force. Victoria Cross, Orders, Decorations for Valour and Gallantry....
50336 ROYAL NAVY THE ROYAL NAVY TODAY (in The Illustrated London News)
$15.00 AUD
The Illustrated London News. London. 1971. No. 6869, Volume 258, 27th March 1971. 38 PP. Contains articles between P.17 to 21 with 2 b/w photos, 1 cutaway of HMS Norfolk (at centrefold), and 49 profiles. Pictorial soft cover (Bow of HMS Eastbourne). Very good. Large format: 35.5 x 27.5.
51392 ROYAL NAVY VJ THE FINAL VICTORY
$15.00 AUD
DPR (Navy), Ministry of Defence. London. 1995. 1st Ed. Preface by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. No pagination, 18 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map and 22 photos). Inside front cover: Map (in colour) of Pacific War theatre in May 1942. Inside back cover: Map (in colour) of Pacific War theatre August 1945. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21.
VJ: Victory over Japan in the Pacific.
52754 ROYAL NAVY THE WONDER BOOK OF THE NAVY
$5.00 AUD
Ward, Lock & Co. Ltd. London. c.1954. 10th Ed., with foreword The British Navy by Earl Jellicoe. 256 PP with nearly 300 b/w photos and 2 pages with 40 arm badges, plus 8 pages with 9 colour illustrations. Half-title page: Scrubbing deck & inspection of Sea Cadet. Title page: White Ensign. Fp: A Depth Charge. Eps: Cartoons on life in the Navy by Thomas Maybank. Illustrated hard cover. Covers rubbed, spine worn. Foxing spots. Very good. 25.3 x 19.
Why we need a Navy. The Navy's work in times of peace... The Navy and the Empire, by Commander Gordon Franklin... The Women's Royal Naval Service.
53832 ROYAL NAVY NAVAL ENTERPRISE: illustrative of Adventure, Heroism, and Endurance
$15.00 AUD
Frederick Warne. London. c. 1880. Warne's National Books series. (4), 252 PP, plus 11 plates in colour. Fp (in colour): The Life-boat Bradford saving the crew of the barque Scott. Cloth cover, decorated front, gilt title on spine. Slight ageing of paper and light wear to covers. Very good. Small format: 12.8 x 10.
57223 ROYAL NAVY THE NAVY LEAGUE ANNUAL 1908-1909 (Corrected to October 10th, 1908)
$100.00 AUD
Navy League. London. 1908. 1st Ed., 2nd year of issue. Edited by Alan H. BURGOYNE. 278 PP (34 adverts.) with 8 plans and 20 b/w plates. Fp: H.M.S. Indomitable. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. Spine lightly sunned. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.4 x 14.5.
Progress of the British Navy. Progress of Foreign Navies. The Dual Alliance (France/Russia). The Triple Alliance (Germany/Italy/Austria). ... Chapter XII: The Australian Naval Defence, by Captain R. Muirhead-Collins. ...
59035 ROYAL NAVY JOHN BULL. "For God, the King, and the People" - Vol. V, No. 9
$10.00 AUD
Edward Shackell. London. 1825. Vol. V, No. 9. Sunday, February 27, 1825. Pages 65 to 72. Slight ageing of paper. 41 x 28.
60798 ROYAL NAVY THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC - The Official Account of the Fight against the U-Boats 1939-1945
$5.00 AUD
Admiralty and Air Ministry / Central Office of Information. London. 1946. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 8 maps. Copy without the soft covers. Reading copy only. 22.3 x 14.7.
72173 ROYAL NAVY PORTSMOUTH NAVY WEEK, August 3rd & 5th to 10th 1935 - Official Guide and Souvenir
$20.00 AUD
The Navy Week Committee. Portsmouth. 1935. 1st Ed. 80 PP with b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.5 x 18.7.
HMAS Australia and A Short Account of the Royal Australian Navy.
73030 ROYAL NAVY NEPTUNE - October 1942
$15.00 AUD
Continental Publishers. London. October 1942. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 2 drawings (1 map of Supply Lines and at colour illustrations of US bombers flying supplies to China at centrefold, and 75 b/w photos. Pictorial soft wrappers (King George VI, visiting units of the United States Fleet in Britain and shaking hand with Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, the famous American film star). Very good. 26 x 16.3.
The Royal Navy: 3 years at war. Attacks in the West. Britain calling the world. The Americans are ready. Girls of the W.A.A.F., Bomber Ferry. ...
74331 ROYAL NAVY Notes and Orders for Officers : ANTI-AIRCRAFT CORPS OF THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE
$15.00 AUD
The Naval and Military Press. Uckfield., UK. c. 2009. Facsimile reprint of the December 1914 original. 75, (76 to 82 notes and additions). PP. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 18.5 x 12.3. 9781847348258
75697 ROYAL NAVY THE NAVY LEAGUE ANNUAL 1907-1908 (Corrected to October 10th, 1907)
$100.00 AUD
Navy League. London. 1907. 1st Ed., 1st year of issue. Edited by Alan H. BURGOYNE. 262 PP, (26 adverts.) with tables, 10 plans and 24 b/w plates (1 of them folded). Fp: H.M.S. Agamemnon. Soft cover, decoration and title on front cover. Spine lightly sunned. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.4 x 14.5.
Progress of the British Navy. Progress of Foreign Navies. La Marine Française et l'Entente Cordiale, by Capitaine Sorb. ...
76081 ROYAL NAVY THE ROYAL MARINES
$10.00 AUD
Pitkin Pictorials. London. 1971. 1st Ed., in the "Pride of Britain" series. 24 PP with 35 b/w and 11 colour iillustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 22.8 x 17.6. 9780853724544
Pictorial story .
63352 ROYAL NAVY / SOVIET NAVY THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS - August 25 1962
$15.00 AUD
The Illustrated London News. London. 1962. No. 6421, Volume 241, August 25, 1962. 269-308 PP. Pages 287 to 291 : The British Navy today, with 5 b/w photos and 7 drawings by G.H. Davis: Soft cover. Staples removed. Very good. Large format: 37 x 26.
Page 287: Missile "Seacat". Centrefold (288/289): Decline and fall of the Royal Navy. Pages 290 & 291: comparisons between British Navy and Soviet Navy.
18855 RULE, Margaret THE MARY ROSE
$5.00 AUD
Ring Publications. London. 1982. 1st Ed. 60 PP with b/w and colour illust. Inside back cover: The lifting after 437 years under water. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 27.5 x 21.
The excavation and raising of Henry VIII's flagship.
38792 RUTHERFORD, Iain W. AT THE TILLER
$30.00 AUD
Blackie & Son Ltd. London. 1946. February 1946 reprint of the January 1946 original. VI, 218 PP, plus 32 pages with 61 b/w photos. Fp: "Suilven" racing against Britain at Cowes, 1921. FEP: Map of the NW coast of Scotland. REP: maps of Ireland and the Northern part of the North Sea. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Errata slip, tipped in on Introduction page. War economy paper, dust jacket rubbed and chipped and in a protective sleeve. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
Yachtsman's experiences in Peace (ocean racing, sailing yachts) and war (R.N.V.S.R. with drifters, trawlers, motor launch...).
18357 RUTTER, Owen RED ENSIGN, A History of Convoy
$5.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1942. 1st Ed. 214 PP, plus 18 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Fp: They bring their food from afar. Red cloth cover is lightly soiled and worn around edges, war economy paper, foxing on outside edges, o/wise internally, a very good clean copy. 22 x 14.
The convoys of merchant ships in history: Tudor, Stuart, Napoleonic wars, WWI and early days of WWII.
18942 RYAN, A. N. (editor) THE SAUMAREZ PAPERS, Selections from the Baltic Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez 1808-1812
$20.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. Greenwich. 1968. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 110. XXV, 287, (6 publications) PP with 1 map, plus 1 plate and 1 folded map. Fp: Admiral James, 1st Baron De Saumarez. Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on lightly sunned spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 23.2 x 15.5.
The Baltic command of Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez in the period 1808-1812.
73160 SARKAR, Dilip THE FEW - The Story of the Battle of Britain in the Words of the Pilots
$10.00 AUD
Amberley Publishing. Stroud, UK. 2012. 1st Ed. Foreword by Lady Bader. 313, (7 publications) PP with 3 plans [Ju 87 (Stuka), Me 109 and Me 110] and 126 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19.8 x 12.5 9781445607016
35351 SARPEDON PRESS SERVICES MARY ROSE - Souvenir Guide
$20.00 AUD
The Mary Rose Trust. Old Portsmouth. 1985. 1985 edition. 64 PP with 35 pages of advertising material and 29 pages with 20 b/w and 78 colour illustrations. Inside front cover: Gun. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.
The Ship, the King and the Princess. The homecoming. The "Mary Rose": Lifestyles in a Tudor Ship, Time, Speed & Distance, The Power of the Longbow... The Final Battle, the legacy.
22576 SAUNDERS, Hilary St. George VALIANT VOYAGING, A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War 1939-1945
$25.00 AUD
Faber & Faber. London. 1948. 1st Ed. 216 PP, plus 1 colour plate on double-page and 7 b/w plates with 13 photos. Fp (in colour): Regimental Badges on the Dunera. FEP: Position of the Fleet at the Outbreak of War. REP: Position of ships lost. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed. Signature of previous owner on verso of FFEP. Contents near fine. 20.5 x 14.
75096 SAUNDERS, Hilary St. George ROYAL AIR FORCE 1939-1945 - Volume III: The Fight is Won
$25.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1954. 1st Ed. Preface by Denis Richards. X, 442 PP with 2 grahs and 11 maps or diagrams, plus 7 plates b/w or coloured with maps (3 of them folded) and 26 plates with 30 photos. Fp: Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Lord Portal of Hungerford. Cloth covers, title on spine, dj (only front cover with flap present). Library stamp and label on front endpaer. Plate facing page 262 "Principal Targets attacked by Bomber Command , 1 January 1944 - 5 May 1945", has been removed. Otherwise a very good copy. 21.7 x 14.
75840 SCAMMELL, G. V. THE ENGLISH CHARTERED TRADING COMPANIES AND THE SEA
$10.00 AUD
Trustees of the National Maritime Museum. Greenwich. c. 1982. 1st Ed. Foreword by Basil Greenhill. 48 PP with 12 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. Oblong. 15 x 21.
18220 SCARLETT, Bernard SHIPMINDER - The Story of Her Majesty's Coastguard
$20.00 AUD
Pelham. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 208 PP, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 0720704804
Coast protection against: smugglers in the 18th Century, saboteurs and spies during WWII. Fighting in wars since the Crimean & lifesaving and protecting the environment.
37736 SCHMITT, Frederick P. & SCHMID, Donald E. H. M. S. CULLODEN
$10.00 AUD
Marine Historical Association. Mystic, Connecticut. 1961. 1st Ed., Publication No. 38. 63 PP with 17 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, vignette on front cover. Occasional foxing. Very good. 25.4 x 17.8.
74 Guns Ship-of-the-Line, launched 18th of May 1776... Wrecked January 1781 near Montauk Point, Long Island.
34144 SCHOFIELD, B. B. BRITISH SEA POWER - Naval Policy in the Twentieth Century
$15.00 AUD
B. T. Batsford. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 271 PP, plus 8 pages with 25 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj is a little rubbed around edges. A near fine copy. 22.8 x 15.
