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blue embossed oblong hardcover ~ 2ş (folio ~ 10"x12"). large ("coffee table" book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg+ cond. minor chipping along the top edge, top of spine, couple of tiny (1cm) tears, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first american edition so stated . first printing (NAP). illustrated endpapers. 256p. 44 glossy full color plates. 265 b&w figures. almost every page illustrated. glossary. dictionary of sea terms. types of sailing ship. bibliography. world history. nautical history. maritime history. exploration. cartography. geography. ~ The sailing ship era is part of a continuing adventure, which lives on in the dawning spaceship age; an adventure of the human spirit, discernible not only in great voyages and moments of danger, but also in the discovery of techniques in advances in shipbuilding and navigation. The inspiration of the sailing ship for the artist, manifest in the great marine paintings of four hundred years, is part of the adventure too. So are the excitement and love inspired by the sailing ship in ordinary people, which created the demand for innumerable simple prints of ships throughout the age of sail. Captain Donald Macintyre has written a historical record of four centuries, from the first circumnavigation of the world to the virtual disappearance of the square~rigged ship. This is followed by a selection of contemporary writings of many nations, from 1520 to 1914 ( Francisco Antonio Pigafetta, William Bourne, Sir Francis Drake the Younger, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Gerrit de Veer, Willem Cornelison Schouten, Thomas Heywood, A. Richer, George Lord Anson, Louis de Bougainville, Captain James Cook, Horatio Viscount Nelson, Captain Isaac Hull USN, Richard Dana, Captain H. A. Chippendale USN, Basil Lubbock, Basil Greenhill CBE, Joseph Conrad, etc.), each piece showing an important aspect of the age of sail, the whole combining with over three hundred beautiful illustrations to give a comprehensive picture of the sailing ship experience. Captain Macintyre traces the development of sails, rigging and hull design, from the caravel, carrack and galleon to the clipper epoch, when the sailing ship became a thing of visual and functional perfection; and beyond to the autumn of the age of sail, to the great steel~hulled four and five~masted barques and barquentines, which had a strange beauty of their own.' He tells the story of maritime exploration and the establishment of commerce : a story of friendly or hostile competition among nations sharing the common experience of the struggle against the sea. Adventure, in the ordinary sense of dramatic and exciting episodes, fills the history of sail and has received an extraordinary amount of eyewitness documentation. The selection of contemporary documents in this volume unfolds a stirring tale of storms, shipwrecks and fights, of famous ships and the men who sailed in them. It shows, as nothing else can, what life in sailing ships was really like. It relives great moments of discovery or despair, such as the first rounding of Cape Horn, or the last voyage of Willem Barents in his brave and futile search for the Northeast Passage, ennobled by the courage and dignity of a crew lost among ice and polar bears in the dark, dreaded Arctic winter. It evokes the brutality of life at sea, but also its warmer, more humorous side. After the horrors of Anson's voyage it is a relief to read of Bougainville's reception at Tahiti and the meeting of Cook's sailors with the nymphs of Nootka Sound. The odyssey of the human spirit is ever present in The Adventure of Sail, from the perceptive introduction by the famous modern sailing man and boat designer, Uffa Fox, to the highly.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardback volume bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering and detailing to the front cover and spine. xvi + 368 pp. No dust jacket. General wear, rubbing and scuffing to the cloth cover with sunning along the spine and crushing/splitting to the ends of spine. Foxing to the pages (heavier to the page edges) with areas of light staining to the endpapers. A faded inscription to the front fly-leaf but no further notes or annotations to the remaining pages. Size: 8" - 9" tall. Weight: 710g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, With A Bit Of Wear To Extremities, Cracking To Exterior Of Hinges ( Still Working ), And Darkened Spine. Ownership Signature Of W. D. Lighthall, Historian And Author, Whose Corrections And Annotations In Pencil Add Some Interest.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 171 pages, folding frontispiece map, 7 plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. This copy has the four page section of "Notes and Corrections to the Glossary", which was issued separately in 1911. Old name on title page. A nice and tidy copy. Early history of European settlement in Canterbury and Banks Peninsula. In 1837 Captain George Hempelman set up a whaling station on-shore at Peraki on Banks Peninsula.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Anson, Walter Vernon, Captain R.N. The life of Admiral Lord Anson, the father of the British Navy, 1697-1762. With illustrations and map. First edition. London: John Murray, 1912. Hardback, VG. Blue cloth, a little sunned to spine. Gilt illustrations and lettering to front and spine. Binding strong. Light tanning to half-title, which has a gift inscription. Frontispiece b/w portrait with tissue guard. xx, 202pp. + publisher lists, b/w illustrations. Light foxing to extremities, otherwise contents clean and bright. Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, PC, FRS (23 April 1697 6 June 1762) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. Anson went on to be First Lord of the Admiralty during the Seven Years' War. Among his reforms were the removal of corrupt defence contractors, improved medical care, submitting a revision of the Articles of War to Parliament to tighten discipline throughout the Navy, uniforms for commissioned officers, the transfer of the Marines from Army to Navy authority, and a system for rating ships according to their number of guns. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Cloth torn along lower 4" and top 2/3" of rear joint. 3/8" chips to cloth at tips of corners of boards. Included loosely is a xerox copy of the four page section of "Notes and Corrections to the Glossary", which was issued separately. Previous owner's label partly removed from front endpaper, with abrasions. Another previous owner's signature on front free endpapers. Some pencil marginalia, consisting of check marks and ticks on margins of a few pages. One leaf opened roughly with 3/8" x 1" chip to upper blank margin.; This copy inscribed by the editor "With New Year Greetings, / from the Editor. / [?] 1910". 171 pages + folding frontispiece map + 7 plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 225 x 140mm.New Zealand history, nautical, Banks Peninsula, Whaling. Contents includes: "Remarks on Board the Brig 'Bee' on a Whaling Voyage" (1835-1836); "Remarkes in New Zeland, March 1837"; "List of Gear Lost by the Gang" (1837 Season); "Daily Journal of Employment and Remarks at Peracka" (1837-1838); Remarks in Peracky Bay" (1839-1844"); Glossary-Index. [Reference: Bagnall H629] ; 8vo.

