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1930 Annual Journal of The United Services Institute of Nova Scotia. Third Year. Volume Three

By: GILLIS, G.H., Capt (ed.) FORTIER, L.M. SPARLING, H.C. MacMECHAN, Archibald

Price: $135.00

Publisher: United Services Institute of Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S., 1930,

Seller ID: 86212

GILLIS, G.H., Capt (ed.). 1930 Annual Journal of The United Services Institute of Nova Scotia. Third Year. Volume Three. Halifax, N.S.: United Services Institute of Nova Scotia, 1930. Pp 1-180. Illustrated. Maps. 8vo, red printed card covers. Articles of nautical interest : “The Navy at the Dardanelles” by Lieut.-Cm. F.L. Houghton, RCN (pp 43-57) and “The Freedom of the Seas” by Dr. H.F. Munro (pp 76-87). Other articles : “The Ancient Fort at Annapolis Royal, Now Called Fort Anne” by L.M. Fortier (pp 23-29); “The Siege and Fall of Kut” by Lt. Col. R.E.G. Roome (pp 30-42); “The land Operations ...
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300,000 Sea Miles : An Autobiography.

By: PELLY, Henry, Admiral Sir.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chatto and Windus, London , 1938,

Seller ID: 85955

PELLY, Henry, Admiral Sir. 300,000 Sea Miles : An Autobiography. London : Chatto and Windus, 1938. First Edition. Pp [i]-xi,(1),1-222,(2), port. frontis. + 7 leaves of plates + 1 folding plan. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt signature to front board, top edge dyed blue. Contents : Preface. The Far East. The West Indies. The South Seas. The Royal Yachts. The Channel and Mediterranean. More or Less a Civilian. H.M.S. Tiger – First Year. H.M.S. Tiger – Second Year. Portsmouth. Egypt and the Red Sea. Gibraltar. Very good in unclipped dustjacket. Very scarce. 250.00
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300,000 Sea Miles : An Autobiography.

By: PELLY, Henry, Admiral Sir.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Chatto and Windus, London , 1938,

Seller ID: 94765

PELLY, Henry, Admiral Sir. 300,000 Sea Miles : An Autobiography. London : Chatto and Windus, 1938. First Edition. Pp [i]-xi,(1),1-222,(2), port. frontis. + 7 leaves of plates + 1 folding plan. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt signature to front board, top edge dyed blue. Contents : Preface. The Far East. The West Indies. The South Seas. The Royal Yachts. The Channel and Mediterranean. More or Less a Civilian. H.M.S. Tiger – First Year. H.M.S. Tiger – Second Year. Portsmouth. Egypt and the Red Sea. Gibraltar. Light rubbing to boards, some sparse spotting to fore-edge, occasional m...
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820 Naval Air Squadron.

By: Royal Navy - Helicopters)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Royal Navy, 1989,

Seller ID: 66075

(Royal Navy - Helicopters). 820 Naval Air Squadron. (L.: Directorate of Public Relations (Royal Navy), 1989). Pp [8]. Illustrated with photos to text;double column. 8vo, stapled illustrated wraps. Contents: The Squadron Toda y; Our Aircraft the Westland Sea King HAS Mark 6; Our Ship HMS Ark Royal; 820 Squadron - A History; 820 Squadron Aircraft; 820 Squadron Ships; Battle Honours. Very good. 10.00
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99 Years of Navy. in dj.

By: MORLEY, Sam WOODS, W.E.V. DUNLEVY, Bill. McGRATH, Paul.

