DOUGLAS Major General Sir Howard

A Treatise on Naval Gunnery. Published with the Approbation and Permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. SPLENDID COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

John Murray,, 1829. 8vo., Second Edition, with several tables in the text, 5 folding engraved diagrams and 4 folding tables; contemporary half calf, gilt back, marbled boards, sprinkled edges, a remarkably crisp, fresh, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of M. John Phillips on front paste-down. A handsome and highly desirable copy of a classic work in contemporary binding. Son of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Douglas, Sir Howard Douglas (1776-1861) enjoyed a distinguished military career and developed a well-earned reputation for enquiry and innovation. By 1811 he had perfected and patented 'Douglas's reflecting circle'; in 1816 he published an important study of military bridges and in 1819 a treatise on Carnot's system of fortification. He then turned his attention to naval matters and produced the first edition of his famous volume on naval gunnery in 1820. It is a comprehensive study covering theoretical, practical and tactical aspects and its impact was significant. Its success, both at home and in translation, led eventually to the establsihment of 'H.M.S. Excellent' as a gunnery training school.

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Book number: 3125

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, to 1914, royal navy, admiralty, gunnery, howard douglas, hms excellent

DUCKWORTH Admiral Sir John Thomas

Papers and Correspondence of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth. Volume I: The French Revolutionary War, 1793-1802. Edited by John D. Grainger. NEAR FINE COPY

Routledge, [Abingdon] [for] Navy Records Society,, 2022. 8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 169.

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Book number: 46901

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, navy records society, duckworth, john thomas duckworth, admiral duckworth, french revolutionary war

DUCKWORTH Christian Leslie Dyce

Railway and other Steamers. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Stephenson & Sons, Prescot,, [1968]. 8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and 102 plates on 32; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the standard reference, first published in 1948.

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Book number: 13437

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, merchant navy, steamers, railway steamers, christian duckworth, graham langmuir

DULL Paul S.

A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945). NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD,, [1978]. Roy. 8vo., with photographs and charts in the text, and endpaper maps; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrappwr.

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Book number: 50213

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, japanese navy, paul dull

DUNMORE Spencer

Lost Subs. From the Hunley to the Kursk, the greatest submarines ever lost - and found. [Introduction by Dr. Robert Ballard.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Madison Press, [Toronto ON],, [2002]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 40102

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, submarines, ww1, wwi, great war, ww2, wwii, salvage

DURHAM Dick

Where the River meets the Sea. One Hundred Years of the Sussex Yacht Club. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Privately Printed, Shoreham,, 1991]. 8vo., First Edition, with pictorial title and numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 28437

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: topography, sussex, shoreham, southwick, portslade, maritime, yachting, sailing, dinghies

DYER Vice Admiral George C.

Naval Logistics. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

US Naval Institute, Annapolis MD,, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and photographs and charts in the text; navy cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in yellow, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 37578

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, logistics, naval logistics, george dyer

EARLE Peter

The Last Fight of the Revenge. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins & Brown,, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 38370

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, to 1914, revenge, grenville, elizabethan navy, richard grenville

EDWARDS Lt. Col. Brian

After Limbang. A Royal Marines Anthology of Experiences of the Confrontation with Indonesia, December 1962 to September 1966. NEAR FINE COPY

Royal Marines Historical Society, [Portsmouth],, [2008]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publications 36.

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Book number: 50624

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, royal marines, indonesia, limbang, brian edwards

EDWARDS, Kenneth

Anatomy of the Ship. The Four-Masted Barque Lawhill. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Conway Maritime Press,, [1996]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, and very numerous illustrations from photographs and detailed scale drawings in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper. A scarce title in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series featuring probably the most detailed drawings ever produced for historical naval publications

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Book number: 37777

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Keywords: mstock, naval, maritime, aots, anatomy of the ship, barque lawhill, ship construction, kenneth edwards, roderick anderson, richard cookson

EDWARDS Bernard

Beware Raiders!. German Surface Raiders in the Second World War. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Leo Cooper, [Barnsley],, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 10082

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, german navy, kreigsmarine, battleships, pocket battleships, surface raiders, bernard edwards

EDWARDS Bernard

The Cruel Sea Retold. The Truth behind Monsarrat's Epic Convoy Drama. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO HG73 VETERAN

Pen & Sword, [Barnsley],, [2009]. 8vo., First Edition; with 17 plates on 8; original black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. THE RECIPIENT IS BELIVED TO BE GEORGE MONK, RADIO OFFICER ABOARD THE DANISH VESSEL EBRO IN CONVOY HG73. An established naval historian retells the stories of three convoys - OG71, HG73 and HG76 - on which Monsarrat drew for his splendid novel. SCARCE.

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Book number: 44078

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, battle of the atlantic, atlantic, gibraltar, convoys, monsarrat, cruel sea, bernard edwards

EDWARDS B.

Marines from the Medway. The Story behind their Memorials in the Medway Towns.

Royal Marines Historical Society, [Southsea,, 1998]. Sm. 4to., with photographs and maps in the text; printed wrappers, comb-bound as issued, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publications 20.

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Book number: 26325

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, royal marines, kent, medway, chatham, unit histories, unit history, b. edwards, naval, royal marines, marines, from, medway

EDWARDS Kenneth

The Navy of To-Day. Revised by B. Webster Smith. [Revised Edition. With a Foreword by Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt.] IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Blackie,, [1942]. 8vo., Revised Edition, with frontispiece and plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, wanting front free endpaper; navy cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, a good, firm copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Updated version of the original edition of 1939. Useful for understanding how the RN was presented to the British public during WWII. Law 0633.

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Book number: 29702

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, royal navy, kenneth edwards

EDWARDS Kenneth

Operation Neptune. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition, with several plates and endpaper maps; decorative black cloth gilt, gilt back, covers slightly age-marked at edges else a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-sloiled and frayed at edges. A standard secondary source. Covers the naval component of OVERLORD, the clearing of the Channel ports and Walcheren. Enser, p.290; Law, 0589

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Book number: 31007

Catalogue: Naval0

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