Aftermath of WWI, Naval conferences... Naval policy in the Nuclear Age.
20501 SCHOFIELD, B.B. BRITISH SEA POWER - Naval Policy in the Twentieth Century
$10.00 AUD
B.T. Batsford. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 271 PP, plus 8 pages with 25 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.
Aftermath of WWI, Naval conferences... Naval policy in the Nuclear Age.
31860 SCHOFIELD, B.B. BRITISH SEA POWER - Naval Policy in the Twentieth Century
$5.00 AUD
B. T. Batsford. London. 1967. 1st Ed. 271 PP, plus 8 pages with 25 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Ex library copy with 1 stamp on title page and renewed endpapers. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Very good. 22.8 x 15.
Aftermath of WWI, Naval conferences... Naval policy in the Nuclear Age.
38250 SCHOFIELD, Vice Admiral B.B. THE ROYAL NAVY TODAY
$25.00 AUD
OUP. London. 1960. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Sir Arthur Bryant. XII, 164 PP with 1 map on double page and 22 diagrams, plus 16 pages with 31 b/w plates. Fp: HMS Torquay, 2500 tons, a frigate of the Whitby class. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Some chips and small pieces missing from dust jacket. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing, o/wise internally near fine. 22 x 14.2.
39780 SCHUBERT, Paul SEA POWER IN CONFLICT
$15.00 AUD
Coward-Mccann. New York. 1942. 1st Ed. VI, 252 PP with 3 maps. Fp: Map of the Pacific Ocean with principal bases (Axis & American-British). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Spine of cover worn at foot, piece missing from spine of dust jacket. Paper ageing a little. Very good. 21 x 14.
Authoritative account of seapower in the past and present (to the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harour and the Philippines).
69908 SCOREY, Adam & PENDLETON, Emma-Lily (editors) D-DAY - The Normandy Beach Landings in Pictures
$10.00 AUD
Iconic / Archant. Cheltenham. 2014. 70th Anniversary edition. Foreword by Colonel Stuart Tootal. 90 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 23.
The real story of 6 June 1944
13707 SCOTT, Admiral Sir Percy FIFTY YEARS IN THE ROYAL NAVY
$50.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1919. November 1919 reprint of the 1919 original. XVIII, 358 PP with c. 20 b/w illustrations, plus with 26 plates with over 31 b/w photos. Fp: portrait of Admiral Sir Percy Scott. Cloth covers, gilt decoration on front board and gilt title on spine. Light ageing and foxing of paper. Near fine. 22.2 x 15.5.
66186 SCOTT, Lt.-Cdr. Peter THE BATTLE OF THE NARROW SEAS - A History of the Light Coastal Forces in the Channel and North Sea, 1939-1945
$50.00 AUD
Country Life Limited. London. 1946. Reprint of the 1945 original. XII, 228 PP with 4 maps and 30 drawings, plus 8 colour plates and 42 pages with 76 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Moonlight Attack. FEP: North Sea. REP: English Channel. Cloth cover, illustrated front cover, title on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket lightly soiled and with a few chips. War economy paper, light foxing. Name of previous owner (blocked out) on free fly of the front endpaper, o/wise a near fine copy. 25 x 19.2.
72839 SCOTT, Michael THE FIGHTING FRIGATE
$20.00 AUD
Action Comics Pty. Ltd. / Pennant. Sydney. c. 1950. Complete and unabridged edition. No. 5 in the Pennant series. 146 PP. Soft covers, pictorial front. Small piece missing at foot of spine. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on title page. Very good. 17.8 x 11.4.
HMS Brandon, the fighting frigate in western Mediterranean Sea.
44311 SEARLE, G. W. AT SEA LEVEL
$10.00 AUD
The Book Guild. Lewes, Sussex. 1994. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 5 maps, plus 24 pages with 48 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.3 x 14. 0863328970
War in the North Sea, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea (Crete, Libya, Dodecanese)...
61329 SELIGMAN, Adrian NO STARS TO GUIDE
$15.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1951. Reprint of the June 1947 original. 332 PP with 2 facsimiles of documents, 7 head-pieces & 33 b/w other decorations, plus 6 maps on double page. All illustrations by Konstance Pares. FEP: Map of Anatolia and the Aegean Sea. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with chips and repaired tears. Occasional foxing. A very good reading copy. 22.8 x 15.
Escape of a Russian convoy from the Dardanelles to Syria in late 1941, through islands occupied by Germany or Italy. The author was Commanding Officer of the Levant Schooner Flotilla during WWII.
75926 SETH, Ronald TWO FLEETS SURPRISED. The Story of the Battle of Cape Matapan, Mediterranean, March, 1941
$20.00 AUD
Geoffrey Bles. London. 1960. 1st Ed. Forewords by Admiral Angelo Iachino & Admiral Sir William James. XXI,201 PP with 9 sketch maps and diagrams, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w photos. Fp: Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. Hard cover. Renewed endpapers, otherwise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
49811 SEYMOUR, The Right Hon. Sir Edward H., Admiral of the Fleet MY NAVAL CAREER AND TRAVELS
$60.00 AUD
Smith, Elder & Co. London. 1911. 1st Ed. XVI, 429, (2 adv.) PP, plus 9 b/w plates. Fp: E.H. Seymour, Admiral of the Fleet (with tissue guard). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Signature of previous owner, dated 1912, on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages. Near fine. Scarce first edition. 22.7 x 15.
Entered the Royal Navy in 1852, when 12 years old. War of Crimea...
74662 SHANKLAND, Peter & HUNTER, Anthony DARDANELLES PATROL
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1964. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w photos. FEP: The Sea of Marmara and its approaches. REP: The Dardanelles. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers worn around edges and lightly soiled. Occasional foxing, o/wise contents near fine. Image shows title-page. 21.5 x 14.5.
The actions of the British submarine EI I, in the Sea of Marmara and at Constantinople in 1915.
74907 SHANKLAND, Peter & HUNTER, Anthony MALTA CONVOY
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1966. Reprint of 1961 edition. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Vian. 256 PP plus 8 pages with 13 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing, mostly around outside edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. 21.4 x 14.5.
Ordeal of the convoy "Operation Pedestal", 11-13 August, 1942, and of the vital tanker "Ohio".
34153 SHAW, Captain Frank H. STIRRING DEEDS OF BRITAIN'S NAVAL MIGHT
$10.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1940. 1st Ed. 254 PP, plus 16 pages with 19 b/w photos. Fp: Rear-Admiral Sir Henry Harwood. Cloth cover (soiled). Spine sunned, war economy paper, some foxing. Good reading copy. 22 x 14.
The first year of World War 2 at sea: Battle of the River Plate. Liner Rawalpindi versus the Deutschland...
70245 SHAW, Captain Frank H. EPIC NAVAL FIGHTS
$10.00 AUD
Werner Laurie. London. 1955. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 10 drawings on full page. Hard cover, title on a faded spine. Note to previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing and offsetting on endpapers. Faint water stain at lower corner of 10 last leaves. Good reading copy. 18.5 x 12.5.
45810 SHEA, Michael MARITIME ENGLAND
$10.00 AUD
Country Life Books & English Tourist Board. London. 1981. 1st Ed. 208 PP with b/w & colour illust. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Address of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 30.5 x 23. 0600368033
The influence since the first invasions, to the era of recreative use, of the sea on English society & history.
45811 SHEA, Michael MARITIME ENGLAND
$5.00 AUD
Country Life Books & English Tourist Board. London. 1981. 1st Ed. 208 PP with b/w & colour illust. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Water damage on rear cover, rear endpaper and at top fold of last 50 pages (3 pages with loss of few words in text). Still a good reading copy. 30.5 x 23. 0600368033
The influence since the first invasions, to the era of recreative use, of the sea on English society & history.
66519 SHERGOLD, Christine M. (editor) VICE ADMIRALTY COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES 1787-1911 - Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales - No.22
$30.00 AUD
The Archives Authority of New South Wales. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed. Preface by B.R. Davies & I. Maclean. (2), VIII, 104 PP. Typescript. Illustration (broadsheet) of the "Susanna Christina" on Page IV. Card covers browned around edges with light foxing on covers and some pages. Overall, a very good copy. Folio: 33 x 21.
37678 SKAGGS, David Curtiss & ALTOFF, Gerard T. A SIGNAL VICTORY - The Lake Erie Campaign 1812-1813
$10.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1997. 1st printing of the 1997 original. X, (2), 244, (4) PP with 1 map, 3 plans, 5 battle diagrams and 5 tables, plus 4 pages with 8 portraits. Hard cover. Has about 20 lines highlighted on pages 6, 7 & 8, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 1557500304
September 1813.
72337 SKOWRONEK, Russell K. & FISCHER, George R. HMS FOWEY, LOST AND FOUND: Being the Discovery, Excavation and Identification of a British Man-of-War Lost off the Cape Florida in 1748
$60.00 AUD
University Press of Florida. Gainesville, Fl. 2009. 1st Ed. Foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith. XXV, 233, (3) PP with figures. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 23.5 x 16. 9780813033204
72446 SLADER, John THE RED DUSTER AT WAR - A History of the Merchant Navy During the Second World War
$50.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 352 PP, plus 24 pages with 55 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket is reinforce and in a protective mylas sleeve. Ex-library copy with a few stamps on FFEP, one on title-page and one on top and bottom outside page edges and a library number at bottom of spine. Otherewise this is a very good clean copy of a scarce title. 24 x 15.2. 0718306791
Comprehensive and authoritative account of the Merchant Navy during WWII. Includes an extensive index of ships.
18236 SMITH, Graham KING'S CUTTERS - The Revenue Service and the War against Smuggling
$10.00 AUD
London. 1983. Conway. 1st Ed. 190 PP with b/w illust. (paintings, photos, plans,...). Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 24.5 x 19. 0851772919
The struggle against the law-breakers, the politicians, the Navy... Evolution of type of contraband and development of the vessels from small wooden boats to the fast craft of today.
63310 SMITH, Oliver M. (Editor) HMS BELFAST
$15.00 AUD
HMS Belfast Trust / Macmillan. London. 1971. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 45 b/w and 15 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.7. 333134567
32698 SMITH, Peter C. ROYAL NAVY SHIPS' BADGES
$15.00 AUD
Balfour Book. St. Ives, UK. 1974. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 8 colour photos, and 40 badges in colour. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 24.2 x 18.4. 0859440117
13 ships' badges (Benbow to Valhalla), and 27 boat badges (Amazon to Wild Swan).
40000 SMITH, Peter C. HERITAGE OF THE SEA
$15.00 AUD
Balfour. St. Ives, UK. 1974. 1st Ed. 96 PP with colour illustrations (1 painting, 1 print, 2 maps and 32 photos). Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Discreet stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 24.2 x 18.5. 0859440109
History of 22 famous old ships preserved in Great Britain. Victory - Cutty Sark - Discovery... Foudroyant... Gypsy Moth IV...