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Quiller Press, London, 1995, ISBN:1899163077

Seller ID: 38182

MORLEY, Sam. 99 Years of Navy. (L): Quiller Press, (1995). Pp 198. 8vo, navy cloth. Four accounts of life in the twentieth-century Royal Navy and Royal Marines: Lt. Comdr. W.E.V. Woods and his experience of 1st Battle CruiserSquadron and of the Battle of Dogger Bank in the Great War; Bill Dunlevy, who survived the sinking of HMS Exeter and who witnessed to atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a slave labourer; Sam Morley, who served the six years of World War Two in destroyers; and Paul McGrath, who had the misfortune to be at Dieppe in 1942. New in dj. 38.00
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A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River. . First Edition

By: CUMBERLAND, Barlow

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Musson Book Company Limited, Toronto, 1913, : 1913

Seller ID: 69396

CUMBERLAND, Barlow. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River. Toronto : The Musson Book Company Limited, (1913). First Edition. No printer given. Pp (4),[v]-xvi,[9]-198,(2) + b&w photo portrait frontispiece (of Cumberland) + 11 plates (b&w photos, &c.). 8vo (163 x 238 mm), brown cloth with gilt lettering to front & spine. Frederic Barlow Cumberland (b. August 5, 1846, England - d. September 1, 1913, Hope, Durham County, Ontario). "Although the book is published about two months after the author's death, it will be gratfying to many readers to know that all the final proofs wer...
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A Dictionary of British Ships and Seamen. First Edition in dustjacket

By: UDEN, Grant, and Richard COOPER.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Allen Lane / Kestrel Books, Harmondsworth, England, 1980, ISBN:0722652429 : 1980

Seller ID: 92582

UDEN, Grant, and Richard COOPER. A Dictionary of British Ships and Seamen. Illustrated by Lionel Willis and with prints. (Harmondsworth, England) : Allen Lane / Kestrel Books, (1980). First Edition. Pp (8),9--591,(1) + 8-page central section of colour illustrations. Double Column. 8vo, brown cloth, silver lettering to spine. A comprehensive guide to the seamen, ships, battles and trading enterprises that figure in British history. Also included are entries on seas and oceans, wind and weather, canals, lighthouses, uniforms and many other matters connected with the sea. "The fortunes of t...
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A History of Canadian Naval Aviation 1918-1962. First Edition in dust jacket

By: KEALY, J.D.F. RUSSELL, E.C.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Naval Historical Section, Canadian Forces Headquarters, Department of National Defence, 1965,

Seller ID: 7198

KEALY, J.D.F. and E.C. RUSSELL. A History of Canadian Naval Aviation 1918-1962. Ottawa : The Naval Historical Section, Canadian Forces Headquarters, Department of National Defence, 1965. First Edition. "Roger Duhamel, F.R.S.C. Queen's Printer". Pp (2),[i]-ix,(1).1-164. Double column. With 156 b&w photos, as well as other illustations. Large 8vo (216 x 280 mm), blue cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Law 1504, Cooke p.232. John David Farquharson Kealy (b. 1920). Edward Charles Russell (b. 1913). "This book is a record of the evolution of Canadian Naval Aviation over a period o...
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A Midshipman's War : A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War 1941-1943. First Edition in dustjacket

By: WADE, Frank

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Cordillera, Vancouver, 1994, ISBN:185995006x : 1994

Seller ID: 43745

ISBN-13: 9781859950067

WADE, Frank. A Midshipman's War : A Young Man in the Mediterranean Naval War 1941-1943. Vancouver, B.C. : Cordillera Publing Company, (1994). First Edition. Pp (6),7-256. Many b&w photos and other illustrations in the text. 8vo, grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine. The World War Two memoirs of a man wh o served in HMS Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean, including his experiences of the battle for Crete, the Syrian campaign, the Malta convoys, the Tobruk raid, and the landings in Sicily. Contents: 1. My First Ship [training aboard the HMS Conway from '36-'39, and time aboard HMS Queen Eli...
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A Navy Chaplain Speaks to the Fleet. First Edition.

