11. 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.

12. Cunard Liner Interior Illustrations – [Cunard].

History of the Cunard Steamship Company – (Extracted from “The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine”) – [This rare publication originates from the “Publicity-Department of the Cunard Line” and come together with a vintage Passenger-Card of the Cunard Royal Mail Steamer “Batavia” showing a Cabin Plan verso and an image of Samuel Walters’ painting of the “Batavia” on the front].

[London], [Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine] / [Allen & Co.], [1886]. Octavo. Frontispiece, 31 pages text, interspersed with 13 engravings (including Frontispiece) and an Appendix with Cabin Plans. Original Hardcover with Cunard-Company-Crest. Professionally restored and rebacked by an english masterbinder. Excellent condition. Cunard’s own copy with several stamps from Cunard “Please return to Publicity Dept. – The Cunard S.S.Co. Ltd. – Cunard Building – Liverpool”. Further stamp of preowner “Arthur C. Wardle”, Liverpool Historian.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. [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.

16. Rollin, Mr. [Charles].

The History of the Arts and Sciences of Antients [with all 52 plates complete] – Under the following Heads : In Three Volumes. Volume I: Agriculture, Commerce, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, the Art Military / Volume II: Art Military, Grammar, Philology, Rhetoric, Poetry / Volume III: Poetry, History, Eloquence, Philosophy, Civil Law, Metaphysics and Physics, Physic, Botany, Chymistry [Chemistry], Anatomy, Mathematics, Geometry, Astronomy, Arithmetic, Geography and Navigation. By Mr. Rollin, Late Principal of the University of Paris, Professor of Eloquence in the Royal College and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French. The Second Edition. Illustrated with Fifty-two [52] Copper Plates, representing the Civil and Military Architecture of the Antients, their Temples, Machines, Engines of War, Painting, &c.

3 Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1768. Octavo. Volume I: [12], 374 pages with 12 plates (as called for) / Volume II: [4], 360 pages with 40 plates (as called for) [pages 71 – 74 and the two plates these two pages are holding, loosely inserted], [Plate on page 104 loosely inserted] / Volume III: [4], 516 pages including a thorough Index. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spines of all three Volumes. All Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All Volumes firm and all plates complete and in really excellent condition and strong imprints. All plates folded beautifully without tears ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Rare in this complete and excellent condition. It is common to find this work with plates missing which makes this complete set extremely scarce.

17. 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”.

18. Smith Homans, J. (senior) / Smith Homans Jr., J. (junior).

A Cyclopaedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. With Maps and Engravings.

Facsimile of the 1858-edition. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1858. Large Octavo. Volume I and II: VI, 2007 pages (continued pagination). Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjackets stronger rubbed / Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

19. [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.

20. Seymour, Capt. W.D. [William Deane Seymour from Queenstown, Co.Cork].

Journal of A Voyage Round the World.

Cork, Printed and Published by Francis Guy, 1877. Octavo. Portrait (Original Albumen Print of Seymour’s Photograph], VII, 169 pages. Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and armorial Motto of Seymour on front board. Very good condition. Binding a bit shaky. Extremely Rare !