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British Navy
A LETTER TO THE MAYOR OF --------. WHEREIN THE DISCOURAGEMENTS OF THE SEAMEN EMPLOYED IN HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY AND THE MERITS OF THE BILL BROUGHT INTO PARLIAMENT IN THE LAST SESSION FOR THEIR RELIEF ARE IMPARTIALLY EXAMINED BY A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
London: R. Baldwin 1758. 463pp. Half title. Printed self-wrappers stitched. Lower inner corner of half title torn away not affecting text. Early smudged ink inscription on half title. A very good copy untrimmed and unopened. A detailed letter supporting payment reform in the British navy. The anonymous author presents and remarks upon a new bill entitled "An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen employed in the Royal Navy; and for establishing a regular Method for the punctual frequent and certain Payment of their Wages; and for enabling them more easily and readily to remit the same for Support of their Wives and Families and for preventing Frauds and Abuses attending such Payments" p.9. KRESS 5721. R. Baldwin unknown books
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British Navy
THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE'S LETTER BY HIS MAJESTY'S ORDER TO MONSIEUR MICHELL THE KING OF PRUSSIA'S SECRETARY OF THE EMBASSY IN ANSWER TO THE MEMORIAL AND OTHER PAPERS DELIVER'D BY MONSIEUR MICHELL TO THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE ON THE 23d OF NOVEMBER AND 13th OF DECEMBER LAST
London: Edward Owen 1753. 46pp. plus two folding tables. Quarto. Dbd. Light staining to last leaf. Slight worming in outer margin of last few leaves not affecting text. Very good. Pamphlet dealing with international law and the British seizure of Prussian ships. The second table is entitled "List of all the Prussian ships taken by British armaments at sea during the last war as well those detained for examination only as those judicially proceeded upon together with the judgments given in the Admiralty Courts of Great-Britain thereupon." ESTC T4125. Edward Owen unknown books
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United States Navy
DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE BILL PROVIDING FOR THE SALE OF GUN BOATS.
Washington: Printed by Roger C. Weightman 1809. 11pp. plus folding charts. Dbd. Charts loose. Good. Information per the Senate request about gun boats. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 18880. Printed by Roger C. Weightman unknown books
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Royal Navy: British Acts of Parliament
COLLECTION OF EIGHT GENERAL ACTS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT RELATING TO THE ROYAL NAVY 1734 - 1762
London 1762. Eight separate imprints. Dbd. Minor edge wear and toning. Generally very good to near fine condition. In a blue cloth slipcase gilt. A nice collection of British Acts of Parliament relating to the Royal Navy or related seagoing activities. The dominance of the British Royal Navy was unquestioned from the late 1600s until well into the 20th century. These mid 18th-century acts were printed at a time when the British Navy was swiftly ascending to the peak of its power through superior financing tactics training organization population support hygiene dockyard facilities logistical support and warship design and construction. By the early 19th century the British Navy saw little action mainly due to the lack of a worthy adversary. Each of these titles is rare with between one and four copies listed in institutions in ESTC. <br> <br> The separate imprints included here are as follows: <br> <br> 1 AN ACT TO SETTLE HOW FAR OWNERS OF SHIPS SHALL BE ANSWERABLE FOR THE ACTS OF THE MASTERS OR MARINERS drop title. London: John Baskett 1734. 2291-294pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N51352. <br> <br> 2 AN ACT FOR THE BETTER SUPPLY OF MARINERS AND SEAMEN TO SERVE IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS OF WAR AND ON BOARD MERCHANT SHIPS OTHER TRADING SHIPS AND PRIVATEERS drop title. London: John Baskett 1739. 2123-126pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N51525. <br> <br> 3 AN ACT FOR THE FURTHER REGULATING AND BETTER GOVERNMENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S NAVIES SHIPS OF WAR AND FORCES BY SEA; AND FOR REGULATING THE PROCEEDINGS UPON COURTS MARTIAL IN THE SEA SERVICE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1745. 2719-723pp. Only three copies in ESTC. ESTC N52070. <br> <br> 4 AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF AND SUPPORT OF MAIMED AND DISABLED SEAMEN AND THE WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF SUCH AS SHALL BE KILLED SLAIN OR DROWNED IN THE MERCHANTS SERVICE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1747. 2835-859pp. Only two copies in ESTC. ESTC N52775. <br> <br> 5 AN ACT FOR AMENDING EXPLAINING AND REDUCEING INTO ONE ACT OF PARLIAMENT THE LAWS RELATING TO THE GOVERNMENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS VESSELS AND FORCES BY SEA drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1749. 2687-707pp. Only one copy in ESTC. ESTC N52967. <br> <br> 6 AN ACT FOR ENFORCING THE LAWS AGAINST PERSONS WHO SHALL STEAL OR DETAIN SHIPWRECKED GOODS; AND FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING LOSSES THEREBY drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1753. 2303-311pp. Only four copies in ESTC. ESTC N52861. <br> <br> 7 AN ACT FOR THE REGULATION OF HIS MAJESTY'S MARINE FORCES WHILE ON SHORE drop title. London: Thomas Baskett 1755. 2311- 331pp. Only two copies in ESTC. ESTC N56449. <br> <br> 8 AN ACT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF SEAMEN AND THE MORE SPEEDY AND EFFECTUAL MANNING HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY drop title. London: Mark Baskett 1762. 2655-658pp. Only one copy in ESTC. ESTC N56728. N.A.M. Rodger THE COMMAND OF THE OCEAN. A NAVAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN 1649-1815 London: Allen Lane 2004. hardcover books