By: MERSEREAU, Charles J., Chaplain

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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A.B.C.D. Pamphlet. B.R. 1294 B

By: Admiralty

Price: $30.00

Publisher: 1952,

Seller ID: 98769

Admiralty. A.B.C.D. Pamphlet. B.R. 1294 B. Director of Tactical and Staff Duties Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty, 1952. Pp [1]-[19],(1). 12mo, blue printed card covers. Admiraly prefatory note by J.G. Lang', 17 May, 1952."For issue to every Officer and Man on joining the Royal Navy".Acronym for Atomic, Biological and Chemical Protection and Damage Control: ABCD. Sections: A.B.C.D. : Golden Rules for A.B.C.D. Damage : Flooding - Watertight Discipline - Fire - Machinery and Equipment Damage Casualties : Contamination - Personal Protection Precautions - Flash, Fragments and Flast - Firs...
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Above and Under Hatches : Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, R.N. First Edition in dustjacket.

By: GARDNER, James Anthony LLOYD, Christopher, ed.

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Batchworth, London, 1955,

Seller ID: 102465

(GARDNER, James Anthony). Above and Under Hatches : Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, R.N. Edited by Christopher Lloyd. London: The Batchworth Press, (1955). First Printing. Pp. (8),[ix]-xvi,[1]-200,(2), frontispiece, +8 p. of black and white plates. Illustrated. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt let tering to spine. Catalogue of the Library of the National Maritime Museum. Vol 2. Biography 600. "James Anthony Gardner, who lived in the stirring times of Rodney and Nelson, wrote the most entertaining autobiography which has come down to us from the days of the Navy under sail. His gusto for w...
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Account of the Cruise of the St George on the North American and West Indian Station During the Years 1861-1862

By: DENNYS, N.B. Alfred, Prince

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Saunders, Otley, and Co., London, 1862,

Seller ID: 43577

DENNYS, N.B. An Account of the Cruise of the St George on the North American and West Indian Station During the Years 1861-1862. London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1862. First Edition. Pp xi, 267, folding map frontispiece., one plate leaf (opposite p.95). 8vo, orig. half calf with raised bands and marbled boards. Sabin 19602, Hallett, Bermuda in Print (2nd. ed) p.69. Not inTPL or Lande. The author describes his impressions of the voyage on which H.R.H. Prince Alfred was a midshipman, visiting most of the West India islands with good cameo descriptions. The heart of the book consists of the auth...
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Account of the Discovery of Tahiti : From the Journal of George Robertson, Master of H.M.S. Dolphin

By: ROBERTSON, George WARNER, Oliver, ed. GIBBINGS, Robert, wood engravings

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Folio Press, J. M. Dent, London, 1973, ISBN:046004141

Seller ID: 111051

ROBERTSON, George. An Account of the Discovery of Tahiti : From the Journalof George Robertson, Master of H.M.S. Dolphin. Edited, with an Introductio n by Oliver Warner. With Wood Engravings by Robert Gibbings. London : FolioPress / J. M. Dent, 1973. Reprint. Pp (4),5-127,(1). Illustrated. Map. 8vo , green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and gilt decorations to boards. The Dolphin circumnavigated the world for a second time, under the command of Samuel Wallis. The master on this voyage, George Robertson, subsequently wrote a book The discovery of Tahiti; a journal of the second voyage of H.M.S....
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Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily , In the Years 1718, 1719, and 1720. 2d ed.

By: BYNG, George, Sir]

Price: $650.00

Publisher: J. and R. Tonson, 1739,

Seller ID: 39999

[BYNG, George, Sir]. An Account of the Expedition of the British Fleet to Sicily , In the Years 1718, 1719, and 1720, under the Command of Sir George Byng, Bart. (Afterwards Viscount Torrington) Admiral and Commander in Chiefof His Majesty's Fleet; and his Majesty's Commissary and Plenipotiary to t he Several Princes and States of Italy. Collected from the Admiral's Manuscripts, and other Original Papers. The Second Edition. L: Printed for J. andR. Tonson, 1739. Pp 96. 8vo, original wraps. A rather hagiographical accou nt of Byng's finest hour: his decisive defeat of a Spanish fleet off Cape P...
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Aces & Wingmen : Men, Machines and Units of the United States Army Air Force, Eighth Fighter Command and 354th Fighter Group, Ninth Air Force, 1943-5.signed in dj.