39615 SNYDER, Gerald S. THE ROYAL OAK DISASTER
$25.00 AUD
Presidio. San Rafael, Ca. USA. 1978. 1st US edition of the 1976 UK original. 261 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 24 pages with 42 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 21.4 x 14.6.
On 13/14 October 1939, U-Boat 47 penetrated the Royal Navy base of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and sunk the Royal Oak: 833 dead, 424 survivors.
55855 SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH MARINER'S MIRROR [THE]. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 68, No. 2
$10.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 1982. Volume 68, No. 2, May 1982. Editors: Brian H., & Mrs Cecilia M. Dolley. (XII), (6), 99-236 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings... photos), plus 1 large folded plan Chatham Dockyard. Soft cover. Occasional foxing. Fine. 24 x 17.2.
No. 2 - Obituary: Captain Alan J. Villiers. Pages 103 to 126: Transportation of Horses by Sea during the Era of the Crusades (part II), by John H. Pryor. Pages 133 to 188 with b/w plates: Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard, 1700-1800, by Jonathan Coad.
76293 SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH THE MARINER'S MIRROR . The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Vol. XXVI, No. 4 - 1940
$20.00 AUD
Society for Nautical Research. Greenwich. 1940. October 1940. 329-424, (VIII publications) PP with b/w illustrations (drawings... photos), plus 20 pages with 9 b/w plates (1 of them folded) with 14 photos. Fp: The Sutton Hoo Ship. Soft covers. Covers soiled and with stamp of "HMS ..., Ward Room Mess". War economy paper. Occasional foxing, otherwise contents are near fine. 24.3 x 17.
No. 4 - Primitive Craft and Medieval Rigs in South America, by Vice-Admiral R.H. Lane-Poole. The Sutton-Hoo burial ship, by C.W. Phillips. The British Gunvessels of 1875: the larger Single-crew Type, by Admiral G.A. Ballard.
68576 SOMMERVILLE, Donald & SCROGGY, Adam (editors) THE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I
$20.00 AUD
Citrus Media. Sydney. 2014. 1st edition. 260 PP with over 500 b/w and colour illustrations (battleplans, maps & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 21. 9781925141641
75423 SOUTHEY, Robert THE LIFE OF NELSON
$15.00 AUD
Humphrey-Milford / Oxford Univrsity Press. London. 1923. 1st "Juvenile" edition in the Herbert Strang's Empire Library. VIII, 245 PP. Fp (in colour): A chasm in the ice which ...". Illustrated endpapers. Cloth covers lightly soiled, decoration in blind on front cover and spine which is faded and worn at top. Foxing. Very good reading copy. 18 x 11.
75472 SPAIN, Edward THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD SPAIN - Merchant Seaman and sometimes Warrant Officer in the Royal Navy describing the conditions of life at sea during the American Revolution and the wars with France
$145.00 AUD
The St. Mark's Press. Sydney. 1989. Limited edition of 104 numbered copies (hand number 17 and signed by the publisher). Introduction by Charles Fitzhardinge-Bailey, Printer and Publisher. (6), 89, (2 colophon) PP on Cambewarra Shoalhaven all rag hand-made paper. Vignette on title page: engraving by Richard Stafford. Bound in specially designed paste papers at the Press, cloth spine with gilt title on label. Dedicatory note to previous owner at top of front endpaper signed by Charles Fitzhardinge-Bailey. Scarce. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0947346015
Chapter IV: "Captain Phillip, R.N., and Mr Brewer" (his clerk). Experience with Captain Phillip on HMS Salisbury, of 50 guns, on a crossing from Portsmouth to Madras with calls at San Iags, Cape Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro, Ioanna /Anjouan, Comoro Islands. . ...
71763 SPEIGHT, E.E. & NANCE, R. Morton (Editors) BRITAIN'S SEA STORIES: B.C.55 - A.D.1805
$50.00 AUD
Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1913. 5th edition of the 1905 original. XIII, 427 PP with 13 drawings and 20 plates (8 in colour and 12 in b/w). Fp (in colour): Destruction of the Spanish Armada by storm. Marbled end papers and outside edges. Leather binding (Oxford binding) with gilt decoration on front board, raised bands and title on spine. Prize plate of the Anglican School of Southport, pasted down on front endpaper. Covers ligtly rubbed on edges. Very good. 19.2 x 14.5.
Sub-title: Being the Story of British Heroism in Voyaging and Sea -Fight from Alfred's Time to the Battle of Trafalgar, With an introduction tracing trhe development of the structure of sailing ships from the earliest times.
72624 SPITERI, David STOKER MUNRO SURVIVOR
$30.00 AUD
HarperCollins. Sydney. 2014. 2nd printing of the 2014 original. Foreword by Mike Carlton. (6), 263, (3) PP with 1 portrait, 2 maps and 11 b/w illustrations ("True-to-Life" sketches) by Len Collins, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w photos. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Neat Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page, o/wise in as new condition. 23.2 x 15.2. 9780732298913
Joined the RAN in June 1941. Survivor of the sinking of HMAS Perth on 1st March 1942. Prisoner of War of the Japanese : Changi, Burma-Siam railway... Transported to Japan on board Rakuyo Maru which was torpedoed by USS Barb on 12 September 1944. ...
72563 SPOONER, Tony SUPREME GALLANTRY: Malta Role in the Allied Victory 1939-1945
$35.00 AUD
John Murray Ltd. London. 1996. 1st Ed. Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin. XXVI, 358 PP with tables and 5 maps, plus 16 pages with over 34 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (protective sleeve). Small Ex-Libris stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 9780719557064
18729 STANTON HOPE, W. E. OCEAN ODYSSEY - A Record of the Fighting Merchant Navy
$15.00 AUD
Eyre & Spottiswoode. London. 1945. July 1945 reprint of the November 1944 original. 220 PP, plus 16 b/w plates and frontispiece. Fp: Veteran Harry Edwards, aged seventy-one. Soft cover, dj. Near fine. 21.6 x 14.
Many exploits of sailors during the first years of WWII. Convoy to Malta, Murmansk, prisoner of a surface raider, training & conditions of merchant sailors..
70232 STAPLETON, Air Vice Marshal D.C. & DONOVAN, Wing Commander E. (editors) WINGED PROMISES - A History of No. 14 Squadron, RAF 1915-1945
$25.00 AUD
The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund Enterprises. Fairford, UK. 1996. 1st Ed., with a foreword by King Hussein I of Jordan. Preface by The Lord Deramore. (10), 310 PP with 4 colour and 83 b/w illustrations (1 cartoon, 5 maps and 77 photos). Title page with colour illustration of The Squadron Queen Standard. FEP: Map of the World War I, Middle East Arena. REP: Map of the Mediterranean - North Africa. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16.5. 1899808450
72492 STEPHEN, Martin THE FIGHTING ADMIRALS, British Admirals of the Second World War
$30.00 AUD
Naval Institute Press. Annapolis. 1991. First US Ed. X, 227 PP plus 12 pages with 25 bw photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, fine dust jacket in a mylar protective sleeve. Small neat name stamp at top of FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 24 x 16. 1557502536
The men, their background and upbringing and the battles they fought.
64727 STEWART, Brian LOOKING FOR WICKHAM - Captain John Clements Wickham, R.N. 1798-1864
$15.00 AUD
The Friends of Newstead Inc. Brisbane. 2005. 1st edition adapted from the Patrick Leslie Address of 24 August 2003. (2), 30 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 1741620309
Royal Navy Officer. Commander of HMS Beagle. Friend of Charles Darwin...
33883 STEWART, Jean Cantlie THE SEA OUR HERITAGE - British Maritime Interests Past and Present
$15.00 AUD
Rowan Books. London. 1993. 1st Ed. VIII, 304 PP with 1 drawing and 10 tail pieces, plus 18 pages with 19 b/w illust. Fp: Battleship HMS George V, entering Rosyth Royal Dockyard. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0950993220
65899 STOCKWIN, Julian SEAFLOWER
$5.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 2003. 1st paperback edition. (6), 346 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 13.8. 0340824417
Historical novel.
14465 STOKESBURY, James L. NAVY AND EMPIRE
$25.00 AUD
William Morrow. New York. 1983. 1st Ed. 430 PP with 8 maps. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Blind stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0688021344
History of the Royal Navy from the time of Drake and the Armada to the Falkland Islands crisis of 1982. The inter-relationship between the Royal Navy and the British Empire.
69909 STONE, Ben & D'SOUZA, Javie (editors) D-DAY AND NORMANDY, 6 JUNE 1944
$10.00 AUD
Blitz Publications / Pen & Sword Military Books Melbourne. 2009. 1st Australian edition. "Commemorative Collector's" series, Part Five. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
D-Day landings.
68411 STRANG, Herbert (editor) THE WAR AT SEA
$25.00 AUD
Henry Frowde . Hodder & Stoughton. London. c. 1915. 1st Ed. No pagination, 110 PP with 2 colour illustrations and b/w illustrations (15 headpieces and 31 in text, plus 7 plates with 3 b/w and 4 colour illustrations. Vignette in colour on title page. Fp (in colour): Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. Illustrated boards, title on spine. Wear around edges, brief note dated Xmas 1916 at top corner of front endpaper. A very good clean copy. Scarce. 22.7 x 18.
72210 STRATFORD, Gabrielle LETTERS TO A GRANDSON - Memories of War
$30.00 AUD
Gabrielle Stratford (Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada). Port Louis, Mauritius. c. 2000. 1st Ed. 69 PP with 7 b/w photos and 8 colour illustrations (4 photos and 4 watercolours by Ida Talbot). Pictorial soft covers. Fine (mint condition). 19.8 x 12.8.
22 letters to her grandson. The author was born on a British Army base near Quetta (now in Pakistan) and spent her youth in northern China. Now living in Canada.
72555 STRATHERN, Paul NAPOLEON IN EGYPT
$25.00 AUD
Bantam Dell. New York. 2008. 1st US edition of the 2007 UK original. XVI, 480 PP with 11 maps, plus 8 pages with 7 colour and 13 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, graffiti, paintings, portraits). Title spread: Savants measuring the Sphinx. Hard cover, dj. Fine (mint condition). 23.5 x 16. 9780553806786
68609 STREET, Lucie AN UNCOMMON SAILOR, A Portrait of Admiral Sir William Penn: English Naval Supremacy
$10.00 AUD
The Kensal Press. Bourne End, UK. 1986. 1st Ed. (2), VIII, 9-172 PP. Hard cover, dj. Renewed endpapers. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on front endpaper. Very good reading copy. 24 x 15.8. 0946041474
Witness in the English Civil War, his role in the Dutch Wars, action in the Spanish Main.
63884 SULLAWAY, Neva (editor) THE WAR OF 1812-1814: The Pacific Campaign (in Mains'l Haul)
$20.00 AUD
Maritime Museum of San Diego. San Diego. 2013. Vol. 49, No. 3 & 4, Summer / Fall 2013 of Mains'l Haul, A journal of Pacific Maritime History. 48 PP with b/w illustrations (map, plan, engravings, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.5. 0944580343
The Pacific Campaign, by Bruce Linder. Voyage of HMS Racoon, by Mike Rees. The British, the Pacific and 1812, by Andrew Lambert. Decatur's Foray, by Bruce Linder.
