1. Ewers, John K.

The Western Gateway – A History of Fremantle.

Second, Revised Edition. Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1971. Large Octavo. XXIII, 262 pages with many plates / illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation – copy, inscribed by the Mayor and City Manager of Fremantle as well as a former Grand Master of Western Australia and Grand Sire of Australasia.

2. Marquand, Hilary.

Memoirs of a Victorian Master Mariner. Edited by Eric B. Marquand with an Introduction by Philip Riden.

Cardiff, Merton Priory Press Ltd, 1996. 16 cm x 24 cm. XLVI, 274 pages. With twenty-two black and white plates / photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent, as new condition.

3. Cordingly, David.

Billy Ruffian-The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon. The Biography of a Ship of the Line, 1782-1836.

London, Bloomsbury, 2003. 16 cm x 24.2 cm. XII, 355 pages. With illustrations, maps and battleplans. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

4. Dunn, Laurence.

Thames Shipping.

Erste Auflage. London, Carmania Press, 1992. 21,5 x 27 cm. 112 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

5. Wheatley, Keith.

National Maritime Museum Guide to Maritime Britain. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KD, KT. Preface by Richard Ormondl Director of the National Maritime Museum.

London, Webb & Bower, 2000. 19,5 x 25 cm. 208 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

6. Dixon, Conrad.

Ships of the Victorian Navy. Published in association with The Society for Nautical Research.

First Edition. Shedfield, Ashford Press, 1987. 19,5 x 26 cm. 112 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

7. Carpenter, David.

Dockland Apprentice.

First Edition. Peacehaven, Bears Hide Publishing, 2003. 14 x 21,5 cm. 192 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

8. [Parker, Richard – Mutiny] Anonymous.

Die schwimmende Republik. [‘The Floating Republic’] Eine Erzählung des Aufstandes der brittischen [sic] Seeleute auf der Themse im Jahr 1797. Nebst Richard Parkers Vertheidigung vor dem Kriegsgerichte und einem Anhang über das Seewesen, beschrieben von einem Augenzeugen. [The german title translates: “‘The Floating Republic’ – A narrative of the uprising / mutiny of the british sailors on the Thames in 1797. Along with Richard Parker’s defense before the court martial and an appendix on maritime affairs, described by an eyewitness”].

Erste Deutsche Ausgabe / First and only german Edition. Fürth, Bureau für Litteratur, 1803. Duodecimo (10 cm x 15.3 cm). Portrait-Frontispiz (Portrait – Engraving of Richard Parker by J.F.Volkart), 120 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler, wunderbarer Halblederband mit reicher Verzierung und Rueckenschildchen. Außergewöhnlich gut erhalten mit zwei ganz kleinen Wurmgängen am unteren Kapital. Ganz blasses Anzeichen eines alten Bibliotheksstempelchen auf dem Titelblatt. Portrait und Text in exzellenter Erhaltung. Eine Publikation von grosser Seltenheit !

9. Usherwood, Stephen.

Treat Great Enterprise – The history of the Spanish Armada. As revealed in contemporary documents selected and edited by Stephen Usherwood.

London, Folio Society, 1978. Slim Quarto (16.5 cm x 25 cm). 192 pages. With 31 excellent illustrations. Decorative Hardcover. Excellent condition.

10. Campbell, John.

Lives of the Admirals, And other eminent British Seamen; containing Their Personal Histories, and a Detail of all their Public Services. Including A new and accurate Naval History, from the earliest Account of Time; and clearly proving by a continued Series of Facts, our uninterrupted Claim to, and Enjoyment of, the Dominion of our Seas. Interspersed With many curious Passages, relating to our Discoveries, Plantations and Commerce. Supported throughout by proper Authorities.

The Third Edition. In Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for T.Osborne, C.Hitch and L.Hawes, H.Woodfall, J.Rivington and others, 1761. Octavo (13.5 cm x 20.5 cm). Pagination [see full list of maps and portraits below the description]: Volume I: 587 pages with one folded map and two portraits / Volume II: 580 pages with one folded map and two portraits / Volume III: 488 pages with two fold-out maps / Volume IV: 519 pages with two fold-out maps. Hardcover / Original 18th century – calf with gilt ornament and original spine-labels [of which one spine-label has been recently replaced in matching style]. Bindings all firm and with only minor signs of wear and bunping to top and bottom of spine’s. Interior, Maps and Portraits all in excellent condition. Very inor, faded dampstain to the outer margins of some pages of Volume III. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

11. Porter Jr., LCDR William Hamilton / [Howard Chandler Christy].

Archive of Naval Captain, Lieutenant commander [LCDR] William Hamilton Porter Jr.‘s Love Letters to his wife Amy Manning Porter and letters to his mother Barbara Hamilton Porter, from his service during and after graduating from United States Naval Academy Annapolis MD, 1914. The Collection includes not only the Yearbook of the Brigade of Midshipmen, called “Lucky Bag”, signed with nearly all Graduates and with numerous amazing photographic illustrations of sports like American Football, Lacrosse, early photographs of Basketball and Baseball – Teams, images of visits to Ireland etc., but the collection includes nearly 50 manuscript letters by LCDR Porter from the USS Alden, USS Columbia, writing back home to his wife Amy between 1916 and 1920, reflecting his first tour of duty and sending letters from Constantinople, Smyrna, Venice, Dalmatia, Split, Naples, Samsoun, etc. The collection is full of reports of life on ship and upcoming tours to Naples, Genoa and Villefranche, relationship to the captain, Porter’s view on politics etc. Telegram about “USS Alden and two Destroyers of the 26th Division to be designated by USADRA proceed to Manila”. / Fantastic archive of an Annapolis Graduate with amazing artwork by Howard Chandler Christy in the “Lucky Bag” and a collection of letters in all its complete scarcity of completeness. The collection also includes the original letter of “Washington Granite Monumental” to Porter’s wife upon Porter’s burial at Arlington National Cemetery (he died in 1937).

