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191934793Washington DC: Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities 1919. First Edition. Oblong 12mo 10x13.5cm.; publisher's dark blue staple-bound card wrappers; 298pp.; chiefly musical scores two full-page photographic illus. linocuts by John Held throughout. A hint of toning to wrapper extremities else Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of patriotic songs with illustrations by a young John Held signed in image either "JH" or "J. Held" but otherwise unattributed to him. The noted Jazz Age cartoonist had already had work published in Vanity Fair though after the United States entered World War I he worked for Naval Intelligence in Central America as an illustrator and cartographer. Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities unknown
184037633Washington D.C.: Blair & Rives printers 1840. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume inked numerals to title page still about very good. 14 pp. 8vo. Read and referred to the Committee . on Naval Affairs. May 25 1840. Ordered to be printed. 26th Congress 1st Session. Senate. Doc. no. 503. Correspondence between Samuel Colt and the government as he tries to have his pistols purchased by the Navy. Blair & Rives, printers unknown
19246015CA: N.p. 1924. First edition. 19x13cm 45pp. Photographs. Printed in two colors throughout. Stapled white glossy wrappers. Foxing to covers few small edge tears single interior signature loose likely originally not stapled all the way through. Very good. <br /> <br /> Copiously illustrated record of the USS Mississippi's fifth consecutive victory in the "Iron Man" competition the Navy Department General Excellence Athletic Trophy. Includes photos and short descriptions of events from the Seattle and Bremerton Cups to the Whale Boat Crews baseball basket ball sic track and field wrestling boxing football tug o' war and many others. Apparently unrecorded as we find no mention of this booklet in OCLC. N.p. unknown
LD16849Very Good. Portrait of British captain Henry Whitby whose ship fired a shot which infamously killed an American seaman in 1806. Silhouette reverse portrait on glass 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches to sight captioned "Cpt. Henry Whitby R.N." in image; not examined outside of frame. Np early 19th century. <br/><br/>In the years leading up to the War of 1812 the British Navy made a practice of checking American merchant ships to ascertain whether embargoed French cargo was aboard. In April 1806 off New York the American merchant ship Richard refused to stop when commanded by Captain Henry Whitby's HMS Leander. A warning shot was fired in what proved to be American territorial waters. The shot was poorly aimed and splintered a railing; a shard killed an American sailor named John Pierce. This triggered an international incident with President Jefferson calling for Whitby's arrest. Whitby was cleared in a British court-martial which only increased tensions. We don't know when this portrait of Whitby was created but he was promoted to captain in 1801 and died in 1812. unknown
182255730London: Printed for the author and sold by F. C. and J. Rivington 1822. First Edition. Octavo in fours 20cm. Rebound in black cloth titled on spine in gilt; plain endpapers; ii 97 1pp; with folding advertisement for a Quarterly Muster Pay and Victualing Book sold by Burgess Hunt and Carter Ramsgate. Errata slip laid down on final page. Annotated throughout in pencil. A sturdy copy rebound with minor soiling to intial and final leaves tear in folding table neatly mended: Good or better. Naval impressment was standard pratice in Britain from the mid-seventeenth century until the end of the Napoleonic Wars after which the Navy developed other recruitment methods until the return of conscription in 1916. Printed for the author, and sold by F. C. and J. Rivington unknown
1999PM329803MParis: Réunion des musées nationaux 1999. Hardcover. Good/Not issued. 268 x 270 x 14 cm. Hardcover • Illustrations en noir et en couleurs couverture illustrée en couleurs • <b><i>French text original</i></b>. Réunion des musées nationaux hardcover