72630 SUMNER, Ian THE ROYAL NAVY 1939-45
$15.00 AUD
Osprey Publishing. Oxford. 2008. 2nd printing of the 2001 original. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings and photos) and artwoks in colour by Alix Baker on covers and on P.31 to 40. Pictorial stiff covers. Neat Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on title-page, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 18.5. 9781841761954
74319 SUTTON, Brigadier John WAIT FOR THE WAGGON - The Story of the Royal Corps of Transport and its Predecessors 1794-1993
$55.00 AUD
Leo Cooper. Barnsley, Yorkshie. 1998. 1st Ed. Message by H. R. H. Princess Alice, Colonel-in-Chief. Foreword by General Sir Peter de la Billière. XXXII, 448 PP with b/w illustrations (20 maps & insets, drawings, paintings & photos), plus 32 pages with 48 colour illustrations (11 paintings and 37 photos). Fp (in colour): The Colonel-in-Chief, Her Royal Highness Princess Alice. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (mint condition). 26 x 19.5. 9780850526257
20508 TAFFRAIL THE NAVY IN ACTION
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1940. 4th reprint in November of the August 1940 original. 224 PP with 4 maps in text. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Covers with some marks, dust jacket rubbed and with small pieces missing, o/wise very good. 19.2 x 13.
The end of the Graf Spee. The boarding of the Altmark. The battles of Narvik. Dunkirk...
45161 TAFFRAIL ENDLESS STORY
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1938. 6th edition of the November 1931 original. 346 PP with 1 figure, and 28 diagrams or maps. Cloth cover is somewhat soiled, occasional foxing, o/wise very good. 18 x 12.
The works of the Destroyers during World War I. Chapter III: Destroyers in the Dardanelles. Chapter IV: Destroyers at Gallipoli. Chapter V: Destroyers in the Aegean... Chapter XVIII: The Australian Destroyers.
49191 TAFFRAIL THE NAVY IN ACTION
$5.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1940. 1st reprint in August 1940 of the August 1940 original. 224 PP with 4 maps in text. Front of cloth cover lightly rubbed. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 19.2 x 13.
The end of the Graf Spee. The boarding of the Altmark. The battles of Narvik. Dunkirk...
52767 TAFFRAIL THE SUB, being the Autobiography of David Munro, Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Navy
$10.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1917. 1st Ed. 356, (2) PP with 1 facsimile of document and 1 musical score, plus 5 b/w plates. Fp: I join my first ship. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. Covers rubbed and soiled. Copy lacking the half title page, the preface and the free fly of both endpapers. Foxing. Good reading copy. 19.2 x 13.
70247 TAFFRAIL THE NAVY IS HERE - A Convoy of Naval Novels
$15.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1940. 1st printing. (8), 753 PP with 3 sketches (1 plan and 2 maps). Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled, spine sunned. Foxing throughout (heavy at times), o/wise a very good copy 18.6 x 11.5.
3 Novels - The Fight is on: The story of 'The Sub' (P.1 to 219); The Fight is won: The story of 'Kerrell' (P.221 to 487) ; Salvage: The story of 'The man from Scapa Flow' (P. 489 to 753).
The Brockhampton Press. Leicester. 1950. 1st edition in the Brock Books for older boys and girls series, of the 1932 original. 191 PP with 15 b/w illustrations by Caney. Fp: Foxy Elliott. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Few foxing spots on outside edges. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 19 x 12.7.
53871 TAFFRAIL (Commander Taprell Dorling) A LITTLE SHIP
$15.00 AUD
W. & R. Chambers. London. 1918. December 1918 reprint of the 1918 original. (VI), 338 PP with 2 tail pieces and 13 text illustrations, plus 10 b/w plates illustrated by H. R. J. Fp: If one is married.... Cloth cover, decorated front cover and spine. Covers have some shelf wear and a few small marks<; Prize plate on front endpaper. Occasional foxing, o/wise a very good clean copy. 19.3 x 14.
36867 TANNER, J. R. (editor) A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE NAVAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY, at Magdalene College, Cambridge - Volume II
$30.00 AUD
Navy Records Society. London. 1904. 1st Ed. Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 27. Vol. II: XXXVIII, 455, (3 publications) PP. Navy blue/cream buckram, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 23.2 x 16.
Vol. II: Admiralty Letters (Vols II. & III.).
70846 TAPRELL DORLING, Commander RIBBONS AND MEDALS: Naval - Military & Civil (in 3 parts) / REGIMENTS AT A GLANCE
$150.00 AUD
George Philip & Son Ltd. London. 1918, 1918, 1920 / 1917. Bound copy of 4 different issues. Ribbons & Medals - Part I (6th edition of 1916 original): (8), 13-(over) 86 PP with over 125 b/w illustrations, plus 12 plates in colour for 123 ribbons and a Military Medal with ribbon and clasps. Part II (1st edition of 1918): IV, 56 PP with over 80 b/w illustrations, plus 6 plates in colour for 77 ribbons. Part III "War Supplement", Ribbons and Medals of the Great War. 1st edition of 1920): IV, 5-35 PP with 21 b/w illustrations, plus 1 plate in colour with 14 ribbons. Regiments at a Glance, A Handbook of Regimental Badges and Traditions. (1st edition of 1917): 128 PP with , plus 4 colour plates for 2 King's Colours and 2 Regimental Colours. 4 issues retaining their original front covers bound together with 26 blank pages for notes. Royal blue cloth cover, gilt title on spine reads: "At A Glance - Vol.I". Cloth covers a little rubbed at corners, slight ageing of paper, o/wise fine. A scarce item. 18.5 x 13.
69770 TAYLOR, Frederick COVENTRY - Thursday, 14 November 1940
$10.00 AUD
Bloomsbury. London. 2016. 1st paperback edition of the 2015 original. XII, 356 PP with 1 map and 1 plan "Coventry City Centre, 1940", plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.7 x 13. 9781408860281
45123 TAYLOR, John W. R., GUNSTON, Bill et al. (editors) THE STORY OF FLIGHT
$10.00 AUD
Chancellor Press. London. 1984. New edition of the 1970 original The Lore of Flight. 426 PP with over 200 colour technical drawings, and over 150 b/w drawings. Encyclopaedic index with 1550 entries and hundreds of b/w illustrations (drawings, plans and photos). Hard cover, device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket with short closed tear. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 30 x 27. 0907486711
61879 TAYLOR, Nancy M. (editor) THE JOURNAL OF ENSIGN BEST 1837-1843
$40.00 AUD
Government Printer. Wellington. 1966. 1st Ed. 645 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): Ocean Bay, Port Underwood, in Cloudy Bay (1848). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed and with a lightly sunned spine. Foxing spots on edges. Near fine. 25.2 x 15.7.
Voyage to New South Wales on the "James Pattison", where he arrived 25/10/1837. Sojourn on Norfolk Island August 1838 to April 1839. New Zealand up to January 1843.
65637 TAYLOR, Nancy M. (editor) THE JOURNAL OF ENSIGN BEST 1837-1843
$25.00 AUD
Government Printer. Wellington. 1966. 1st Ed. 645 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): Ocean Bay, Port Underwood, in Cloudy Bay (1848). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed and with a lightly sunned spine. Foxing spots on edges. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 25.2 x 15.7.
Voyage to New South Wales on the "James Pattison", where he arrived 25/10/1837. Sojourn on Norfolk Island August 1838 to April 1839. New Zealand up to January 1843.
72546 TAYLOR, Stephen STORM AND CONQUEST - The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809
$30.00 AUD
W. W. Norton & Co. New York. 2008. 1st US edition. XX, 380 PP with 23 b/w illustrations (1 map on double page with 2 insets, 2 maps, drawings, paintings, porraits ..), plus 8 pages with 14 illustrations (3 b/w and 11 in colour). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780393060478
69624 TAYLOR, Theodore BATTLE IN THE ARCTIC SEAS: The Story of Convoy PQ 17
$20.00 AUD
New York. 1976. Thomas Y. Crowell. 1st printing. (8), 151, (1) PP with 1 sketch plan, 1 map of the North Atlantic Ocean, and 11 illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Hard cover, dj. Ex library copy with renewed endpapers, sellotape marks on covers, stamp on verso of title page, shelf number at foot of spine of the dust jacket. Very good reading copy. 20.8 x 14. 0690010842
49283 TEONGE, Henry THE DIARY OF HENRY TEONGE, Chaplain on board H.M.'s Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak 1675-1679
$15.00 AUD
George Routledge & Sons. London. 1927. 1st Ed., in the Broadway Travellers series. Transcribed from the original manuscript and edited with an Introduction and Notes by G. E. Manwaring. X, 318 PP, (4 publications), plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: H.M.S. Assistance. Cloth cover, gilt device and title on a lightly sunned spine. Light foxing, o/wise very good. 22.8 x 14.5.
First voyage to the Barbary coast with calls at Aleppo, and Skanderun (Alexandrette). Second voyage in the Eastern Mediterranean.
74554 TERRAINE,John MONS, The Retreat to Victory
$15.00 AUD
B.T. Batsford. London. 1960. 2nd Impression. 224 PP with 33 b/w illust. and 5 maps in text. Blue cloth cover, price-clipped dust jacket is a littled faded near spine and with a few small chips and now in a protective sleeve. Otherwise contents are near fine. 23 x 15.
61366 TERRILL, Christopher H.M.S. BRILLIANT, In a Ship's Company
$20.00 AUD
BBC Books. London. 1995. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 1 drawings and 2 maps (1 on double page), plus 24 pages with 39 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 16.2. 0563371846
Deployment in the Adriatic Sea , and operation Sharp Guard off the coasts of the former Yugoslavia.
70152 THOMAS, Captain D. C. BULL FORT HAS BEEN LISTED and other Articles
$30.00 AUD
Author / Harbour Master Humber. Hull. 1988. August 1988 edition. Introduction by A. G. Bell, Malet Lambert High School. (8), 37, (5) PP with b/w illustrations by E. (Ted) Beaumont (covers, frontispiece and 6 tail pieces), plus 7 plates: frontispiece, 1 photo, 1 newspaper clipping, 1 plan and 3 extracts of charts (2 of them folded). Stapled card covers, illustrated front and back. Near fine. 26 x 18.5.
Fort built at the mouth of the Humber during WWI and decommissioned in 1956.
22749 THOMAS, David ROYAL ADMIRALS 1327-1981
$15.00 AUD
André Deutsch. London. 1982. 1st Ed. (6), 200, (6 Index) PP with b/w illust., plus 8 pages with 12 colour illust. Eps: Genealogy tree of the Royal Admirals. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 17. 023397427X
The relationship over 700 years between the Royal Navy and English royalty.
19236 THOMAS, David A. WITH ENSIGNS FLYING, The Story of H.M. Destroyers at War 1939-1945
$50.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1958. 1st Ed. 216 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 15 bw photos. FEP: maps of the Narvik Fiords, and of Eastern Mediterranean. REP: maps of the Russian convoy route and of the Battle of the Java Sea. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, nice price-clipped dust jacket. A few small rubs on endpapers and a little light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise contents near fine. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.2.
