1534 - 1707 FOREIGN HISTORY and TOPOGRAPHY, TRAVELS
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Both vols. w. bookplate on htitle; sl. foxed.
= Nicely illustrated edition of the 17th-century journal by merchant seaman Edward Barlow.
- 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).
- 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.
- Later pastedowns. Spine strengthened w. cl. strip; upper joint splitting; corners sl. worn. Contents fine.
= Standard work on shipbuilding.
- 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).
- Cloth occas. trifle foxed. Nevertheless a fine copy.
- "List of Shipowners" upper hinge broken; some owner's annots.
= 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).
- A few loose ropes. Otherwise fine.
= The Thermopylae (built in 1868) and the Cutty Sark were the fastest ships in the 1870s before steamships surpassed them. She was designed for the Chinese tea trade.
- Owner's ticket on first blank. Backcover sl. stained. = With Supplement No.1-1953.
Admiralty Navigation Manual 1938. Vol. 1-2. Ibid., His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1944/ 1938, reprint (vol.1), 2 vols., IX,(1),446; (2),VI,268,(2)p., (col.) (fold.) maps/ tables/ plates, ills., orig. blindst. cl.
- Both vols. owner's entry on first free endpaper; occas. sl. foxed. Vol.1 binding sl. soiled/ stained.
- Bookplate on first free endpaper; title-p. and endpapers partly (sl.) foxed/ browned. Dustwr. sunned/ dam.
= Facs. reprint of the ed. London, 1794. Cat. NHSM p.770-1.
AND 5 others similar, i.a. N. WITSEN, Aeloude en Hedendaegsche Scheeps-bouw en Bestier (Alphen a.d. Rijn, 1979, plates, orig. gilt rexine, 4to. Bookplate on upper pastedown. Facs. reprint of the ed. 1671); R.N. NEWTON, Practical Construction of Warships (London etc., 1941, plates, ills., orig. cl.) and H.A. UNDERHILL, Masting and Rigging the Clipper Ship & Ocean Carrier (Glasgow, 1958, fold. plate, ills., orig. w. dustwr.).
- Bookplate ("Charles E. Dunlap") on upper pastedown.
AND 7 others, i.a. C. NEPEAN LONGRIDGE, The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships (Hemel Hempstead, 1961, fold. plans, plates, ills., orig. boards w. dustwr.) and D.R. MACGREGOR, The Tea Clippers (London, 1952, fold. plates, ills., orig. cl.).
= With English instruction booklet "printed in GDR" (8p., sl. stained).
- Without the usual trade label mounted on bottom of box lid, but "Hughes London" engraved on index arm.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.
- Leather case w. some oxidation staining; portion of tie broken. = "No 4390" engraved on lid.