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Spanish Navy
CURIOSO Y NUEVO ROMANCE DONDE SE REFIERE EL MAYOR Y MAS LAMENTABLE SUCESSO QUE HAN ADMIRADO LOS SIGLOS EN LA DESECHA BORRASCOSA TORMENTA QUE HA PADECIDO NUESTRA ARMADA ESPAÑOLA.caption title
Seville: Francisco Garay 1719. 4pp. Small quarto. Modern three-quarter morocco over linen boards spine gilt. Occasional stains holes at bottom of both leaves not effecting text last page of text closely trimmed. A good copy. A four-page ballad describing the enormous storm experienced by the Spanish fleet in 1719 and of the miraculous preservation of the ships which eventually arrived safely in Cadiz. It was this same great fleet which Spain had gathered at Cadiz and Corunna for the invasion of the west of England directed by James Butler the attainted Duke of Ormonde. A rare possibly unique piece of early 18th-century Spanish verse. Not recorded in Palau NUC or on OCLC. Francisco Garay hardcover books
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United States Navy
LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY ACCOMPANYING A REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE FUND FOR NAVY PENSIONS AND HALF PAY.4th JANUARY 1802.
Washington 1802. 6pp. plus four folding tables. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript pagination and wormhole in upper outer corner. Early stains in outer corners affecting a few words in text. Scattered foxing. A good copy. Letter and five tables relating to the "Act for the better government of the Navy of the United States." The pension funds reported on here represent investments made from the sales of naval prizes. Scarce with OCLC and Shaw & Shoemaker locating a total of four copies. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3305. unknown books
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Spanish Navy
ADVERTIMIENTOS A V. MAGESTAD TOCANTS AL GOVIERNO DE GALERAS Y OTROS AUISOS DE JUAN JACOBO LOCADELO VASSALL DE VUESTRA MAGESTAD
Madrid: Por la viuda de Alonso Martini 1617. 4344 leaves plus several pen and ink illustrations. Folio. Later speckled calf maroon gilt morocco label spine gilt. Covers with slight wear and scuffing at extremities. Faint dampstain in lower margin. Occasional contemporary manuscript notes and marks. Overall internally clean. Very good. A comprehensive list of rules addressed to ship captains governing the proper provisioning of Spanish vessels based in Sicily and Naples both then under Spanish rule. The text includes a bevy of rules expense guidelines and more and offers a fine window into the near-obsessive attention to detail that marked the administration of the Spanish military at the peak of its powers. <br> <br> Of particular interest are several pen and ink sketches that include tools a ship in dry dock and storage bins as well as two much larger harbor plans of Palermo and Naples. Each drawing is keyed to a printed description of the location and shows fortifications lookouts and in the case of Naples dormitories. These are charming and well accomplished. <br> <br> Good evidence of the Spanish navy at work at the height of empire with rules which certainly applied to vessels in the Americas as well. Extremely rare. Por la viuda de Alonso Martini unknown books
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United States Navy
LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY INCLOSING A STATEMENT OF THE OF THE UNITED STATES.1st FEBRUARY 1802
Washington 1802. 6pp. Dbd. Contemporary manuscript pagination and early stain in upper outer corner throughout not affecting text. Scattered foxing. A good copy. Report on the fourteen frigates and one schooner with their states of equipment and services in which they are employed. Four ships are currently cruising in the Mediterranean "for the protection of our commerce against the Tripolitan corsairs." Scarce with OCLC and Shaw & Shoemaker locating a total of four copies. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3306. unknown books
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Boston Marine Insurance Company
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BOSTON MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY
Boston 1799. 13pp. Woodcut of ship on titlepage. Blue wrappers. Front endpapers foxed else a very good copy. An early and scarce example of an act of incorporation for an American insurance company. Only two copies are located by the NUC. EVANS 35221. unknown books
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United States Marine Corps
THE STORY OF THE UNITED STATES' MARINES COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC RECORDS 1740 - 1919
