SCOTTISH SHIP BUILDING.

Two Centuries of Ship Building by the Scotts at Greenock. [Partly reprinted from "Engineering."]

London: Offices of "Engineering," 1920 2nd revised and enlarged edition. 4to. xviii, 192pp, colour and b/w plates, text illustrations, text tables, head and tail-pieces, decorated capitals. Original quarter green calf gilt, matching cloth sides, marbled eps, teg o/w uncut. Extremes lightly rubbed; spine browned; front hinge-paper cracked but binding holding firm.

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Book number: 37883

Catalogue: Naval & Maritime History

Keywords: NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY Shipping Scotland Company History

GILL, Claude S. (Editor).

The Old Wooden Walls: their construction, equipment, etc. Being an abridged edition of Falconer's celebrated Marine Dictionary.

London: W & G Foyle, 1930. 8vo. [iv], xvii[i], 201[3]pp, frontis, 14 plates, 16 folding plates at rear. Original navy cloth gilt. Re-backed with original spine laid down; spine and part of boards sun-faded; very occasional light spotting; typescript list 'references to plates in text' laid down to last blank page before folding plates at rear.

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Book number: 33600

Catalogue: Naval History

Keywords: Naval History illustrated

GLADSTONE, John.

Protection for British navigation and native industry. To the Worshipful the Mayor of Liverpool.

Fasque: N.P., 19th May, 1849. Fo. [1][3]pp single folded sheet, printed in double-columns. Two horizontal folds. Not in COPAC or OCLC.

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Book number: 38386

Catalogue: Naval History

Keywords: Naval History politics

KING, J. W., Chief-Engineer, United States Navy.

The war-ships and navies of the world; containing a complete and concise description of the construction, motive power, and armaments of the modern war-ships of all the navies of the world; naval artillery, marine engines, boilers, torpedoes, and torpedo-boats.

Boston: A. Williams & Co.; London: E & F N Spon, 1881 2nd edition. 8vo. xvi, 615pp, frontis with guard, plates, text illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary full navy calf gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, red calf gilt spine label, Spine a little faded; calf lightly rubbed with isolated wear. Admiralty presentation bookplate dated 1882 to front paste-down. With the 66 plates called for plus a further 3 not in the plate list. Contains the substance of a work, Report of Chief Engineer J.W. King, United States Navy, on European ships of war ... Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1877, which was reprinted in England as "The war-ships of Europe ..."

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Book number: 44614

Catalogue: Naval & Maritime History

Keywords: NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY binding

KIPLING, Rudyard.

La battaglia di Jutland. Le gesta dei cacciatorpediniere di Rudyard Kipling.

Londra: Hayman, Christy & Lilly, Ltd, 1917. 18cm. 40pp, tinted frontis. Original printed card wraps, stapled. Wraps very lightly browned; staples rusted but holding firm.

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Book number: 46010

Catalogue: Naval & Maritime History

Keywords: NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY World War I World War, 1914-1918 Naval operations. Jutland, Battle of, 1916. World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Denmark. World War, 1914-1918 Naval operations.

KIPLING, Rudyard.

Rudyard Kipling with The British Fleet. For the New York American.

[New York: complimentary reprint from "The Fringes of the Fleet", 1915.] 22cm. 56pp, text enclosed within pictorial borders. Original pictorial embossed-card wraps, yapp edges, stapled. Wrap edges with closed tears. Fine copy internally.

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Book number: 44380

Catalogue: Naval History

Keywords: Naval History

LESLIE, Robert C. (Notes and Illustrations.)

Life aboard a British Privateer in the time of Queen Anne. Being the journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner.

London: Chapman and hall, 1889. 8vo. [viii], 143pp, frontis with spotted tissue-guard, title-page device, plates, double-page map, text illustrations, head-pieces, decorated capitals, title-page printed in red and black. Original highly decorated blue cloth gilt, uncut. Extremes rubbed with two very small spots of wear to lower joint; spine browned; some plates lacking guards.

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Book number: 33557

Catalogue: Naval History

Keywords: Naval History illustrated Binding

BANK OF MONTREAL.

St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Projects 1959.

Montreal: Reid and Boulton Publishing Co, 1958. 4to. 413[3]pp including pictorial colour title-page, text illustrations, figures, maps and plans. Original decorated navy cloth gilt, pictorial eps. * Advance Copy Business Review and Bank President's compliments card loosely inserted.

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Book number: 33601

Catalogue: Naval History

Keywords: Naval History Civil Engineering Canada

STACKPOLE, Edouard A. (Editor).

Those in Peril on the Sea. Great adventures: from the shipwreck of St. Paul to the atomic submarine ...

New York: The Dial Press, 1962. 4to. [xii], 272pp, text illustrations and maps (some full-page), title-page device. Original quarter blue cloth gilt, natural coarse-woven cloth sides, ep maps. Sides lightly stained and soiled.

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Book number: 33599

Catalogue: Naval History

Keywords: Naval History illustrated

WILLIAMS, Neville.

Contraband Cargoes: seven centuries of smuggling.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1959. 8vo. xiii[i], 301pp, 4 double-sided plates. Original red cloth gilt, chipped, rubbed and lightly soiled d/w.

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Book number: 33585

Catalogue: Naval History

Keywords: Naval History Smuggling