72418 THOMAS, Shirley GREETINGS FROM MALTA - World War II
$40.00 AUD
Shirley Thomas / Regal Press. Launceston, Tas. 1996. 1st Ed. Introduction by Claudio Alcorso. XVI, 138 PP with 48 b/w illustrations (3 maps, 3 documents and 42 photos). Inside front cover: map of Malta in 1942. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 094945799X
Malta during 4 harrowing years of World War II.
16970 THOMPSON, Julian THE IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM BOOK OF THE WAR AT SEA, The Royal Navy in the Second World War
$30.00 AUD
Sidgwick & Jackson. London. 1996. 1st Ed. VIII, 280 PP with 2 plans, 4 maps & 147 bw photos, plus 16 pages with 20 colour paintings. Title spread: HMS Hood, undergoing trials, 1920. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing (spots on outside edges, and front endpaper), o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 0283062525
38800 THOMPSON, Sir Robert (editor) WAR IN PEACE - Conventional and Guerrilla Warfare since 1945
$10.00 AUD
Harmony Books. New York. 1982. 1st US edition. VIII, 312 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Large format: 30.5 x 23. 051754640X
Red Star in the East: China, 1946-1949... The Suez fiasco... The Gulf war between Iran and Irak.
16672 THURSFIELD, Rear-Admiral H.G. ACTION STATIONS!, The Royal Navy at War
$10.00 AUD
Adam & Charles Black. London. July, 1941. Reprint of the June 1941 original. 86 PP with 75 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket chipped. Ageing of paper. Very good. 25 x 18.
An illustrated account of each of the many branches of the Royal Navy.
49276 THURSFIELD, Rear-Admiral H.G. ACTION STATIONS!, The Royal Navy at War
$5.00 AUD
Adam & Charles Black. London. July, 1941. Reprint of the June 1941 original. 86 PP with 75 b/w photos. Cloth cover. Ageing of paper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Old water marks affecting the lower part of the last 25 leaves. Good reading copy. 25 x 18.
An illustrated account of each of the many branches of the Royal Navy.
18615 THWAITES, Lt. RNVR Michael THE JERVIS BAY AND OTHER POEMS
$20.00 AUD
Putnam & Co. London. 1943. Reprint of December 1943. VIII, 59 PP. Soft covers with pictorial dj. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
The sea fight of the Scheer and the Jervis Bay, or how a small ship and gallant crew struck a great blow for King and Country, then went down in Glory.
43768 THE TIMES (editors) THE BLOCKADES, 1915-17: BRITISH AND GERMANS METHODS (in The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War)
$20.00 AUD
The Times Publishing Company. London. 1917. Part 158, Vol. 13, August 28, 1917. (II), 37-72 PP with 39 b/w photos. Soft cover (rubbed). Sellotape marks on covers and on first and last page. Staples removed, o/wise very good. 30 x 20.3.
German crimes at sea.
74271 TOGHILL, Gerald ROYAL NAVY TRAWLERS (in Two Volumes)
$75.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Corwall. 2003. 1st Ed. Part One: IV, 227 PP with 60 b/w photos (1 Coat of Arms of the Royal Naval Patrol Service and 59 photos of vessels). Part Two: XIII, (3), 568 PP with 30 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Part one "Admiralty Trawlers". & Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers. Combined Index pages 534 to 568. Fine (as new condition). 21.7 x 15.5. 9780907771951 & 9781904459026
73158 TOWNSHEND BICKERS, Richard THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN - The Greatest Battle in the History of Air Warfare
$15.00 AUD
Salamander Books Ltd. London. 1999. 1st edition in Classic Conflicts series. Foreword by Air Marshal Sir Denis Crowley-Milling. 272 PP, plus 8 pages with 18 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 23 x 15.3. 9781840650815
16762 TREASE, Geoffrey SAMUEL PEPYS AND HIS WORLD
$15.00 AUD
Book Club Assoc. London. 1975. Reprint of the 1972 Thames & Hudson original. 128 PP with 147 b/w illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Samuel Pepys. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 23.8 x 18.5.
First-class administrator and one of the makers of the Royal Navy.
75135 TRIPP, Basil H. THE NAVAL REVIEW INDEX - Volumes 1-64, 1913-1976
$15.00 AUD
The Naval Review / The National Maritime Museum. London. 1978 1st Ed. Foreword by Winston S. Churchill, M.P. XII, 188 PP (on 2 columns). Hard covers, title (silver lettering) on front board and spine. Fine (as new condition). 21.5 x 15.
3 parts: Articles, Notes and Notices / Correspondence / Book Reviews, Notices and Lists.
75952 TSOURAS, Peter G. BRITANNIA'S FIST: From Civil War to World War - An Alternate History
$15.00 AUD
Potomac Books, Inc. Washington, DC. 2008. 1st Ed. Volume 1 of "The Britannia's Fist Trilogy" series. XXVI, 256 PP with 8 maps, plus 8 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Hard covers, dust jacket. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.8. 9781574888232
Historical novel.
47597 TUNLEY, Roul SECRETS FROM A TIME SHIP
$20.00 AUD
Reader's Digest Association Ltd. London. 1982. Reprint from British Reader' Digest. 8 PP with 10 colour photos by Adam Woodfitt. Pictorial soft cover (illustration by James Leech). 1 colour photo, 4 colour postcards and 3 folded flyers loosely inserted. Fine. 18.5 x 13.2.
30880 TUNSTALL, Brian FLIGHTS OF NAVAL GENIUS
$15.00 AUD
Philip Allan. London. 1930. 1st Ed. XI, 299 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 b/w plates (portraits). Fp: George Brydges Lord Rodney. Cloth cover with light wear and a little soiled, gilt title on spine which also has a very faint old library number. Faint foxing. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. Very good. 22.6 x 14.8.
Lord Howe and the 1797 Mutiny at Portsmouth - George Brydges Rodney and the Battle of Saints - Sir Sydney Smith and the defence of Acre against Bonaparte - Lord Camelford - Sir Charles Napier.
49831 TUNSTALL, Brian THE ANATOMY OF NEPTUNE, From King Henry VIII to the Present Day
$20.00 AUD
George Routledge. London. 1936. 1st Ed. XX, (2), 374 PP with 3 b/w illustrations, plus 16 b/w plates (charts & portraits) with their tissue guard and legend. Fp: Sir Francis Drake. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine slightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Contents: Henry VIII's War with France, Elizabethan Gunnery, Pirates, Punishments, Healths, and Salutes, The First Dutch War, The Navy of Queen Anne, Fighting in the West Indies, The Naval Career of King William IV, The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Trafalgar and After, Smyrna and the Dardanelles, 1922 ..
41685 TUTE, Warren THE ADMIRAL
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1963. 1st Ed. (4), 314 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing. Very good. 20.5 x 13.5.
Novel. Life story of Admiral Sir Mark Hampton Hammerlock.
43425 UDEN, Grant THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE
$15.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1970. 1st Ed., in the Famous Events series. 96 PP with 2 maps and 13 b/w illustrations by Karen Usborne. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 19.1 x 12.8. 356031101
Launched 1756, Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1769, foundering in the Solent in August 1782 while at anchor.
51987 UDEN, Grant BRITISH SHIPS AND SEAMEN. A Short History (in Two Books)
$10.00 AUD
Macmillan / St Martin's Press. London. 1969. 1st Ed., in Sources of History series. Book One: 88 PP with 6 diagrams & charts, and 25 b/w illustrations. Book Two: 96 PP with 32 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Rubbed patch at top corner of front cover. Faint stains on outside edges. Very good. 21.5 x 15
Book One: The Ships. Book Two: The Seamen.
47616 URBAN, Frank NED'S NAVY. The Private Letters of Edward Charlton from Cadet to Admiral
$10.00 AUD
Airlife Publishing. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 176 PP with b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.2 x 21.8. 1853109045
A window on the British Empire from 1878 to 1924. 1887: HMS Rapid in Australia and the South West Pacific... 1898-1901: HMS Orlando and the Boxer rebellion...
75659 VAN DER KUIJL, Drs. Arjen DE GLORIEUZE OVERTOCHT - De Expeditie van Willem III naar Engeland in 1688
$50.00 AUD
De Bataafsche Leeuw. Amsterdam. 1988. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 2 tables and 56 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note (in English) to John Anderson, Australian Historian, Latrobe University, Victoria, on title page, dated and signed by the author. Dutch text (with English summary: pages 77 to 80). Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9067071870
Dutch expeditionary force landing at Torbay, November 1688, when the Dutch Stadholder Prince Willem III, became William III, King of England.
74204 VICARY, Adrian THE ROYAL NAVY 1914 - 1918 - A Photographic Record.
$25.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall. 2014. 1st Ed. 168 PP with b/w Illustrations: 2 line drawings on endpapers by John Morris and 144 photos. Fp: HMS Barham. FEP: Cruiser Caroline. REP: Battleship Queen Elizabeth. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 20. 9781904459569
44568 VICKRIDGE, Lieutenant Commander G. L. W. JAMES GOODENOUGH, Sailor and Humanitarian 1830-1875
$5.00 AUD
Naval Historical Society of Australia. Sydney. 2002. Reprint of the 1993 original. Naval Historical Society Monograph No. 142. 8 PP with 10 b/w illustrations (photocopy quality). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.2 x 20.2.
Occasional paper delivered to the Western Australia Chapter, 20 October 1993.
38288 VILLIERS, Alan THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR - Lord Nelson Sweeps the Sea
$30.00 AUD
Macmillan. New York. 1966. 2nd printing of the 1965 US original, in the Macmillan Battle Books series. 96 PP with 1 cross section of H.M.S. Victory, 2 maps and 37 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover (Macmillan Master Library Edition), dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 24 x 16.4.
21st October, 1805, the day that sealed the fate of Napoleon but also saw the death of Nelson.
72417 VINCE, Charles STORM ON THE WATERS - The Story of the Life-Boat Service in the War of 1939-1945
$30.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1946. 1st edition of October 1946. 111 PP with 1 diagram of the rescue from the trawler Gurth, plus 12 pages with 17 b/w portraits. Fp: Coxswain Henry George Blogg of Cromer. Cloth covers with light shelf wear and a few marks, title on front board and spine. Occasional foxing. Very good. Image shows title-page and Fp. 20.7 x 14.2.
55262 VOUTE, Captain P A (editor) BROADSHEET 90 - Royal Navy
$10.00 AUD
Director of Public Relations (Navy). London. 1990. Annual edition. Foreword by Admiral Sir Julian Oswald. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (cartoons, photos, profiles). Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly rubbed and with a repaired closed tear. Near fine. 29.8 x 21.
Pages 30- 35: Her Majesty's Ships and Royal Fleet Auxiliaries (47 profiles).
