BALLARD G. A.

The Black Battlefleet. [A Study of the Capital Ship in Transition. With a Foreword by Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Nautical Publishing Company, Lymington & The Society for Nautical Research, Greenwich,, [1980]. Roy. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and double-page detailed line drawings in the text; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly sunned dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The culmination of almost twenty years' research by the author, this is a standard reference on the evolution of the mid-Victorian Royal Navy. Crucially, Ballard was an eye-witness of the latter part of the period of which he wrote; even in 1929 there were not many men remaining with such experience first-hand. Much of the text appeared first as an extended series of papers in 'The Mariner's Mirror' from 1929 until the author's death in 1948.

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BALLARD Robert D.

The Discovery of the Bismarck. With Rick Archbold. Introduction by Ludovic Kennedy. Illustrations of the Bismarck Wreck by Ken Marschall. Technical and historical Consultation by William Garzke and Robert Doulin. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1990]. 4to., First Edition, with very numerous colour and monochrome plates throughout, and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 7965

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BALLEINE G.R.

The Tragedy of Philippe d'Auvergne. Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy and last Duke of Bouillon.

Phillimore,, [1973]. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 7 plates on 4 and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly faded at backstrip.

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Book number: 10959

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Keywords: naval, napoleon, napoleonic wars, royal navy, philippe d'auvergne, france, jersey, nt14, g.r. balleine, naval, to 1914, tragedy, philippe, d'auvergne

BAPTIST Captain C.N.T.

Salvage Operations. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Stanford Maritime,, [1979]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, lengthy inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37248

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, salvage, shipwrecks

BARNETT Correlli

Engage the Enemy more Closely. The Royal Navy in the Second World War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and maps throughout; navy cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Meticulously researched account, by an eminent historian, of the Royal Navy’s part in WWII. A fascinating modern complement to Roskill.

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BARRINGTON Samuel

The Barrington Papers. Selected from the Letters and Papers of Admiral the Hon. Samuel Barrington. Edited by D. Bonner-Smith. NEAR FINE SET

Navy Records Society,, 1937[-41]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece, diagrams in the text and folding tables; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, navy blue buckram backs lettered in gilt, uncut, backstrip of first volume lightly sunned else a near fine set. NRS vols., LXXVII and LXXXI respectively. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.

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Book number: 23850

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BARTIMEUS

The Turn of the Road. Being the Story of the Part played by the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy in the Landings in Algeria and French Morocco. [Operation TORCH]. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Chatto & Windus,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 large folding maps (one coloured in outline) and several diagrams in the text, front endpapers lightly spotted; blue cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Concerned mainly with TORCH; but actually written in 1943 and not revised with hindsight. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.293; Law, 0363.

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Book number: 4184

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BARTSCH Max

Was man uber die Kriegsschiffs-Typen wissen muss.

Limpert, Berlin,, [1940]. 8vo., with 33 fine illustrations and 17 drawings in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original printed card covers, a near fine copy in the striking pictorial dustwrapper, the latter unclipped, neatly reinforced at inner edges and lightly rubbed at fold-ins. Remarkably well-preserved wartime propaganda title (from a favoured Nazi printing house) printed in black-letter Gothic type. There are some very useful photographs among the more standard shots; although most of the captions are understandably generic the majority are instantly identifiable. The unusually striking dustwrapper illustrations by the author depicts a (probably imaginary) view of either 'Scharnhorst' or 'Gneisenau' accompanied by a 'Hipper'-class heavy cruiser and escorted by a Type-34 destroyer. The camouflage and fittings suggest the Norwegian campaign of 1940 but we have been unable to confirm that the two capital vessels served together in those waters.. Scarce, especially in this condition

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Book number: 4634

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BASSETT Ronald

Battle-Cruisers. A History 1908-48. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Macmillan,, 1981]. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8, and 9 detailed drawings of plans and elevations and 7 maps (1 double-page and 6 full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference covering the sixteen RN, RAN and RNZN vessels of this category: HMSs INVINCIBLE, INFLEXIBLE, INDOMITABLE, INDEFATIGABLE, LION, QUEEN MARY, PRINCESS ROYAL, TIGER, RENOWN, REPULSE, FURIOUS, COURAGEOUS, GLORIOUS, HOOD, HMAS AUSTRALIA and HMNZS NEW ZEALAND. Law, 0981.

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Book number: 44533

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BATH Alan Harris

Tracking the Axis Enemy. The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

University Press of Kansas, [Lawrence KS],, [1998]. 8vo., First Edition; black boards, black cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 36790

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BATTI-WALLAHS SOCIETY.

The Batti-Wallahs Society. 90th Anniversary Luncheon Menu. [National Liberal Club]. Thursday 8 February 1996. President J.D.G. White. Principal Guest and Speaker: Captain J.M. Gray Master Mariner. A RARE SURVIVAL

[Batti-Wallahs Society],, [1996]. 8vo., First Edition, with double-page facsimile; original coloured pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The facsimile is of the Society's First Annual Dinner, held at the Holborn Restaurant on 10 March 1906, with guest list and signatures. The cover illustration depicts 'RANCHI (1925) in the Suez Canal' by Charles Pears. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 37636

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BAUER K. Jack

Ships of the Navy 1775-1969 [US Navy]. Volume I: Combat Vessels. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN WRAPPERS

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY,, [1970]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, text in typescript; printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 37599

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BAVIER Jr Robert N.

Faster Sailing. New Developments in Yacht Racing. With an Introduction, Addendum and Footnotes by Ian Proctor. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Nicholas Kaye,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pale blue cloth, gilt back, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed at edges.

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Book number: 30971

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Keywords: naval, maritime, sailing, yachting, yacht racing, dinghy racing

BEAVER Paul

WWII Photo Album 17. E-Boats and Coastal Craft. A Selection of German Wartime Photographs from the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge,, [1980]. 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations from photographs in the text; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. As always with this series, a useful and well-reproduced collection of detailed photographs. Law, 1643.

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Book number: 44674

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BEAVER Paul

WWII Photo Album 2. German Capital Ships. A Selection of Wartime Photographs from the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz. [Paperback Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN WRAPPERS

Patrick Stephens, Cambridge,, [1980]. Sm. 4to., First Edition thus, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations from photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. 'World War 2 Photo Album', no. 20. As always with this series, a useful and well-reproduced assembly of detailed photographs. Law, 1668.

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Book number: 8036

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