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19592110502150413275East Japan Shimbun 1959. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 East Japan Shimbun paperback
1944073646United States Naval Institute. Hardcover no jacket in Good to Very Good condition previous owners name inside the cover there are no other marks or writing corner bumps straight spine good binding clean unmarked pages with many photos and illustrations . Good. Hardcover. 1944. United States Naval Institute hardcover
ria9780309112611_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The '1000-ship Navy' concept envisions US naval forces partnering with multinational state local and private sector entities to ensure freedom of navigation the flow of commerce and the protection of ocean resources. This book from paperback
19822091502135709919Kachidokikai memo publishing society 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Kachidokikai memo publishing society paperback
1313822450.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1460943317.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
BN67581200 Jahre Hans Christian Andersen: Märchen in Hörspielform Soral Marina <br/><br/> unknown
1968016874Okinawa: 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Landing Force 1968. Softcover. Good. Approx. 375pp; Orange card covers with titling & illustration to front covers slightly edgeworn with a few short tears official informational writing to front cover bound as notebook with photocopied text pages text unmarked binding is tight Good condition. Scarce vintage U.S. military item from the Vietnam era. Training exercise plan allowing officers to experience develop and coordinate a sea-borne landing force. 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Landing Force paperback
19972024-092<p>4th Marine Division Battle Staff Historical Detachment. Undated. First Edition. Hardcover 160 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. This copy signed and inscribed by Col. R.F. VanHorne on the front paste-down end paper. Small bit of wear to the lower fore-edge corner tip of the back cover.</p> 4th Marine Division hardcover
19452051812Los Angeles: Pictoral California 1945. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Second issue of "The Spearhead" magazine produced by the US Marine Corp's Public Relations Section. This 1945 issue documents the 5th Marine Division's participation in the Battle of Iwo Jima.<br /> <br /> Cover is worn along edges. Binding is secure. Pages are tanned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Pictoral California unknown
6200516502.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2005TK218312Enitharmon Editions London / Cavalo de Ferro Editores Lisbon 2005. 1st Trade Edition reprinted. HARDCOVER. Large 8vo in colour printed boards 62pp on stiff art paper colour plates 1 folding etc. This copy signed by Paula Rego on the title-page no other marks or inscriptions __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread and unmarked copy. . NOTE: Depending on destination this item may require an extra payment for insurance. If so orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved any such extra cost. __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Enitharmon Editions, London / Cavalo de Ferro Editores, Lisbon hardcover
18760Royal Navy. Dating from May 1812 with later notes referring to cancellation in March 1818. Four items in fair condition on lightly aged and worn paper with slight creasing. ONE: Printed form partially completed in manuscript. On one side of 31.5 x 19.5 cm piece of laid paper with Britannia watermark. Headed: 'PRIVATE SIGNALS for His Majesty's Brigs Cutters Luggers &c. employed in Cruizing on the Coasts of the United Kingdom Commanded by Lieutenants viz.' Above the heading in manuscript: 'Proof See letter 1st. October 1812. These Signals are to commence on 1st January 1813.' The descriptions of the various signals to be made 'By Day' and 'By Night' on the various days including 'Week Days. Fore or Main Top-Mast Head.' are corrected and completed in manuscript. The day section ends with the note: 'N. B. Where Pendant is not mentioned Flag is implied.' The following is an example of the 'Night' text with manuscript parts in square brackets. 'The first Signal is to be made by burning two false fires - which first made Answered by shewing 3 lights of equal height.' Also: 'The Vessel that is first hailed is to answer "Bath." And the Ship which hailed is to reply "Richmond."' Printed at foot of page: 'N. B. The Night Signals are also made use of by the Packets in the Service of the Post-Office.' TWO: Printed form - clearly a proof - on one side of a piece of 31.5 x 19 cm paper. The top corners previously stuck down have been cut away resulting in some loss of text. Printed heading: '<PR>IVATE SIGNALS to be observed between His Majesty's S<hips> and the Post Office Pacquets.' Above this in manuscript: 'May 1812. To commence 1st. July <.>'. Seven diagrams of signals hand-coloured in blue and yellow with the days of the week given in manuscript followed by a five-line printed note amended and deleted in manuscript. In manuscript at foot of page: 'See note of 1813'. THREE and FOUR: Covering packets with manuscript inscriptions in ink: one reading 'Signals for Small Vessels & Post Office Packets Cancelled by those Established 26th. of March 1818.' and the other reading 'Post Office Packets Signals'. Above the second inscription in pencil: 'Signals for Small Vessels'. [ Royal Navy. ] Dating from May 1812, with later notes referring to cancellation in March 1818. unknown
