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SKU1748699NYU Press 2018-01-09. paperback. New. 8x0x11. New Book Ships with Tracking NYU Press paperback
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text, and a folding plan; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Detailed and valuable account of the minesweeping component of Operation NEPTUNE by the founder of the Algerines Association. The narrative structure includes much eye-witness and other vernacular material not available elsewhere. An excellent contribution to a still largely forgotten (and largely thankless) aspect of the RN's operations in WWII. VERY SCARCE.
Mursia, 1970. In-8, cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta, pp. 203, con illustrazioni in bianco e nero. Collana Biblioteca del mare. In buono stato.
1989120322Leicester England: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc. for Galley Press a division of W H Smith Ltd 1989. Hardcover. VG- Some scuffing and scratching to dj.; Previous owner's name written on first page. Blue leatherette over boards; Color illus. dj.; 336 pp.; 277 color plates. A collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works held at The Hermitage The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and The National Gallery of Art Washington; Includes works by Picasso Matisse Utrillo Toulouse-Lautrec van Gogh Gauguin Manet Monet Pissarro Sisley Renoir Degas Cezanne and others; Beautiful plates; Oversized book. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc. for Galley Press (a division of W H Smith Ltd) hardcover books
McGraw - Hill 1929. 8°:pp.496n. Legatura tela editor. Sciupata e impolverata. Interno ottimo.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In English. [xii], 366 p., 1 folding huge map. Defence of Plevna, 1877.
21230Broomie Knowe Broomieknowe near Lasswade in Midlothian. 3 November 1899. 4pp 12mo. Bifolium with mourning border. In fair condition lightly aged and worn. Folded once. Addressed to 'J. H. Lorrimer sic Esq'. He begins emphatically: 'Dear Lorrimer sic I wish to state clearly that I do not Exhibit in the Paris Exn. next year and that you are not to try to get any Picture of mine to send there.!!! I think it necessary to write this after yesterday's over-much talk on my part I think. My “ruminations and denunciations†may have led me into being less explicit than I ought to have been and espescially sic that part where I expressed indifference as to pictures out of my possession and where I might not be able to have control.' He was 'so glad' to see Lorimer that he 'may have thought too little of the business that brought you it was Pat Adams mention of Chamberlains pictures &c. that made me think of this after you left'. He ends in the hope that Lorrimer 'got home all right'. Broomie Knowe [Broomieknowe near Lasswade in Midlothian]. 3 November 1899. unknown
25099London. ’ 'Printed by G. Roberts Admiralty Office.' Undated but issued during Marsden's tenure as First Secretary 1804-7. See his entry in the Oxford DNB which states that ‘it fell to him in October 1805 to wake Lord Barham as first lord of the Admiralty with the news of victory at Trafalgar and the death of Nelson’. The present document is an interesting artefact in the history of data collection: Marsden’s important innovation the system of information-gathering known as ‘Marsden Squares’ or ‘Marsden Square mapping’. 1p folio on recto of first leaf of bifolium the second leaf being blank. Discoloration and wear along outer edge and patches of light staining to leaves at head and foot. Folded twice into a packet. All printed except for Marsden’s firm signature. At top-left ‘Circular.’ Begins: ‘Sir / MY Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty observing that from the neglect of the Masters of His Majesty’s Ships in complying with the 7th Article of their Instructions many opportunities for obtaining a competent knowledge of Coasts and Ports have been lost I have received their Lordships commands to signify their direction to you to cause the strictest attention to be paid by the Master of the Ship you command to the said Article acquainting him that the delivery of his Remarks and Observations upon Coasts and Harbours into the Admiralty Office will not in future be dispensed with unless the most satisfactory reasons can be assigned for such omission: You are the same time to direct him to report the prevalent Winds Weather and Currents in the different parts of the World where you may happen to be employed.’ The Admiralty are ‘also desirous of obtaining information of the most advisable tracks to be pursued in making passages from one place to another in different parts of the World’ and the captain is ‘to collect from the Officers belonging to the Ship you command the Opinions they have formed on the Subject and of the prevalent Winds and Weather in any passage they may have made through Seas but little frequented; stating the difficulties and dangers likely to be met with in the different routes and the Names of the Ships they were in at the time when the Voyage was made; transmitting such Reports thereupon as you may obtain to me for their Lordships information.’ The final paragraph calls for ‘all Journals Charts Plans and Views of Land that may be found on board any Ship or Vessel captured by the Ship under your command to be sent to me by the first safe conveyence’ for return once they have been ‘examined and copied if found necessary’. London. ’ 'Printed by G. Roberts, Admiralty Office.' Undated, but issued during Marsden's tenure as First Secretary, 1804-7. unknown
