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A Navy Chaplain Speaks to the Fleet. First Edition.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer, 1968, : 1968

Seller ID: 27274

MERSEREAU, Charles J., Chaplain. A Navy Chaplain Speaks to the Fleet. (Ottawa : Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printer, 1968). First Edition. Pp (2),1-37,(1). 8vo (134 x 208 mm), yellow stapled cardcovers with a photo of HMCS Bonaventure on the front. Rev. Charles J. Mersereau (b. February 29, 1920, Bathurst, New Brunswick - d. January 15, 2013, Sackville, New Brunswick). A series of articles of naval and local interest by Chaplain Mersereau, collected on the occasion of his retirement from the RCN. Contents: Old Naval Customs, The French Armada [on the d'Enville expedition of 1746]; General W...
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Adventures, Blizzards, and Coastal Calamities. First Edition in dustjacket

By: SNOW, Edward Rowe SLOCUM, Joshua) DARLING, Grace ROWSON, Susanna

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead, New York, 1978, ISBN:0396076343

Seller ID: 32026

SNOW, Edward Rowe. Adventures, Blizzards, and Coastal Calamities. New York : Dodd, Mead, (1978). First Printing. Pp 275 + 8 p of plates. 8vo, green cloth. Edward Rowe Snow (b. August 22, 1902 Winthrop, Massachusetts - d. April 10, 1982 Boston). Another selection of nautical prodigies and oddities selected and retold by the prolific Mr. Snow. This time including the fate ofthe Mary Celeste (pp.158-176), the appalling wreck of the White Star liner Atlantic near Halifax(pp.91-99; the history of Minot's Light (pp.57-77), J oshua Slocum (pp.100-110) and the loss of the Thomas W. Lawson (1907, pp.22...
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America's Maritime Heritage.

By: ENGLE, Eloise . LOTT, Arnold S.

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Naval Institute, 1975,

Seller ID: 19337

ENGLE, Eloise and Arnold S. LOTT. America's Maritime Heritage. Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, (1975). Pp 371. Illustrated. Large 8vo, illustrated cloth. Contents : Colonial America; Early Maritime Development; Colonial Seaports; The Revolutionary War; Ships Overseas; Perils of Independence; All Ships - All Seas; The Paths of the Sea; Clippers to California; Piracy and Slavery; Trade, Treaties, and Exploration; The Civil War; Inland Waterways; The Navy and the Nation; Sociology and Education; Technology; Shipbuilding; Global War; Our Cultural Heritage; Sea Power and National Survival. W...
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Anno tricesimo secundo Georgii II. Regis. An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the Twenty ninth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of Seaman, and the more speedy and effectual Manning His Majety's Navy

By: Great Britain - Parliament

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Printed by Thomas Baskett, London, 1759,

Seller ID: 93992

(Great Britain – Parliament). Anno tricesimo secundo Georgii II. Regis. An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the Twenty ninth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of Seaman, and the more speedy and effectual Manning His Majety's Navy; and for the better Prevention of Piracies and Robberies by Crews of Private Ships of War. London : Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1759. Pp (2),391-404 including covers, Folio, disbound. Disbound, else very good. 75.00
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Atlantic Guardian : A Magazine of Newfoundland. Vol. 9, No. 8, Aug., 1952

By: YOUNG, Ewart (ed.). McKAY, Muriel Saint RYAN, Don W.S. LENT, Melba

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Ewart Young, Montreal , 1952,

Seller ID: 84305

YOUNG, Ewart (ed.). Atlantic Guardian : A Magazine of Newfoundland. Vol. IX, No. 8, Aug., 1952. Montreal : Ewart Young, 1952. Pp [1]-48. Illustrated. Double Column. 8vo, illustrated red stapled wrappers. Cover photo of Tourist at St. Anthony Grenfell Shop (National Film Board). Contents : The Legendof Ben's Rock : A Prize-winning Short Story (by Wanda Neill Tolboom, pp 11 -15); Super Squid (by Ern Maunder, p. 17); Pirate's Gold! (by Muriel Saint McKay, pp 18-20); The One Man Town (by Jack A. White, pp 21-22); Newfoundland Album : Island Summer (pp 23-26); Frenzied Finance (by Rupert Jackson, p...
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Barbary Corsairs. Fourth Edition