182810217London: Hunt And Clarke 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition of Recollections of a Service of Three Years during the War-of-Extermination in the Republics of Venezuela and Colombia printed in London in 1828. Octavo two volumes xv 251pp 4pp ads; vii 277pp 2pp ads. Half title in Volume I. Original boards cloth spine labels affixed to each volume but soiled and worn. Uncut edges. Toning to leaf ends uniform toning to leaves free of foxing or noteworthy soiling. Previous ownership label on front endpaper of each volume. Housed in custom cloth chemise title in gilt on spine. Sabin 14618 Volume I printed by James Whiting and Volume II by C.H. Reynell. A scarce text with only 6 known copies appearing in OCLC. The War of Extermination known as Guerra a Muerte was a decree by Simon Bolivar authorizing acts of sabotage and murder against Spanish citizens in South America. This work includes conversations with El Libertador Simon Bolivar shortly before his death in 1830. Also includes descriptions of travel in Venezuela Colombia and parts of the Caribbean. Some sources have attributed this text to Francois Raymond Joseph de Pons. Hunt And Clarke hardcover
36038Philippines: n.p. n.d. Photograph Album. Very good. Oblong plastic bound photograph album. 10.5 x 7.5". 52 photographs measuring approximately 3.75" x 2.5". These pictures are possibly prints. "United States Air Forces" embossed on the front cover. Inside the front cover is written "31st Div USMC New Britain Philippines." Album is clean and in very good condition. <br /> <br /> Photographs depict soldiers in camp in the jungle riding ox's picture of a downed planes pictures of jeeps and equipment tents and a couple of photographs of natives. No dates or names found inside. Unclear where the photographs were taken. The 31st Division was in the Philippines and New Guinea during World War Two. n.p. unknown
35282n.p.: n.p. n.d. Photograph. Good. Seven photographs measuring approx. 5" x 4". Pictures are mounted on heavy card. Light foxing and spotting to the images. Light edge wear to the photographs. Six of the seven pictures have some writing and identification on the back. Photographer not identified. n.p. unknown
25082‘Gosport May 30th 1803.’. An interesting piece of Royal Navy and Napoleonic War ephemera casting light on the implementation of Admiralty Prize Law. See the reference to the writer of this letter in the 1926 ‘Memorials of the family of Hurry of Great Yarmouth Norfolk and of America Australia and South Africa’: ‘Edmund Cobb Hurry born at Great Yarmouth in 1762 admitted a freeman by birthright 23rd of August 1782. He settled as a merchant and banker at Gosport where he married a Miss Liddell. Edmund Cobb Hurry died at Clifton in 1808.’ The recipients Cox and Co army and marine agents were located at 44 Hatton Garden London. 1p 4to. In good condition lightly aged. Reads: ‘Sir / Having learnt that you are one of the principal Agents for the Captain and Officers of His Majesty’s Navy and as in the Event of their sending in Prizes to this Port you must necessarily have some Person to take charge of the disposal of the Ships and their Cargoes we beg leave to acquaint you that we are established in that Business and if you are not already engaged shall be extremely happy in receiving your Commands. For our Responsibility and Mode of doing Business we refer you to Messrs Barclays & Co. of Lombard St Bankers. / Your Answer will greatly oblige / Sir / Your most obedient Servts. / Edmund Hurry & Co.’ ‘Gosport May 30th 1803.’ unknown
1810AQ11950London: Printed for J. Hatchard 1810. 56pp. Recent blue paper boards printed paper title labels to spine and upper board. Neat ink numeral to head of browned title final four leaves lightly toned. A statement addressed to Henry Dundas Viscount Melville 1742-1811 proposing improvements to be made within the Royal Navy particularly in regard to the expense of ship-building. . 8vo. Printed for J. Hatchard hardcover
1741AQ17432London: Printed and Sold by J. Watson 1741. 4 40pp. With initial advertisement leaf. ESTC T41015. Pen-trials to p.26. short marginal tear to leaf B4. Bound after: RIDER Cardanus. Rider's British Merlin:For the Year of our Lord God 1741. London. Printed by R. Nutt 1741. 48pp. ESTC T44985. Tear to one leaf - touching text without loss of sense. And: A defective eighteenth-century almanac. And: The Court Kalendar For the year 1741. London. Printed and Sold by Ja. Watson 1740. 42pp 2. ESTC T34324. Small hole to text of title - with slight loss of sense loss to upper corner of final leaf. And: A list of the publick offices and officers Ecclesiastical and Civil employ'd in His Majesty's Government Particularly in England. London. Printed and Sold by Ja. Watson 1741. Fifth edition. 38pp 4. ESTC T41074. Without final leaf publisher's advertisements tears to leaves A4 and B1 - touching text without loss of sense loss to lower corner of leaf C1 - with some loss of sense. 12mo. Contemporary gilt-ruled sheep. Extremities worn some loss to head of spine. Pastedowns sprung occasional spotting. A sammelband of almanacs and lists issued for the year 1741 including a register of Royal Navy vessels and officers in active service. . Third edition. Printed and Sold by J. Watson unknown