Baltimore (Maryland) / Annapolis / USS Alden etc., 1916-1920. Octavo. Lucky Bag [Vol. XXI [Volume 21] of the Annual of the Brigade of Midshipmen at Annapolis / Two Ringfolders with original letters, telegrams and some photographs. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Check out a large collection of high quality photographs on our website, depicting Baseball, Crew Rwoing, Handball, Basketball and Baseball at the Academy in Annapolis. Rare collection with the wonderful original signatures of nearly all Graduates who served with LCDR Porter.

12. [Selkirk, Alexander] / [A.B. Becher (Editor)].

The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle, for 1837. A Journal of Papers on Subjects connected with Maritime Affairs [with detailed accounts by Captain P. Masters of Liverpool in his “Notes on a Voyage from Cape Horn to Mazatlan” reporting on Juna Fernandez Island and its connection to Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe)].

London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1837. Octavo. XII, 864, 12, [12] pages with numerous folded and full-page plates and maps. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s half-leather with original gilt ships as spine-ornament. Original spine-label missing. Otherwise in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Some minor signs of foxing to the plates only (due to different paper being used for the maps and illustrations). The text absolutely clean.

13. Felix, Ernest J. / Bosanquet, Lieut. Henry T.A.

How to enter the Royal Navy. With an article by Lieut. Henry T.A. Bosanquet, R.N. Cover Specially designed by H.M.Livett.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., no year (c.1898). Small Octavo. Frontispiece, (8 unnumbered pages), 102 pages plus 22 unnumbered pages of Advertising. With five (5) photographic illustrations. Original Hardcover (decorative blue publisher’s cloth). Poor but firm condition of the binding and some repair to Frontispiece and titlepage with stronger signs of wear. Smaller damage to rear pastedown. Complete with all photographs. One of the rarer titles on the Royal Navy and its recruiting techniques at the end of the Victorian Age. Name of preowner on pastedown: “P.W.Newenham, Coolmore, Carrigaline, County Cork”.

14. [Jane, Fred T.] McMurtrie, Francis E.

Jane’s Fighting Ships 1944 – 45 [1945] (corrected to April, 1946). Founded in 1897 by Fred T.Jane – Forty-Eighth Year of Issue.

London, Sampson Low, Martson & Co., [1946]. Oblong Quarto [near Folio]. Pagination: 70 pages of advertising are preciding the book, Frontispiece, XXX, 636 pages with hundreds of photographs of Fighting ships, Submarines, Destroyers etc. from all nations, and countless pages of Advertising for Industries related to shipbuilding and Maritime Suppliers. With an alphabetical list of Advertisers. Including a “War Loss Section” which details the fate of each vessel (captured, sunk etc.). Hardcover. Spine damaged (split from binding). The binding still firm. Interior excellent. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the very rare 1944/1945/1946 edition.

15. [Neale, William Johnstoun Nelson].

History of the Mutiny at Spithead and The Nore; With an Enquiry Into Its Origin and Treatment : And Suggestions for the Prevention of Future Discontent in the Royal Navy.

London, Printed for Thomas Tegg, 1842. Small Octavo. Frontispiece Portrait of Richard Parker, XII, 415 pages. Hardcover prize-binding in full morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. With Motto and ornament and motto of the Edinburgh Academy on front and rear board and bookplate of Edinburgh Academy to pastedown [Gained by John Mackenzie “For Scholarship – 9th Prize awarded by “George Ferguson (Master)”]. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

16. Morison, Samuel Eliot.

The Maritime History of Massachusetts (1783 – 1860). With Illustrations.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company – The Riverside Press Company, 1941. Octavo. XI,420 pages with wonderful illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the jacket (some fraying and loss to corners of the jacket only). The book is firm and due to the protected dustjacket in wonderful gift-condition.

17. King, C.L.

Shape a Course for Fastnet – Attacks on Merchant Ships by U-boats during the Great War where the Survivors landed in Kerry and West Cork.

(Wexford), Island Lighthouse Publications, 2017. Quarto (22 cm wide x 30.5 cm high). XV, Original Hardcover with original dustjacket but our copy now in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear.

18. Maddock, John.

Rosslare Harbour, Sea & Ships.

First Edition. Portmarnock, Harbour Publications, 1996. 15 x 21 cm. 132 Pages, including photographs and map. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

19. [Great British Admiralty].

British Vessels Lost at Sea 1939-45. A reprint of the original official publications Ships of the Royal Navy: Statement of Losses During the Second World War and British Merchant Vessels Lost or Damaged by Enemy Action During Second World War. Crown copyright: first published in 1947 by Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, London. Reprint by permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationary Office.

Cambridge, Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1977. 21.5 cm x 24 cm. VI, 103 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition+ with only minor signs of external wear. Ephemera lossely inserted listing rescues made by Irish Naval ships during this period. Rare.

20. Alexander, Caroline.

The Bounty – The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty.

New York / London / a.o., Viking, 2003. 16 cm x 24 cm. 491 pages. Several black and white and a few coloured plates, maps and illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Fine / As New.