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80 1606 Maritime history Hakluyt Society Lot of 11 vols from the second third and extra series 80 1606 Maritime history Hakluyt Society Lot of 11 vols from the second third and extra series
80/1606 [Maritime history]. Hakluyt Society. Lot of 11 vols. from the second, third and extra series. Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1906-1997, 11 vols. (incl. 1 duplicate), fold. maps, plates, portraits, orig. unif. gilt cl. (all but one) w. dustwr.

- A few corners bumped; a few dustwr. (sl.) worn.

= Comprising Second series no. 18, 142, 148, 163-166, 183 (2x), 185 and 186. Accurate reprints of the main maritime travel accounts.

€ (60-80)
80 1607 Maritime history Hakluyt R 80 1607 Maritime history Hakluyt R
80 1607 Maritime history Hakluyt R 80 1607 Maritime history Hakluyt R
80/1607 [Maritime history]. Hakluyt, R. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation. Made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Yeeres. Glasgow, J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903-1905, 12 vols., (helio-engr.) (fold.) maps and plates, 4to.

- Free endpapers browned. A few vols. vellum sl. soiled. Very good set.

= One of only 100 numb. sets printed on handmade paper, with proofs of the illustrations on Japanese and bound in richly gilt hvellum, t.e.g. Cat. Nat. Maritime Mus. 5: "This is a complete reprint of the original work [published in 1589], and the best modern edition."

Purchas, S. Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Containing a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others. Ibid., idem, 1905-1907, 20 vols., num. (facs.) plates, printed in 1000 copies (100).

- Free endpapers browned. A few vols. vellum sl. soiled; vol. II dam. at foot of spine. Very good set.

= One of only 100 numb. sets printed on handmade paper bound in richly gilt hvellum (unif. with the above), t.e.g. Hakluyt Society, Extra Series no.14-33. Cat. NHSM p.112.

€ (2.000-3.000)
80 1608 Maritime history Hakluyt R 80 1608 Maritime history Hakluyt R
80/1608 [Maritime history]. Hakluyt, R. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation. Made by Sea or Overland to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compass of these 1600 Years. Introd. J. Masefield. London & Toronto/ New York, J.M. Dent and Sons/ E.P. Dutton & Co., 1927-1928, 10 vols., 10 frontisp., num. plates, orig. unif. gilt cl., t.e.g.
€ (100-150)
80 1609 Maritime history Hakluyt R 80 1609 Maritime history Hakluyt R
80/1609 [Maritime history]. Hakluyt, R. The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation. Cambridge, The Hakluyt Society and the Peabody Museum, 1965, 2 vols. w. continuous pagination, LX,975p., 1 large fold. map, orig. unif. cl. w. (trifle foxed) dustwr., large 4to.
€ (50-70)
80 1610 Maritime history Hilster N de80 1610 Maritime history Hilster N de
80/1610 [Maritime history]. Hilster, N. de Navigation on Wood. Wooden Navigational Instruments 1590-1731. An analysis of early modern western instruments for celestial navigation, their origins, mathematical concepts an accuracies. Castricum, the author, 2018, 1st ed., 815p., num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo, thesis. Water, D.W. The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times. London, Hollis and Carter, 1958, XXXIX,(1),696p., 87 plates, 43 ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., large 8vo.

- Occas. sl. foxed. Frontcover lower corner bumped; dustwr. frayed.

Brewington, M.V. The Peabody Museum Collection of Navigating Instruments with Notes on Their Makers. Salem, Peabody Museum, 1963, XII,154,(1)p., 56 plates, orig. cl., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. J. RANDIER, Nautische instrumenten (Deventer/ Antw., 1980, num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