By: LANE-POOLE, Stanley Story of the Nations, Subscription Edition, Vol. 22 KELLEY, J. D. J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1890,

Seller ID: 111402

LANE-POOLE, Stanley. The Barbary Corsairs. With Additions by Lieut. J. D. J. Kelley, U.S. Navy. Fourth Edition. London : T. Fisher Unwin, (copyright 1890). Subscription Edition. Pp (10),[vii]-xviii,(2),[3]-316. Illustrated. Maps. Index. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt and blue lettering to front board and spine. The Story of the Nations, Subscription Edition, Vol. 22. Contents : Introduction. 1. The Revenge of the Moors; 2. The Land of the Corsairs; Part I. - The Corsair Admirals; 3. Uruj Barbarossa. 1504-1515; 4. The Taking of Algiers. 1516-1518; 5. Kheyr-ed-din Barbarossa 1518-1530; 6. The Ottoman Nav...
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and theAnglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. in dj

By: REDIKER, Marcus

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987,

Seller ID: 52455

REDIKER, Marcus. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea : Merchant Seamen,Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750. Cambridge: Camb ridge University Press, (1987). Second Printing. Pp. (8),vii-xv,(1),1-322,(10). 8vo, blue cloth. "Marcus Rediker uses a huge array of historical sources -- court records, diaries, travel accounts, and many others -- to reconstruct the social and cultural world of the Anglo-American seamen and pirates who sailed the seas in the first half of the eighteenth century. Rediker tours the sailor's North Atlantic, following seamen and their ships alo...
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Black Tide

By: INNES, Hammond

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Collins, London, 1982, ISBN:0002226189

Seller ID: 75928

INNES, Hammond. The Black Tide. London: Collins, 1982. First UK printing. Pp. [1]-347(5). 8vo, green cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. "The Petros Jupiter lies on the rocks, her tanks ripped open and the seas all round her heavy and dark with the filthy stuff that is leaking out of her. Trevor Rodin and his wife Karen, living in a tiny cottage on the cliffs by Land's End, have seen it all before, the oil slicks and the seabirds dying. For them the Petros Jupiter is the last straw. This is Hammond Innes at his magnificet best, telling the story of a woman who challenged the apathy ...
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Bluenose Pirate. UK in dj

By: KNIGHT, Frank JOBSON, Patrick

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Macmillan, 1956,

Seller ID: 21259

KNIGHT, Captain Frank. The Bluenose Pirate: A Story for Boys and Girls. Illustrated by Patrick Jobson. L.: Macmillan, 1956. Pp (6),1-[258]. 8vo, blue cloth. "The Bluenose Pirate is a thrilling yarn of ships in the days of sail, when in addition to the many natural hazards of travelling the seven seas there was still the ever-present risk of an encounter with a vessel flying under the Skull and Cross-bones!" - from the dj. Although some parts of the story set in Halifax and Liverpool, Nova Scotia, this story has nothing to do with the schooner Bluenose. Spotting/fading to spine, else vg...
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Brethren of the Coast : The British and French Buccaneers in the South Seas. First Edition in dustjacket

By: KEMP, P.K. LLOYD, Christopher

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Heinemann, London, 1960,

Seller ID: 25237

KEMP, P.K. and Christopher LLOYD. The Brethren of the Coast : The British and French Buccaneers in the South Seas. London : Heinemann, (1960). First Printing. Pp (4),[v]-vii,(1),1-248 + frontispiece + 6 leaves of plates + 2 double spread maps. 8vo, brick-red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Chapters : 1. The Rise of the Buccaneers; 2. Sir Henry Morgan; 3. The First Invasionof the South Seas; 4. What Happened to Sharp; 5. The Suppression of the Bu ccaneers in the Caribbean; 6. The Second Voyage into the South Seas; 7. Cowley's Voyage Round the World; 8. Dampier's First Voyage Round the World; 9....
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Buccaneer. 1st Canadian in dj.

