The Rise of the English Shipping Industry, in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, (1972). Second impression, 8vo, xi, (i), 427, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., spine sunned. More
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, (1972). Second impression, 8vo, xi, (i), 427, (1) pp. Cloth, d.w., spine sunned. More
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934. First edition. 8vo. 111, (1) pp. Publisher's card covers, illustrated to the upper panel. 32 monochrome plates. Some light wear to the covers with a tiny split to the foot of the joint, very good overall. More
Wellington: War History Branch, 1961. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 676, (2) pp. Numerous illustrations and maps, several folding, remains of a letter tipped onto the paste down. Original gilt titled red cloth, outer edge of covers sunned, spine creased and slightly rubbed. More
London: Printed for G. Robinson and J. Murray, 1784. Fourth edition, 8vo, (viii), xvi, 540, (20 index) pp. Portrait frontispiece, first few leaves a little damp stained, 19th century inscription to paste down. 20th century half calf, marbled sides, spine a little sunned and mottled. "[De Lolme's] work on the..... More
Paris: Librarie Classiques de Jules Delalain, 1862. Twenty-ninth edition, 8vo, (iii-viii), 672 pp, bound without a half title. Owner's name to fly leaf. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine with red and green labels, some minor rubbing, very good. More
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1902. First edition, 8vo, 520 pp. Folding map at the end plus some maps in the text, prize label to paste down with the inscription to this and to the fly leaf neatly erased, upper hinge tender but sound. Original dark green cloth, spine ends..... More
Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1903. Second edition. Small 8vo. (viii), 146, (2) pp. Publisher's parchment, black lettered to the spine and upper board, near contemporary manuscript annotation to the "Notes" at the back of the book. Very good. First published in 1895, this edition with the additional papers written subsequently..... More
(Lewes): Sussex Record Society, 1910. 8vo, (xiv), (209)-510 pp. Owner's name and address label stuck to the paste down. Original gilt titled brown cloth, slight darkening of spine, near fine. Sussex Record Society volume XI. More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1965). First edition, large oblong 8vo, (vi), 138 pp. Black and white illustrations. Original pictorial boards, soiled, small bump to the outer edge of the upper cover. More
Paris: Chez Ponthieu, An VI [1797-8]. Five volumes, 8vo. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary tree sheep, gilt spines with brown and blue morocco labels, two of the latter lacking pieces, some wear, loss to the tops of the spines, upper joint to volume II with some holes. More
[London]: Burgess & Bowes, [1930s]. Four volumes, 24mo. Uniformly bound in contemporary black morocco, a.e.g., slight wear to the spine ends, most noticeably to the French volume, held in a black morocco slipcase with a gilt monogram "E.W. & Co. Ltd", one corner of the case slightly cracked. "Midget" series..... More
[London]: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, [c.1850]. Fourth edition, 2 volumes, small 8vo. (ii), xx, 431, (1); (ii), xxvii, (i), 371, (1) pp. Owner's ink stamp to title pages and front blanks, piece torn from one fly leaf. Contemporary calf, gilt spines with brown and green labels, one lacking, slight..... More
(Harrow: Pressed by Steve Lane, 1963). First edition, 8vo, 765, (1) pp. Occasional pencil annotations. Original blue cloth with some faint marking, otherwise very good. More
London: Bickers and Son, 1885. 8vo. (xx), 300 pp. Contemporary prize binding from Blundell's School, Tiverton, full dark blue calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red label, the college crest in gilt to the upper board and their prize label to the front pastedown, endpapers and all edges marbled..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1933. First edition. 8vo. 185, (7) pp. Publisher's beige cloth, blue lettered to the spine, dust jacket, early ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, publisher's review slip loosely inserted. Darkening to the jacket spine plus some light wear to the extremities, very good..... More
Dublin: Printed by Robert Napper, 1802. 12mo, 166 pp. Owner's ink stamp to top margin of the first page of the text. Contemporary tree sheep, covers slightly bowed, gilt banded spine with a green label, slight loss and cracking to top of spine. More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. First separate edition, large 8vo, (vi), 58 pp. Portrait frontispiece plus one further plate, some light foxing, top edge of one leaf carelessly opened, contemporary signature of the corrupt East End politician Joseph Merceron to fly leaf, later bookplate of the Naval..... More
London: Privately printed, 1873. Sole edition. 4to. x, 99, (4), ii, (1), iii-xv, (1), iv, (3), x, xi, (3), vii, ii, xviii pp, some of the appendix leaves folding. Contemporary black full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt decorated to the compartments, title in gilt to the upper board, thick..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883-86. First English edition, six volumes, large 8vo. Numerous illustrations, maps and vignettes, bookplates, several hinges slightly cracked but sound. Original gilt titled and blind stamped blue cloth, spine ends and joints with some rubbing. More
London: John Weale... and the Author, 1852. Sole edition. 8vo. xii, 153, (1), 9, (1) pp. Publisher's blindstamped brown cloth, gilt lettered to upper board, rebacked in black cloth, contemporary ownership inscription of one Thos. Cooper to front pastedown. Boards a little worn, contents very good. Uncommon, Copac listing seven..... More
London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1844. 8vo, viii, 853, (3) pp, with 6 folding plans, 3 lithographic plates and further plans and folding tables, original cloth, faded with wear to spine ends. More
London: W. Clowes and Sons, 1848. Two volumes, 8vo, ccxcii 212; iv, 580 pp, with 2 folding tables, very good in the original cloth, spine ends bumped. More
London: Country Life Limited, (1946). Second "revised" edition, 4to, 192 pp. Frontispiece and 173 illustrations, light foxing to first three text leaves. Cloth, d.w. soiled and worn with some loss to the spine and edges. More
[N.p.]:, 1896. Small 8vo. 35, (1); 33, (3); 19, (1) pp. Contemporary blue morocco backed dark gold boards, gilt lettered to the upper cover. Spine faded, the head worn with loss. More
Cairo: Elias' Modern Press, (1961). Twelfth edition, large 8vo, 806 pp. Ownership stamps of the BBC to the endpapers. Original gilt titled red quarter calf, extremities slightly rubbed, very good. More