€ (70-90) 70
80 1611 Maritime history Howse D and Thrower Norman J W ed 80 1611 Maritime history Howse D and Thrower Norman J W ed
80/1611 [Maritime history]. Howse, D. and Thrower, Norman J.W. (ed.). A Buccaneer's Atlas. Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner. Berkeley/ Los Angeles/ Oxford, University of California Press, 1992, XII,(2),314,(1)p., (facs.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. Waters, D.W. The Rutters of the Sea. The Sailing Directions of Pierre Garcie. New Haven/ London, Yale University Press, 1967, XV,(1),478p., fold. maps, num. facs. ills., orig. blindst. cl. w. (sl. dam.) dustwr., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. J. DENUCÉ, Afrika in de XVIde eeuw en de handel van Antwerpen (Antw., 1937, double-p. facs. plates, ills., orig. cl., 4to) and A. D'HAENENS, De wereld van de Hanze (ibid., 1984, col. ills., orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr., 4to).
€ (50-70) 60
80/1612 Maritime history Jan Huygen van Linschoten and The Moral Map of Asia The Plates and Text of the Itinerario and Icones habitus gestusque indorum ac lusitanorum per indiam viventium With a80/1612 Maritime history Jan Huygen van Linschoten and The Moral Map of Asia The Plates and Text of the Itinerario and Icones habitus gestusque indorum ac lusitanorum per indiam viventium With a
80/1612 Maritime history Jan Huygen van Linschoten and The Moral Map of Asia The Plates and Text of the Itinerario and Icones habitus gestusque indorum ac lusitanorum per indiam viventium With a80/1612 Maritime history Jan Huygen van Linschoten and The Moral Map of Asia The Plates and Text of the Itinerario and Icones habitus gestusque indorum ac lusitanorum per indiam viventium With a
80/1612 Maritime history Jan Huygen van Linschoten and The Moral Map of Asia The Plates and Text of the Itinerario and Icones habitus gestusque indorum ac lusitanorum per indiam viventium With a80/1612 Maritime history Jan Huygen van Linschoten and The Moral Map of Asia The Plates and Text of the Itinerario and Icones habitus gestusque indorum ac lusitanorum per indiam viventium With a
80/1612 [Maritime history]. Jan Huygen van Linschoten and The Moral Map of Asia. The Plates and Text of the Itinerario and Icones, habitus gestusque indorum ac lusitanorum per indiam viventium. With a Study by Ernst van den Boogaart. London, The Roxburghe Club, 1999, XIII,(1),282,(2)p., printed in 300 numb. copies (40), large folio.

= One of 40 copies for sale bound in orig. green half morocco, with an extra set of the 42 plates (numbered I-XL, loose in separate green cloth portfolio), all kept in orig. cloth clamshell portfolio. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIII.

€ (2.000-3.000) 2000
80 1613 Maritime history Laughton J K 80 1613 Maritime history Laughton J K
80/1613 [Maritime history]. Laughton, J.K. The Defeat of the Spanish Armada Anno 1588. New York, B. Franklin, 1971, 2 vols., LXXXIV,365; (4),418p., 1 fold. map, orig. unif. giltlettered cl. (reprint of the ed. New York, 1894). Gallagher, P. and Cruickshank, D.W. (ed.). God's Obvious Design. Papers for the Spanish Armada Symposium, Sligo, 1988. London, Tamesis, 1990, VII,(1),256p., ills./ plates, orig. giltlettered cl. w. (sl. stained) dustwr. Marsden, W. The History of Sumatra. Introd. J. Bastin. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford Univ. Press, 1975, VIII,479,(11)p., frontisp., 26 plates, 1 fold. map, orig. cl w. (sl. frayed) dustwr., 4to (reprint of the 3rd ed. Kuala Lumpur, 1966). - AND 6 others, i.a. H.J.M.W. PETERS, The Crone Library. Books on the Art of Navigation Left by Dr. Ernst Crone to the Scheepvaart Museum in 1975 (...) (Nieuwkoop, 1989, ills., orig. cl.) and K. SIERKSMA (ed.), Flags of the World 1669-1670. A seventeenth century manuscript (Amst, 1966, col. plates, orig. cl., 4to).
€ (70-90)
80 1614 Maritime history Lecky S T S 80 1614 Maritime history Lecky S T S
80 1614 Maritime history Lecky S T S 80 1614 Maritime history Lecky S T S
80/1614 [Maritime history]. Lecky, S.T.S. "Wrinkles" in Practical Navigation. London, G. Philip & Son, 1881, 1st ed., XXIII,(1),366,(2),(4 publ. advert.)p., 21 (fold.) (col.) plates/ maps, ills., contemp. cl.

- Occas. foxed (incl. plates, but mostly on first/ final few p.); owner's entry on first textp. Binding sl. rubbed.

Purey-Cust, H.E. Sumner's Method. London, J.D. Potter, 1928, 2nd ed., 31,(1)p., plates, ills., orig. boards.

- Hinges weak. Backstrip dam.

€ (50-70)
80 1615 Maritime history Lubbock B 80 1615 Maritime history Lubbock B
80 1615 Maritime history Lubbock B 80 1615 Maritime history Lubbock B
80/1615 [Maritime history]. Lubbock, B. Sail. The Romance of the Clipper Ships. Ed. F.A. Hook and A. Campbell. London, Blue Peter, 1927-1936, 1st ed., 2nd impression (vol. 1)/ 1st impression (vol. 2 and 3), 3 vols., XIV,153,(1); X,152,(2); X,102p., 3 diff. frontisp., 3 ident. fold. maps, (col.) plates by J. SPURLING, printed in 1000 copies, orig. unif. gilt cl., large 4to.

