GRAINGER, ed. John D

The Maritime Blockade of Germany in the Great War. The Northern Patrol 1914-1918. NEAR FINE COPY

Ashgate for Navy Records Society,, [2003]. 8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 145. ALREADY SCARCE.

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Book number: 32022

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GRAY Edwyn

Few Survived. A History of Submarine Disasters. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Leo Cooper [with] Secker & Warburg,, [1986]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 36090

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GREENHILL Basil

Herzogin Cecilie. The Life and Times of a Four-Masted Barque. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway Maritime Press,, [1991]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout; grey cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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GREENHILL Basil

The Merchant Schooners. [First One-Volume Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Conway Maritime Press,, [1988]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs throughout; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Greenhill's classic study was first published in two volumes in 1951. This the first single-volume edition contains much new material together with new and additional illustrations and reassesses aspects of the history of the schooners.

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GREENWICH HOSPITAL 1833 Act of Parliament

An Act for incorporating the Members of a Society, commonly called 'The Seaman's Hospital Society',. and their Successors, as therein is mentioned and provided; and for the better enabling and empowering them to carry on their charitable and useful Designs of the same Society INCORPORATION OF THE SEAMAN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY. EXCEPTIONAL COPY

[Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty,, 1833]. 12pp., sm. folio, with fine woodcut arms of William IV on front page; disbound, an exceptionally crisp, virtually spotless copy ideal for display or presentation. 3 Gulielmi IV. Cap. 9; granted royal assent, 6 May 1833. This is the Act of Parliament formally incorporating the Seaman's Hospital Society, establishing and naming its first governors and prescribing its powers and scope of operations. By way of context its military equivalent, the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, was founded in 1692. The world's first charitable society for the relief of distressed seamen was established in London in March 1821. Initially it aimed to cater for those in the Port of London ('who at that time were very numerous in the Metropolis') and, fittingly for the world's leading maritime nation, did not differentiate on nationality or any other grounds other than disability and hardship. The motivating principles seem to have been partly public gratitude in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, in which the Royal Navy in particular had played a fundamental role in achieving victory, and partly increased recognition of the helplessness of private seamen and the strength of their cause. The society was supported entirely by donations, subscriptions and legacies, and by the loan by government of a hospital ship (HMS Dreadnought) moored at Greenwich. In its first twelve years the society provided relief and support to upwards of twenty-three thousand sick and distressed seamen, 'many of whom might otherwise have perished'. With the case clearly made it was time for a more formal and robust body with increased remit and governance; accordingly the Seaman's Hospital Society was given royal assent on 6 May 1833. Its significant extra powers included the rights to possess property, receive bequests, purchase lands and canvass donations; most important of all it was granted 'perpetual succession'. The original HMS Dreadnought continued in use until 1870 when the Admiralty made available at nominal rent the infirmary at Greenwich where the 'Dreadnought' hospital continues to this day. AN ACT OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO THE WELFARE AND WELL-BEING OF SEAMEN IN BRITAIN, AND A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT IN BRITISH MARITIME HISTORY. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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GREGER Rene

Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I.

Ian Allan, [Shepperton,, 1976]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Extremely scarce, especially in the dustwrapper

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GREGER Rene

The Russian Fleet 1914-1917. Translated by Jill Gearing. [First English Edition]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Ian Allan, [Shepperton],, [1972]. 4to., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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GRENFELL Captain Russell

The Bismarck Episode. [Third Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Faber,, [1950]. 8vo., Third Impression, with plates and charts, light tape-marks on fold-ins and free endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'One of the earliest, but still one of the best accounts of the events which surrounded the BISMARCK'S final sortie' (Law). Published two years after the first edition. Enser, p.58; Law 0250 (both recording the first edition).

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'GRIFF', pseud.

Surrendered. Some Naval War Secrets. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

[Privately Printed], Twickenham, [1925]. 4to., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, some light age-spotting; original navy buckram, upper board lettered in gilt with German war ensign blocked in colours; gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. The author served on HMS ALSATIAN, flagship of 10th Cruiser Squadron, formed under de Chair as the Northern Patrol of the Grand Fleet and operating from Scapa Flow. Enser, p.229.

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GRIFFITHS Denis

Steam at Sea. Two Centuries of Steam-Powered Ships FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway,, 1997. 4to., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and diagrams throughout; navy cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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GROVE Eric

Fleet to Fleet Encounters. Tsushima. Jutland. Philippine Sea. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Arms & Armour,, [1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 37225

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GUILLIATT Richard

The Wolf. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Bantam Press,, [2009]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, full-page plan and maps in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The little-known story of the German surface raider WOLF in WWI.

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'GUNS, Q.F.C.'

Middle Watch Musings. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION

Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent,, [c.1912]. 8vo., Second Edition, with illustrations and cartoons in the text, some light spotting; pictorial green cloth, upper board printed and lettered in black, green cloth backstrip lettered in black, a good, firm copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) at front and rear. Humorous evocation of the Edwardian navy immediately prior to WWI.

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GUTTERIDGE, ed. H. C.

Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins. Documents relating to the Suppression of the Jacobin Revolution at Naples, June 1799. Edited by H.C. Gutteridge. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Navy Records Society,, 1903. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece map, free endpapers very lightly browned; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, blue buckram back lettered in gilt, uncut, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound) else a brght, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. XXV.

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GWYN, ed. Julian

The Royal Navy and North America: The Warren Papers 1736-1752. Edited by Julian Gwyn. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Navy Records Society,, 1975. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Navy Records Society, vol. 118.

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