25098London. ’ 'Printed by G. Roberts Admiralty Office.' Undated but issued during Marsden's tenure as First Secretary 1804-7. See his entry in the Oxford DNB which states that ‘it fell to him in October 1805 to wake Lord Barham as first lord of the Admiralty with the news of victory at Trafalgar and the death of Nelson’. The present document is an interesting artefact in the history of data collection: Marsden’s important innovation the system of information-gathering known as ‘Marsden Squares’ or ‘Marsden Square mapping’. 1p folio. Discoloration and wear along inner edge otherwise in good condition lightly aged. Folded twice into a packet. All printed except for Marsden’s firm signature. At top-left ‘Circular.’ Begins: ‘Sir / MY Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty observing that from the neglect of the Masters of His Majesty’s Ships in complying with the 7th Article of their Instructions many opportunities for obtaining a competent knowledge of Coasts and Ports have been lost I have received their Lordships commands to signify their direction to you to cause the strictest attention to be paid by the Master of the Ship you command to the said Article acquainting him that the delivery of his Remarks and Observations upon Coasts and Harbours into the Admiralty Office will not in future be dispensed with unless the most satisfactory reasons can be assigned for such omission: You are the same time to direct him to report the prevalent Winds Weather and Currents in the different parts of the World where you may happen to be employed.’ The Admiralty are ‘also desirous of obtaining information of the most advisable tracks to be pursued in making passages from one place to another in different parts of the World’ and the captain is ‘to collect from the Officers belonging to the Ship you command the Opinions they have formed on the Subject and of the prevalent Winds and Weather in any passage they may have made through Seas but little frequented; stating the difficulties and dangers likely to be met with in the different routes and the Names of the Ships they were in at the time when the Voyage was made; transmitting such Reports thereupon as you may obtain to me for their Lordships information.’ The final paragraph calls for ‘all Journals Charts Plans and Views of Land that may be found on board any Ship or Vessel captured by the Ship under your command to be sent to me by the first safe conveyence’ for return once they have been ‘examined and copied if found necessary’. London. ’ 'Printed by G. Roberts, Admiralty Office.' Undated, but issued during Marsden's tenure as First Secretary, 1804-7. unknown
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25096London. ‘Admiralty Office 7 July 1800.’ 'Printed by G. Roberts Admiralty Office.'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB which states that ‘it fell to him in October 1805 to wake Lord Barham as first lord of the Admiralty with the news of victory at Trafalgar and the death of Nelson’. 1p folio. Discoloration and wear along gutter with two leaves half detached from head; otherwise in good condition lightly aged. Folded twice into a packet. On recto of first leaf of bifolium the second leaf being blank apart from one word of docketing in manuscript ‘Staunch’. The recipient of the notice was the captain of HMS Staunch was a 1797 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig. The document is a printed circular the only manuscript being Marsden’s signature and the number of the day of the month. It reads: ‘Admiralty Office 7 July 1800. / Sir / I AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith a Printed Copy of His Majesty’s Order in Council dated the 28th of May last in respect to the Books hereafter to be made out whenever any of His Majesty’s Ships shall come in course of Pay or be directed to be paid off and in like manner when Men are discharged by Pay Lists; and to signify their Lordships direction to you to cause the Regulations therein pointed out to be adopted and carried into execution in future. / I am / Sir / Your very humble Servant / Wm Marsden’. London. ‘Admiralty Office, 7 July, 1800.’ 'Printed by G. Roberts, Admiralty Office.' unknown
25100London. ‘Admiralty Office 7 July 1800.’ 'Printed by G. Roberts Admiralty Office.'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB which states that ‘it fell to him in October 1805 to wake Lord Barham as first lord of the Admiralty with the news of victory at Trafalgar and the death of Nelson’. 1p folio. Discoloration and wear along gutter otherwise in good condition lightly aged. Folded twice into a packet. On recto of first leaf of bifolium the second leaf being blank apart from one word of docketing in manuscript ‘Kemphaan’. The recipient of the notice was the captain of HMS Kemphaan or Camphaan a brig-sloop which had been captured from the Dutch in 1799. The document is a printed circular the only manuscript being Marsden’s signature and the number of the day of the month. It reads: ‘Admiralty Office 7 July 1800. / Sir / I AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith a Printed Copy of His Majesty’s Order in Council dated the 28th of May last in respect to the Books hereafter to be made out whenever any of His Majesty’s Ships shall come in course of Pay or be directed to be paid off and in like manner when Men are discharged by Pay Lists; and to signify their Lordships direction to you to cause the Regulations therein pointed out to be adopted and carried into execution in future. / I am / Sir / Your very humble Servant / Wm Marsden’. London. ‘Admiralty Office, 7 July, 1800.’ 'Printed by G. Roberts, Admiralty Office.' unknown