72489 WADE, Frank A MIDSHIPMAN'S WAR, A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War 1941-1943
$30.00 AUD
Cordillera. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. 1994. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 5 plans, 7 maps, 8 drawings and 93 bw photos in text. Hard cover, dust jacket. Small neat name stamp of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. 23.5 x 145.5. 189559006X
40507 WALDER, David NELSON - A Biography
$15.00 AUD
The Dial Press/James Wade. New York. 1978. 1st US edition. XXII, 538 PP with 1 family tree and 3 battle plans, plus 16 pages with 33 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 16.2. 0803764316
67300 WALKER, Bryce (editor) THE ARMADA
$15.00 AUD
Caxton Publishing Group / Time-Life Books. London. 2004. 1st Caxton edition of the 1981 original, in The Seafarers series. 176 PP with b/w and colour illust. Title page: Medal struck in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Eps: map of the Channel. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 24. 9781844471119
66195 WALKER, Frank B. THE DARK BETRAYAL
$20.00 AUD
Kingfisher Press. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. XII, 326 PP. Pictorial card cover. Dedicatory note on half title page dated and signed by the author. Front cover with light crease. Near fine. 21 x 14.7. 0646337661
Novel mixing fact and fiction. An Australian sailor on the trail of traders/traitors who were dealing with Germany and Japan during World War II.
56013 WALKER, Lieut. Frank B., R.A.N.V.R. TALES OF THE SEA
$30.00 AUD
New Century Press. Sydney. c. 1945. 1st juvenile edition. 45 PP with 21 colour illustrations by B. E. Pike. Hard cover, pictorial front. Covers rubbed on spine. Ageing and foxing of paper, o/wise near fine. 25 x 19.5
35514 WANNER, Martin-Christoph LENKWAFFENZERSTORER HMS SHEFFIELD (in Marine-Rundschau - No.72, Issue 6, June 1975)
$10.00 AUD
J. F. Lehmanns. München. 1975. Contains article from P.321 to 328 with 1 table, 1 sketch and 5 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Destroyer HMS Sheffield D 80). Near fine. German text. 24 x 17.
The guided missile destroyer SHEFFIELD.
74279 WARD, Arthur CHURCHILL'S SECRET DEFENCE ARMY: Resisting the Nazi Invader
$50.00 AUD
Pen & Sword Military. Barnsley, Yorkshire. 2013. 1st Ed. XXIV, 231, (1) PP with over 250 b/w and colour illustrations (documents, map, photos...). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 24 x 16.5. 9781848848085
18218 WARNER, Oliver THE BRITISH NAVY - A Concise History
$10.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 151 b/w illustrations. Fp: The Resolution in a gale by W. Van de Velde the Younger. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Ageing of paper around the edges, o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 0500011397
19340 WARNER, Oliver NELSON
$10.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Book Club Associates. London. 1975. 1st Ed., in the Great Lives series. 231 PP with 100 b/w & 16 colour plates. Fp: Nelson by Leonardo Guzzardi. Eps: The Victory rakes the Spanish at Trafalgar. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 25.5 x 18.
19880 WARNER, Oliver TRAFALGAR
$15.00 AUD
B.T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1961. Second impression of the 1959 original. 184 PP with 1 map, 1 plan, 1 facsimile of a document and 4 drawings, plus 24 pages with 33 b/w plates. Fp: The Victory at Trafalgar. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Light foxing, o/wise fine. 22.8 x 15.2.
20484 WARNER, Oliver A PORTRAIT OF LORD NELSON
$5.00 AUD
Reprint Society. London. 1959. Reprint of the 1958 original. XX, 331 PP with 2 battle plans and 4 facsimile of letters & signatures plus 4 pages with 8 bw illust. FEP: Plan of Attack of the Battle of the Nile. REP: A plan of the Battle of Copenhagen. Hard cover, dj (rubbed). Foxing, o/wise very good. 19 x 12.6.
30826 WARNER, Oliver GREAT NAVAL ACTIONS OF THE BRITISH NAVY 1588-1807 AND 1916
$10.00 AUD
David & Charles. Newton Abbot. 1976. 1st Ed. 159 PP with 5 maps, 6 plans and 50 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.7 x 19. 0715372661
Spanish Armada - Anson and the Spanish Treasure - The British take Manila... Jutland.
35262 WARNER, Oliver THE NAVY
$5.00 AUD
Penguin. London. 1968. 1st Ed. 218, (6 adv.) PP, plus 32 pages with 32 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover. Covers lightly rubbed. Very good. 18.1 x 11.1.
49711 WARNER, Oliver TRAFALGAR
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1971. Third paperback printing of the 1959 original, in the British Battles series. 192 PP with 1 map, 1 plan, 1 facsimmile of a document, 4 drawings, plus 12 pages with 19 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 17.8 x 11. 0330201646
63302 WARNER, Oliver TRAFALGAR
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1966. Paperback printing of the 1959 original, in the British Battles series. 192 PP with 1 map, 1 plan, 1 facsimmile of a document, 4 drawings, plus 12 pages with 19 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 17.8 x 11.
65089 WARNER, Oliver TRAFALGAR
$5.00 AUD
Pan Books. London. 1969. Second printing of the paperback edition of the 1959 original, in the British Battles series. 192 PP with 1 map, 1 plan, 1 facsimmile of a document, 4 drawings, plus 12 pages with 19 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing. Very good. 17.8 x 11. 330201646
68337 WARNER, Oliver PORTSMOUTH AND THE ROYAL NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Ryman Limited. Portsmouth. 1974. 3rd revised edition of the 1965 original. 28 PP with 56 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff cover. Name label of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise near fine. 28 x 21.
69646 WARNER, Oliver BATTLE HONOURS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
$20.00 AUD
George Philip & Son. London. 1956. 1st Ed. VII, 91 PP, plus 2 colour plates and 20 pages with 56 b/w illustrations (8 on full page and 48 of ships' badges). Fp (in colour): The First "Ark Royal (?)". Hard covers with gilt decorations on front, dust jacket with a few small chips or closed tears. Offsetting of front endpaper, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.3.
Fleet Actions and Campaigns, Single ship Actions, Alphabetical List of Ships with their Honours, Fleet Air Arm Squadron Honours, Naval Battle Honours Won by Regiments of the Army, Ships' Badges...
71668 WARREN, C.E.T. & BENSON, James ABOVE US THE WAVES, The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes
$25.00 AUD
Harrap. London. 1953. Reprint of September 1953. 256 PP with 3 diagrams & 4 maps, plus 24 pages with 36 bw photos. Fp: King George VI aboard HMS Bonaventure in 1941. Eps: Sketch map showing X-craft and human-torpedo operations. Cloth cover, dj (with chips and small pieces missing, now in a protective sleeve). 2 small insect holes (2 cm) near spine of half-title, fp. and title-pages, not affecting any text. An otherwise very good clean copy. 21.5 x 14.2.
Development & training, attempts against the "Tirpitz", Mediterranean & Norwegian operations, attacks on Singapore, Hong Kong & Saigon.
72395 WARREN, C.E.T. & BENSON, James ABOVE US THE WAVES, The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes
$15.00 AUD
Harrap. London. 1953. October 1953 reprint of the September original. 256 PP with 3 diagrams & 4 maps, plus 24 pages with 36 bw photos. Fp: King George VI aboard HMS Bonaventure in 1941. Eps: Sketch map showing X-craft and human-torpedo operations. Green cloth covers with old damp marks with discolouration on corners and faded spine. Occasional foxing. Contents near fine and a very good reading copy. Image shows Title-page and Frontispiece. 21.5 x 14.2.
Development & training, attempts against the "Tirpitz", Mediterranean & Norwegian operations, attacks on Singapore, Hong Kong & Saigon.
73328 WARREN, C.E.T. & BENSON, James ABOVE US THE WAVES, The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes
$25.00 AUD
White Lion. London. 1971. Reprint of the 1953 original. Foreword by Admiral Sir George Creasy. 256 PP with 3 diagrams & 4 maps, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. REP: Sketch map showing X-craft and human-torpedo operations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, top edge tinted, dj. Ex Library copy with stamps on front endpaper and verso of title page. Otherwise a very good clean copy. 22 x 14.2. 0856177504
Development & training, attempts against the "Tirpitz", Mediterranean & Norwegian operations, attacks on Singapore, Hong Kong & Saigon.
51771 WARWICK, Peter VOICES FROM THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
$20.00 AUD
David and Charles. Newton Abbot. 2005. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Dr Colin White. 320 PP with 5 battle diagrams and 34 b/w illustrations. Fp: Nelson. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0715320009
Explores the battle from the British, French and Spanish perspectives, the tactics and the individual acts of bravery, as well as daily life in the navies of the age.
39651 WATSON, Reverend Basil A Short GUIDE to the CHAPEL of ST. PETER and ST. PAUL
$5.00 AUD
Royal Naval College. Greenwich. 1969. 1st Ed. 20 PP, plus 8 b/w plates. Soft cover. Fine. 18.5 x 12.5.
52744 WATT, Vice-Admiral James, MILTON-THOMPSON, G.J. & DAVIES, D.M. PROBLEMS OF MEDICINE AT SEA - Maritime Monographs and Reports No. 12
$20.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum. London. 1974. Introduction by Basil Greenhill. 35 PP with 3 tables and 16 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 30.7 x 21.
3 papers read at a 1973 symposium. The burns of sea battle. The changing character of the sailor's diet and its influence on disease. The environment of the nuclear submarine.
72442 WATTON, Ross THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER VICTORIOUS
$120.00 AUD
Conway. London. 2004. Reprint of the 1991 1st Ed. in "The Anatomy of the Ship" series. 160 PP with 27 b/w photos, 6 tables & over 350 perspective and 3-view drawings. Fp: "Victorious" as she appeared in January 1965. Hard cover, dj (in a protective mylar sleeve). Names of previous owners at top of FFEP, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. Oblong: 24.5 x 25.8. 0851775802
17742 WATTS, Anthony J. THE ROYAL NAVY: An Illustrated History
$10.00 AUD
Arms and Armour Press. London. 1995. 1st paperback edition of the 1994 original. 256 PP with 10 tables, 36 plans, and 249 bw illust. Fp: Cruiser Lion. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 19. 185409324X
From wooden sailing ships to nuclear-powered submarines.
21014 WATTS, Anthony J. THE ROYAL NAVY: An Illustrated History
$15.00 AUD
Arms and Armour Press. London. 1994. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 10 tables, 36 plans & 249 b/w illust. Fp: Cruiser Lion. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Near fine. 25.3 x 19.5. 1854091247
From wooden sailing ships to nuclear-powered submarines.
18755 WEBSTER SMITH, B. THE WAR AT SEA 1941-1943
$10.00 AUD
Blackie & Son. London. c.1944. 1st Ed. 192 PP, plus 8 full-page b/w plates. Fp: Ordeal of Penelope. Cloth cover (rubbed). War economy paper (ageing), o/wise very good. 20 x 13.5.
Crete and the Middle East in 1941. Japanese attacks, Malta, Atlantic battles.
59125 WEBSTER SMITH, B. THE NAVAL WAR 1943-1945
$10.00 AUD
Blackie & Son. London. c.1946. 1st Ed. 207 PP with 1 diagram and 2 maps, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: H.M.S. Magpie. Cloth cover, dj (worn and chipped). War economy paper (ageing), o/wise very good. 20 x 13.5.
Invasion of Italy. ... Battle of the Atlantic. The Navy in the Pacific. ...
