Hull: [John Ross], 1833. Original Manuscript. Single loose sheet. Single sheet measuring 10.5 x 8 inches (folded, 5.25 x 8 inches) written on front panel only. Two old horizontal creases (presumably to allow fitting in envelope), now mellowed. Just a hint of age-toning, else Near Fine. Text of note reads.....
Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company, 1872. First Thus. Leather. Two volumes. 4to. Pp. Vol I, xxxx, 531; Vol II, xx, 739. Preface and a Life of Sir William Blackstone by the editor of the American edition, George Sharswood. Appendix (Vol I). Index (Vol II). Bound in full calf, black and.....
Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foreword by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Large 8vo. Pp. 48. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of Churchill's paintings, some color. Cream cloth lettered in brown. some foxing to boards, in pictorial dust jacket, shallow chips and creasing to extremities, light.....
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London: Hutchinson and Co., [1900]. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. viii, 340; 341-699. Frontis. portrait with tissue guard each volume. Illustrated with black & white portraits. Bound in brown buckram over beveled boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spines and Francis coat of arms in Order of the Bath.....
(Greenwich): The Navy Records Society, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited by J. R. Tanner, M.A. Thick 8vo. Pp.lxxxiii; 419. Index. Navy buckram with gilt lettering over white buckram with gilt medallion stamped on front cover. A bit of foxing to preliminaries, slight fading to spine (see photo). Bookplate on front.....
London: Bernard Quaritch for The Society for Nautical Research. (by), 1938. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Large 8vo. Various paginations. Illustrated with 32 plates and 33 figures and plans. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt in unclipped dust jacket. Bookplate, some foxing to pastedowns and page ends, owner name.....
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London and New York: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. xxxv, 480. Frontis. scenic photograph with tissue guard. 154 illustrations including black & white halftone photo reproductions and line drawings of which one in colors, plus one two-color fold-out map tipped in. With references. Dark blue.....
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 181. Folding map. Appendices. Bibliography. Quarter blue cloth over boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Bookplate, slightest of wear to boards. One appendix covers "The Whaleships at Pitcairn Island." A handsome, presentable copy.
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889. First American Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Pp. xxx, [2], 563, [1], followed by the publisher's ad. Frontis. illustration with tissue guard. With seven plates and 13 illustrations. Original black cloth with gilt lettering and rules stamped on spine. Former owner name (William B. Wadsworth).....
London: Hamilton & Truscott Smith, 1926. Limited Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Large quarto. Pp. xiv, [2], 78, plates unpaginated. Frontis. tipped-in color plate. tipped-in color plates throughout. Index. Bound in navy-blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on cover and spine and gilt tooled rules on cover and spine. Bookplate.....
London: John Murray, 1819. First Edition. Late 19th century three-quarter morocco over marbled boards. 4to. Pp. xxxix, 252, cxliv. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt Illustrated with 32 engraved plates, 3 folding maps, tables & charts, including 23 aquatint plates, 15 are hand-colored with 4 folding. Spine illustrated and lettered in.....
Edinburgh and London: Candell & Co / Simpkin and Marshall, 1830. Three quarter leather over marbled paper boards. 8vo. Pp. various pagination. Eleven volumes. Frontis. black & white illustrations or portraits of Scott, behind tissue guards. Bound in three-quarter leather over marbled paper boards, with gilt lettering, spines with red.....
London: W. Bulmer & Co, 1814/1818/1820. Full Leather. 4to. Pp. 18, xviii; 8; 38; plates unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white diagrams, illustrations, facsimiles, and fold-out ship's plans. Marbled endpapers. Two bookplates (Library of the Royal Naval College; noted maritime collector Frederick Ellis) on front pastedown. Occasional RNC blindstamps.....
San Francisco: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. xxxii, 232, index. Illustrated with two portraits, reproductions of title pages from 1847 first edition, fold out map is a facsimile of the original map in the London edition. Brown cloth spine over.....
Potlatch City [Seattle]: S. F. Shorey, 1913. First Edition. Stiff Printed Wraps. 16mo. Pp. 46. Illustrated throughout with black & white caricatures. Bound in gray paper printed in red and black, french flaps, Yapp edges, side stapled. Doubled vellum pages printed in red and black. Cover edges lightly bent, chipped.....
New York: Pantheon Books, (1964). First Thus. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. xxii, 290. Frontis. map of Chinese Turkestan. Illustrated with a section of b&w photo reproductions. Introduction by editor Mirsky. Black publisher's cloth with spine titles in gilt. Crisp and bright. In the color illustrated dust jacket, unclipped.....
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. R. T. Pritchett. Second edition reprint. Hardcover. Two vols. Small, stout 8vo. Vol.I, xvi, 430pp. Vol. II, xvi, 488pp. Frontis. in vol. shows the Jack as of 1606, that in Vol. II, flags from the Royal Thames Yacht Club, both with tissue guards. Lavishly.....
London: The Century House, 1925. Decorative Arts. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. vi, 136. Frontispiece; thoroughly illustrated with three color and 54 b&w plates; index. Elegantly bound in dark blue linen with gilt lettering. Spine is lightly sun-faded, as is top front edge. TEG; fore-edge untrimmed. Very Good. Number 817.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo. Pp. 19. (2). Bound in printed wraps, saddle-stapled. The farewell message from Sir Edgar Williams who, following a distinguished military service, notably under Montgomery in North Africa, served as Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, from 1952-1980. His report here contains an.....