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Features: Communication in Atlantic Bottlenosed Dolphins; Vessels vs. Whales; The Mummichog a Fish for all seasons; Hang Gliding - Underwater; The Sargasso - Sea of Fascinations; Dividing the Continental Shelf Pie; Artificial Reef Propagation of a Salt Marsh; Jaws of Extinct Shark at Planet Ocean. Sound copy. Book
Features: Heard Island - Seal's Haven, Sealer's Nightmare; Ships that Flew; Schooling Hammerheads; Argonaut - Octopus in a Parchment Shell; The Sea Butterfly; Where does the Gulf of Mexico end and the Atlantic Ocean Begin; Angels of the Reef. Sound copy. Book
28 pages. Features: Showdown in the South Atlantic - the Falklands War; What Howard Hughes DID take with him when he died; The plain truth about fasting; What's wrong with science; What kind of god do you worship?; Is God to blame?; When conflicts go unresolved. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
160 pages. Features: The Remarkable Sloop SHADOW - Part II; Across the Atlantic in SEA BIRD; Floor Timbers; The Boatbuilder's Garden - forests; The Politics of Maritime Preservation; Unity in Maritime Preservation; Saling the PRIDE - a Baltimore Clipper; Donald C. Rosencrantz and William Avery Baker - Remembered; Grand Craft - gleaming mahogany replicas; Steaming an Oak Coaming; Cutting an Apple Knee; Tale of Two Sisters - cold-molding vs. carvel; Backyard Vacuum Bagging - Constant Camber works for the homebuilder; Fire Bending with the Dragon's Tongue - using intense heat to bend 30 hefty planks into place. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 138 pages. "A chilling first-person account of the author's experiences of war at sea while in his late teens. On December 26, 1942 as a Merchant Navy radio officer he sailed on the 'Scottish Heather' into the infamous 'black pit,' an area where German U-boats could operate freely on the surface without fear of attack from the air." - back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
109 pages. Describes the history of Nova Scotia's fishing and its technology. Illustrated throughout with fascinating black and white line drawings. Unmarked but for two small ink stamps upon title page. Moderate wear and yellowing to pages. Binding solid. Book
48 pages. Features include: Marine Conservatikon Areas Act Circumvents the Fisheries Minister's Authority; New Vessel Launch - a crab boat from Thompson Bros.; BC Live Marine Fish Research Society - new group represents non-salmonid grow-out operators and researchers; Skeena roundup; Leggatt inquiry underway - 'Headline' start in Tofino; Fish Expo and Workboat Northwest; Salmon Marketing Council Head Jumps to Top Seafood Alliance Post; Three Hope Restaurants serve 'poached' salmon; Atlantics in the Atlantic; Cruise ships targeted as outsized pollution sources; oil companies considering Alaska License buy-out. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
139 pages. Signed and inscribed by authors inside front cover. Numerous reproductions of black and white archival photos in text. Deals almost entirely with the trade from Saint Pierre. Binding tight. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
128 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with wonderful colour photos of lighthouses from each province, plus maps and directions, history, legend, lore and descriptions. Printed upon glossy stock. Clean and unmarked with moderate external wear. A quality copy of this charming and informative work. Book
310 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Black and white illustrations. Author "Meticulously researched the short lives of six Atlantic Canada airmen, two of them the author's brothers, who failed to return from aerial operations during the second world war." - from back cover. Somewhat abov-average wear. Prior owner's name upon bottom edge. Book
Carta geografica meteorologica originale raffigurante il meteo tipico e tempeste in Europa e Nord Atlantico nel 1898. Inserita nell'opera "Bartholomew's Physical Atlas - Volume III. Atlas of Meteorology. A Series of over Four Hundred Maps. Prepared by J.G. Bartholomew ... A.J. Herbertson ... Alexr. Buchan. Under the Patronage of the Royal Geographical Society. Prepared at the Edinburgh Geographical Institute".
