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By: Bowers, Paul.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Airlife: 1999
Seller ID: 65169
ISBN: 1840370661
Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket
Hardback; marks to endpaper otherwise good in torn dustjacket. ; Nineteenth-century British inventor George William Garrett and his submarine Resurgam. Illustrated. ; 224 pages View more info
By: Brown, D.K.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 1990
Seller ID: 62405
ISBN: 978184322585
Condition: New in New dust jacket
New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £40.00.; The advent of steam and the paddle fighting ship, iron hulls and screw propulsion. The performance of the fleet in the Crimean War; and the design of the Warrior - the first iron-built, sea-going capital ship. Illustrated. (Reprint of the Seaforth edition, published 2015). ; 224 pages View more info
By: Canney, D. L.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Chatham Publishing: 2001
Seller ID: 63843
ISBN: 1861761104
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; A well illustrated study re-assessing the work of Howard Chapelle and the evolution of the American Navy. The warship types and service, Navy-built warships of the American Revolution, and ship design up to the 1860s. ; 224 pages View more info
By: Crane, D.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Harper Press: 2009
Seller ID: 40246
ISBN: 0007254059
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; A portrait of the Royal Navy through the lives of three outstanding naval officers. Frank Hastings, William Peel, and James Goodenough. Illustrated. ; 480 pages View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Naval & Military Press:
Seller ID: 50308
ISBN: 1843425319
Condition: Fair
Paperback; lean to spine, dent to margin of pages, blemish to edge of pages, otherwise good in creased card covers. ; Facsimile reprint of the Revised Fourth Edition, published 1855. Illustrated. ; 645 pages View more info
By: Ellis, J. H.
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2002
Seller ID: 62234
ISBN: 1557502048
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket. ; Percival's naval career began in 1797 when he was impressed into British naval service aboard HMS Victory and ended in 1846 after taking the USS Constitution on her only around-the-world cruise. Illustrated. ; 242 pages View more info
By: Evans, R. D. (Cooling, B. F. Introduction.)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1994
Seller ID: 60502
ISBN: 0870215876
Condition: Good
Classics of Naval Literature. Hardback without dustjacket; blemish to edge of pages otherwise very good in marked cloth boards. ; The author (Robley D. Evans) served in the American Civil War, and the Spanish-American War. First published 1901. With new Introduction. +xxviiipp. ; 481 pages View more info
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Osprey: 2006
Seller ID: 56372
ISBN: 1846030307
Condition: Good
Essential Histories 66. Paperback; dent to corners of pages otherwise good in creased and yellowed card covers. ; Illustrated. ; 95 pages View more info
Price: £24.99
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing: 2017
Seller ID: 65244
ISBN: 184832099X
Condition: New in New dust jacket
New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £45.00.; Illustrated with b/w photographs and line drawings. Ship plans by A D Baker III. ; 352 pages View more info
By: Fulton, Robert. (Henkle, Herman H. Introduction. )
Price: £15.00
Publisher: The Swallow Press Incorporated: 1971
Seller ID: 64968
ISBN: 0804005338
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Hardback without dustjacket; bookplate to paste-down, otherwise very good in discoloured cloth boards. ; Facsimile reprint of the 1810 edition; with New Introduction. Illustrated; +xiiipp. Robert Fulton, designer of the Nautilus, the first practical submarine in history; and inventor of some of the earliest naval torpedoes for use by the Royal Navy. ; 60 pages View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press: 1992
Seller ID: 63819
ISBN: 0851775640
Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Conway's History of the Ship. Hardback; very good in price-clipped, scratched and creased dustjacket. ; Illustrated. ; 192 pages View more info
By: Hackemer, K.
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 2001
Seller ID: 47460
ISBN: 1557503338
Condition: Fine
Hardback issued without dustjacket; a fine copy. ; The first book to examine the developing relationship between American business and the U.S. Navy in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.; 181 pages View more info
By: Hawkey, A.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Airlife: 1999
Seller ID: 41477
ISBN: 1840370955
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Hardback; very good in lightly creased dustjacket. ; The loss of HMS Captain in 1870, the first sea-gowing turret warship; and the controversy in parliament and the press which led to her building. Illustrated. ; 192 pages View more info
By: Henson, C. T.
