French Navy (37 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Addresses made to the National Convention of the League To Enforce Peace, in the City of Philadelphia, May 16th and 17th, 1918. White lettering on tan covers, 8vo, 253pp. Ex-library of the Young Men's Institute, New Haven, Conn - presented to them by The League to Enforce Peace. Spine ends & corners worn, spine lettering faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. cloth.tall 8vo.287 pages.very good copy.small chipping on top front,very good DUST JACKET. review slip enclosed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. NAP. 287p. Maps. Blue cloth. An interesting survey principally of naval operations & strategy in the Med. Some spotting & soiling of cover. Very Good copy. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 321p. Naval blockade by the Allied powers. Legal aspects. Economic effects on neutrals by country. Black cloth. Very Good Copy. Book.

1st Ed. 124 PP with b/w and colour illust. (sketches, plans, photos of warships & planes, drawings of flags & uniforms). Illustrated card cover. Small rubbed patches on front cover, o/wise near fine. French text. Oblong: 12 x 20.5. State of the French Navy in 1964.

1st Ed. (2), 77 PP with colour illustrations (10 graphs, 6 tables, 8 maps and 27 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.7 x 21. The French Navy of 1995. Naval forces in European waters, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Faint dusting of dusty whiteness to green cloth on boards with gilt titles. Spine: very faint sunning; head & foot with thin bumping and mild rubbing. Light bumping to fore corners. Edges: moderate soiling and foxing. Front hinges at half-title page lightly split open with light thin staining. 3cm surface split to rear hinge. Light sprinkling of foxing to few only pages. Binding is VG. Fldg chart clean & intact. 296p.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original antique french costume lithograph. Plate size approx 10 x 7 ins, 25 x 16 cms. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Mount size 12 x 10 ins, 31 x 25 cms Very good, circa 1841. A fine opportunity to aquire an antique original lithograph, very bright colours and excellent backgrounds - interesting, unusual and decorative. Contemporary Hand-colouring and heightened with oils and varnish. .FINE COLOURED LITHOGRAPH OF A FRENCH MERCHANT NAVY OFFICER.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. NAP. 287p. Maps. Grey/Blue cloth. An interesting survey principally of naval operations & strategy in the Med. Fine/Good copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. NAP. 287p. Maps. Grey/Blue cloth. An interesting survey principally of naval operations & strategy in the Med. Fine/Very Good copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint of 1951. 287p. Maps. Brown cloth. An interesting survey principally of naval operations & strategy in the Med. Fine copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. NAP. 287p. Maps. Grey/Blue cloth. An interesting survey principally of naval operations & strategy in the Med. Bookplate of (Adm.) John S. McCain jr. Near Fine/Good copy. Book.

On a 1.75 x 4.25 cm rectangle of laid paper cut from letter. In fair condition, lightly aged, with paper from mount on reverse. A neat, firm signature, reading 'Roger Curtis'.

2003 France, hardcover, 96 pages. Photobook of this world tour with this helicopter carrier and frigate. In very good condition.

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original blue card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8'' x 6''. In December 1942 Fidelity, with T Company, 40 Commando aboard, joined Convoy ON 154. The convoy was attacked by U-boats from 27 December while north of the Azores. On 29 December Fidelity, suffering from engine problems, fell out of the convoy. She launched her aircraft as an anti-submarine patrol while repairs took place. During this time her aircraft reported lifeboats to the southwest and her landing craft was sent to pick them up. These were 44 men from Empire Shackleton, the convoy commodore's ship. During the night Fidelity was making 5 knots towards the Azores, but came under attack twice. She was fired on by U-225, and later by U-615. Both U-boats were driven off when Fidelity fired back. On 30 December she was found by U-435, under the command of Siegfried Strelow and was torpedoed twice. Strelow observed the sinking, and estimated about 300 survivors in the water, but when he made his report later he was asked "whether their destruction in the prevailing weather can be counted on". This was some months after BdU's infamous Laconia Order, instructing U-boat commanders not to assist survivors in any way, and regarded at the Nuremberg trials as a tacit encouragement to ensure there were none. At the time of her sinking Fidelity had on board some 369 souls. All were lost. Contains 128 pp with monochrome archive photographs and some maps throughout. Feint crease line to the top front corner and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. WORLD WAR II (Second).