194121605Aviation Training Department 1941. Post Bound. Very Good. 12 258 pages. 7 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Post bound in brown "school report" binding with title "FLIGHT MANUAL" and No 6128 on front cover. The foreword notes "This manual has been written in order to provide a standard text on flight training for naval aviation training bases. The material in this manual was compiled from every available source of information by a representative gorup of experienced naval aviation instructors." This copy notes Revised: 1-1-41 and has the stamp of the U.S.N.R. Aviation Base Boston Squantum Massachusetts with the note DO NOT REMOVE FROM BASE. The base was closed in December of 1953 and it's contents sold off. Note in pencil is Jack Barry Wing 2 partially erased on front flyleaf. An unusual survival from the World War II period. Post Bound. Aviation Training Department unknown
25434Letter from 'S. S. Transylvania' en route from Glasgow to New York 24 26 and 29 November 1928. Postcard undated but contemporaneous. TSS Transylvania the prefix stands for ‘Twin Screw Steamship’ was built in Glasgow for the Anchor Line and launched in 1925. She had three funnels but two were redundant only serving to render the ship more attractive to prospective passengers. In 1940 she requisitioned by the Royal Navy and the following year she was torpedoed by the Germans sinking with the loss of 36 lives. The letter is 13pp 12mo; with neat single-space typing on thirteen leaves. It contains three line diagrams and on a separate 12mo leaf is an ink drawing with captions titled ‘As the Herrewich sic appeared when we last saw her’. Also present is a sepia postcard of ‘T.S.S. TRANSYLVANIA’. The letter and diagram are in fair condition aged and worn but with text clear and entire. The postcard is good with light aging. Signed in type ‘Alex.’ With manuscript diagrams and salutation to ‘Dear Mother and Father’. A well written missive the use of catch-words implies a good education beginning: ‘It is surprising that now more than five days after leaving Glasgow we should be only about 1000 miles from home. The explanation is probably well known to you all: but although you will have had newspaper accounts of the great storm and of the wreck we stood by I’m quite sure that some amplifications in the form of our personal experiences will be both welcome and of interest. In the first place let me hasten to assure you that none of us came to any harm. In the main we are all well. Mary has not been able to be out of bed much so far but on the other hand she has been free from sickness - which is a very remarkable thing considering our experiences.’ After news of ‘Anne’ and ‘Virginia’ ‘Mary’ and ‘Aunt Mima’ are also referred to he reports that they ‘arrived at Moville about midnight on Monday and spent a great night in Lough Foyle. At 10.00 o’clock next morning the Londonderry tender came alongside and we took 350 passengers and their baggage on board - making the total passenger compliment about 1100. There are about 25 in the first class.’ He finds the Transylvania ‘a splendid ship for watching the sea from. The forward extension of B. deck in front of the bridge is very clear of truck and there are no boats on it as there are on the others’. The account of the journey continues followed by a seven-page account of the storm and rescue beginning: ‘In the evening of Tuesday it was apparent that the sea was rising higher and higher as was the wind: and through the night it was obvious that something unusual in the way of weather was blowing up. / Now I’ve thought previously that we have been in Atlantic storms before. Two years ago on the “Cameronia†was a bad time: and one day last year the “Caledonia†was thrown about considerably: but our in pencil ‘my’ farthest stretch of imagination - even my wildest fears - have never pictured anyting so in pencil ‘as’ tremendous as we awoke in pencil ‘the situation’ to on Wednesday morning.’ He gives a vivid description of the ship ‘riding out the storm magnificently’ as he is caught by ‘plants flowerpots chairs and so on’: ‘The second and third class passengers were locked in and battened down for about two days. The stern of the ship was almost completely under water and the hatchways to the steward’s quarters were stove in during the night and all the stewards woke up to find themselves invaded by a foot or two of water.’ The storm subsides and she comes across the wreck of a ‘large German tramp’ he calls the ‘Herrenwich’ ‘a poignant and pathetic spectacle; and more so was the view we had of the hapless crew clinging to what was left on the bare decks. We gradually got the story bit by bit as it filtered through the bridge where it was picked up I suppose by signals. A great wave had landed on the “Herrenwich†and had stove in the hatch of No. 3 hold on the forward well deck. This hold was full of water and the restraining bulkheads were bulging. The captain sent out his S. O. S. and immediately there - after another sea came on board and carried off bodily the bridge the wireless the wireless room and all the boats save one which was stove in. The captain and a quartermaster were swept overboard with the bidge and were lost immediately.’ He describes ‘a masterly exposition magnificently executed of the tactics of sea rescue. It was obviously impossible to go right up to the ship but sometimes we were not more than 100 yards away and communication by megaphone was possible. It was equally impossible for us simply to take up a position on the nether side and so act as a breakwater. The manoeuvre which was carried out time after time therefore was to circle the wreck as quickly as possible and to drift past her on the weather side and so give her a certain degree of intermittent protection. This meant that twice in every circuit the captain had to bring the “Transylvania†broadside on to the seas and every time this happened there came the sickening sense of going over on our beam ends - as I believe many less seaworthy and splendid ships would have done. And each time of course until everything was secured anything movable was thrown about in the wildest way. Oil was poured on the water with each circuit and the difference it made was wonderful.’ The seven-page account of the storm and rescue ends with the information that ‘the bridge is 62 feet from the waterline and when we were in the trough 19 out of every 20 waves were seen to be on a level with or higher than the bridge’. It reflects: ‘I’ve often told myself that I wanted to experience a real Atlantic storm. Now I have experienced it. I’d like it again but never again would I like to take Mary and the children into it.’ The letter finishes with two two-page updates from 26 and 29 November the last beginning with the information that the ship has ‘passed Nantucket light ship and may therefore expect to reach quarantine to-night’. See Image. Letter from 'S. S. Transylvania' (en route from Glasgow to New York), 24, 26 and 29 November 1928. Postcard undated, but contemp unknown
107814This very small and relatively unknown unit formed in February 1915 was diverted to Gallipoli and put under the control of the British Army. On 7 August during the August Offensive the Bridging Train went ashore at Suvla Bay and built a number of essential piers. The unit remained at Gallipoli until the final evacuation on 18 December; it was based in Egypt throughout 1916 before being disbanded in early 1917. WO Shalless joined the 4th Pioneer Battalion in March 1916. These 54 images 47 of them captioned in detail some printed ephemera and a hand-made Xmas card from 'My Dug Out Suvla Bay Gallipoli 17-11-15' sent home to his wife and son are a very rare record of the activities of the 1st RANBT. <p>The bulk of the images are presented on 33 contemporary postcard-format prints on stiff card stock the other three are slightly smaller prints on thinner stock; 18 of the prints each contain images of two original snapshots. From Gallipoli there are 11 single prints and one double print and all 13 images captioned; from Egypt and voyage over there are seven single prints and 17 double prints 34 of the 41 images are captioned. unknown
1950Cat309Mainly Asia and Oceania 1950. Photo album measuring 10 ½ x 14 ½ inches containing approximately 160 photographs; photos are mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller with several 8 x 10 inch photos. Album covers completely detached pages with damage to edges fair; many photographs stapled in some with damage very good minus. Overall very good minus. A photo album likely belonging to Edgar “Saxman†Synigal Jr. 1937–2017. Synigal’s draft registration lists his occupation as “delivery boy†for Weidies’ Drug Store in New Orleans; he would go on to lead B.B. King’s band1 and has recording credits with artists including Bobby Womack Branford Marsalis and Jimmy McCracklin. This photo album dates from the 1950s and its identified locations are Hong Kong Kwajalein Atoll Japan Guam Formosa Taiwan the Philippines Singapore Australia and New Zealand.<br /> <br /> Many photographs show the naval rituals surrounding the crossing of the equator. Naval equator-crossing ceremonies—often called “Crossing the Line†rites—date back centuries in European seafaring and mark a sailor’s first passage across the Equator transforming them from a “pollywog†into a “shellback†under the theatrical authority of King Neptune and his court. This often includes rough initiations: being doused with seawater crawling through messy or humiliating setups mock “shaving†with crude tools or being tossed into pools. <br /> <br /> The local women comprise another recurring subject especially in Japan Taiwan the Philippines Hong Kong New Zealand and Australia where the women—and other local youths—are pictured hanging out on the docks and on the ship with one shot of a concert aboard the ship based on a captioned photograph Synigal was likely aboard the USS Bremerton. The young women are pictured on city streets and in clubs with the Navy men with some more formal portraits.