Coles Captain (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 18 pages. Words and music include: "He is able to keep you" by Bandmaster A E Webber / "The Father's Care" by Adjutant Bramwell Coles / "I've Found a Friend" by Bandmaster G Marshall / "A Pardoning God" by Enoch Kent / "Fall in!" by Major C Coller / "He can save every boy and girl" by Commandant W H Cox / "All for a Child like me" by Staff-Captain S B Lister / "When the Judgment throne is set" by Alec Greig / "Living and Dying in Jesus" by Lt-Col. R Slater / "The Fight" by Captain Eric Ball / "He Pardoned Me" by Ensign Vincent Cunningham / "More like Jesus" by Bandsman W H Wright (M9)(M15).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 40 pp., with two folding engraved maps (Portsmouth Dockyard & Spithead/Bradshaw's Railway Map of Great Britain and Ireland); title-page and final leaf a little frayed and brittle at edges; library stamp to foot of title-page and final leaf. Disbound. The second map has the author's manuscript additions showing Telegraphs, New lines of Rail required, Camps of Rendezvous for Volunteers, Main Stations of Coast Patrol, marked in red.

Modern Plain Wrapper. Condition: Good. First Edition. 11 pages, with 2 folding diagrams. original title page wrapper preserved. Inscribed as a Presentation copy from the author (who invented the revolving gun turret) at the top of the TP. A rodent bite has taken some of the outer corner, not affecting text. Presentation Copy from the Edi.

Decorative Silk. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Decorative brown silk binding, stamped in blind. 460 pp. + 10 pp. advertisements, 2 folding charts, 6 pp black and white plates, index. The book contains 22 papers on sanitary reform, sanitation, water supply, sewerage and water borne diseases. Of the larger papers is one detailing the water supply of Ancient Roman Towns, Infantile Diarrhoea, Circiular Hospital Waters, and Danger to Health from Burial in Imperishable Coffins. The late Victorian age represents the pinnacle of water and sewerage provision, when most cities were being dug up for the installation of pipes and sewers. Important primary source material on the period. Front hinge cracked, a few scuffs to boards, very good.

LACKING wrappers. Disbound. Caption title. Good. 11 plates [5 folding] 21x13cm, 23,(11) pp, The first plate is stained. Includes 11 engraved plates, 5 of which are folding. ["Captain Cowper Phipps Coles, C.B., R.N., the son of the Reverend John Coles and his wife Mary Ann Goodhew Rogers, was an English naval Captain and inventor. He entered the Royal Navy at the age of eleven. Coles distinguished himself at the siege of Sevastopol during the 1850s in the Crimean War against Russia. It was at this time that he and other British naval officers and sailors constructed a raft named the Lady Nancy which sported a rotating protective turret. After the war, Coles patented his design for a rotating turret. The Royal Navy began looking at uses for his revolutionary turret design. Several early naval vessels, such as Prince Albert and Royal Sovereign, were constructed or modified and incorporated Coles' designs. He pressed, however, for the British Admiralty to allow him to build a low-freeboard turret warship and in 1866 the Royal Navy finally agreed. Coles became the lead designer for HMS Captain. The ship used most of Coles' design. However, extensive rigging was necessary to make the ship ocean- going. This forced the creation of a "hurricane deck" above the turrets, which raised the center of gravity of the vessel. This may have been instrumental in Captain's tragic capsize on the night of 6 September 1870. Coles perished in the disaster. In 1856, Coles married Emily Pearson, niece of Admiral Lord Lyons. Coles was himself a nephew, by marriage, of Admiral Lord Lyons, his mother being the sister of Augusta, Lyons' wife" - wikipedia]. LACKING wrappers. Disbound. Caption title. Good.

FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo., in red cloth-covered stiff card covers, with blind stamped decoration to both covers, and gilt letters to front; 31pp, with 4 b/w plates (one foldout). Ink inscriptions to ffep, and occasional ink annotation to text. Inner hinge stretched, foxing, handling wera and marks throughout, covers a little worn and darkened, dampstained are and ink numbers to rear. A Good Sound Copy. (SHELF 101) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

8vo, paperback, 23pp + 5 figures + 11 plates. Fair condition only. Good reading copy. Generally worn, spine backing missing and volume has been roughly stitched back together but hinge cracked and stitching has split between plate 8 and p17. Cover chipped along spine edges, front cover ink-stained and generally grubby and marked, 1.5in closed tear to surface of front with 1/4in chip in surface; slight burr to surface where label has been removed at some stage, rear cover grubby and a little loose. Pages age-toned and soiled, some pencilled notes and marks, blue pencilled underlining to last page, some browning to margins at rear pages, bookseller's sticker at lower rear cover. Contents clear and legible. This item is light and may attract less postage. Pictures available on request.

2nd Edn, 32 pages, 3 plates, 2 of gun locks 1 of a rifle, large folding plate of distance and trajectory, small split on 1 fold, light browning and dust soiling to contents, red cloth covered boards, gilt title to upper board, some darkening to edges, vg-. Covers the stripping of the rifle, principles of firing, aiming, distance etc. Riling 734, Riling does not mention the 1st edition.