ADMIRALTY

A Seaman's Pocket-Book. June 1943. By Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Introduced by Brian Lavery. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FACSIMILE EDITION

[[Conway,, 1943 [2006]. 8vo., with coloured plates and very numerous monochrome illustrations (many full-page) in the text; white cloth, blue cloth back lettered in white, a near fine copy. High-quality facsimile of the original edition of 1943. Original Publication Code BR 827. This deceptively detailed and compact guide was aimed primarily at HO ratings that by now were forming an increasing proportion of ships' companies.

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Book number: 46065

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ADMIRALTY

A Seaman's Pocket-Book. June 1943. By Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. SOLE WARTIME EDITION: NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS

HMSO,, 1943. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, with 5 coloured plates and very numerous monochrome illustrations (many full-page) in the text; original boards printed in black, blue cloth back, covers lightly age-soiled else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Publication code BR 827. With 2 pages of trade advertisements at front. Sole wartime edition of a deceptively detailed and compact guide aimed primarily at HO ratings that by now were forming an increasing proportion of ships' companies. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 46181

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, admiralty, seamanship, admiralty, naval, manuals, seaman's, pocket-book

ADMIRALTY.

Ships of the Royal Navy. Statement of Losses during the Second World War. NEAR FINE COPY IN MODERN BOARDS

HMSO,, 1947. Folio, First Edition; newly bound in modern navy boards, upper board blocked with RN Crown in gilt above printed paper label, primrose endpapers, ORIGINAL PRINTED WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 45016

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, admiralty, statement of losses

ADMIRALTY.

Steam Manual for His Majesty's Fleet. containing Regulations and Instructions relating to the Machinery of His Majesty's Ships. (Corrected to 31st May 1906). REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY FROM HMS JASON

Eyre & Spottiswoode [for] HMSO,, 1906. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous blank interleaves numbered in pagination; blue cloth boards, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, backstrip sunned (but all gilt bright and legible), else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Printing code: CN 3050/05. THIS COPY WAS RECEIVED ABOARD HMS JASON ON 28 JANUARY 1907 WITH CONFIRMATORY STAMP ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Loosely inserted are three subsequent and relevant Circular Letters, the first also with HMS JASON stamp: a) New Procedure concerning Surveys, and Closing of Watertight Doors; b) Examination of Boilers, Closing Watertight Doors etc; c) Use of Lime in Boilers of HM Ships. HMS JASON (1892-1917) was an ALARM-class Torpedo Gunboat. Shortly after receipt of this copy she was converted to minesweeper and served with the Nore Destroyer Flotilla in WWI until April 1917 when she struck a mine off the Hebridean island of Coll and sank with the loss of thirty lives. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 41169

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, royal navy, ww1, wwi, great war, manuals, steam manual, hms jason

ADMIRALTY.

Torpedo Drill Book. 1914. (Corrected to May 15).. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST GREAT WAR ISSUE

HMSO,, 1914. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous charts and diagrams throughout, title lightly browned, contemporary signature and later personal bookplate on front paste-down, contemporary annotations on rear endpapers, name inked on fore-edge; original navy cloth, sides with frame border in blind enclosing title and anchor in gilt, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, lower hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a well-preserved, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 38559

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, manuals, royal navy, admiralty, torpedo drill book, torpedoes, ww1, wwi, great war

AINSWORTH Michael

Warships in Miniature. A Guide to Naval Waterline Shipmodelling in 1:1200 Scale. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway,, [2001]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and plans throughout; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37463

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, warships, shipmodelling, waterline modelling, michael ainsworth

AKERMANN Paul

Encyclopedia of British Submarines 1901-1955. [Paperback Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY OF THE PAPERBACK EDITION

Periscope Publishing, [Penzance],, [2002]. Roy. 8vo., with very numerous photographs and illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The most comprehensive technical history of British submarines to date. Much-needed paperback reissue of the original edition of 1989. SCARCE.

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Book number: 37653

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, ww2, wwii, royal navy, submarines, akermann, paul akermann

ALBRIGHT Harry

Pearl Harbor: Japan's Fatal Blunder. The True Story behind Japan's Attack on December 7, 1941. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hippocrene, New York NY,, [1988]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 40585

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, pearl harbor, pearl harbour, naval aviation, harry albright

ALLAWAY Jim

Hero of the Upholder. The Story of Lieutenant Commander M. D. Wanklyn VC. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Airlife, [Shrewsbury],, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Mulholland & Jordan A14.

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Book number: 43885

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, submarines, wanklyn, upholder, vc, victoria cross

ALLEN Joseph

Life of Nelson. IN FULL MOROCCO

Routledge,, [1875]. 8vo., with fine engraved portrait frontispiece, some light textual age-staining; handsomely bound in full blue crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, leather label, hand-made endpapes, ribbon marker, decorative cloth gilt from front cover and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate preliminary leaves, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 32pp publisher's catalogue (dated August 1875) bound in at end. First published in 1852, Allen's well-known life of Nelson is notable in that he was the last biographer to claim personal acquaintance with some who had known Nelson personally. NMM II/1, 962 (recording the first edition).

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Book number: 15130

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, nelson, horatio nelson, joseph allen

ALLISON J.E.

The Mersey Estuary. IN FULL BUCKRAM

University Press, Liverpool,, 1949. 8vo. First Edition, with a frontispiece, 8 plates (one double-page), 23 plans and diagrams in the text and 2 mounted folding coloured maps; handsomely bound in red full buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of this detailed post-war survey.

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Book number: 20826

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, mersey, liverpool, birkenhead, new brighton, bar light, j.e. allison, naval, maritime, mersey, estuary

AMBLER J.

Bagged in World War 2. Two Tales of Royal Marines Prisoners of War. The Jim Fallace Story by John Ambler and the Diary of Benjamin Knapton.

Royal Marines Historical Society, [Portsmouth,, 2001]. 8vo., with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication 24

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Book number: 26326

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, royal marines, pow, j. ambler, naval, royal marines, bagged, world, war, 2

ANDERSON R. C.

Naval Wars in the Levant 1559-1853. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

University Press, Livepool,, 1952. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 9 plates, 19 plans in the text and folding map; original black, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip.. Classic study of the naval history of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 49046

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, to 1914, mediterranean, levant, anderson

ANON

Britain's Conquest of the Mediterranean. Prepared from Official Records and First-Hand Reports. With a Foreword by Lt. General Sir William Dobbie.

Burke Publishing,, [1945]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, and 24 plates and maps on 12; original coloured photographic wrappers, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. Good general survey; elusive in this condition. Dobbie was Governor of Malta from 1940-1942. Law, 0279.

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Book number: 9861

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, mediterranean, anon, naval, wwii, britain's, conquest, mediterranean

ANSCOMB Charles

Submariner. Foreword by Vice-Admiral Sir Sydney Raw.

Kimber,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 14 plates on 6, some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, fore-edges lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed (just affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Arguably the scarcest of British WWII submarine memoirs. The author began the war in Parthian before moving with her to the Mediterranean. In 1941 he transferred to Tempest which was lost on her maiden patrol in 1942. The last section deals with his escape from captivity in Italy. Includes excellent plates of the interior of Parthian. Particularly elusive in good dustwrapper. Enser, p.416; Law, 1108.

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Book number: 10860

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, submarines, mediteranean, parthian, tempest, pow, charles anscomb, naval, wwii, submariner