New York 1919. 2310pp. plus advertisements. Quarto. Original black cloth gilt stamped. Very light wear to spine. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Foxing on titlepage light toning to edges. Internally very clean. In a black cloth slipcase. Very good plus. First edition. A compilation of records detailing the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. Gathered by John W. Leonard and Fred F. Chitty the collection includes a narrative of the Marine's involvement in conflicts photographs illustrations and rosters. hardcover books
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United States Navy
Flight Manual Aviation Training Department
Aviation Training Department 1941. Post Bound. Very Good. 12 258 pages. 7 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Post bound in brown "school report" binding with title "FLIGHT MANUAL" and No 6128 on front cover. The foreword notes "This manual has been written in order to provide a standard text on flight training for naval aviation training bases. The material in this manual was compiled from every available source of information by a representative gorup of experienced naval aviation instructors." This copy notes Revised: 1-1-41 and has the stamp of the U.S.N.R. Aviation Base Boston Squantum Massachusetts with the note DO NOT REMOVE FROM BASE. The base was closed in December of 1953 and it's contents sold off. Note in pencil is Jack Barry Wing 2 partially erased on front flyleaf. An unusual survival from the World War II period. Post Bound. Aviation Training Department unknown books
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United States Navy
Handbook of Installation Practices for Aircraft Electric and Electronic Wiring
Washington: Bureau of Aeronautics 1956. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 174 pages original tan printed wrappers. Previous owners' stamp on cover and page edges old Sanders technical library pocket in rear. Clean otherwise. Wraps. Contains procedures and many diagrams indicating how electric and electronic wiring should be installed "one of a series of handbooks prepared to assist military personnel in the general maintenance and repair of aircraft". We would imagine this very useful for anyone trying to restore a period aircraft since no doubt much of these original manuals perished. Bureau of Aeronautics unknown books
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United States Navy
Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States including Officers of the Marine Corps to July 1 1885
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1885. First edition. Full black morocco ruled and titled in gilt all edges marbled marbled endpapers leaves interleaved with blank ruled pages and indexed with leather tabs with gilt titles. A very good or better copy boards rubbed. 213 pp. ruled leaves. 8vo. Copy of Commodore J ohn. G. Walker Chief Bureau of Navigation with his name in gilt on front board. Government Printing Office hardcover books
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WSP 1669 K Marine I. Wendell
CORRELATION OF WATER-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS WITH CLIMATIC CYCLES IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE
Washington D.C.: GPO. Very Good. 1963. Softcover. USGS 1963. Wrappers good condition rubber stamp on cover. Complete with all maps and plates. . GPO paperback books
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Ministro della Marina Mercantile Italiana
Documentario Ricostruzione della Marina Mercantile Italiana 1945-1953
Milano: Editoriale documentari 1954. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy with minor edgewear occasional light foxing. 613 pp. index. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. No. 522 of an unknown number of copies. Over 200 articles and entries on the reconstruction of the Italian Merchant Marine. OCLC shows no copies and none listed in any of the major European libraries but there is one at the Biblioteca della Fondazione Novara Sviluppo and a second edition 1956 at the Biblioteca civica Attilio Hortis - Trieste. Editoriale documentari hardcover books
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US NAVY
USS Franklin Roosevelt CVA 42 Seventeenth Mediterranean Deployment. 1967-1968
Marceline: Walsworth 1968. First. hardcover. very good. Profusely illustrated with thousands of photographs depicting life on the aircraft carrier some in color. 364 pages. 4to black pebbled boards with embossed gilt emblem on cover. Marceline MO: Walsworth 1968. One page with photo of 3rd division crew is intentionally torn at corner otherwise a very good copy. Includes a loose Holiday card with image of the carrier.<br/><br/> Ownership information in red ink on preliminary page "Robert Bermudez 3rd Div. 67-68 Med. Deployment" and names and home addresses of 8 other crewmen on rear page.<br/><br/> Walsworth unknown books
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GAGLIARDI Marina.
Child-Man.
np: Hiram Poetry Review 1972. First edition. 20 pp. Near fine in spiral-bound wrappers. A collection of poems issued as Hiram Poetry Supplement #3. (np): Hiram Poetry Review, unknown books
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WARDEN MARINE ROBERT.
Beyond The Straits.
Santa Monica CA:Momentum Press 1980. 1st edition. Near fine in wraps. Publisher’s name and address written on half-title. Santa Monica, CA:Momentum Press, paperback books
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LAPALMA Marina.
Grammars for Jess & Twenty-Two Cropped Sets.
Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press 1981. First edition. 55 pp. Some sunning to spine else very near fine in wrappers. Language poet Ron Silliman's ownership signature on the front free end page. A very early Kelsey St. book. Both sections of the book--'Grammars' and 'Cropped Sets'--are composed of sequences of prose poems hovering somewhere between the genres of the journal fiction and essay an aesthetic strongly suggestive of San Francisco's New Narrative writers. Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press unknown books
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Degli Marine; Benoit Jean
Histoires De Squelettes. Petite Anthologie Récréative à L'Usage Des Bons Vivants. Textes Réunis Par Marine Degli. Dessins De Jean Benoît
n.p.: Hourglass. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps signed and inscribed to "Penelope et Franklin . Jean" and dated in the year of publication. Benoit has added drawings of skeletons to enrich the writings on death by Marcel Schwob Verlaine LaForgue etc. Fine copy. Includes a short interview with Benoit.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pp . Hourglass paperback books
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THARP Marie and HEEZEN Bruce C. United States Navy Office of Naval Research
The Floor of the Oceans
New York: American Geographical Society 1976. unbound. Tanguy de Remur. Laminated Map. Full-color offset lithograph. 40 3/4 x 26 3/4 inches. Some scuffs and abrasions but otherwise in good condition.<br/><br/> Iconic map of the impressive terrain below the ocean surface showing fracture zones trenches rift valleys and undersea mountain ranges including the immense Mid-Oceanic Ridge. Geological features above and below the ocean are labeled with heights and depths indicated. The work was produced from thousands of sonar images. Bathymetry is the study of underwater depth of ocean floors or lake floors equivalent to hypsometry or topography. This edition with Editions Pierre Charron produced with the American Geographical Society.<br><br>Marie Tharp 1920-2006 was a prominent American oceanographic cartographer and geologist whose work was incredibly important to modern earth science and to the advancement of women in the field. The discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and our modern understanding of plate tectonics and continental drift has been attributed to Tharp - although at the time she was often uncredited for her work. Bruce Charles Heezen 1924 %u2013 1977 was an American geologist. Under Tharp's influence he gave up the idea of an expanding earth for a form of continental drift. Tharp was Heezen's assistant while he was a graduate student. When she showed Heezen that her plotting of the North Atlantic revealed a rift valley Heezen dismissed it as "girl talk". She persisted and they eventually discovered that not only was there a North Atlantic rift valley but a mountain range with a central valley that spanned the earth. Rumsey 7048.000.<br/><br/> American Geographical Society unknown books
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Ministere de la Marine et des Colonies.
Commission Instituee Decision Royale du 26 Mai 1840. Pour L’Examen des Questions Relatives A L’Esclavage et a la Constitution Politique des Colonies Rapport Fait Au Ministre Secretaire D’Etat de la Marine et des Colonies.
Paris. : Imprimerie Royale. 1843. Publisher’s printed boards. . Very good light scuffing and soiling to covers contents fresh and bright with wide margins. . 4to. 31x23cm. . French text. Uncommon report of a French commission to examine slavery and politics in the French colonies. The early eighteenth century was a time of of civil unrest and slave rebellions in the colonies and public opinion in Europe was strongly anti-slavery. This led to the final abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1848. Heavy book may require extra shipping. weight: 3.4 lb. Imprimerie Royale. hardcover books
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Secretary of the Navy
Documents From The Secretary Of The Navy Relating To The Navy Of The United States List of Ships and Vessels of the Navy as of March 18 1814
Washington City: Printed By Roger C. Weightman "by order of the senate of the United States." 1814. First Edition. Very good in self-wraps removed from from its original volume with most of the signature folds separated and short closed tears at the spine edges due to the original oversewing. The large fold-out tables "List of the naval force of the United States" is separate but part of the document. Without a dust jacket. 15 numbered pages followed by a fold-out table of ships and vessels of the navy of the United States with the rate station and name of the commander of each which is followed by the motion of Mr. Horsey of the State of Delaware "praying a repeal of the act laying an embargo.on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States passed the 17th day of December A.D. 1813." Printed By Roger C. Weightman "by order of the senate of the United States." paperback books
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Navy Department Dickerson Mahlon
Autograph Letter Signed "Secy. Mahlon Dickerson" to Nicholas Biddle President of the Bank of the United States responding to Biddle's proposal to make funds available for Navy Pensions
Washington D.C. 1837. 1-1/2 pages pen and ink on paper. Folio. Old folds else fine. 1-1/2 pages pen and ink on paper. Folio. A PROPOSAL TO FUND NAVY PENSIONS. A chronicle of the short-lived Bank of the United States and its continued involvement in US Navy pensions. <br/><br/>After the demise of the Second Bank of the United States in 1836 a result of the historical "Bank War" between US President Andrew Jackson and Bank President Nicholas Biddle Biddle attempted to resuscitate the institution as a commercial bank chartered by the State of Pennsylvania. The former bank's stock holders except the US government voted to transfer the old bank's assets and liabilities to the new bank which made it difficult to disentangle the dealings of the defunct bank with the newly state-chartered bank. This letter from Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson discusses arrangements for The Bank of the United States to fund Navy Pensions and is an example of it's continued involvement with the US Government after the Second Bank of the United States charter had expired. Reading in part: <br/><br/>"I have received your letter of the 19th inst. and agree to the arrangement you propose that for the funds you may place at the disposal of this department for the payment of Navy Pensions credit shall be given on the Bond from the Bank of the United States chartered by the Legislature of Pennsylvania to the United States."<br/><br/>Written at the onset of the Panic of 1837 Biddle would fail to replicate the success he experienced as President of the Second Bank of the United States and resigned as President in 1839. The Bank of the Unites States failed in 1841. Biddle faced financial ruin and was arrested for fraud but was acquitted before his death in 1844. <br/><br/>Born in Hanover Township New Jersey Mahlon Dickerson 1770-1853 was a cavalry veteran of the Whiskey Rebellion who would go on to be elected Governor of New Jersey serve as US Senator receive two appointments as Secretary of the Navy and be confirmed as a judge for the United States District Court of New Jersey. unknown books
