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Hamburg : Eckardt und Messtorff,, 1908.. 1908 Landscape format. [8], 803, [92] p. 109 plates. 23cm. Publisher's quarter morocco, gilt. A few marks to the binding which is still very sound. Internally clean and tight. A very good copy of the standard maritime dictionary. This is a heavy volume which will attract additional postage charges.

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, , 1857.. 1857 135, 8 p. Publisher's catalogue. Diagrams in the text. 18cm. Cloth covered cut flush boards. Title and the price 1/6 in gilt on the front board. Spine worn, otherwise a clean copy.

Dublin, Hodges and Smith,, 1831.. 1831 [4], 355, [3], viii p. Modern green binder's cloth with faint splash mrks on the spine. Neat paper repairs to fore edge of initial blank and title. Two faint library stamps, otherwise clean and tight. A very good copy.

Deal, T. F. Pain & Sons,, 1929.. 1929 Tall 8vo. 174 p. Forty two illustrations. Publisher's olive green cloth, gilt. Rubbed at spine ends and a small mark at the foot of the front board. Internally clean. Text printed in two columns. A very good copy of a scarce item. The text was largely compiled from local newspaper reports supplemented by recollections of the last surviving sailors who also supplied some of the photographs.

London: Printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, MDCCLXXIV., 1774. . 1774 4to. 5, [11]p. 83 plates. The text leaves are printed on the recto only. Contemporary blind panelled reverse calf with some marks and signs of use. There is a 1 cm worm track at the head of the spine, near the lower joint. Internally occasional signs of handling but the contents are crisp and tight. Signatures of Stranrawer 20 Decr. 1793 / Arthr. Paterson on the front pastedown and W. Leggat on the front endpaper. Paterson has also left his signature on the rear pastedown. The rear endpaper removed. Calculations and sketches on both pastedowns. First edition. This popular work went through 7 editions, including one printed in Boston in 1792. A very sound copy in untouched condition.

Farnborough, Hants., Gregg, , 1969.. 1969 Folio. [6], 14 p. 42 plates. 44x28 cms. Publisher's green cloth gilt. Ex-reference library copy with neat labels and markings. A very good copy. Facimile of the 1786 edition and of interest for the estimating of costs, materials and labour associated with each plate.

Hindhead, Saiga Publishing Co. Ltd., , 1980. 1980 x, 114 p. Illustrations. Publisher's hardback binding. The spine of the wrapper is faded, otherwise a very clean copy in a similar dustwrapper.

London, Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1865. 1865 8vo. iv, 460 pp. First edition. Frontis., engraved title page and 169 wood engravings. Publisher's cloth over bevelled boards, gilt. All edges gilt. Rebacked in matching cloth and original spine preserved. A very sound copy of this lovely book.

Wrexham: Alfred N. Palmer,, 1883.. 1883 48 p. Folding map. Errata slip. Printed wrappers, front wrapper chipped. Neat stamps of the History Faculty Library, Oxford

Kendal, Westmorland Gazette Ltd.,, 1944.. 1944 Small 4to. 124 p. 59 pages of plates. First edition. Publisher's beige cloth. Sleeved dustwrapper chipped on edges with a little loss. A very good copy.

Stroud, lan Sutton., 1990.. 1990 0862997763 xi, 281 p. Illustrations. An unopened copy in its dustwrapper.

Sold by Azulay, Thames Tunnel., 1849. 1849 Wood engraved panorama 6 inches tall x 18 feet in length on a wooden roller with turned finials as issued. Printed orange wrapper. It shows the north bank of the Thames from the new Houses of Parliament downstream to the Isle of Dogs followed by the south bank upstream to Deptford. The orange wrapper is pasted onto the verso of the start of the roll. The wrapper has been expertly reattached to the roll which shows two old tape marks on its verso. There are a few short edge tears which nowhere affect the image and occasional paste browning where the sheets were joined. A very good example. Ralph Hyde has traced the progression of the various issues of the Grand Panorama in his introductory essay to Harry Margary's facsimile. It originated as a promotional gift for subscribers to Illustrated London News in January 1843. It was reissued and extended several times in a circulation war between this journal and Pictorial Times, culminating in Charles… Read More

Birmingham, Printed by John Thompson; for C. Dilly, London, , 1792. 1792 40, [2] p. The final leaf is an Advertisement, with 6 lines of Errata on the verso. Disbound. First and final leaves dusty, otherwise a vey good copy. Unrecorded. This a later issue which has the title spelt 'Irenoplis' on the title page. Additionally, ESTC T37890 has 4 lines of Errata at the foot of p.40 and no Advertisement.

Wilton, Michael Russell,, 1980.. 1980 144 p. Portrait, frontispiece, 121 plates. 33cm. A fine copy in sleeved dustwrapper.

Athlone Press,, 1964.. 1964 lviii,491 p. Illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt. No dustwrapper. Contents clean and tight. A very good copy.

Leeds, Printed for W. Parson and W. White., 1830.. 1830 383, [1] p. 6 engraved plates. Final Advertisement leaf. Vol.2 never appeared. Later cloth binding with a contrasting spine and leather label. The original printed wrapper is pasted onto the front board. The plates are uniformly toned. A very good copy.

London, Printed for the Proprietor, 1811. 1811 xvi, 68, 540 p. 10 maps on 7 folding sheets (map of the Isle of Wight + 9 maps on 6 sheets). Modern quarter calf with marbled boards. Old inkstain to the lower margin of some maps, not touching the printed area, otherwise a very good copy.

Printed for Luke Meredith, 1691. 1691 12mo. [10], 258 p. Engraved titlepage. Contemporary panelled calf newly rebacked, original spine relaid. Slight wear at corners. No half title and A4 torn across and repaired without loss.

London John Van Voorst, , 1886.. 1886 4to. xi, 214, [2] p. Coloured frontis. and 113 tinted plates (2 folding) and 16 illus. in the text as called for and the final advert. leaf. Publisher's decorated cloth neatly rebacked with the original spine re-laid, titled in gilt on the spine and front board. Light shelf wear to the edges and corners. A clean bright copy. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown.

New York, Published for the Facsimile Press Society by Columbia University Press,, 1942.. 1942 xxiii, [10],203, [1] p. 13 cm. Brown cloth binding. Old shelfmark on spine and accession number on the title page verso but no library stamps. Contents clean and tight.