1823AQ11708London: Printed by Henry Teape 1823. 135 1 253pp 1. Contemporary calf backed marbled paper boards contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavy rubbing and cracking to spine without marbled paper to upper board and loss of majority to lower board. Light damp-staining to preliminaries several gathering protruding from text-block spots of dust-soiling ink deletions to entries of first 10 pages. Ink ownership inscription to recto of FFEP; 'Captain Macnamara / R.N. / Cooper May 20th 1837 ' with his ink mark to his own entry as Commander on p.144. Captain Burton Macnamara born 1794 entered the Royal Navy in 1808. He saw action off the coast of North America 1811-13 before volunteering for service on the Canadian lakes. In 1822 he was actively employed owing to revolution in Greece in protecting British and Ionian trade in the Archipelago from the ensuing violence of the Greek War of Independence. He was promoted Captain in 1833. COPAC records copies of this 1823 edition at only two locations Edinburgh Institute of Historical Research. . 8vo. Printed by Henry Teape hardcover
AQ25343s.i.: s.n. s.d. 22 leaves. Stitched as issued. Old central vertical fold occasional spotting. Two small sketches of vessels to verso of penultimate leaf. An early nineteenth-century manuscript register of sailors serving aboard a frustratingly unidentified vessel including; boatswains forecastlemen foretopmen misentopmen the captains of the mast afterguard gunners carpenters and marines. There is mention of a Lieutenant Ormond this is potentially Francis Ormond made Lieutenant on 3rd December 1810 and appointed to the frigate Endymion in 1813 off the North coast of America. During the War of 1812 he commanded a division of boats under the orders of Captain Robert Barrie an expedition up the Penobscot river Maine to capture American territory culminating in the Battle of Hampden. He served under the same officer in the action which led to the capture of the American frigate President in January of 1815; and was second lieutenant of the Impregnable at the Battle of Algiers in 1816. The presence of Ormond's name in the manuscript under the heading of '2 division' would suggest that the list was compiled in conjunction with the actions at Maine in 1814. . [s.n.], [s.d.] unknown
1758AQ15515London: Printed for A. Millar 1758. 3 vi 1 8-32pp. Without half-title. Recent plain paper boards. Very minor wear to extremities. Recent endpapers marginal pen-trials to p.32 else internally clean and crisp. An anonymous treatise directed to the officers of the Royal Navy proposing alterations that may be made in order to improve the working conditions of seamen thus motivating them to serve with greater zeal and efficiency whilst discouraging acts of insubordination and instances of desertion. Suggested amendments to practice include; the construction of affordable dock-side housing for servicemen and their families; the provision of sick-beds within the homes for the care of wounded sailors; and the preferential treatment of a seaman's children when applying for employment within the navy. ESTC T42826. First edition. 8vo. Printed for A. Millar hardcover
1805AQ24438London: Printed by M. and S. Brooke 1805. 207pp 1. Later black morocco-backed navy cloth tooled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn and stained joints starting surface loss to lower board. Internally clean and crisp. These lists were first issued by the Admiralty in January 1717/18 and consist of a simple register of names in full with the respective seniorities. They continued to be published until 1846. The alphabetical lists were first issued in 1746. This edition in apparently unrecorded. . 8vo. Printed by M. and S. Brooke hardcover
1798AQ24439London: s.n. 1798. 176pp. Later black morocco-backed navy cloth tooled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed lower board stained. Internally clean and crisp. These lists were first issued by the Admiralty in January 1717/18 and consist of a simple register of names in full with the respective seniorities. They continued to be published until 1846. The alphabetical lists were first issued in 1746. ESTC records a single copy BL. ESTC T101541. 8vo. [s.n.] hardcover
