BONNER-SMITH D.

The Second China War 1856-1860.

Navy Records Society,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map and 3 full-page maps in the text; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, navy blue buckram back lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Navy Records Society, Vol. XCV. With 6pp series catalogue bound in at end. This copy was presented by J E Morpurgo to the library of Christ's Hospital School and bears its bookplate on front paste-down and presentation bookplate with press-mark on front free endpaper. Jack Eric Morpurgo (1918-2000), professor, historian, man of letters and eminent Old Blue, was educated at Christ's Hospital School and the University of North Brunswick, Canada. After service with the Royal Artillery in WWII he worked as an editor at Penguin Books and was several times nominated by Allen Lane as his successor, but the appointment fell foul of the volatile relationship shared by the two men (Morpurgo wrote Lane's biography in 1970). After Penguin he joined the National Book League (now Book Trust) where he rose to Director-General. He was subsequently appointed Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds and was awarded several visiting professorships at universities throughout the world. He is the stepfather of the writer Michael Morpurgo. Scarce.

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Book number: 19630

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, royal navy, china, china war, nrs, navy records society, d. bonner-smith, e.w.r. lumby, naval, navy records society, second, china, war, 1856-1860

BONNETT Stanley

The Price of Admiralty. An Indictment of the Royal Navy 1805-1966. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Robert Hale,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 44800

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, royal navy, admiralty, bonnett, stanley bonnett

BOSTON.

Boston looks Seaward. The Story of the Port 1630-1940. Compiled by Works of the Writers' Program. Sponsored by Boston Port Authority. [First UK Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY

[Macdonald & Jane's],, [1974]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and plates; blue patterned cloth, blue faux-morocco back ruled and lettered in gilt, blue top, blue endpapers, a near fine copy. The US edition was first published in 1941.

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Book number: 37195

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, boston, ports, harbours, massachusetts

BOWEN Frank C.

From Carrack to Clipper. A Book of Sailing-Ship Models. NEAR FINE COPY

Halton & Truscott Smith,, 1927. 4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 67 plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue top, a near fine copy. Witb the armorial bookplate of Lees of Bedford on front free endpaper.

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Book number: 46802

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, sail, frank bowen, ship models

BOWKER R.M.

The Channel Handbook. Central Section. Volume One. Containing large-scale Charts and Navigational Notes for a hundred Anchorages within the areas - Chichester, Solent, westward to Portlands the Channel Islands, the French coast from St. Malo to Barfleur. NEAR FINE COPY

Bowker & Beetram, Chichester,, n.d.. 8vo., Second Edition, 144pp. with tables and charts; printed ring-binder; blue padded rexine, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 42777

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, navigation, channel handbook

BOWKER R.M.

Mutiny!!. Aboard HM Armed Transport BOUNTY in 1789. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Bowker & Bertram, Old Bosham,, 1978. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates, illustrations and tables in the text, front endpaper plan and rear endpaper map; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 39536

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, royal navy, hms bounty, mutiny, bligh, william bligh, mutiny on the bounty, pitcairn, fletcher christian

BOWMAN Gerald

The Man who bought a Navy. The Story of the World's Greatest Salvage Achievement at Scapa Flow. [Third Impression.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Harrap,, [1965]. 8vo., Third Impression, with portrait frontispiece and plates; red tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition. The story of engineer Ernest Cox, who set about salvaging the remnants of the German High Seas Fleet from the bottom at Scapa Flow. Astonishingly, he raised six vessels, including the HINDENBURG, in just fourteen days. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 45898

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, scapa flow, salvage, ernest cox, gerald bowman

BOWNESS E.

The Four-Masted Barque.

Percival Marshall,, [1955]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 24232

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, barque, barques, archibald russell, carradale, e. bowness, naval, maritime, four-masted, barque

BOWYER Chaz

Eugene Esmonde VC, DSO. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

William Kimber,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. This well illustrated biography of Esmonde - the best to date - inevitably concentrates on the Bismarck and Channel Dash actions. A valuable complement to Robertson's 'Channel Dash' (1958); the attack comprised six Swordfish torpedo bombers, each with a crew of three, versus the battlecruisers SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU and the heavy cruiser PRINZ EUGEN. Impossibly outgunned, the six old aircraft nevertheless pressed home their attack, during which all six machines were destroyed. Of the eighteen crewmen involved only five survived. Law, 0756; Mulholland & Jordan B87.

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Book number: 45760

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, faa, fleet air arm, naval aviation, esmonde, cerberus, channel dash, scharnhorst, gneisenau, eugen, chaz bowyer, vc, victoria cross

BRADFORD Ernle

The Mighty Hood. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and diagrams in the text, some mild and occasional spotting; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, firm copy in price-clipped dustwrapper This popular account devotes half its length to the famous ship's wartime service (Home Fleet and Force H), and describes in much detail her tragic end. Enser, p.58; Law 0982.

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Book number: 44782

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, hms hood, battlecruisers, bismarck, bismarck chase, ernle bradford

BRENNECKE H. J.

Ghost Cruiser H.K.33 [PINGUIN]. Written with the co-operation of Survivors, including Lieutenant Helmut Hanefeld, Assistant Ship's Surgeon Dr. Hasselman and Chief Quartermaster Ernst Neumeister. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

William Kimber,, [1954]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip little dulled (but all gilt wholly legible), a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustswrapper. HK33, better known as PINGUIN, was the most successful of the German raiders until she was caught by HMS CORNWALL in the Indian Ocean. An early Kimber. SCARCE, PARTICULARLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Enser, p.188; Law 1692.

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Book number: 49159

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, surface raiders, armed merchant raiders, armed merchant cruisers, hk33, pinguin, hms cornwall

BREWER N.H.

A Century of Style. Great Ships of the Union Line, 1875-1976. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Reed, [Wellington NZ],, [1982]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs and illustrations throughout, and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37646

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, union line, union steam ship company, line historuies, shipping line histories, shipping lines

BREYER Siegfried

Battleship Tirpitz. NEAR FINE COPY

Schiffer, West Chester PA,, [1989]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 40103

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, tirpitz, kriegsmarine, battleships, breyer, siegfried breyer

BREYER Siegfried

Battleships of the World 1905-1970. [Edited by Roger Chesneau. Translated by Keith Thomas]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway Maritime Press,, [1980]. Sm. folio, First English Edition, with illustrated title and many hundreds of photographic illustrations and drawings in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Substantially revised version of the German original 'Grosskampschiffe 1905-1970' published by Bernard & Graefe in 3 vols., 1977-79. Arranged by class within country, it contains many unique photographs drawn from the Bundesarchiv and elsewhere. A mammoth photographic resource with unusually detailed captions. Law, 1765.

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Book number: 18688

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, great war, ww2, battleships, battlecruisers, warship types, warship classes, siegfried breyer, naval, general, battleships, world, 1905-1970

BREYER Siegfried

Battleships and Battle-Cruisers 1905-1970. With 922 Side Elevations, Deck Plans, Cross Sections and Detail Sketches including an Introduction: Historical Development of the Capital Ship. Translated by Alfred Kurti. [Second English Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Macdonald and Jane's,, [1979]. 4to., Second Impression thus, with many hundreds of details illustrations in the text, and pictorial endpapers; pictorial cloth blocked in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Standard reference first published in Munich in 1970 with the first English edition appearing three years later. Law 0993 (recording the first UK edition).

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Book number: 27037

Catalogue: Naval0

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