P., Bernardin-Bechet coll. "les champions", 1928. In-12 carré, broché, 63 pp. dont 16 pp. d'illustrations photographiques. Edité en 1928 et rejaqueté avec mention 2 Fr sur la couverture. Quelques points de rousseurs sur la tranche. rare
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates, endpapers lightly browned; marbled boards ruled and lettered in blue, green cloth back, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author served on RHN ADRIAS in the South Atlantic and Mediteranean, then SCARAB for the invasions of Sicily and Italy. From 1943-44 he was based at NILE (Alexandria) and finally Piraeus during the liberation and civil war. VERY SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition thus, with 11 plates on 8 and an illustration in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges. The truly remarkable story of a unique vessel - a largely Free French Q-ship enrolled wholesale into the Royal Navy and eventually sunk in the Atlantic in December 1942. This account is based largely on facts provided by Pat O'Leary who survived the sinking to organise the 'Pat' escape routes from France. First published in France in the preceding year. Uncommon in this condition. Enser, p.381; Law, 0861.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 11 plates, 3 illustrations in the text and front and rear endpaper maps, endpapers lightly browned; cloth, minor spotting to fore-edges else a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. Scarce, especially in this condition. Includes a bibliography. A copy of the (remarkably well preserved) original sales receipt from Foyles of London is loosely inserted. Law, 0246.
Roy. 4to., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations (a number double-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; black boards, black cloth back lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Evocative and moving summary by the author of 'Das Boot'. Very well illustrated by over 200 striking photographs from the author's private collection, many of which emphasise the human aspects of undersea war.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece map and 16 plates on 8; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Astonishingly, this is the sole history to date of the main base of the Royal Navy's Atlantic fleet of both world wars. Good coverage of the scuttling and salvage of the German High Seas Fleet after WWI, and of the Royal Oak disaster in the early days of WWII. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.322; Law 1398.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, very numerous photographs in the text and large folding plan at end; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The first dedicated study of this class, the acquisition of which proved an invaluable boost to a hard-pressed Admiralty at a crucial period. Good selection of photographs of virtually every vessel balances the enormous publicity accrued elsewhere by HMS CAMPBLETOWN following the St. Nazaire raid.
2 vols., 4to., First Edition, text in German, with very numerous photographs, diagrams and charts in the text, and illustrated endpapers; grey cloth, backstrips lettered in navy blue, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 33 plates on 28, front endpaper chart in red, green and black, and double-page folding plan at end; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The remarkable story of how an eminent lawyer became one of the war's most effective inventors. Commissioned into the RNVR, Terrell was the originator of 'plastic armour', the 'scorpion', and the 'rocket bomb', all of which played a role in the fight against the U-boats. Scarce in this condition. Enser, p.403; Law 1253.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 53 plates on 30, endpapers lightly spotted, neat ATC Squadron stamp on front free endpaper; original backstrip lettered in red, a very good, firm, clean copy. Vividly-written and well-illustrated survey of Coastal Command's contribution to the U-boat war. VERY SCARCE. Enser p.110.
185 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Recounts the voyage in 1944 of the St. Roch from Halifax to Vancouver via the Northwest Passage. While this was not the first time the passage had been traversed, the first passage by Amundsen took several years. The voyage of the St. Roch lasted only 86 days and took a more northerly route than that blazed by Amundsen. It was the first time that this shorter route - first attempted by William Parry in 1819; tried by other explorers in the nineteenth century (and later taken by the supertanker, Manhattan in 1969) - was successfully navigated. The St. Roch was a small wooden vessel only 104 feet long, constructed in 1928 by the Burrard Dry Dock Company in North Vancouver. In 1942 this vessel had become the first vessel to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic through the Arctic Ocean. With the completion of its 1944 mission, the St. Roch became the first vessel to conquer the Northwest Passage in both directions. Light wear. Small bump to top of spine. Book
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 63pp. In the summer of 1985 nine men attempt to break the record for the fastest trans-Atlantic crossing ever. With skipper Ted Toleman, Richard Branson, Chay Blyth, Dag Pike and the rest of the crew battle their way in 3 days 10 hours racing for the coveted Blue Riband title. This is a history of the event and their individual stories. Illustrated. Extremely scarce. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
222 pages including index. Traces the story of the cholera epidemics as they ravaged the Canadas and the Atlantic colonies. Important reading for those interested in Canada's social, political, and medical history. Infrequent light pencil markings to contents. Average wear. Binding is brittle and has opened at several places but no pages are loose. Book
8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 30; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with the arms of Sherborne School, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. With the prize bookplate of Sherborne School on front paste-down. Published in Batsford's notable 'British Battles' series, with striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Norman Wilkinson. One of the best general histories. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p. 297; Law, 0211.
