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[DESTROYERS]. The "town" class destroyers: the story of the "four-stackers"... [Bath]. [H. Sharp & Sons], [1949]. First edition. Quarto. 107pp, [1]. With fifty mounted photographs. Bound for presentation in contemporary navy half-morocco, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering and nautical motifs to spine, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. Presentation plate to FEP: 'Presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the citizens of Castleton in grateful recollection of the services to the allied cause in the Second World ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 26602
[NAPOLEONIC WARS]. [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign 1793. London. Printed by A. Strahan, [1793]. [2], 267pp, [1].

[Together with:] [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign 1794. London. A. Strahan, [1794]. [2], 399pp, [1].

[And:] [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign 1795. London. Printed by A. Strahan, [1795]. [2], 211pp, [1].

[And:] [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign 1796. [London]. [Printed by A. Strahan], [1796]. [2], 342pp, [1].

[And:] [Caption title:] Bulletins of the campaign 1797. London. Printed by A. ... More >
£ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 30168
[SONGS]. Ye mariners of england... [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d., c. 1840?] Dimensions 200 x 250 mm. Single sheet, printed on one side only. Printed in two columns. Numbered at the foot '[song 219.]' Three small burn-marks, else clean and crisp. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30173
[SONGS]. The return of the admiral... Durham. Walker, printer, [s.d., c.1850] Dimensions 190 x 250 mm. Single sheet, printed on one side only. Printed in two columns. With two woodcut illustrations. Numbered at the foot '(59.)' A trifle creased. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 30166
CHURCHILL, T. O. The life of lord viscount nelson, duke of bronté, &c. London. Printed by Harrison and Rutter, 1810. Second edition. Quarto. vii, [1], 94pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece, a further 13 engraved plates, and a tipped-in facsimile of a Nelson letter. Single leaf broadside: 'Ode, By Henry James Pye, Esq. P. L. Performed at St. James's, January, 18, 1806, on the Anniversary of Her Majesty's Birth Day' bound at rear. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Justice of the ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 29309
AN OFFICER. The life and actions of that distinguished naval hero, admiral nelson; who fell in the battle of trafalgar, october 21 1805. Hudson [New York]. Published by William E. Norman, 1808. 70pp. With a wood engraved portrait frontispiece.

[Bound with:] Life of napoleon bonaparte, emperor of the french, king of italy, and protector of the rhenish confederation, from his birth to the present time. Hudson [New York]. Published by William E. Norman, 1810. 108pp. With a wood engraved frontispiece.

12mo. Contemporary red half-roan, buff paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt to spine. Extremities worn and ... More >
£ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24433
[ROYAL NAVY]. Steel's original and correct List of the Royal Navy... London. Printed for D. Steel, Corrected to February, 1799 12mo. [2], 49pp, [1]. With an initial leaf and final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's powder blue wrappers. Rubbed and spotted, loss to spine, unpaid Lombard St. penny post stamp and manuscript publication date to upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24441
WARD, Robert. A treatise of the relative rights and duties of belligerent and neutral powers, in maritime affairs: in which the principles of armed neutralities, and the opinions of hubner and schlegel are fully discussed. London. Printed for J. Butterworth, 1801. First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 172pp, [2]. With a terminal advertisement leaf. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards. Extremities worn and marked, later naive paper repairs to head of spine. Early ink ownership inscription to head of half-title, spotted. More > £ 150.00 Antiquates Ref. 22103
[ROYAL MARINES]. A list of the officers of his majesty's royal marine forces, with the numbers of the companies stationed at each of the four head-quarters. Also, alist of the officers who have been allowed to retire upon their full pay: and a list of the reduced officers of the said forces; with an alphabetical list of the whole. London. Printed by S. Brooke, [1816]. 8vo. [2], 71pp predominantly printed on versos only, 83pp, [1]. Contemporary gilt-tooled red straight-grain morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed, damp-stained, spine dulled. Marbled endpapers, Armorial bookplate of William Henry to FEP, ink-stamps of the Law Society of London to front blank fly-leaves, blank recto of p.6, and rear blank fly-leaf. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27801