64390 WELLES HENDERSON, J. & CARLISLE, Rodney P. MARINE ART & ANTIQUES - JACK TAR: A Sailor's Life 1750-1910
$50.00 AUD
Antique Collectors' Club. Woodbridge, UK. 1999. 1st Ed. Foreword by Walter H. Annenberg. Preface by John S. Carter. 287 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: (in colour): Dancing the Hornpipe. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (a little sunned). Near fine. 28 x 21.5. 9785
72572 WELLHAM, Lt.Cdr. John W. G. WITH NAVAL WINGS: The Autobiography of a Fleet Air Arm Pilot in World War II
$25.00 AUD
Spellmount Ltd. Staplehurst, Kent. 1995. 2nd printing of the first edition. Foreword by Rear Admiral I. D. G. Garnett. X, 11- 199 PP with tables, 1 cutaway, 1 extract of log book, and 4 maps, plus 8 pages with 19 b/w photos. Fp: "Taranto", by Wilfred B. Currie. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (in a protective sleeve). Ex Libris stamp and address stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 9781873376331
61200 WELLS, Captain John THE IMMORTAL WARRIOR - Britain's First and Last Battleship
$15.00 AUD
Kenneth Mason. London. 1987. 1st Ed. Preface by John Smith. 264 PP with b/w illustrations (line drawings by Gary Cook and photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Note to previous owner on verso of front endpaper. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. Oblong: 18.7 x 25. 0859373339
38868 WERNICK, Robert LA GUERRE ECLAIR
$10.00 AUD
Editions Time-Life. Amsterdam. 1979. 1st French printing of the 1977 US original, in La Deuxième Guerre Mondiale series. 208 PP with 3 plans, 5 maps, 10 colour and 151 b/w illustrations. French text. Pictorial boards. Few foxing spots, o/wise fine. 28.8 x 24.
War with Poland. Phoney war. War between Finland and Finland... Defeat of France.
49839 WHEELER, Harold F. B. THE STORY OF THE BRITISH NAVY
$20.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1922. 1st Ed. 384 PP, plus 16 colour plates illustrated by Ellis Silas. Fp (in colour): The Queen Elizabeth. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise a near fine copy. 21.8 x 15.
38865 WHEELER, Keith THE ROAD TO TOKYO
$15.00 AUD
Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1979. 1st printing, in the World War II series. 208 PP with 6 maps, 1 plan of a plane (in colour), 1 colour painting and 148 b/w photos. Half title page: Invading Iwo Jima. Pictorial boards. Very good. 28.8 x 24.
Iwo Jima. Okinawa...
72865 WHINNEY, Bob THE U-BOAT PERIL - A Fight for Survival
$10.00 AUD
Cassell Military Classics. London. 1999. Reprint of the 1998 paperback edition of the 1986 original. 160 PP with 1 Insignia of U-305, 1 map on double page, 7 maps and 2 plans of HMS Wanderer, plus 32 pages with 59 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on half title page, o/wise fine. 19.7 x 12.8. 9780304351329
40673 WHITE, Colin (editor) THE NELSON COMPANION
$10.00 AUD
Bramley Books. London. 1997. Reprint of the 1995 original. XIV, 228 PP with 102 b/w illust., plus 8 pages with 13 colour photos. FEP: A first World War souvenir handkerchief attempting to invoke the spirit of Nelson. REP: HMS Victory during the great restoration of 1922 to 1927. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 1858337658
58175 WHITE, Colin (editor) THE NELSON COMPANION
$5.00 AUD
Bramley Books. London. 1997. Reprint of the 1995 original. XIV, 228 PP with 102 b/w illust., plus 8 pages with 13 colour photos. FEP: A first World War souvenir handkerchief attempting to invoke the spirit of Nelson. REP: HMS Victory during the great restoration of 1922 to 1927. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 1858337658
76284 WHITE, Colin (editor) THE ROYAL NAVY : In Peace and War
$15.00 AUD
Royal Naval Museum / Pitkin Pictorials. London. 1989. 1st Ed. in the "Pitkin Maritime History Guides" series. (2), 21 PP with 6 b/w and 40 colour illustrations including "HMS Victory arriving at St Helens, Isle of Wight, with Nelson Body" (at centrefold). Pictorial stff covers. 3 folds flyer loosely inserted. Fine. 24 x 17.2. 0853724660
72621 WHITE, David Fairbank BITTER OCEAN: The Dramatic Story of the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945
$15.00 AUD
Headline Review. London. 2007. 2nd printing of the paperback edition (original of 2006). (8), 350, (4) PP, plus 1 map on double page and 16 pages with 27 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Neat Ex Libris stamp of previous owner on preliminary page, o/wise fine. 198.7 x 13. 9780755310890
53438 WHITEHEAD, Christopher CARRIER CAVALCADE (in Army and Navy Modelworld - Vol 1, No.10)
$5.00 AUD
Necast Publishing. Cuffley, Herts. 1984. February 1984. 429-468 PP with b/w illustrations. Contains article P. 454 to 457 with 6 b/w photos (3 of model aircraft carriers). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Hesperian Press. Perth. 2010. 1st Ed. V, 96 PP with 1 sketch. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780859050203
Sojourn of H.M.S. Sulphur in Western Australia between June 1829 and August 1832.
44827 WHITING, Roger THE ENTERPRISE OF ENGLAND - The Spanish Armada
$10.00 AUD
Alan Sutton. London. 1988. 1st Ed. 248 PP with 97 b/w illustrations (maps, engravings, playing cards). Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25.2 x 17.5. 0862994764
52012 WHITLOCK, Peter & PEARCE, William H.M.S. VICTORY AND ADMIRAL LORD NELSON
$5.00 AUD
Royal Naval Museum. Portsmouth. c. 1989. Reprint. 24 PP with 8 colour photos, and 29 colour illustrations. Inside front cover: Lord Nelson's Prayer. Pictorial soft cover. Top corner of back cover with a crease. Near fine. 29.8 x 20.8.
35699 WHITMAN, Captain J. E. A. BRITAIN KEEPS THE SEAS - Some Naval Incidents During the First Two Years of the World War
$5.00 AUD
O.U.P. London. 1942. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 1 table, plus 16 pages with 8 drawings by Frank H. Mason and 14 b/w photos. Fp: The Convoy. Decorated cloth cover is soiled and sunned around edges. Neat signature on FFEP. Spine sunned, covers lightly soiled, war economy paper, light foxing around edges, o/wise very good internally. 22 x 14.5.
Battles against German raiders, sea battles in the Norwegian fjords, neutralisation of the French Navy,...
16766 WILCOX, L. A. MR. PEPYS' NAVY
$15.00 AUD
G. Bell & Sons. London. 1966. 1st Ed. X, 189 PP with 74 b/w illustrations by the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Small chips to the dust jacket, foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 25.2 x 15.8.
A reconstruction of the day-to-day administration of the Navy, from the passages in his diary dealing with naval affairs.
41651 WILCOX, L. A. ANSON'S VOYAGE
$15.00 AUD
G. Bell & Sons. London. 1969. 1st Ed. XVI, 182 PP with 65 b/w illustrations by the author. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on top outside edge. The dust jacket has chips, closed tears and part missing on rear and is in a protective sleeve. Contents are near fine. 25.2 x 15.8. 0713515635
Anson's circumnavigation of the globe in the years 1740-1744. Flagship Centurion, plunder of the Manilla Galleon Nuestra Señora de Cabandonga...
38028 WILKINSON, B. J., STOPFORD, T. P. & TAYLOR, D. THE A TO Z OF ROYAL NAVAL SHIP'S BADGES 1919-1989 - Volume 1: H.M.S. Abdiel - H.M.S. Avon Vale
$15.00 AUD
Neptune Books. Orpington, Kent. 1987. 1st Ed. XIV, (1), 99, (24) PP with 122 b/w photos of warships and 98 badges in colour. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21. 187084200X
71390 WILKINSON, Roni (editor) ROYAL AIR FORCE - A Century in the Sky 1917-2017
$10.00 AUD
Wharncliffe History Magazines / Blitz Publications. Barnsley, UK. 2009. 1st Ed. Commemorative Collector's series - Part Two. 00 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, plans, photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.7 x 22 9781925618020
16757 WILKINSON-LATHAM Robert THE ROYAL NAVY 1790-1970
$10.00 AUD
Osprey. London. 1977. 1st Ed., in the Men-at-Arms series. 40 PP printed on 2 columns with 39 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with colour plates by G.A. Embleton. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.7 x 18.2. 0850452481
Uniforms of the Royal Navy.
70256 WILLIS, Sam THE STRUGGLE FOR SEA POWER - The Royal Navy vs The World, 1775-1782
$20.00 AUD
Atlantic Books. London. 2018. 1st paperback edition of the 2015 original. XXXIV, 572 PP with 18 charts and 25 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 16 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, o/wise fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9781848878471
42386 WILLMOTT, H. P. THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE FAR EAST
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 2002. 1st paperback edition of the 1999 original. 240 PP with some 10 diagrams and 30 maps in colour, 79 b/w and 8 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 13. 0304361275
65810 WILLMOTT, H. P. WORLD WAR I
$15.00 AUD
DK / Dorling Kindersley Limited. London. 2012. 2nd edition of the 2003 original. Introduction by Richard Overy. 335 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (graphs, maps, facsimile of documents, plans, photos) and a 16-page "Guide to WWI Battlefields and Memorials" (pages 310 to 325). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.6 x 21.4. 9781409376521
Illustrated account of the first global conflict.
18070 WILSON, Charles & PROCTOR, David (editors) 1688 THE SEABORNE ALLIANCE AND DIPLOMATIC REVOLUTION
$30.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum. Greenwich. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales. Preface by Professor Charles Wilson. 176 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, maps, plans, paintings). Inside front cover: Mary. Inside back cover: William. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. Oblong: 20 x 21. 0948065036
13 papers presented at the International Symposium held 5-6 October 1988 to celebrate the accension of William III and Mary to the Throne of England. Anglo-Dutch maritime relations to 1702, by C. Wilson. The Dutch influence on British shipbuilding, by Alan McGowan. The World of William and Mary in Asian seas, by C. Boxer. Maps, charts and diplomacy in the Glorious Revolution, by Helen Wallis...
17335 WINGATE, John HMS BELFAST / EDINBURGH CLASS CRUISER 1939-71
$25.00 AUD
Profile Publications. London. 1971. No. 29 in the Warship Profile series, (1st Warship Profile Special). No pagination, 32 PP, with colour artworks at centrefold (badge, profiles), 4 sketch-plans, and 64 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.2 x 18.7.
Commissioned 5th August 1939, Arctic convoys duty... Museum since Trafalgar Day, 21st October 1971.
74304 WINN, Godfrey 'P.Q.17'
$20.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1953. Collected edition (September 1953) of the 1947 original. (4), 219 PP, plus 14 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: The Captain. Eps: Map of the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, with track of the convoy. Cloth cover. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Signature of previous owner on half-title-page. Very good reading copy. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 21.8 x 14.5.
Story of the Northern route of the convoys from the British Isles and Iceland to Murmansk and Archangel. Convoy P.Q. 17.
70060 WINSTONE, John L. THE MARTINGALE CHRONICLES (in 2 Volumes: 1933-1941 / 1942-1953)
$25.00 AUD
LITC Press. Hove, UK. c. 2000. 1st Ed. Part One (1933-41): 265 PP with b/w illustrations. Part Two (1942-53): 278 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 20.5 x 14.2. 9780954318321/69
Historical novel about life at sea, before the age of modern technology.
