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The navy as I have known it, 1849-1899. Plus eight. 1st ed.…
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Auckland
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9-Apr-2014
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The navy as I have known it, 1849-1899. Plus eight. 1st ed. London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited, 1904. Thick 8vo. xvi, 472 p., frontispiece. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. Lacking dust jacket. Mild shelf wear. Contains several clippings, mounted in. Ex libris Foxing to first few pages and margins. A handsome copy. G+. Plus, 'The Great sea war : the story of naval action in World War II' edited by E.B. Potter and Chester W. Nimitz. Englwood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall in association with George G. Harrap, 1960. 8vo. ix, 468 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards with gilt insignia to upper board. Fading to spine. Lacking dust jacket. Ex libris. Inscription by the owner to front free endpaper. Sporadic foxing to contents. G to G+. 'Main fleet to Singapore' by Russell Grenfell. 1st ed. London : Faber and Faber, 1951. 8vo. 238 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards. Lacks dust jacket. Ex libris. Scattered foxing to contents. G+. 'British warship names' by T.D. Manning and C.F. Walker. London : Putnam, 1959. 8vo. 498 p., illustrated. Blue dust jacket with slight tears. Navy cloth boards. Ex libris. Contents clean. G to G+. 'Walker, R.N.' by Terrance Robertson. 1st ed. London : Evans Brothers, 1956. 8vo. 216 p., illustrated. Blue cloth boards, lacks dust jacket. Rubbing to boards. Ex libris. Foxing to contents. G. 'The navy of to-day' by Kenneth Edwards. London : Blackie and Son, 1943. 207 p., illustrated, plates. Blue cloth boards with wear to extremities. Lacks dust jacket. Inscription to pastedown. Frontispiece removed. Mild wear to contents. G-. 'The memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford' written by himself. In two volumes. London : Methuen, 1914. 8vo. 2 v., illustrated, ports. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. Fading to spines. Ex libris. foxing to contents. Both generally G. 'A sailor's odyssey : the autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope'. London : Hutchinson, [1951]. 8vo. 715 p., illustrated, ports, maps. Blue cloth boards with wear to corners and spine. Lacks dust jacket. Ex libris. Contains a photograph of what is possibly the medals awarded to Viscount Cunningham, laid in. Sporadic foxing to contents. G. [9].
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