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ROYAL NAVY
Admiralli Angliæ a tempore Edwardi Secundi anno 1307 ad annum Domini 1590
1590. Manuscript pen and ink on paper pot watermark in neat secretary hand. 9 1 blank recto with docketing on verso ff. Folio 12-1/4 x 8 inches. Disbound first two leaves loose some light soiling and edgwear. Manuscript pen and ink on paper pot watermark in neat secretary hand. 9 1 blank recto with docketing on verso ff. Folio 12-1/4 x 8 inches. 16th Century Manuscript List of Lord High Admirals of the British Fleet. A late 16th-century manuscript listing of Admirals and Lord High Admirals of the British fleet from the reigns of Edward II to Elizabeth I. <br/>The manuscript comprises 115 entries each 6-10 lines in length with transcriptions of the letters patent associated with each appointment. It was compiled during the reorganization of the admiralty office by John Hawkins just 2 years after the English victory over the Spanish Armada. We locate three other copies of this document: two at the British Library in the Harliean collection 6843.30 and the Cottonian manuscripts collection and a third in the National Maritime Museum the latter two copies were extended at a later date into the early 17th century.<br/>Despite its title the manuscript opens with the appointments of Thomas de Coleton in 1264 during the reign of Henry III and William de Leiburn in 1286 during the reign of Edward I. The final entry is for Charles Howard appointed by Elizabeth I in 1585 and who several years later led the English to victory against the Spanish Armada. Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps; H.P. Kraus unknown books
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Civil War Navy Jes
Autograph Letter Signed as "Jes" of the USS Port Royal to sister
New Orleans 1865. 6 pp. 8 x 5 inches on 2 sheets. Separations at folds crude tape repairs minor chipping. 6 pp. 8 x 5 inches on 2 sheets. Confed. ship attempting to run the Mississippi River blockade at the close of the war. Here a Union sailor describes one of the last naval incidents of the war in which the CSS Webb made a desperate run down the Red River and the Mississippi in a bid for the open ocean before finally being scuttled by its crew past New Orleans. The unidentified author devoted most of his long letter to a description of the pursuit: "There has been a very dareing sic deed committed on this river since I wrote.All the men of war below us fired at her but did not hit her. She was going down the river at the rate of 30 miles an hour. There was a torpedo projecting from her bow. . . . The prevailing opinion here is that Jeff Davis or some other of the leaders of the Confederacy were on board. unknown books
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Secretary of the Navy
Letter from The Secretary of the Navy of the Twenty-Seventh Instant To The chairman of the Naval Committee together with sundry documents. December 31 1813. Printed by order of the Senate of the United States.
Washington City: Printed by Roger C. Weightman 1813. Recently bound in royal blue cloth covered boards with a paper label on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5". The contents show only light tanning and a few minor spots of foxing. Without a dust jacket. 19 pages comprising letters detailing the victory of USS Enterprise against HMS Boxer on Sept. 5 1813 off the coast of Monhegan Island Maine; and letters from Oliver Hazard Perry detailing the victory of the US squadron on Lake Erie over the British squadron occurring on September 10 1813. Printed by Roger C. Weightman hardcover books
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THE ARMY AND NAVY FOR EVER
THE ARMY AND NAVY FOR EVER
SONG SHEET THE ARMY AND NAVY FOR EVER. New York: Charles Magnus circa 1860s. Colored illustrated letter-sheet 8 5 inches. Wolf American Song Sheets 64a. Three ten-line stanzas of patriotic verse. The top half of the page is a colored illustration showing victorious Union army and navy men raising the stars and stripes over a Confederate fort with cheering soldiers and sailors all round and Union ships firing cannon. Evidence of removal at the corners the blank leaf. Fine. unknown books
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SCHINZ Marina and Gabrielle van Zuylen
THE GARDENS OF RUSSELL PAGE
PAGE SCHINZ Marina and Gabrielle van Zuylen. THE GARDENS OF RUSSELL PAGE. New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang 1991. Small folio. Cloth dust jacket. 255 1 pages. First edition. Richly illustrated examination of the landscape designs and gardens of Russel Page. Text by Gabrielle van Zuylan and color photographs by Marina Schinz. Very good. unknown books
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U. S. Navy Department
Report on Experiments in Boiler Bracing
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1879. First Edition. First printing Good in purple pebbled cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is heavily worn and rubbed. Without a dust jacket probably as issued. An octavo measuring just shy of 9" tall by 5 3/4" deep. 23 pages of text and tables followed by 45 fold-out isometric drawings. Government Printing Office hardcover books
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Royal Navy
The Minutes of a Court Martial Held on Board His Majesty's Ship The Lenox in Portsmouth's Harbour on the 31st of January last; enquiring into the Conduct of the Commanders of the Hampton-Court and Dreadnaught for not engaing the Fleuron and Neptune two French Men of War.
