Search Results: Maritime from Mike Park Ltd

London: Hollis and Carter, 1977. Illustrated, octavo, pp 187, a very good copy indeed, virtually as new apart from a slight fade to the spine of the dustwrapper, which is now protected in a removable sleeve.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Well illustrtaed, 12mo, pp 799, very slightly used internally, soft cloth with paper wrap, very slightly worn. . First Edition. Soft Cloth. Good.

Melbourne and London: Hill House Publishers, 1990. Limited edition of 500 copies only. Illustrated, folio, pp 112, green cloth, a very good copy. The first trade edition, without the brochure of other illustrations. [Comprises two major essays - "Sir Joseph Banks as the Father of Australia", and "Captain Cook's Second Voyage and His Chart of the Southern Hemisphere", together with two appendices - "Franz Andreas Bauer" and "The Banks Copper Engraving of the Great Pacific Ocean". With two portaits of Banks, two botanical plates (by L'Heritier and Franz Bauer), 10 plates of charts or maps, and seven other plates.]. First Edition. Cloth. As New.

New York: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. Illustrated with 8 full-page colour plates and 289 illustrations in the text, large 8vo, pp (xx) 694, undated (circa 1915/16), maritime blue decorated cloth with battleship image on upper board, gilt lettering on spine, slight wear to cloth boards, slight fading to spine that also has one small unbroken dent towards the bottom, head of spine slightly pulled, binding slightly skewed, browning to both free endpapers, front endpaper also lacks top corner and piece at the bottom, light foxing on half-title page, fore-edge has signs of fine foxing, clean internally..

Stratford: Essex Field Club, 1937. Dry Rot in Ships (Being a Presidential Address delivered on 20th March, 1937). Small slim octavo, pp [36], paperback, a very clean bright copy. SCARCE. [Ted Batten's copy, Initialled by the author on the upper cover. Reprinted from Essex Naturalist Vol XXV].. First Edition thus. Paperback. Very Good.

London: Longman, Green & Co., 1909. Illustrated with wood engravings, small octavo, pp xvi, 328, exceptionally clean internally, red cloth slightly marked, the spine a little faded. A good copy.. Cloth. Good.

61/4, Holborn Viaduct, London: Henry S. Fitter & Sons, Ltd, 1931. Illustrated, slender small octavo, pp 24, the pages are loose as the staples have rusted, paperback covers with "porthole", faded and very slightly worn. With the stamp pf the conservationist Richard Fitter. [A promotional booklet for the firm and for Smithfield Market. The company had been trading at Smithfield since 1869, and were the first to import meat from New Zealand in 1882, on board the S.V. "Dunedin".] Postage will be reduced.. First Edition. Paperback. Good.

London: Seeley, Service & Co Limited, 1927. Illustrated with many plates and line drawings, thick 8vo, pp 347, rather foxed throughout including the fore-edge (worse on the first few pages), otherwise very sound and tight internally, pictorial cloth quite bright and clean.. Pictorial Cloth. Good.

New York & London: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, Ltd, 1982. Well illustrated, large quarto, pp 252, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is just slightly rubbed with very slight signs of use.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly rubbed.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1971. Illustrated, pp 175, clean internally, blue cloth very slightly worn and slightly bowed, still a good copy in a dustwrapper which is a bit torn and soiled. [On 18 February 1807, as a helpless onlooker, Manby witnessed a Naval ship, the Snipe, run aground 60 yards off Great Yarmouth during a storm, with (according to some accounts) a total of 214 people drowned, including French prisoners of war, women and children. Following this tragedy, Manby experimented with mortars, and so invented the Manby Mortar, later developed into the breeches buoy, that fired a thin rope from shore into the rigging of a ship in distress. A strong rope, attached to the thin one, could be pulled aboard the ship. His successful invention followed an experiment as a youth in 1783, when he shot a mortar carrying a line over Downham church. His invention was officially adopted in 1814, and a series of mortar stations were established around the coast. It was estimated that by the time of his death… Read More

London: Constable & Co. Ltd, 1955. A few illustrations, small octavo, pp xviii, 148, a very small mark to the fore-edge and one to the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, blue clot, spine very slightly faded otherwise very good. . Cloth. Good.

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. Illustrated, octavo, pp 253, very clean internally, paperback, covers showing only very slight signs of use, the spine a little faded. . Paperback. Very Good.

Hersham: Ian Allen Publishing, 2014. Well illustrated, tall slim quarto, pp 160, very clean internally, pictorial boards, the top of the spine very slightly bruised, otherewise a very good copy.. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Very Good.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1971. Well illustrated, small quarto, pp 320, a very good copy in a dustwrapper which is lightly price-clipped and showing very slight signs of use. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: John Murray, 1978. Very well illustrated with line drawings, quarto, pp 447, extremely clean internally, blue cloth in excellent condition, the dustwrappe has two tiny closed tears, otherwise it is just showing the slightest signs of use. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Slightly Worn.

London: John Murray, Publisher to the Admiralty and to the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition, with three pages of advertisements at the end of Volume 1, and page 258 mis-numbered in Volume 2. Two volumes bound in one, two frontispieces, 12mo, pp viii, 253, (3); viii, 280, slightly weak internally, staining to the first few pages of volume one, then minor staining to the lower margin of the next few pages, tear to page 207/208 and slight adhesion damage to pages 207/212, with very slight loss of text, bound in contemporary green half calf and marbled boards, rubbed, spine head a little pulled..

New York and London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Illustrated, pp xviii, 249, uncut, small neat inscription on the dedication page, slight ink marks on the fore-edge, foxing to the first blank pages, the half-title, frontispiece and title page, otherwise clean internally, decorated cloth slightly worn and dusty, splash marks on the upper and lower cover. [The histories of four famous American vessels, each bearing the name Grand Turk. The First (1781-1788), Second (1791-1795, Third (1812-1816), Fourth (1916-1924). The first was a privateer during the American War of Independence. It sailed twice commercially to the Indian Ocean with calls at Canton and was sold at Isle de France in 1788. The second sailed in 1792 to Calcutta and Madras. The third sailed as a privateer during the 1812 war. The fourth sailed in the Caribbean and was wrecked on Yucatan.]. First Edition. Cloth. Good.

Oxford at The Clarendon Press, 1913. A few illustrations, octavo, pp 416, a worn ex-library copy with stamps, lacking the frint endpaper, the half-title almost detached, otherwise tight internally, the original spine is loose in the book, and has been replaced with a paper spine taped on. A good working copy, but no more than that.. First Edition. Cloth. Poor.

Truro & London: W. Lake; Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1875. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, three plates, a double page map and a vignette title page, square octavo, pp (6), 135, all edges gilt, some foxing here and there, a couple of neat relevant pencil annotations, original green bevelled cloth, gilt lines and decoration on upper cover, slightly worn and rubbed, very neatly and professionally recased, keeping the original endpapers. A paper attached to the front endpaper reads "From the author", followed by an address. [The subscribers' list at the rear accounts for about 200 copies.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd Small thick octavo, pp 345, the edges slightly marked, the bottom edge a little soiled, green cloth slightly worn, the spine and lower cover lightly blotched, the dustwrapper rather worn, stretched and frayed with slight loss around the edges. [Nova Scotia].. Fourth edition. Cloth. Good/Fair.