By: POPE, Dudley.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Musson, 1981, ISBN:0773700528

Seller ID: 73713

POPE, Dudley. Buccaneer : A Novel. Don Mills, ON: Musson, (1981). First Canadian Edition. Pp. (10),1-278. Illustrated with [1] double page map. 8vo, purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The Roundheads are hunting the Royalists in Barbados. In the 1650s with Englishmen slaughtering Englishmen no one is safe in the Caribbean. European navies battle each other for the wealth of the New World, and all are fair game for the buccaneers along the Spanish Main. Vg-fine in clean, crisp, unclipped dj. 35.00
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Buccaneer. 1st Canadian in dj. cracked.

By: POPE, Dudley.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Musson, 1981, ISBN:0-7737-0052-8

Seller ID: 56057

POPE, Dudley. Buccaneer : A Novel. Don Mills, ON.: Musson, (1981). First Canadian Edition. Pp 277. Illustrated with [1] double page map. 8vo, purple cloth. The Roundheads are hunting the Royalists in Barbados. In the 1650s with Englishmen slaughtering Englishmen no one is safe in the Caribbean. European navies battle each other for the wealth of the New World, and all are fair game for the buccaneers along the Spanish Main. Slightly cocked, remainder mark to top edge, inner rear hinge cracked, ow vg in dj. 35.00
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Buccaneer. 1st Canadian in dj. with remainder mark.

By: POPE, Dudley.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Musson, 1981, ISBN:0773700528

Seller ID: 73712

POPE, Dudley. Buccaneer : A Novel. Don Mills, ON: Musson, (1981). First Canadian Edition. Pp. (10),1-278. Illustrated with [1] double page map. 8vo, purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The Roundheads are hunting the Royalists in Barbados. In the 1650s with Englishmen slaughtering Englishmen no one is safe in the Caribbean. European navies battle each other for the wealth of the New World, and all are fair game for the buccaneers along the Spanish Main. Remainder mark to top edge, else vg in nicked, unclipped dj. 30.00
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Buccaneer. 1st UK in dj. cracked.

By: POPE, Dudley.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London, 1981, ISBN:0436377403

Seller ID: 95521

POPE, Dudley. Buccaneer : A Novel. London: the Alison Press, Secker & Warburg, (1981). First UK Edition. Pp 277. Illustrated with [1] double page map.8vo, purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The Roundheads are hunting the Royalists in Barbados. In the 1650s with Englishmen slaughtering Engli shmen no one is safe in the Caribbean. European navies battle each other for the wealth of the New World, and all are fair game for the buccaneers along the Spanish Main. Front inner hinge cracked, in unclipped dust jacket. As is. 20.00
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Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century. Archon Reprint in dustjacket

By: HARING, C.H

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Archon Books, Hamden, Conn. , 1966,

Seller ID: 34907

HARING, C.H. The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century. Hamden,Conn.: Archon Books, 1966. Pp (4),v-viii,(2),1-298,(6), + folding map fron tispiece + 11 leaves of maps and plans. 8vo, gold cloth, black lettering tospine. Gosse, My Pirate Library, pp.41-42: "This most scholarly and intere sting work"; Catalogue of the Library of the National Maritime Museum, Vol 4. Piracy and Privaterring 243 : "An invaluable study". A reprint edition of a classic work first published by Methuen in 1910. Contents include: 1 . Introductory : The Spanish Colonial System - The Freebooter...
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Buccaneers of America : Comprising a pertinent and truthful description of the principal acts and inhuman cruelty committed by the English and French buccaneers against the Spaniards in America. Folio Society