1797AQ24440London: s.n. 1797. 176pp. Later black morocco-backed navy cloth tooled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed lower board stained. Ink ownership inscription to head of title page: 'Henry Harvey Sholden Lodge Lieut. R.N. Dec. 8th 1837' final page with some paper adherence largely obliterating the two names listed. These lists were first issued by the Admiralty in January 1717/18 and consist of a simple register of names in full with the respective seniorities. They continued to be published until 1846. The alphabetical lists were first issued in 1746. This edition corrected to 1st January 1797 notably includes then Commodore Horatio Nelson. On the 14th February that same year Nelson would participate in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent as commander of HMS Minerve. ESTC records copies at only two locations BL and NT. ESTC T101524. 8vo. [s.n.] hardcover
194237125Duncraig: Royal Navy 1942. 8vo. 31 1 pp. Publisher's plain blue wrappers with printed title to the upper cover which also feature a few contemporary handwritten annotations. Occasional minor fading and creasing to the covers very good overall. "This booklet replaces B.R. 143 40 'The Treatment of Surgical Casualties after a Naval Action' and has been revised in the light of experience gained since the outbreak of hostilities." An uncommon item of wartime medical and naval ephemera OCLC shows only one copy at the National Maritime Museum. [Duncraig: Royal Navy unknown
1718AQ22461London: s.n. 1718. Single sheet. Docket title printed to verso. Stab-stitch holes and remains of binding to gutter. A trifle creased and browned. A remarkably rare survival of an early and frustratingly undated example of Parliamentary lobbying literature highlighting the 'considerable sums of money' owed to serving seamen of the Royal Navy and the widows of those sailors killed during the 'late war' presumably the War of the Spanish Succession. ESTC records a single copy BL. ESTC T17374. Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1799AQ24138London: s.n. 1799. 10 120 leaves. Predominantly printed on versos only with rectos blank. ESTC T101523. Bound with: ROYAL NAVY. An alphabetical list of the Commission Officers of his majesty's fleet: with the dates of their First Commissions. London. s.n. 1799. 176pp. ESTC T101543. 8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco contrasting morocco lettering-piece A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked.Marbled endpapers occasional spotting. A beautifully bound volume containing two registers listing commissioned officers including captains masters commanders and lieutenants in the service of the Royal Navy in 1799 - only a few short years before the commencement of the Napoleonic Wars. The first presenting naval officers in order of their seniority with the dates of their commissions as well as being printed on versos only includes several pre-printed columns left blank for manuscript additions. The second presents the same information in alphabetical order presumably for easier reference. The details of the majority of the actors of the naval heroes of the previous and ensuing decades such as Admiral Hood and Horatio Nelson commissioned June 11th 1779 are of course present. Designed to be used and frequently updated few have survived; ESTC records copies of both works at two locations BL and RUSI. . [s.n.] unknown
1758AQ27732London: s.n. 1758. 6 xxxii 292pp. With two fine naval vignettes to first and final leaves. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed with some marking bumping to corners loss to head and foot of spine cracking to lower joint. Captain Thomas Peyton's copy with his inscription dated 1790 to head of blank fly-leaf at front; ink offsetting evidencing the removal of the FFEP showing the mirror image of a further ink inscription. A pleasing association copy of an uncommon mid eighteenth-century collection of treaties relating to the naval shipping and commercial interests of Britain and other powers: Algiers Austrian Netherlands Denmark France Morocco Portugal Russia Savoy Spain States General Sweden Tripoli Tunis and Turky sic inscribed by Captain Thomas Peyton 1757-1801 in the year of his posting to the rank of Captain. The Peytons were an illustrious naval family; Thomas was the youngest son of Admiral Joseph Peyton and his brothers Joseph and John were both to become Rear-Admirals. Thomas served in the Mediterranean the West Indies and the Channel during the navaly tumultuous final decade of the eighteenth-century; he died on board the Monarch a 74-gun ship of the line in 1801. Included most significantly for the development of transatlantic military and economic power are the American Treaty 1686 with France the Treaty of Munster 1648 and American Treaty 1670 with Spain and the Utrecht Treaties of both Peace and Commerce 1713. ESTC T82163. Sabin 23535. Third edition. Quarto. [s.n.] unknown