<br /> <br /> Several shots show Synigal playing saxophone with a Navy band; in one he sits behind the nametag “Frank†and in another “Ron†though a manuscript caption on the recto of the latter identifies him as “Saxman Synigalâ€. Other subjects include the “Centennial Celebration of the Opening of Japanâ€; “Hometown Friends†which shows young African American people posing outside presumably in New Orleans; “Boot Camp Buddiesâ€; and several interesting shots of Singapore city streets including one of a man in a songkok fez wrapping a snake around the shoulders of a man in Navy uniform.<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the Navy during the Cold War especially relations between Navy men and local women in Asia.<br /> <br /> 1 Leonard Feather “Show Affirms That B.B. King Reigns†The Los Angeles Times February 21 1985. unknown
200885444Paris: Onestar Press 2008. First Limited Edition. Quarto. 30cm. Publisher's original pink paper wraps titled in black to spine and front cover. 197pp. Some sunning and fading to the pale pink paper of the covers with some very minor shelfwear and soiling clean and bright; internally clean and fresh signed by Abramović to the title page. A very good attractive copy.<br /> <br /> Abramović's record in both Serbian and English of the correspondence she received across a 14 year period recorded here in the form of the first line of every single letter. Published in a limitation of 1000 copies only signed or inscribed examples are very scarce.<br /> <br /> "Since I was very young until my early thirties I had serious problems in opening and reading any letters I received. Letters would stay on my table for weeks before I found the courage to open them and during this time my sense of guilt would grow and grow. Most of the time when I finally opened the letters it was too late to answer them and my sense of guilt was worse than ever. I kept every single letter from the first notes received from my mother in 1965 up to the time I left Belgrade for ever in 1979. I decided to chronologically write down the first sentence from all of these letters without noting the name of the senders. When finished I was astonished to see how it was possible to trace all my life just by reading the text created by all these first lines. Later I heard that Marcel Duchamp on receiving a letter opened answered and immediately burnt the letter he'd received. Jean Tinguely never opened or answered any letter and every Christmas he made a ritual of burning unopened envelopes which sometimes included important information and even checks. M.A." <br /> <br /> Around a dozen examples recorded in US institutions. Onestar Press unknown
191321074Perth: A. Curtis 1913. First printing. Paper wrappers pamphlet. Very good condition. A scarce program brochure pertaining to the early Australian Navy just three years after its creation in 1910 by the passage of the Naval Defense Act. The demand for an autonomous Australian navy independent of the British Admiralty had been growing since about 1907 when Prime Minister Deakin had sought British approval which was initially rejected. However following the enthusiastic Australian public reaction to the visit of the American Great White Fleet the tide had turned and by 1910 the HMAS Parramatta and the Yarra were both launched. The commander for the new Royal Australian Navy was Admiral George Edwin Patey Rear Admiral Commanding HM Australian Fleet on loan from the Royal Navy. <br /> <br /> The brochure with first page listing 19 ships and 2 submarines including the first and second ships Parramatta and Yarra; arrangements in connection with the public visiting the warships at Albany; a list of the officials of athletic sports; the programme for athletic sports 14 events including a wheelbarrow race; a center spread with large b&w photographic image titled "HMAS " Australia" Our Dreadnought" Battle Cruiser" with red white & blue cord page marker & with text at right and left margins; officials for aquatic sports and programme for aquatic sports; and general arrangements Sept. 20th - 26th. Other photographic illustrations in the brochure include: The Swan River St. George's Terrace Perth; apple picking in Albany; Queen's Gardens Perth; Hannan Street Kalgoorlie; The Golden Mile; The Western Australian "Ascot" at Perth; A View of the jetty at Bunbury; Perth's King's Park; Victory Quay Fremantle. <br /> <br /> 8vo 12 pp. String bound. Pale pink printed wrappers title in black at front wrapper; rear wrapper with photographic illustration of 5 views of caves in Yallingup District Busselton WA. A bit bumped base of spine wrappers a bit sunned. Internally very good. Libraries Australia ID 24072493 one copy Victoria State Library. A. Curtis unknown