By: ESQUEMELING, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Folio Society, London, 1972,

Seller ID: 95036

EXQUEMELIN, A.O. The Buccaneers of America : Comprising a pertinent and truthful description of the principal acts and inhuman cruelty committed by the English and French buccaneers against the Spaniards in America. Written by A.O. Exquemelin who himself, of necessity, was present at all these acts of plunder. Translated by Alexis Brown with an introduction by Jack Beeching. London : The Folio Society, MCMLXXII [1972]. Pp [1]-194,(2), frontis + 11 leaves plates. Endpaper Maps. 8vo, blue calf spine, decorated woodgrain-pattern paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, in a brown paper cove...
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Buccaneers. ill. card covers. Proof

By: LAWRENCE, Iain

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Delacorte Press, 2000,

Seller ID: 65181

LAWRENCE, Iain. The Buccaneers. (NY): Delacorte Press, (2000). Advance Reading Copy. Pp 227. 8vo, illustrated card covers. This is the third book in Iain Lawrence's High Seas Trilogy for the young adult reader. The other books were The Wreckers and The Smugglers. Award winning author Iain Lawrence takes pen in hand and creates a novel of high-seas adventure with Buccaneersin the Caribbean. This is an uncorrected galley proof. Very good. 10.00
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Bully Hayes : South Sea Pirate. First Edition in dustjacket

By: LUBBOCK, Basil HAYES, Bully.

Price: $340.00

Publisher: Martin Hopkinson, London, 1931,

Seller ID: 41007

LUBBOCK, Basil. Bully Hayes : South Sea Pirate. London : Martin Hopkinson, 1931. First Edition. Pp 322, frontispiece + [16] leaves plates. Large 8vo, black cloth. Alfred Basil Lubbock, MC (b. 9 September 9, 1876, London - d. September 3 or 4, 1944 at Monks Orchard, Seaford, East Sussex). A lively, illustrated account of the career of the American-born pirate William Henry Hayes, best known as the model for the eponymous character of Rolf Boldrewood's novel The Modern Buccaneer. Lubbock describes his own book as follows:"I fear that many readers may feel inclined to call this book nothing m...
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Burning of a Pirate Ship La Trompeuse in the harbour of St. Thomas, July 31, 1683, and Other Tales. Also the case against Adolph Esmit, Governor of St. Thomas 1682-1684, harbour of pirates.

By: PAIEWONSKY, Isidor.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Fordham University Press, New York, 1992, ISBN:0823212602

Seller ID: 91034

PAIEWONSKY, Isidor. The Burning of a Pirate Ship La Trompeuse in the harbour of St. Thomas, July 31, 1683, and Other Tales. Also the case against Adolph Esmit, Governor of St. Thomas 1682-1684, harbour of pirates. New York : Fordham University Press, 1992. Pp [i]-xiii,(3),1-238,(2). Illustrated. Index. Large 8vo, illustrated yellow card covers. “On July 30, 1683, the British frigate, H.M.S. Francis, commanded by Captain Charles Carlile, searchingfor the notorious French pirate ship La Trompeuse came upon the vessel in the harbour of St. Thomas. Next evening, Carlile entered the port with 2 sma...
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Canada's Navy : The First Century. Second Edition, paperback

By: MILNER, Marc

Price: $18.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2010, ISBN:9780802096043 : 2010

Seller ID: 102937

ISBN-13: 9780802096043

MILNER, Marc. Canada's Navy : The First Century. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (2010). Second Edition. Pp. (8),[ix]-xvii,(7),[3]-391,(1) + 56-page central section of b&w photos. 8vo, photo-illustrated blue and grey card covers with dark blue lettering to front cover and white lettering to spine. Joseph Marc Milner (b. April 12, 1954, Sackville, New Brunswick), noted Canadian military and naval historian. "From its eighteenth-century roots in exploration and trade, to the major conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, through to current roles in multinational operations with...
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