16980 WINTON, John FOR THOSE IN PERIL - Fifty Years of Royal Navy Search and Rescue
$25.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1992. 1st Ed. 317 PP with 83 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.8. 070904917X
From the Air-Rescue launches of World War II, to the planes and helicopters of the Modern Search and Rescue.
48551 WINTON, John SIR WALTER RALEGH
$15.00 AUD
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. New York. 1975. 1st US edition. 352 PP with 100 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 19 colour plates. Title-page: Bark Ralegh, built by Ralegh, renamed Ark Royal. Hard cover, dj (rubbed). Occasional foxing. Very good. 25.3 x 19.5. 0698106482
Soldier (France, Ireland, Low Countries), explorer to North & South America, raids against Cadiz and the Azores, twice arrested, his execution.
48576 WINTON, John WARRIOR - The First and The Last
$10.00 AUD
Maritime Books. Liskeard, Cornwall. 1987. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 84 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.8. 0907771343
70234 WINTON, John WE JOINED THE NAVY
$10.00 AUD
Michael Joseph. London. 1959. 2nd impression in April 1959 of the March 1959 original. 254 PP. Hard cover. Spine lightly sunned and worn at head and foot. Ex library copy with stamps and markings on front endpaper. Foxing and offsetting. Good reading copy. 20.5 x 13.5.
72484 WINTON, John THE DEATH OF THE SCHARNHORST
$20.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 2000. Cassell Military Paperback ed. X, 182 PP with 4 maps, plus 16 pages with 1 cartoon and 24 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Neat name stamp of previous owner on half-title page, o/wise fine. 20 x 13. 0304355208
26th December 1943 off North Cape, Norway.
17740 WINTON, John (editor) THE WAR AT SEA, The British Navy in World War II
$30.00 AUD
William Morrow. New York. 1968. 1st US edition of the 1967 UK original. XX, 416 PP plus 32 pages with 35 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, with near fine dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Small name stamp of previous owner at top of FFEP, o/wise a near fine copy. 23.5 x 15.5.
A generous selection of personal experiences written by those who were there. Includes contributions by Winston Churchill, John Masefield, C.S. Forester...
14444 WOODMAN, Richard ARCTIC CONVOYS 1941-1945
$25.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1994. 1st Ed. XXVI, 532 PP with 7 maps (5 on full page), plus 16 pages with 34 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Foxing on outside edges. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0719550793
The history of the 4 years of WWII when the Western Allies supplied arms and ammunitions to Soviet Russia.
31549 WOODMAN, Richard THE VICTORY OF SEAPOWER - Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814
$20.00 AUD
Chatham. London. 1998. 1st Ed., in the Chatham Pictorial Histories series. 192 PP with 300 b/w illust. Title spread: Return of the Bourbon King Louis XVIII to France aboard the British royal yacht Royal Sovereign, 24 April 1814. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 29.6 x 25. 1861760388
67253 WOODMAN, Richard THE VICTORY OF SEAPOWER - Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814
$15.00 AUD
Caxton Editions & National Maritime Museum. London. 2001. Reprint of the 1998 original, in the Caxton Pictorial Histories series. 192 PP with 300 b/w illust. Title spread: Return of the Bourbon King Louis XVIII to France aboard the British royal yacht Royal Sovereign, 24 April 1814. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Near fine. 29.6 x 25. 1840673591
36578 WOODROOFFE, Thomas VANTAGE AT SEA - England's Emergence as an Oceanic Power
$10.00 AUD
St Martins Press. New York. 1958. 1st US Ed. 302 PP with 5 maps, plus 12 plates with 17 b/w illustrations. Fp: Ship on the starboard tack, 1565. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5.
Her activities at sea with Hawkins, Drake.... against the Spanish colonies which led to the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
62759 WOODWARD, David THE TIRPITZ
$5.00 AUD
William Kimber. London. 1955. 1st paperback "Kimber Pocket" edition of the 1953 original. XII, 13-190, (2 publications) PP, plus 4 b/w plates. Soft covers with wear and light ageing and foxing of paper. Good reading copy. 17.6 x 11.
42605 WORLEDGE, G. R. (editor) CONTACT ! HMAS Rushcutter and Australia's Submarine Hunters 1939-1946
$100.00 AUD
The Anti-Submarine Officers' Assoc. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed. XX, (2), 490 PP with 57 head-pieces & 1 tail-piece, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Fp: Commander H.M. Newcomb. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 25 x 18.8. 064615446X
Story of the Anti-Submarine Training School founded by Commander Newcomb. Recollections and war services of many who trained there. Contains a dedicatory hand-written letter on the dedication page, signed by Bill Brown, Former Ordinary Seaman, RANR, HMAS Leeuwin. The book contains a chapter on him (W.J.C. Brown) between pages 179 and 186.
75197 WORTH, Captain Henry J. VOYAGE OF H.M.S. "CALYPSO" TO THE PACIFIC
$30.00 AUD
Colin Hinchcliffe, "Empire Books". York, UK. c.1995. Facsimile reprint of articles published in "The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle", issues of 1852. 52 PP (recto only). Soft covers, device and title on front cover, spiral bound. Near fine. 29.9 x 21.
The author, Captain Henry J. Worth of H. M. S. Calypso, sailed from Plymouth on 18th March 1846 / Teneriffe 11/04/1846 / Rio de Janeiro 18/05/1846 / 01/07/1846 Diego Ramerez (Cape Horn) / Valparaiso 17th July 1846 ... Central America & Island of Cocos ... Tahiti and Society Islands. ... Pitcairn Island ... return on 13th September 1848.
71233 WRAY MCCANN, Hugh UTMOST FISH
$40.00 AUD
Heinemann. London. 1966. 1st edition. (12), 324 PP. Hard cover, glit title on spine, dj (price clipped). Signature of previous owner on FFEP, a few foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 22 x 15
Historical novel on: The Naval African Expedition of 1915-1916. 2 Royal Navy motor-boats "Mimi" and "Toutou" epic journey through Africa, from Capetown to the Belgian fort of "Lukuga" by train, non-existent roads and rivers, to attack 3 German gunboats on Lake Tanganyka. Title "Utmost Fish": the command term used to launch all torpedoes simultaneously at the target.
55235 WRIGHT, Nicolas, DONALDSON, Graham (editors) DAILY MAIL PICTORIAL HISTORY OF OUR TIMES 1945. No. 1: Peace, Perfect Peace?
$10.00 AUD
Phoebus Publishing. London. 1975. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 30 x 22.3.
65738 WWII THE WAR IN PICTURES - Fourth Year
$15.00 AUD
The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. c. 1946. Australian edition of the Great Britain original published by Odhams Press, Ltd. 256 PP with b/w illustrations (maps and photos). Eps: British Bombers. Cloth cover, decoration in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Very good. 25.5 x 18.5.
The turning of the tide. May-June 1942 to August 1943.
65739 WWII THE WAR IN PICTURES - Third Year
$15.00 AUD
The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. c. 1946. Australian edition of the Great Britain original published by Odhams Press, Ltd. 256 PP with b/w illustrations (maps and photos). Eps: Halifax Bombers. Cloth cover, decoration in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Very good. 25.5 x 18.5.
The Russian Glory. April-May 1941 to September 1942.
65740 WWII THE WAR IN PICTURES - Second Year
$15.00 AUD
The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. c. 1946. Australian edition of the Great Britain original published by Odhams Press, Ltd. 320 PP with b/w illustrations (maps and photos). Eps: St Paul's Cathedral, 29th December 1940. Cloth cover, decoration in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Very good. 25.5 x 18.5.
Britain at Bay. August 1940 to September 1941.
65741 WWII THE WAR IN PICTURES - First Year
$15.00 AUD
The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. c. 1946. Australian edition of the Great Britain original published by Odhams Press, Ltd. 3 - 320 PP with b/w illustrations (maps and photos). Eps: Aircraft carrier and Cruisers of the Royal Navy. Cloth cover, decoration in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Lacks the FFEP, title-page and its verso, o/wise very good. 25.5 x 18.5.
How the War began. Then: Britain is at war with Germany, 11 A.M., 3rd September 1939 to August 1940.
42002 YOUNG, Brigadier Peter D-DAY
$5.00 AUD
Bison Books. London. 1988. Reprint of the 1981 original. 64 PP with 1 map, 3 drawings of tanks, 90 b/w and 10 colour photos. Short note on verso of front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 28.6 x 22.3. 0861240340
12477 YOUNG, Desmond RUTLAND OF JUTLAND
$25.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1963. 1st Ed. (8), 191 PP, plus 6 pages with 9 b/w photos. Fp: Squadron-Commander F.J. Rutland. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Short annotations (useful) in the margin of 3 pages and 1 plate. Top corner of front endpaper clipped, o/wise a very good copy. Scarce. 21.5 x 14.5.
72505 YOUNG, Edward ONE OF OUR SUBMARINES
$10.00 AUD
Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1953. 5th Impression of the 1952 original. 316, (4 epilogue & ship's company) PP with 9 maps, and 12 illustrations, plus 22 pages with 1 paintings and 36 b/w photos. Eps: Diagrams of H.M. Submarine Storm. Cloth cover a little soiled. Offsetting of endpapers, light foxing around edges. Name stamp on front endpaper and a bookplate of a previous owner on the verso. Otherwise contents clean and a very good reading copy. 22 x 14.5.
WWII submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean followed by H.M. Submarine Storm in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian/Malayan waters.
68216 YOUNG, John A DICTIONARY OF SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY of the Second World War
$15.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens. Cambridge. 1975. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 27 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Pages 177 to 192 misbound. Sellotape marks on covers. Stamp of "The Tasmanian Maritime and Folk Museum" on title page. Very good. 22 x 14. 0850591856
22454 YOUNG, John M. BRITAIN'S SEA WAR - A Diary of Ship Losses 1939-1945
$20.00 AUD
Patrick Stephens Ltd. London. 1989. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 52 b/w illustrations. Bookplate of previous owner and his signature on front endpaper. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 9781852600426
Index of ships: pages 246 to 288 (printed on 3 columns).
74051 ZALOGA, Steven J. LIBERATION OF PARIS 1944 - Patton's race for the Seine
$20.00 AUD
Osprey Publishing Ltd. Oxford. 2010. 1st edition in "Battles of World War II" series (No 37). 96 PP with 75 b/w photos and 12 colour illustrations (1 photo, 3 plans of Paris, 3 maps of approaches to Paris and 5 paintings on double page by Howard Gerrard). Laminated boards, pictorial front. Fine. 25 x 19.5.
72872 ZIEGLER, Philip MOUNTBATTEN - The Official Biography
$5.00 AUD
Fontana / Collins. Glasgow. 1986. 1st paperback edition of the 1985 original. Ed. 786 PP with 1 family tree, 1 Organization of Command and 2 maps, plus 24 pages with 53 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front. Spine sunned and with creases. Faint foxing. Name of previous owners on inside front cover and ex libris stamp on half title page. Very good. 19.5 x 13. 9780006370475