LAMBERT, ed. Andrew

Warship. Volume IX. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway,, [1985]. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and drawings throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip. Bound volume collecting Nos. 33-36 of this valuable series.

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Book number: 44631

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LANCE Kate

Alan Villiers. Voyager of the Winds. With a Foreword by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

National Maritime Museum,, [2009]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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LANGMAID Captain Kenneth

The Approaches are Mined!. SIGNED COPY IN FULL THEMED MOROCCO

Jarrolds,, [1965]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt with RN Crown, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Elegant copy of one of the best single-volume histories of mine warfare; about half the work is devoted to British and German mine warfare in WWII. Still a relatively under-writen aspect of WWI and WWII. SIGNED COPIES BY THIS AUTHOR ARE VERY SCARCE. Law 0839.

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LANGMAID Captain Kenneth

Beat to Quarters!. Ten outstanding Naval Exploits. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Jarrolds,, [1968]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and a map in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. From the Napoleonic Wars to WWII.

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Book number: 37198

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LANGMAID Captain Kenneth

The Blind Eye. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Jarrolds,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and full-page illustrations in the text; navy cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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'LANYARD'.

Stand-by to Ram!. A stirring and graphic Account of dramatic Episodes in the great Battle of the Atlantic. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Crosby Lockwood & Son,, 1943. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges and with loss at upper edge of front panel. Anecdotal account of war in the Atlantic. Two later impressions were published under the author's name of 'G. Morgan'. Enser, p.297; Law 0210.

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LATHAM, ed. Robert

Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War. Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers. Transcribed by William Matthews and by Charles Knighton. Edited by Robert Latham. NEAR FINE COPY

Scolar Press for Navy Records Society,[Aldershot],, 1995. 8vo., First Edition; original series binding of navy cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. NRS vol. 133.

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LAUGHTON L.G.C.

The British Navy in War. NEAR FINE COPY

Methuen,, [1915]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, endpapers very lightly browned; blue cloth, boards blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE

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LAUGHTON (ed.) J.K.

State Papers relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada Anno 1558. Edited by John Knox Laughton. Second Edition.

[Kenneth Mason for] Navy Records Society,, 1981. 2 vols., 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece map, endpapers lightly age-soiled; original series binding of ivory buckram blocked in gilt, navy buckram backs lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright copy. Navy Records Society, Vols I-II. Much-needed facsimile reissues of the original editions of 1895-1900.

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LAUTENSCHLAGER Karl

Warship Profile 39: USS Mississippi (BB23). Greek Kilkis. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

[Profile Publications Limited, Windsor],, [1973]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations (one coloured and double-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.

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LAVERY Brian

All Hands. The Lower Deck of the Royal Navy, 1939 to the Present Day. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway,, [2012]. 8vo. First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in orange, oragne endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Third volume of Lavery's exc ellent trilogy, following 'Royal Tars' and 'Able Seamen'. This volume is complete in itself

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LAVERY Brian

Anatomy of the Ship. The Colonial Merchantman Susan Constant 1605.

Conway Maritime Press,, [1988]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Conway's outstanding 'Anatomy of the Ship' series

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LAVERY Brian

Anatomy of the Ship. The 74-Gun Ship Bellona. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway,, [1985]. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and detailed drawings in the text; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published 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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LAVERY Brian

In Which They Served. The Royal Navy Officer Experience in the Second World War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Conway,, [2012]. 8vo. First Edition, with plates, illustrations and diagrams in the text, and pictorial front and rear endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Excellent companion to the author's acclaimed lower-deck trilogy.

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LAVERY Brian

River-Class Frigates and the Battle of the Atlantic. A Technical and Social History. NEAR FINE COPY

National Maritime Museum,, [2006]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers, slight forward lean else a near fine copy.

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