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Letters on Amphibious Wars

By: Aston, G. G. (Brigadier-General)

Price: NZ$135.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1911

Seller ID: 22252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Previous owner's rubber name stamp on front endpaper and half-title page. Some foxing. Folding maps in very good condition. ; xv, [1], 372 pages + 8 folding map sheets (including 3 in pocket at rear). Total number of maps including small inset maps is 13 maps. Blue cloth boards wtih gilt lettering and decoration on spine, red lettering and decoration on front board. Page dimensions: 220 x 138mm.
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The Admiralty Hydrographic Service 1795-1919

By: Day, Archibald (Vice-Admiral Sir)

Price: NZ$100.00

Publisher: London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 1967

Seller ID: 22232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Dust-jacket with some foxing, fading, and minor dampstain. Dust-jacket is price-clipped.; 378 pages + plates (some folding). Black cloth boards with gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 244 x 170mm.
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The Raider Kormoran

By: Detmers, Theodor

Price: NZ$100.00

Publisher: London, William Kimber: (1959)

Seller ID: 22247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Signs of label removal from front endpaper. Small bump to corner of front board. Dust-jacket with small chips and tears to margins. Some foxing and dust-stains to dust-jacket. Small adhesive tape stains to dust-jacket flaps. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 206, [2 (advertisements)] pages + plates. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 216 x 137mm. Text in English, translated from German by Edward Fitzgerald. "The Kormoran was an armed merchant raider, a converted Hamburg-America liner equipped with 5.99-inch guns, torpedo-tubes, mines and two seaplanes. Her...
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The Cruise Of The "Falcon" - A Voyage To South America In A 30-Ton Yacht

By: Knight, E. F.

Price: NZ$33.75

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company:

Seller ID: 10245

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Hinges broken. Large tears to folding map. Spine faded. ; [2], vi. [2], 366 pages + frontispiece + plates + folding map. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. No date [c1890s]. Page dimensions: 175mm x 114mm. "It was one of those beautiful lazy July days that even London is occasionally blessed with, and which tend to inspire busy man with profound misgivings as to the truth of that trite old lesson, that unremitting toil is his destiny and sole object here below." - the opening paragraph. ; 12mo 7" - 7" tall
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Spritsails and Lugsails

By: Leather, John

Price: NZ$135.00

Publisher: London, Granada Publishing / Adlard Coles: (1979)

Seller ID: 22269

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

No signatures. At end of Volume One is a library pocket and card. This appears to be a private owner's lending library system (card has a rubber personal name stamp), rather than an institutional collection. No other library markings. ; 387, [5] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: oblong 246 x 183mm. Illustrated by the author. "Spritsails and lugsails are amongst the oldest types of rigs in the world and were the most widespread in use. This book offers a practical assessment of spritsail and lugsail rigs for small craft of the present, and surveys the boats and p...
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The Naval Miscellany - Volume VIII

By: Vale, Brian (editor)

Price: NZ$108.00

Publisher: London, Published by Routledge for the Navy Records Society: 2017

Seller ID: 22366

ISBN: 1138219797

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

No signatures.; xviii, 417, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine and gilt circular emblem on front board. Page dimensions: 224 x 145mm. 8 chapters by various contributors. "The contents of this, the eighth of the Navy Records Society's 'Naval Miscellany' series, chronicles the activities and adventures of the Royal Navy, its officials, its officers and its men - both in British employment and out of it - over a period of some six hundred years." - from the Preface, page xi.
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Category: Nautical

Letters on Amphibious Wars

The Admiralty Hydrographic Service 1795-1919

The Raider Kormoran

The Cruise Of The "Falcon" - A Voyage To South America In A 30-Ton Yacht

Spritsails and Lugsails

The Naval Miscellany - Volume VIII