- All vols. w. owner's entry on first free endpaper. Spine-ends and boardedges sl. worn.

= Nicely illustrated work on various types of clipper ships, i.a. (Blackwall) passenger and emigrant, tea, wool and Calcutta Jute clippers.

€ (80-100)
80 1616 Maritime history Lubbock B 80 1616 Maritime history Lubbock B
80 1616 Maritime history Lubbock B 80 1616 Maritime history Lubbock B
80/1616 [Maritime history]. Lubbock, B. Sail. The Romance of the Clipper Ships. Ed. F.A. Hook and A. Campbell. London, P. Stephens, 1972, 3 vols., (14),153,(1); (10),152,(2); (10),102p., 3 diff. frontisp., 1 fold. map, col. plates after J. SPURLING, orig. unif. gilt cl., orig. slipcase, large 4to.

- Covers and edges sl. foxed. A good copy. = Facs. reprint of the ed. London, 1925-1933.

Napier, R. Reconditioning an Eighteenth-Century Ship Model Valkenisse Retourship of 1717. Florence (OR), SeaWatch Books, 2008, XIV,(2),237p., 4 fold. plans in rear pocket, num. (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., 4to (fine). Wegener Sleeswyk, A. De Gouden Eeuw van het Fluitschip. Franeker, Van Wijnen, 2003, 206,(1)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to (fine). - AND 3 others similar.

€ (80-100) 80
80 1617 Maritime history Lubbock B ed 80 1617 Maritime history Lubbock B ed
80 1617 Maritime history Lubbock B ed 80 1617 Maritime history Lubbock B ed
80/1617 [Maritime history]. Lubbock, B. (ed.). Barlow's Journal of His Life at Sea in King's Ships, East & West Indiamen & Other Merchantmen from 1659 to 1703. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1934, 1st ed., 2 vols. w. continuous pagination, 575p., 8 col. (incl. frontisp.) and 72 monochr. plates, pictorial endpapers, orig. unif. giltlettered cl.

- Both vols. w. bookplate on htitle; sl. foxed.

= Nicely illustrated edition of the 17th-century journal by merchant seaman Edward Barlow.

€ (80-100)
80 1618 Maritime history Mahan A T 80 1618 Maritime history Mahan A T
80/1618 [Maritime history]. Mahan, A.T. The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., n.d. (1890), 1st ed., XXIV,557p., 4 (fold.) engr. maps, 21 plates, orig. gilt cl.

- Title-p. sl. frayed. Cloth sl. worn along extremities.

AND 5 other English and Dutch works on maritime history, i.a. R. DE VOS, Nederlandse Clippers (Franeker, 2003, num. col. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio).

€ (70-90) 70
80 1619 Maritime history The Mariner's Mirror The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research Vol 1 109 80 1619 Maritime history The Mariner's Mirror The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research Vol 1 109
80/1619 [Maritime history]. The Mariner's Mirror. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research. Vol. 1-109. Cambridge etc., Society for Nautical Research, 1911-2023, num. ills., orig. unif. giltlettered cl. (vol. 1-95)/ in parts as issued in orig. wr. (vol. 96-109).

- Lacks vol. 72, 79 (no.1 and 2), 87 (no.2), 97 (no.4), 101 (no.3), 106 (no.4), 107 (no.4), 108 (no. 2 and 4). Otherwise a very good run.

= Incl. a small stack of duplicates and several other related sm. publications incl. The Mariner's Mirror Bibliography for 2006, 2009 and 2010 and indexes to vol. 1-65, 71-90. "The Society was founded in 1910 to encourage research into matters relating to seafaring and shipbuilding in all ages and among all nations, into the language and customs of the sea, and into other subjects of nautical interest." (advert on inside frontwr.). Rare in such a near complete state.

€ (800-1.000)
80 1620 Maritime history Middendorf F L 80 1620 Maritime history Middendorf F L
80 1620 Maritime history Middendorf F L 80 1620 Maritime history Middendorf F L
80 1620 Maritime history Middendorf F L 80 1620 Maritime history Middendorf F L
80/1620 [Maritime history]. Middendorf, F.L. Bemastung und Takelung der Schiffe. Berlin, J. Springer, 1903, 1st ed., X,400,(2 publ. cat.)p., frontisp., 14 fold. lithogr. plates/ tables, ills., diagrams etc., orig. gilt cl.