London: J. Whiston 1745. Second Edition. ii 69 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. Second Edition. ii 69 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. J. Whiston unknown books
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Royal Navy Stubs Philip
God's Dominion over the Seas and the Seaman's Duty consid'd in a Sermon Preach'd at Long-Reach on Board Her Majesty's Capital Ship The Royal Soveraign
London: Printed for Rebecca and James Bonwick and Richard Mount 1706. Fifth edition to which are added "Some Devotions proper for Seamen in particular for those of that House. 1 vols. Sm 12mo. Modern red cloth. Some discoloration of cloth lower free endpaper cut away and decorated paper bound in some minor browning and spotting of text else a very good copy with the bookplate of Dr. F. William Cock of Appledore Kent. Fifth edition to which are added "Some Devotions proper for Seamen in particular for those of that House". 1 vols. Sm 12mo. Printed for Rebecca and James Bonwick and Richard Mount unknown books
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Navy Cooper James Fenimore
The History of the Navy of the United States of America
Paris: Baudry's European Library 1839. First Paris edition in English same year as the Phila. edition. Half titles present. xxv 258; viii 348 349 blank 350 Note pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Later nineteenth century evergreen morocco marbled boards. Bound without portraits or map. Some minor spotting and shelf wear owner signature of "N.S.S. Tompkins Nov. 1894" in each volume. First Paris edition in English same year as the Phila. edition. Half titles present. xxv 258; viii 348 349 blank 350 Note pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Spiller and Blackburn p. 105 calling for 3 portraits and a map; Howes C748 calling for 2 portraits; BAL 3888 note Baudry's European Library unknown books
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Royal Navy
The Examination of Maj. Gen. Anstruther Lieutnt. Govenor of Minorrca; Before the H--- of L---; January 28 1741
London: R. West near the Cross Keys 1741. First Edition. 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. Bookplate of Hon. Charter Viscount Bruce of Ampthill Son & Heir Apparent of Thomas Earl of Aielsbury & Baron of Whorelton. First Edition. 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. R. West, near the Cross Keys unknown books
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Royal Navy Vernon Edward
An Enquiry into the Conduct of Captain MostyN. Being remarks on the minutes of the Court-Martial . By a Sea Officer
London: for W. Webb 1745. First edition. 2 29 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound but sewing intact. Title a bit soiled but clean overall. First edition. 2 29 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. According to the DNB "In December 1743 Captain Savage Mostyn was appointed to the Suffolk which was on 24 February 1744 one of the fleet with Sir John Norris off Dungeness. In April he was moved to the Hampton Court one of four ships which on 6 January 1745 fell in with two French ships of the line off Ushant. Two of the English ships the Captain and the Sunderland parted company. The Hampton Court and Dreadnought continued the chase; but although Mostyn's ship came up with the French it could not engage without the assistance of the Dreadnought and the two Frenchmen got safely into Brest."<br/><br/>Mostyn was brought up for court martial and acquitted but his conduct became an object of popular and official scorn -- this heavily critical pamphlet is usually attributed to Admiral Vernon. Goldsmith No. 8197 for W. Webb unknown books
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Royal Navy Royal Navy
The Minutes of a Court Martial Held on Board His Majesty's Ship The Lenox in Portsmouth's Harbour on the 31st of January last; enquiring into the Conduct of the Commanders of the Hampton-Court and Dreadnaught for not engaging the Fleuron and Neptune two French Men of War.
London: J. Whiston 1745. First Edition. ii 69 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. First Edition. ii 69 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. J. Whiston unknown books
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Royal Navy Mathews Thomas Admiral
A Narrative of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Fleet in the Mediterranean and the combined fleets of France and Spain from the year 1741 to March 1744. . by a sea-officer
London: Various publishers 1745. Second edition printed in the same year as the first. viii1128 pp. 3 of 4 folding engraved maps. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound together in full brown contemporary calf rebacked. Very good. Second edition printed in the same year as the first. viii1128 pp. 3 of 4 folding engraved maps. 1 vols. 8vo. The Court-Martials of Mathews and Lestock. BOUND WITH:<br/><br/>2. Lestock Richard. Vice-Adm--l L-st-k's Account of the Late Engagement near Toulon between His Majesty's fleet and the fleets of France and Spain : as presented by him the 12th of March 1744-5 : also letters to and from Adm---l L-st--k relating thereto since his arrival in England with notes. 56 pp. London: for M. Cooper 1745. First edition.<br/><br/>3. Lestock Richard. Vice-Admal Lestock's Recapitulation: as spoke by him at the Bar of the Honble House of Commons on Tuesday the 9th of April 1745. 27 pp. London: for John Millan 1745. ESTC T39592<br/><br/>Three important pamphlets relating to the trials of Admiral Mathews and Lestock which resulted from their engagement with the French and Spanish fleet near Toulon in February 1744. "The battle was highly discreditable to the British fleet and not very honorable to their opponents but it is of the highest historical importance in the history of the navy. It marked the lowest pitch reached in discipline and fighting and efficiency by the fleet in the 18th century and it had a very bad effect in confirming the pedantic system of tactics set up by the old Fighting Instructions . " - Encyclopedia Britannica 11th ed. To the puzzlement of many Lestock who was second in command and who kept his distance from the battle was acquitted; while Mathews who engaged the enemy however confusedly was censured and discharged from the service. Provenance: Philip.C. Duschnes; Paul Peralta-Ramos with stamp Various publishers unknown books
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Royal Navy Byng George 1st Viscount Torrington
An Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily in .the Years 1718 1719 and 1720 under the command of Sir George Byng Bart. . Collected from the Admiral's manuscripts and other original papers. The dedication signed: T. C. i.e. Thomas Corbett.
Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand. The Second Edition. Folding chart. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. Bookplate of Charles Earl of Ailesbury. The Second Edition. Folding chart. 96 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. unknown books
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Royal Navy
Original Letters and Papers between Adm--------l M---------ws and V. Adm-------l L---------k. With several letters from private hands exhibiting many particulars hitherto unknown of the transactions in the Mediterranean . Also some observations on the conduct of the Brest Fleet etc.
London: M. Cooper 1744. First Edition. 128 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. Uncut loose else fine. First Edition. 128 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Letters between Admiral Mathews and Admiral Lestock. M. Cooper unknown books
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Livingston John W. officer US. Navy U. S.
Autograph Letter signed as "John W. Turk" before he changed his name to Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson requesting orders for "the first frigate or larger class of vessel that may be commissioned for sea service"; with with 3 letters to Livingston from the U.S. Navy including Commander THOMAS A CONOVER; and Acting Secy of the Navy CHAS. W. WELSH
Washington D.C. 1857. In all 4pp. 1 vols. 4to. Livingston letter stained and separated at fold others very good. In all 4pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Career of Rear Admiral John W. Livingston. John W. Livingston 1804-1885 naval officer from New York City was the son of a naval surgeon William Turk in 1843 Turk and his wife Mary Livingston Turlk changed their name to Livingston. Livingston rose throught the service and untimately became Commodore during the Civil War and was promoted rear admiral in 1868. See DAB<br/><br/>The earliest letter here is a grant of one month's leave of absence to "Lieut. John W. Turk." In the form letter fromthe Dept. of Navy of 1855 the Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles W. Welsh summons Livingston to appear at a General Court Martial on board the "Receiving ship North Carolina at New York on the 28th day of April" 1855; and the letter from Captain Thomas A. Conover "Flag Officer Comdg U.S. Armed Force Coast of Afroca" conveys orders to Livingston then in command of the U.S.S. St. Louis to "proceed with all despatch to Cape Palmas on the West Coast of Africa and look after our interests in that quarter. unknown books
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Royal Navy Lestock Richard Admiral
Vice-Adm--l L-st-k i.e. Vice-Admiral R. Lestock's account of the late Engagement near Toulon between His Majesty's fleet and the fleets of France and Spain as presented by Him the 12th of March 1744-45. Also letters to and from Adm---l L-st--k relating thereto since his arrival in England. With Notes
London: M. Cooper 1745. First Edition. 56 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. First Edition. 56 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. M. Cooper unknown books
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Royal Navy O'Beirne Thomas Lewis
Considerations on the Principles of Naval Discipline and Naval Courts-martial; In which the Doctrines lately laid down in the House of Commons upon those subjects are examined and the conduct of the courts-martial on Admiral Keppel and Sir Hugh Palliser are compared
London: Printed for J. Almon and J. Debrett 1781. First edition. A2 B-2B4. 4 190 2 ad pp. Errata leaf follows title page. 1 vols. 8vo. Uncut in later drab wrappers chipped and torn lower wrapper especially. Title leaf soiled with abrasion costing four letters in first line. Some old folds and minor soiling bottom corner of last leaf crumpled. First edition. A2 B-2B4. 4 190 2 ad pp. Errata leaf follows title page. 1 vols. 8vo. Courts Martial of Keppel & Palliser during the American Revolution. Written by Thomas Lewis O'Beirne 1748-1823 the Anglican divine whose first publication was the sermon he preached "An excellent sermon preached in St. Paul's Church New-York" NY 1776 as chaplin in Lord Howe's fleet at St. Paul's Chapel in New York after the disastrous fire in New York City of September 21 1776 probably set by Patriot arsonists. Upon his return to England in 1779 O'Beirne wrote a defense of Howe in "A Candid and Impartial Narrative of the Transactions of the Fleet ." L. 1779 and became more and more allied with the Whig party.