Hard back binding in publisher's original black embossed deep blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, bevelled edges, chocolate lining papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. An anthology containing tales of the most remarkable circumnavigations by English sailors, illustrated with plates and maps. Edited with notes by David Laing Purves and R. Cochrane. Containing a series of stories from the most important voyages around the world including Drake's, Dampier's, Anson's, Cook's three voyages. With a preliminary sketch of their lives and discoveries. Contains 831 pp, with four figure frontispiece of the four navigators, illustrated with additional vignette title page and four folding coloured maps. Ink name and address to the second front free end paper, a little spotting to the front leaves and rear end paper, rubbing across the spine ends and corners. Member of the P.B.F.A. COOK, Captain James.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Moderate spots of foxing, mainly to the page edges and the frontispiece map.; 171 pages + folding frontispiece map + 7 plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 225 x 142mm. New Zealand history, nautical, Banks Peninsula, Whaling. Contents includes: "Remarks on Board the Brig 'Bee' on a Whaling Voyage" (1835-1836); "Remarkes in New Zeland, March 1837"; "List of Gear Lost by the Gang" (1837 Season); "Daily Journal of Employment and Remarks at Peracka" (1837-1838); Remarks in Peracky Bay" (1839-1844"); Glossary-Index. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall H629] ; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Previous owner's woodcut ex-libris bookplate on front endpaper: "John Tattersall / Hastings". A couple of small 1/4" tears to cloth at ends of spine. Some foxing to the title page and the frontispiece map. Marginalia on page 28. Overall a nice copy.; 171 pages + folding frontispiece map + 7 plates. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 224 x 140mm. This copy has the four page section of "Notes and Corrections to the Glossary", which was issued separately, tipped in at the front. New Zealand history, nautical, Banks Peninsula, Whaling. Contents includes: "Remarks on Board the Brig 'Bee' on a Whaling Voyage" (1835-1836); "Remarkes in New Zeland, March 1837"; "List of Gear Lost by the Gang" (1837 Season); "Daily Journal of Employment and Remarks at Peracka" (1837-1838); Remarks in Peracky Bay" (1839-1844"); Glossary-Index. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall H629] ; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dj edge worn, soiled, chipped at extremities mostly top and bottom spine but no loss of text. 1911 addendum tipped in at front. 2 and 3 ink line ownership on end paper and reverse of blank part of frontis folding map. Minor foxing within. Sewing of binding showing in several places but tight overall. Scarce in dj and with addendum.; E Pirangi Ahau Koe.

Half leather. Robert Dampier (Illus.) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st ed., quarto, original half-leather with marbled boards, later spine with raised bands and gilt. Complete with all 15 aquatint plates including folding frontispiece view of the great Volcano at Peli, folding chart of the voyage, map, views. Previous owner's bookplate fep.Some scattered foxing and toning mainly to edges of first two plates and edges of other plates (apart from the foxing to the large folding frontispiece, the remaining images themselves are clean), foxing also to final pages of Appendix. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed, leather title label scuffed top edge. From the library of book collector,George John Dupuis, with his Heraldic bookplate (Suffield, 1839) to inside front cover. Very good condition. Describes the voyage to the Hawaiian Islands to return the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamamalu, who had died of measles on a visit to England. The Blonde was captained by George Anson Byron, 7th Lord Byron and the cousin of the poet. The crew included the botanist James Macrae, the naturalist Andrew Bloxam and the artist Robert Dampier. The ship's party visited a volcano and the place of death of Captain Cook, and the royal tomb. from which they took "almost all that remained of the ancient deities of the Islands". The book was compiled by Maria Graham, another cousin of Captain Byron, from the records of the ship's chaplain Richard Bloxam. The folding 'World Map' by J&C Walker and the plates described below image, "From a drawing taken on the spot by Robert Dampier".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London, 1826,x, [2], 260 pp. Two maps (one folding); twelve engraved plates (one folding), one full-page woodcut illustration. 4to (270 x 22 mm) contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, re-backed, gilt morocco label, occasional foxing, a nice copy. Byron returns the body of King Kamehameha. "This voyage was termed by Peter Buck (Ti Rangi Hiroa) 'One of the most gracious acts that one country has ever extended to another.' Kamehameha ll of Hawaii and his queen, Kamamalu, were on a visit to London in 1824 when they both died of the measles, for which they had no immunity. This voyage, with the cousin of the poet Lord George Gordon Byron in command, was undertaken by the British government specifically to return their bodies to the Hawaiian Islands.The work contains a history of the late King's visit to London, a resume of the discovery of and visits to Hawaii by British explorers, as well as the main narrative, compiled by Maria Graham from the journals kept by the naturalist (Bloxam) and from other official papers. The Hawaii portion of the text contains an interesting account of events in Honolulu and travels to Hilo, Kealakekua, and Kailua, Kona." Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 630; Hill, 231.