25097London. ‘Admiralty Office 7 July 1800.’ 'Printed by G. Roberts Admiralty Office.'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB which states that ‘it fell to him in October 1805 to wake Lord Barham as first lord of the Admiralty with the news of victory at Trafalgar and the death of Nelson’. 1p folio. In good condition lightly aged. Folded twice into a packet. On recto of first leaf of bifolium the second leaf being blank apart from one word of docketing in manuscript ‘Steady’. The recipient of the notice was the captain of HMS Steady was a 1797 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig. The document is a printed circular the only manuscript being Marsden’s signature and the number of the day of the month. It reads: ‘Admiralty Office 7 July 1800. / Sir / I AM commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to send you herewith a Printed Copy of His Majesty’s Order in Council dated the 28th of May last in respect to the Books hereafter to be made out whenever any of His Majesty’s Ships shall come in course of Pay or be directed to be paid off and in like manner when Men are discharged by Pay Lists; and to signify their Lordships direction to you to cause the Regulations therein pointed out to be adopted and carried into execution in future. / I am / Sir / Your very humble Servant / Wm Marsden’. London. ‘Admiralty Office, 7 July, 1800.’ 'Printed by G. Roberts, Admiralty Office.' unknown
ria9780806307602_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This is a succinct yet comprehensive history of Maryland in the War of 1812. However the bulk of this work is an exhaustive register of 11000 Marylanders who served in the war. Alphabetically arranged are the names of soldiers sailor paperback
196540256Harboro: Traditon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1965. Second Edition. Russet cloth. 8VO; 53.19 pages; Charles Francis Stein's neat signature inside front cover. He was a well known author in this field. Water stains along fore-edge and lower corner ; Signed by Notable Personage Unrelated . Traditon Press hardcover
0267829965.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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18290From 48 Stockwell Park Crescent London S.W. On letterhead of the Savage Club Lancaster House Savoy W.C. 22 December 1886. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition lightly aged. Headed 'Private'. He writes that he called the previous day at Coffin's chambers and that he will do so the following day 'and will bring that bit for the wall'. He states 'in confidence' that he wishes to 'pay a surgeon on Saty next £6. 5. 0 rent for Studio - he is a good fellow but he wants his rent'. Callcott has in the studio 'a number of works & I would let you have if agreeable a good picture recent work size 61in x 41 - Rocky Coast - never used yet in Exhibition or otherwise'. He can let Coffin have the painting at an 'awfully low' price. From 48 Stockwell Park Crescent, London S.W. On letterhead of the Savage Club, Lancaster House, Savoy, W.C. 22 December 1886. unknown
1806032669London : J Johnson 1806 A very good copy of Vol III of this scarce work by William Holloway in full leather binding with contemporary blind stamped boards and newer spine. The British Museum . was issued in 4 volumes and this volume is complete in itself and covers fish and insects. It contains a colour frontispiece and 22 further hand coloured plates of fish and 10 hand coloured plates of insects. It lacks the engraved title page and according to the copy held by Harvard University lacks the plate of a swallow tail. We have not been able to find consistent collations of this work. The binding is in very good clean condition with light wear and scuffing to the boards. There is an armorial bookplate with the name Haughton and the motto 'maigre le fort' to the front pastedown. There is the signature of James Haughton dated 1810 to the title together with a part signature - Heard - dated 1884. Contents: frontispiece title contents list pp vi; fish - text 1-143 with 22 plates; insects pp 145-216 the end with 10 plates. The contents generally clean with well coloured plates. There is occasional light marking - most obvious at pp 39-41. J Johnson hardcover
11541On letterhead of The Jungle Twyford Berkshire. 10 December 1894. 4pp. 12mo. Good on lightly-aged paper with the second leaf neatly placed in a paper windowpane mount. He writes that he has been 'excessively busy' and this has delayed his 'coming to a decision re the lecture'. 'Since the 4th Oct. I have written two large books besides any amount of magazine work &c.' As he has '4 books to write before May' he is afraid his 'lecture on Caravan Life will have to be deferred till another season'. He has been asked to 'lecture on Kindness to Dogs &c with living specimens on the stage at Birmingham' and fears that 'even this will have to be put off'. He will write that night 'to York & son . re the lime light views' and sincerely hopes the recipient's 'lecture will be a success any how'. On letterhead of The Jungle, Twyford, Berkshire. 10 December 1894. unknown
Vol. in -8 (15 x 21 cm.), legatura editoriale cartonata col. verde acqua, sopracopertina illustrata a colori, pp. 287, (1), 12 tav. in b.n. f.testo a p.pagina e alcune fig. in nero sempre a p.pagina. In buone condizioni. Presentazione del Conte Felix von Luckner - Traduzione di Tito D'Ambra - 1° RISTAMPA: novembre 1952.