<br/><br/>This is his defense of Admiral Keppel in the politically charged dispute with Sir Hugh Palliser and Lord Sandwich over their actions in the engagement with the French fleet off the coast of Brest in July 1778. Charges and counter-charges flew over that indecisive and costly encouter Kessel being accused "misconduct and neglect of duty" and of not having done enough to finish off the crippled French fleet. Indeed a claim was made at the time "that had the French been defeated at the time a diplomatic mission to America giving them the opportunity to abandon the French treaty would not have failed" DNB Palliser on the other hand was accused of neglecting to obey an order to come to the support of the rest of the fleet. The dispute ultimately resulted in court-martials of both men resulting in the acquittal of each although Palliser was censured and ruined while Keppel refused to serve under the current Ministry. <br/><br/>"The whole episode had severely weakened the standing of the Navy. Keppel asked not be sent to sea under the current Ministry and so the Admiralty retired him which led to a general resignation by his naval supporters depriving the Navy of many able officers in the continuing war against America." - DNB<br/><br/>The first edition of O'Beirne's account of the two court martials although well represented in institutions is rare on the market; and only one copy of the 2nd edition has appeared at auction over the last 30 years. ESTC T 9693 Printed for J. Almon and J. Debrett unknown books
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Navy US Nesser Robert Wilden
Statistical and Chronological History of the United States Navy 1775-1907
New York: The Macmillan Company 1909. First edition. viii 153; vi 487 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Blue cloth. Discreet blind stamp on title pages bookplate on pastedown abrasion on fore-edge of Volume Two else fine. First edition. viii 153; vi 487 pp. 2 vols. Folio. Volume One is Bibliography printed only on rectos. The Macmillan Company unknown books
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Royal Navy Lestock Richard Admiral
Vice-Admiral Lestock's Recapitulation as spoke by him at the Bar of the Honble House of Commons on Tuesday the 9th of April 1745 containing his remarks on the Evidence that have been examined relating to the late Miscarriage of his majesty's Fleet off Toulon aginst the combined Fleets of France and Spain
London: John Millan 1745. First Edition. 27 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Removed. First Edition. 27 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 8vo. John Millan unknown books
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Milk Treasury Department Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States.
Milk and Its Relation to Public Health.
Washington:: Government Printing Office 1909. 1909. Series: Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin No. 56. Thick 8vo. 834 pp. Numerous plates tables indexes. Printed wrappers. Previous owner's inked signature on front cover. Very good. This work is a revised and enlarged edition of Bulletin No. 41. Government Printing Office, 1909. unknown books
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PUTTI Vittorrio GUI Leonardo & Marina PANTALEONI.
La raccolta Vittorio Putti di quadri disegni incisioni ritratti di medici e uomini illustri.
Bologna:: Aulo Gaggi Editore 1966. 1966. 250 x 175 mm. 8vo. 217 pp. Color frontis. 40 plates some in color index. Orange cloth dust jacket; jacket extremities a bit worn. Very good. Scarce. Aulo Gaggi Editore, (1966). hardcover books
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Officer of the Colombian Navy. Bolivar Simon
Relato de un oficial ingles sobre la Guerra a Muerte. Recollection of a service of three years during the War of Extermination by an officer of the Colombian Navy 1828
Caracas: Ediciones Centauro 1977. Second edition. Black paper wrappers titled in yellow. About very good rubbing on wrappers last signature separated. 349 pp. 16mo. Translation of: Recollections of a service of three years during the war-of-extermination in the republics of Venezuela and Colombia by an officer of the Colombian Navy London Hunt & Clarke 1828. First published in 1945 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Colombia and translated by Maria Betancourt de Caceres an edition nearly impossible to find. Scarce. OCLC locates only seven copies of this edition and one two of the 1945 version. Ediciones Centauro unknown books
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US. Navy. U. S.
Labor Engineering.
Annapolis.: Unites States Naval Institute. 1943. 1st Edition. Blue cloth gold titles pictorial endpapers. Very good lower corner lightly bumped pencil name to half-title page in a good plus dust jacket with moderate edgewear and chipping. 23.5x15.5 cm. weight: 1.1 lb. Numerous illustrations. Unites States Naval Institute. hardcover books
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U S. Navy.
Swimming.
Annapolis.: Unites States Naval Institute. 1944. 1st Edition. Blue cloth gold titles pictorial endpapers. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some chipping to spine ends. 23.5x15.5 cm. weight: 1.9 lb. Numerous illustrations. Unites States Naval Institute. hardcover books
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U S. Navy.
Gymnastics and Tumbling.
Annapolis.: Unites States Naval Institute. 1944. 1st Edition. Blue cloth gold titles pictorial endpapers. Very good owner’s name to half-title page and rear endpaper in a good plus dust jacket with with the loss of a piece at the spine heel. 23.5x15.5 cm. weight: 1.9 lb. Numerous illustrations. Unites States Naval Institute. hardcover books
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