AQ30935s.i.: s.n. 1871-73 Manuscript on paper. 326pp. Contemporary black morocco tooled in gilt and blind. Heavily rubbed and marked foot of spine and lower joint worn corners exposed. Internally clean and crisp. With an engraved map showing the 1868-69 passage of the HMS Forte from England to Bombay with later passage added in manuscript and a sepia photograph of an unidentified vessel. A midshipman's manuscript log book in a single legible hand recording the passage of HMS Forte from Calcutta to Plymouth via Madras Bombay Aden Ras Hafun Zanzibar the Seychelles Mauritius and St. Helena commencing 3rd February 1871 and ending 16th February 1872. The midshipman in question was Frederick Gordon McKinstry b. 1853 who enrolled in the navy in 1886 was promoted commander in 1890 and retired as a captain. The Forte a fifty-one-gun screw ship launched in 1858 was at this time the flagship of Commander-in-Chief East Indies Station Rear Admiral James Horsford Cockburn 1817- 1872 and under the command of Captain Henry Fairfax 1837-1900 sometime Naval aide- de-camp to Queen Victoria. Following the voyage recorded by this manuscript the Forte was put out of commission and hulked. In 1905 the vessel was destroyed by fire along with her cargo of 1800 tons of coal subsequently sunk at her moorings by boats of the Acteon torpedo school in order to prevent her posing any threat to the crowded Sheerness harbour. The latter half of the manuscript is given over to proceedings of passages undertaken by our 'middie' on three separate vessels between 18th February 1872 and 19th June 1873 - HMS Duke of Wellington HMS Samar and HMS Royal Alfred - variously calling at Gibraltar Malta Madeira Halifax Sydney Bermuda Barbados Antigua Jamaica and Havana. . Folio. [s.n.], [1871-73] unknown
1806AQ27313Portsmouth: Sold by J. C. Mottley 1806. 98pp. Uncut. Stitched as issued. Scattered spotting. A rare account of the proceedings of the court martial of Royal Navy officer Sir Robert Calder 1744/5-1818 on charges of misconduct during the Battle of Finisterre. On 22nd July 1805 Calder commander of the British fleet engaged Franco-Spanish forces in what would prove to be an indecisive conflict. Many of the enemy were captured including two ships of the line however Calder failed to wrestle into submission the squadron under French Admiral Villeneuve resulting in their escape. Calder erroneously considered his conduct commendable and thus was greatly surprised to find he had been admonished by the British Press. He immediately applied for a court martial though his commander-in-chief Vice Admiral Nelson had already received orders to send him home to face a board of inquiry. The court martial sat on 23rd December. Calder maintained that he had done his utmost to renew the engagement with Villeneuve. Three days later the court found Calder guilty of an error of judgement and he was sentenced to be severely reprimanded. This proved the end of his seagoing career. OCLC records copies at just six locations California Harvard NLS NMM NYPL and USNA; COPAC adds no further. . First edition. 8vo. Sold by J. C. Mottley unknown
1741AQ22029London: Printed for T. Cooper 1741. 37pp 1. Uncut in modern marbled paper boards printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Lightly rubbed spine dulled. Title page browned and stained at gutter scattered spotting. The first edition of a pamphlet decrying the practice of 'Impressing' or forcibly conscripting unwilling sailors into the Navy undertaken by so-called 'press-gangs'. The author appeals to a communal spirit of resilience asking the readers 'Must we tamely submit to be their slaves' and questioning the designation of such statements as 'inflaming the people'. Included subsequently is a response to this letter from the Annual Committee of the Royal Burrows in which the practice of impressing is upheld as 'just and rational measures for the speedy and effectual manning of the navy'. ESTC T129074. First edition. 8vo. Printed for T. Cooper hardcover