1717206651717. Very good condition. Robert Blake 1598 - 1657 was one of the pre-eminent British admirals and naval tacticians of the 17th century the chief contributor to Britain's naval supremacy who built the largest British navy of the day and whose talents are thought to rival or surpass those of Lord Nelson. <br /> <br /> Blake made the first set of rules and regulations for the Navy 'The Laws of War and Ordinances of the Sea' and wrote about his new methods for conducting naval blockades and landings a significant revision of the existing naval tactics 'Sailing instructions and Fighting Instructions'. Blake's naval experience included battles in the English Civil War the Anglo Dutch War and the Anglo Spanish War. <br /> <br /> Engraved by M. V de Gucht. Three quarter length portrait in armor holding truncheon at his right side; naval battle scene in distance. 4 x 6 1/2"; paper 5 1/2 x 7 1/2" unknown
16946281London: Josiah Bromley 1694. First Edition. Loose Broadside Framed Under Glass. Good. Original one-sheet broadside roughly trimmed 8-1/8 by 12-4/8 inches. Printed on rag paper with old creases now mellowed and two archival tissue repairs on left margin. Mounted on mat board with mat board overlay. Overlay with edge-wear. Framed under glass. First Lord of the Admiralty Edward Russell 1653 -1727 was a key figure in the Nine Years War notably establishing his reputation at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue. <p>Following a decisive 1693 victory over the French navy near Cape Barfleur the House of Commons determined that Russell had not done enough in dispatching French ships; he was removed from duty. After disasters that befell the British Navy in summer 1693 Russell was reinstated. In early May 1694 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and sailed for the Mediterranean to thwart French depredations against the Spanish coast near Barcelona and Palamos. The engagement documented here likely occurred enroute to the Mediterranean.</p> <p>With the idiosyncratic spelling and usage common to the era. e.g. "we were buzzed about the ears .". A charming patriotic broadside from reign of William and Mary. Rare. No institutional copies located.</p> . Josiah Bromley unknown
1829AQ34608London: John Murray 1829. 168pp. With original publisher's blue paper wrappers bound in. Contemporary half-calf ruled in gilt and blind contrasting black lettering-piece to spine marbled boards. Rubbed and marked with light surface wear to boards spine slightly dulled. Faded ink-stamps of the Incorporated Law Society to upper wrapper A2 and foot of A5 - with their name stamped in gilt to foot of spine. Small marginal loss to upper corner of pp.165-168 and rear wrapper. Leaves lightly browned. An apparently unrecorded edition of the Admiralty Office's quarterly authorised list of Royal Navy personnel corrected to January 1829 shortly before the conclusion of the Greek War of Independence. . First edition. 8vo. John Murray hardcover
1854AQ34607London: John Murray 1854. 334 2 5pp. With a terminal list of subscribers. Modern calf-backed marbled boards contrasting gilt-tooled black morocco lettering-pieces. A trifle rubbed. Title page browned light scattered spotting. The Admiralty Office's quarterly authorised list of Royal Navy personnel corrected to December 1853 the first year of the Crimean War. Scarce; COPAC records a single copy Society of Genealogists OCLC adds no further. . 8vo. John Murray hardcover
175323480London: Edward Owen 1753. Quarto. 46pp. plus two folding tables. Light staining to last leaf. Slight worming in outer margin of last few leaves not affecting text. Disbound.<br/> <br/> Pamphlet dealing with international law and the British seizure of Prussian ships.<br/> <br/> The second table is entitled "List of all the Prussian ships taken by British armaments at sea during the last war as well those detained for examination only as those judicially proceeded upon together with the judgments given in the Admiralty Courts of Great-Britain thereupon."<br/> <br/> ESTC T4125. Edward Owen unknown
1816ABC_47973London 1816. 35 x 44. With an illustration of the plan of attack and a view of the fortifications on the Mole at Algiers. Contemporary hand coloured lithographed plate with the plan for the Bombardment of Algiers in August 1816. The attack was instigated and won by Great Britain and the Netherlands which was celebrated in London.The Bombardment of Algiers was part of a European campaign to end piracy against Europeans by North African countries. The goal of this attack was to free Christian slaves in Algeria and stop Omar Agha -1817 the of Dey of Algiers from enslaving more Europeans. The attack was partly successful. Algeria freed around 3000 Christian slaves after the battle but did not stop enslaving Europeans until later in the 19th century.The plan for the attack was made by Admiral Lord Exmouth the commander of the fleet. The largest ships approached the harbour in a column sailed to the zone were the Algerian guns could not reach them and bombarded the defences. Other ships blocked the harbour to attack the Algerian ships and prevent them from joining the battle. On the present illustration each of the British ships is named and drawn in its planned position thus giving an interesting visual insight into 19th-century naval tactics.The sheet is folded in half with a tear along the top and bottom of the fold somewhat browned and stained with remnants of tape on the back. The plan and view remain clear and the colouring remains bright. unknown