Price: £8.00
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press: 1982
Seller ID: 59784
ISBN: 0817300872
Condition: Good
Hardback without dustjacket; tear to margin of one page otherwise good in scuffed boards. ; The creation of the American East India Squadron in 1835 and the effects of its presence on the China coast during the nineteenth century. ; 231 pages View more info
By: Long, D. F.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Naval Institute Press: 1988
Seller ID: 41642
ISBN: 0870212281
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Hardback; fine in fine dustjacket. ; Maps & illustrations. View more info
By: Murphy, W. S.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: William Kimber: 1987
Seller ID: 50227
ISBN: 0718306546
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Hardback; very good in creased dustjacket. ; Biography of the inventor of the first practical British submarine 'Resurgam'. Illustrated. ; 254 pages View more info
By: Perkins, R. & Douglas-Morris, K. J.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Kenneth Mason: 1982
Seller ID: 25035
ISBN: 0859372715
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
Hardback; lean to spine, edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in creased dustjacket. ; Illustrated. ; 200 pages View more info
By: Rickover, H. G.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, Washington: 1976
Seller ID: 50779
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Hardback without dustjacket (if issued) ; light foxing to edge of pages otherwise very good in faded and scuffed boards. First edition. ; The sinking of USS Maine, and the tragic loss of 266 lives was blamed on a mine, and it was a partial cause of the Spanish-American war. ; 173 pages View more info
By: Russell, W. H.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: David & Charles: 1972
Seller ID: 43088
ISBN: 0715353748
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
Hardback; marks to one page otherwise good in creased dustjacket. ; How the cable was manufactured, how the Great Eastern was adapted, and how the cable was laid. First published 1865. Illustrated. ; 117 pages View more info
By: Sleeman, C. W.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Naval & Military Press: 2009
Seller ID: 50850
ISBN: 1843429470
Condition: Fair
Paperback; a very good clean copy (looks unread) , but laminate lifting to edge of card covers (appears to be a production flaw). ; Facsimile reprint of 1889 edition. Illustrated. ; 354 pages View more info
By: Thomas, G. A.
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Pen & Sword: 2011
Seller ID: 44612
ISBN: 1848842406
Condition: New in New dust jacket
New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £19.99. ; The Royal Navy's fight aggainst african pirates in the nineteenth century. Illustrated. ; 200 pages View more info
By: Vale, B.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: I. B. Tauris: 2001
Seller ID: 63575
ISBN: 1860646549
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
Hardback; very good in creased and scuffed dustjacket. ; Life on board the 42-gun frigate HMS Doris during the reigns of George III and George IV, from her launch from Bombay in 1807 to her retirement at Valpariso in 1829. Illustrated. ; 216 pages View more info
By: White, C.
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Kenneth Mason: 1981
Seller ID: 64364
ISBN: 0859372243
Condition: Good in Good dust jacket
Hardback; bookplate to pastedown, otherwise very good in lightly creased dustjacket. ; The modernisation of Victoria's fleet; from 1830 to 1870. A pictorial study illustrated with contemporary b/w illustrations and photographs. ; 160 pages View more info
By: Wimmel, K.
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Brassey's: 1998
Seller ID: 38631
ISBN: 1574881531
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Hardback; fine in fine dustjacket. ; The development of of the modern American navy from the late 1800s to the early twentieth century. ; 273 pages View more info
By: Winton, J.
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Michael Joseph: 1977
Seller ID: 47901
ISBN: 0718115805
Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket
Hardback; edge of pages yellowed otherwise good in creased and torn dustjacket. ; The life of the common sailor, based on contemporary accounts, memoirs, diaries and despatches. With 300 illustrations. ; 320 pages View more info