By: MORRIS, Danny TURNER, Richard E., Lt. Col., foreword SCUTTS, Jerry

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Neville Spearman, London, 1972, ISBN:0854352414

Seller ID: 94892

MORRIS, Danny. Aces & Wingmen : Men, Machines and Units of the United States Army Air Force, Eighth Fighter Command and 354th Fighter Group, Ninth AirForce, 1943-5 . With a foreword by Lt Col Richard E. Turner. Illustrated b y Jerry Scutts. (London): Neville Spearman Ltd., (1972). First Printing. Pp. (14),15-488. Illustrated (some of which are in colour). Largely double column. Large 8vo, navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "'Aces & Wingmen' contains stories of men who are famous and some who are not so famous. As well as including Aces such as Richard Turner and Edmond Zellner, ...
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Act for transferring the Management of Greenwich Out-Pensions, and certain Duties in Matters of Prize, to the Treasurer of the Navy. 1st June 1829

By: Royal Navy)

Price: $80.00

Publisher: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, London, 1829,

Seller ID: 52400

(Royal Navy). An Act for transferring the Management of Greenwich Out-Pensions, and certain Duties in Matters of Prize, to the Treasurer of the Navy. [1st June 1829]. (London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1829). Pp 250-268. Tall 8vo, disbound. Anno Decimo Georgii IV. Regis. C A P. XXVI. Disbound,slight creasing along bound edge, ow vg. 80.00
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Acts of the General Assembly of Newfoundland 1929

By: Newfoundland General Assembly)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: 1929,

Seller ID: 19062

(Newfoundland General Assembly). Acts of the General Assembly of Newfoundland Passed in the Twenteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George V. St.John's : David R. Thistle, King's Printer, 1929. Pp (4),[1]-415,(1). 8vo, half-calf with marbled boards. O'Dea A298. 38 acts including the American Telegraph and Telephone Act, Air Navigation Act, Deer Reserve Act, Shipbuilding Act, Merchant Shipping Service and Royal Navy. The bulk of this volume deals with the Public Service. Vg. N.C. Crewe's copy. 100.00
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Admiral Byng and the Loss of Minorca. First Edition

By: TUNSTALL, Brian BYNG, John, Admiral)

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Philip Allan & Co., London, 1928,

Seller ID: 56033

TUNSTALL, Brian. Admiral Byng and the Loss of Minorca. London : Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., (1928). First Edition. Pp. (4),v-x,1-293,(1), portrait frontispiece., + 11 leaves of plates. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. The story of Byng's loss of the island of Minorca to France during the Seven Years' War, and his eventual execution. Byng was the governor of Newfoundland in the 1740s. "Admiral Byng has had to wait a long time for his vindication. Although he lingers in the memory of most of us as the unlucky Admiral who was shot, in the words of Voltaire, 'to encourage the others,...
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Admiral Never Forgets : Reminiscences of thirty-seven years on the active list of the Royal Navy. 2nd ed.

By: SMITH, Humphrey Hugh

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co, London, 1936,

Seller ID: 88754

SMITH, Humphrey Hugh, Vice-Admiral. An Admiral Never Forgets : Reminiscences of thirty-seven years on the active list of the Royal Navy. London: Seeley, Service & Co., [1936]. Second Edition. Pp. (12),13-317,(3), frontis. + [15] leaves of plates. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. The book isfilled with fascinating anecdotes of a man who loved life and thoroughly e njoyed his career in the Royal Navy. Plate between pp. 258-259 loose but present, some light spine ridging, nick to head of spine, name to ffep, else good. No dj. 20.00
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