HUMMELCHEN Dr. G.

Warship Profile 31: German Schnellboote (E-Boats). NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

[Profile Publications, Windsor],, [1973]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A scarce title in this valuable and much sought-after series. Law, 1654

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Book number: 48854

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Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, german navy, kriegsmarine, e-boats, coastal forces, warship types, warship design, warship profiles, hummelchen

HUMPHREYS Lansdale

Merlin's Man. Love, War and Adventure in the Life of a Welsh Seafarer. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

P M Heaton, Abergavenny,, 1995. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and photographs in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 33170

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, lansdale humphreys,

HURD Archibald

Britannia has Wings! The Fleet in Action - on, over and under the Sea.

Hutchinson,, [1942]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Enser, p.381; Law 0639.

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Book number: 22006

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, archibald hurd, naval, wwii, britannia, wings, fleet, action, -, over, under, sea

HURD Archibald

German Sea-Power. Its Rise, Progress and Economic Basis. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

John Murray,, 1913. 8vo., First Edition, with charts in the text and 2 large folding maps coloured in outline, title and a few following leaves lightly spotted, top and fore-edge dusty; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 37301

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, german navy , german sea power, archibald hurd, henry castle

HURST Alex A.

A Succession of Days. [Collecting 'Down to the Sea' and 'In Durance Vile'.] SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Square One, [Worcester],, [1992]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; blue 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 VERSO.

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Book number: 37167

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, sail, square riggers, alex hurst

HYTHE, ed. Viscount

The Naval Annual 1913. Edited by Viscount Hythe. [Facsimile reissue.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

David & Charles, [Newton Abbot],, [1970]. 8vo., with numerous drawings and tables throughout, tape-marks on endpapers; pale blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1913.

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Book number: 37168

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, naval annual

HYTHE, ed. Viscount

The Naval Annual 1913. [Facsimile reissue.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

David & Charles, [Newton Abbot],, [1970]. 8vo., with photographs, illustrations, line drawings and tables throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded at head and tail, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1913.

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Book number: 44677

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww1, wwi, great war, naval annual

ILLINGWORTH Captain John H.

Offshore. Ocean Racing, Fact Cruising, Modern Yacht Handling and Equipment. [Fourth (Revised and Enlarged) Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY WITH SMALL ILLINGWORTH/GILKES ARCHIVE

Adlard Coles, Southampton,, [1957]. Roy. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with coloured frontispiece, plates in monochrome, very numerous sail plans and other diagrams in the text, and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, blue top (mildly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dusdtwrapper, the latter lightly chipped AT extremities. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF DR. MICHAEL GILKES FRCS AND COMES WITH A SMALL ARCHIVE OF LETTERS AND EPHEMERA RELATING TO THE AUTHOR. The archive comprises (a) six T.L.s. and draft letters from Illingworth to Gilkes relating to participation in, and preparations for, the Newport-Bermuda Race 1962 in the yacht PHEROUSA. Several of the letters are on Illingworth & Primrose stationery. Among many other matters, Illingworth accepts Gilkes' suggestion that he manage the medical services; (b) Entry Form, Conditions, and General Information pamphlets for the Newport-Bermuda Race 1960. A SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY WITH VALUABLE MEMORABILIA OF ONE OF THE LEADING UK YACHT DESIGN PARTNERSHIPS OF THE PERIOD.

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Book number: 41530

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Keywords: naval, maritime, sailing, ocean racing, illingworth, john illingworth, michael gilkes, newport bermuda race

IMCO

IMCO Search and Rescue [IMCOSAR} Manual. Part I. The Search and Rescue Organization. Part II. Search and Rescue Procedures. Maritime Search and Rescue Code (MAREC CODE).

IMCO,, 1980. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous diagrams in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy.

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Book number: 3426

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, merchant navy, mercantile marine, imco, naval, maritime, imco, search, rescue, imcosar}, manual

INCOURAGEMENT OF SEAMEN 1697 Act of Parliament

An Act to enforce the Act for the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen. WITH FINE WOODBLOCK ARMS ON COVER

Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executirix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty,, 1697. 6 leaves, folio, BLACK-LETTER, with fine woodblock arms of William III on upper cover; disbound, sewed as issued, a remarkably crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. The Act deals in detail with the provisions to be made for 'such registered Mariners or Seamen, Watermen, Fishermen, Lightermen, Bargemen, Keelmen or Sefaring Men'. Towards the end of the Act, particular provision is made for the Cinque Ports 'Whereas in the whole Jurisdiction of the Cinque-Ports, and their Towns and Members on the Coasts of Kent and Sussex, there are not any Justices of the Peace nor Divisions...Such Certificate as aforesaid shall be sufficient, where no Justice of the Peace shall be residing or inhabiting within Three Miles of such Port or Town'. The nature and condition of this Act makes it very suitable for framing and display. VERY SCARCE.

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Book number: 3465

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INFIELD GLENN B.

Disaster at Bari. [First UK Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hale,, [1974]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 24 plates on 16 and several full-page facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in the US three years earlier. The story of the catastrophic Luftwaffe attack on the port in December 1943 in which 17 merchantmen were sunk; one carried a cargo of mustard gas and its release led to heavy casualties. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser p266; Law 0524.

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Book number: 46591

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, ww2, wwii, italy, bari, air raids, glenn infield

INGRAM Chas. W.N.

Shipwrecks. New Zealand Disasters 1795-1936. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Dunedin Book Publishing, Dunedin,, [1936]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; navy cloth, upper board framed and lettered in blind, gilt back, upper board mildly age-soiled, backstrip faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 36324

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: naval, maritime, new zealand, shipwrecks, disasters at sea

INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS

Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects. Volume 83. R. LEO PAYNE'S COPY

Institution of Naval Architects,, 1941. Sm. folio, First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), 5 plates, 4 obituary portraits and very numerous illustrations and diagrams in the text; original navy blue cloth, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF R. LEO PAYNE, MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS, AND BEARS HIS HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Major papers include Baker & Baker: The Effective Wave-Slope; Hughes: Model Experiments on Twin-Screw Propulsion (III); Emerson: The Effect of Shape of Bow on Ship Resistance (III); Kari: Components of Propulsive Efficiency and their Variation; Gawn: Historical Notes on Investigations at the Admiralty Experimental Works, Torquay; Narbeth: A Naval Architect's Practical Experiences in the Behaviour of Ships.

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Book number: 17345

Catalogue: Naval0

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IREDALE Will

The Kamikaze Hunters. Fighting for the Pacific, 1945. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Macmillan,, [2015]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper

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Book number: 44921

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, far east, pacific, pacific fleet, fleet air arm, will iredale

IRELAND Bernard

The War in the Mediterranean 1940-1943. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Arms & Armour,, [1993]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 44539

Catalogue: Naval0

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