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This issue of Prisma der Kunste, the journal of Nederlandsche Kunstenaars Vereenigingen (V.A.N.K.) is on ship design. The contents listed on the inside front wrap are apparently a misprint. The text is in Dutch. Good .
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The author looks back to the age of the sailing ship and to a voyage he made earlier in his life "in a whaling ship of the old school". Good .
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A book about naval battles fought by wooden ships from the Battle of Sluys in 1340 to the 1866 engagement at Lissa, the last naval action in which wooden walls took part. Good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerBrassey writes to thank the Rev. J. R. [Boyer?] for sending him the children's book, "Davie Blake, the Sailor": "It is, as you say, a work very much to the sailor's taste, and is calculated to do much good by drawing attention to those vices and follies which we all deplore."
Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl of Brassey [1836-1918] was a British Llberal Party politician, Governor of Victoria, Australia and enthusiastic yachtsman. His first experience of sailing was while he was still in school at Rugby. He owned a succession of yachts and between July 1876 and May 1877 circumnavigated the world in his steam-assisted three-masted topsail-yard schooner Sunbeam. In 1886 he founded "The Naval Annual" and edited it until 1891. Good .
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The photograph was taken at the Naval Photographic Center, Naval Station, Washington, DC and shows Bringle at waist length in full uniform with numerous medals.
The inscription reads: "Honorable Seymour Halpern - / With very best wishes and respect / W. F. Bringle / Admiral US Navy".
Admiral William Floyd Bringle, USN (1913-1999) was the first commanding officer of USS Kitty Hawk. During the Vietnam War, from 1967 to 1970, he was Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet, as a Vice Admiral. From 1971 to 1973, as a four star admiral, he was Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe.
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Very good .
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This third book by Arthur Bryant on the life of Pepys "tells the dramatic story of Pepys' second Secretaryship to the Admiralty where by his industry, his care for detail and his clear-cut principles he made himself supreme." [From the dust wrapper copy]. Good .
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This head-and-shoulders portrait of Chase is inscribed to future Congressman Seymour Halpern, then a young autograph collector.
Rear Admiral Jehu V. Chase [1869-1937] was a career officer in the U.S. Navy. As commander of the USS Minnesota when she was mined in World War I, he was awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for his seamanship and leadership in bringing his ship safely to port without loss of life. From September 1930 to September 1931 he was Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet and from April 1932 until his retirement in February 1933.he was Chairman of the General Board.
The Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. Good .
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A book about Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell of the Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen and his work on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador. Laid in is a penciled biographical note on Dr. Grenfell. Very good .
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerAdmiral Downes writes in his foreword: "[The Reader] is, in almost its entirety, a compilation of articles written just before or during the present war. The articles are from the pens of regular U.S. Navy Officers, Naval Reserve Officers, and civilians who are qualified to write on the subjects they have selected. Many of the articles are based on personal experiences. Very good .
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerOne of a very few [9?] cloth bound copies, so identified by the author in ink at the bottom of the front endpaper: "This is one of 9 [?] hard bound copies".
The book is inscribed in ink by the author to his father at the top of the front endpaper: "Dad - Even when you doubted that it would ever be, you never let me know - but I knew because I had my own doubts, too! Love, Mark".
An account of the Italian shipping line Navigazione Libera Triestina. This hard cover copy is lacking the addenda which was issued in some of the soft cover copies.
RARE in cloth. Very good .
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A study of the earliest days of deep-sea voyaging. Translated from the French by Len Ortzen. Good .
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The book includes personal narratives relating to naval and submarine operations in World War I. Also included are indexes of vessels and of persons. The text is in Dutch. Good .
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