- Later pastedowns. Spine strengthened w. cl. strip; upper joint splitting; corners sl. worn. Contents fine.

= Standard work on shipbuilding.

€ (100-150)
80 1621 Maritime history Morison S E 80 1621 Maritime history Morison S E
80/1621 [Maritime history]. Morison, S.E. Admiral of the Ocean Sea. A Life of Christopher Columbus. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1942, 2 vols., XLV,(1),448; VI,(2),445p., 2 frontisp., ills., orig. unif. pict. cl.

- Both vols. owner's entry on htitle; stamp on verso frontisp. Spines sl. sunned.

Kelly, C. Calendar of Documents. Spanish Voyages in the South Pacific (...) and Franciscan Missionary Plans for the Peoples of the Austral Lands (...). Madrid, Franciscan Historical Studies/ Archivo Ibero-Americano, 1965, XXVIII,470,(1)p., 40 (fold.) maps/ plates, orig. gilt cl. w. dustwr. - AND 6 others, i.a. O.H.K. SPATE, The Spanish Lake (Canberra, 1979, ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.) and IDEM, Monopolists and Freebooters (ibid., 1983, ills., orig. boards).

€ (60-80) 60
80 1622 Maritime history Pigafetta A 80 1622 Maritime history Pigafetta A
80/1622 [Maritime history]. Pigafetta, A. Magellan's voyage. A narrative account of the first circumnavigation. Ed. R.A. Skelton. New Haven/ London, Yale University Press, 1969, 2 vols., text vol.: (10),195p., 1 map, full-p. ills.; facsimile vol.: 99 col. facs. lvs., orig. unif. blindst. cl., orig. cl. slipcase w. mounted col. plate, 4to.

- Cloth occas. trifle foxed. Nevertheless a fine copy.

€ (40-60)
80 1623 Maritime history Register Book 1968 1969 Register of Ships A L/ M Z/ Appendix/ List of Shipowners 1967 1968 80 1623 Maritime history Register Book 1968 1969 Register of Ships A L/ M Z/ Appendix/ List of Shipowners 1967 1968
80/1623 [Maritime history]. Register Book 1968-1969. Register of Ships A-L/ M-Z/ Appendix/ List of Shipowners 1967-1968. London, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1967-1968, 4 vols., orig. (unif.) gilt blindst. calf (2x)/ cl.

- "List of Shipowners" upper hinge broken; some owner's annots.

€ (50-70)
80 1624 Maritime history Schilder G 80 1624 Maritime history Schilder G
80/1624 [Maritime history]. Schilder, G. Australia Unveiled. The share of the Dutch navigators in the discovery of Australia. Engl. transl. O. Richter. Amst., Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1976, XI,(1),420,(4)p., num. plates/ ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. (sl. frayed) dustwr., large 8vo. Boorstin, D.J. The Discoverers. New York, H.N. Abrams, 1991, 2 vols., 512; 513-1024p., num. (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. unif. cl. w. mounted plate, matching slipcase, 4to (fine). - AND 3 others, i.a. W.H. ROBINSON, Early American Voyages and Other Travel (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1929, orig. wr. Sale's cat. 26; rare).
€ (40-60)
80 1625 Maritime history Ship model of the Cutty Sark 80 1625 Maritime history Ship model of the Cutty Sark
80 1625 Maritime history Ship model of the Cutty Sark 80 1625 Maritime history Ship model of the Cutty Sark
80/1625 [Maritime history]. (Ship model of the "Cutty Sark"), 20th cent., 117(l.)x15(w.)x73,5(h.) cm. (total size), 1 hoisted cotton sail and 22 loosely added sails mostly on yards, 1 flag, 1 large wooden anchor, copper-plated hull, on a wooden base.

= Apart from the sails on yards mentioned in the description above, a small number of items that should be added to the model are included in the lot, i.a. an extra set of sails, 2 rowing boats and 2 small boats, 14 metal yards and some extra rope, the sail and rigging plans, and the building manual and plan of this model of the Cutty Sark. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIII.

WITH: a small archive consisting of correspondence between Westcott Abell and the Assistent Director Naval Construction Lloyd Woollard and the Director of the DNC S.V. Goodall concerning the various options for preservation and further use of the Cutty Sark (dated between 1937-1938, mainly signed or monogrammed carbon copies of the correspondence), eight photographs of the restoration work on the Cutty Sark (±1955) and several small publications on the Cutty Sark. - AND WITH: B. LUBBOCK, The Log of the "Cutty Sark" (Glasgow, 1974, reprint of the ed. 1924, (fold.) plates, orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to).

€ (600-800)
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