Search Results: SHIPS & SEA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

London: McCorquodale & Co, 1886. Hardcover. Good. A sea-faring novel with a chapter on Australia. 8vo, xvi, 236 pp. Yellow lithographed printed hardboard covers, corners bumped o/w good.

London: Messrs. Fores, lith. Day & Hague, Lithrs. to the Queen, 1845. Print. Very good. Tinted lithograph with beautiful hand color. Fine lithograph of the sloop Brigattin running up channel 1845. Sir Henry Keppel's career in the Royal Navy included several tours to Southeast Asia & China for service against the Malay pirates; 1st in command of the H.M.S. Dido and later of the H.M.S. Maeander. Inglefield related the story of his two commands in two publications, "The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido for the Suppression of Piracy" (1846), and in "A Visit to the Indian Archipelago in H.M.S. Maeander" (1853). Published Oct.r 21st 1845 by Messrs. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street, London. 15 3/4 x 11" printed area with small margins. Lower dedication line (To the Hon.ble Capt.n Keppel and the Officers of the Ship, this print is respectfully dedicated by The Publisher) trimmed; a couple of sml. circular patches at lower left margin and 2 right corners a little creased. Image very good… Read More

Hobart: The Mercury, 1934. Wraps. Very good. 8vo, 44pp + 6pp ills. Stiff paper wrappers. Clean. VG.

Cleveland, OH: Jontzen Printing Co, 1929. Paperback. Good +. Paper wrps.

Moore, Warren, edit. Sail and Steam. Patrick Stephens, Cambridge 1980. Signed limited edition 13/100 copies. 4to, 175pp, (ii), ship illustrations throughout, many in color. Full blue goatskin, raised bands, ship decoration on cover & orig. slipcase, very good+ condition. Signed by the author. Sumptuously illustrated modern classic of historic and current ships, by the noted marine painter Jack Spurling.

Pierrepont, Edwards. The Steamer Alabama, her Engine, Tackle etc. The Coastwise Company Claimant and Appellant Impleaded with the steam tug boat Gamecock, her engine, etc. ado Nicholas de las Casas. Brief for the Steamer Alabama. Supreme Court of the U.S., 1875, 65pp, 1 lithographed plan of scene. Pp wrps, slt. chipped on spine o/w vgc. Pierrepont, a noted NY lawyer and resident of Garrison NY, represented the Steamer Alabama in its suit against a party which crashed into them in NY harbor.