3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with traces of mount, and red wax seal, adhering to the reverse of the second leaf, which is franked (the franker's name and signature illegible) to 'Sir John Phippart [sic] | &c &c | No 8 New Burlington St'. Slight loss to one corner of second leaf, from breaking open of seal, with damage to one word of text. The recipient is the naval writer John Philippart (c.1784-1874), and the address is in fact that of the publishing house of Colburn and Bentley, publishers of the Naval and Military Gazette of which Philippart was the editor. The letter, which concerns a contribution to that journal by Dundas, begins: 'Dear Sir | I shall send in a few days another conclusion to your journal which I think you will deem better worth insertion than my foregoing one. It contains the battle of Fuentes and some matter immediately succeeding'. Dundas hopes that Philippart will find room for the piece in the number for March, and explains that it will take at least as much space 'as the Artle you mention to be in the Jany No and which has not come to hand'. In a postscript he asks, 'If it is not a secre[t,] Pay who is [binded?] whose opinion in my respects coincide with mine?'.

[168]pp. Original publisher's drab buckram-backed vellum-tipped orange paper boards. Extremities rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. An unused blank book intended for the use by French naval officers in recording the orders of the Commander-in-Chief of the French Navy post May 1885 - the month following the conclusion of the Sino-French War. Size: Folio.

Contemporary old leather covers with faded red morocco title label to the spine. 8vo. 7ĵ'' x 4½. Contains [xvi] 336 printed pages of text with folding map and three engraved plates. The half-title leaf has a piece of paper pasted across the top and printed T. U. George, below this the name 'Blandford' is by hand. Corners and ends rubbed, front hinge cracked, light age toning to the text block edges. La Pérouse was first published in English in 1785, Maurelle's circa 1780 and Vancouver's work in 1798. The Preface by the Editor is signed with the initial H, but the writer's identity is unknown. Member of the P.B.F.A. AMERICA [History].

Manuscript. Condition: Very Good. On offer is an outstanding archive of forty-seven [47] letters from the personal files of famed Admiral of the French Navy and Great Astronomer Amédée Ernest Barthélemy Mouchez. The archive dates 1846 through 1891 and is made up of a few letters from his sister, a letter to his mother and then the balance from colleagues, notables and friends; a number are on stationery of the Republic of France; Sociedad Cientifica "Antonio Alzate" Mexico; Ecole Normale Superieure Laboratoire de Chime; Senat and some French Ministerial Office letterheads. This fascinating archive touches upon many of Mouchez' career highlights as the letters deal with a number of different areas - Mouchez' work in China, matters of the Observatory, Mexico, personal communications of friends and colleagues etc. Mouchez had a spectacular career embarking on a career in the French Navy as an ensign in 1843. This was a period of relative international maritime peace and much of the navy's activities were dedicated to exploration and discovery. Mouchez was initially occupied with hydrographic studies along the coasts of Korea, China and South America, penetrating 320 km up the Paraguay River and exploring the Abrolhos Islands. He improved the practice of surveying at sea, adapting terrestrial instruments for naval use, and was especially concerned with the problems of determining longitude. He developed the use of the theodolite and meridian telescope to improve the error in establishing longitude. Attaining the rank of Captain in 1868, he embarked on a series of expeditions to chart the coast of Algeria. At the conclusion of his project in 1873, he was elected to the Bureau des Longitudes and, in the following year, was sponsored by the Académie des Sciences to observe the transit of Venus from St. Paul Island in the Indian Ocean. On December 9, he made a sequence of superb photographic plates of the event. In 1875, the Académie elected him a member of the astronomy section and in 1878 he was promoted to rear admiral and awarded the role of director of the Paris Observatory. The observatory had fallen into disrepair and disrepute since the chaos of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Paris Commune of 1871. Mouchez set about a programme of reconstruction but failed to persuade the government to fund a new observatory outside the centre of Paris. In 1887, he collaborated with Sir David Gill to host an international astronomical conference in Paris. The principal outcome of the conference was a multi-national project to compile and index a photographic atlas of the heavens, the Carte du Ciel. The project consumed massive effort over several decades before it was rendered obsolete by modern astronomical methods. He is also credited with founding Mountsouris Observatory and he is the author of six books on astronomy, navigation, nautical instruction etc. A grand boulevard in Le Havre and a village in Algeria are named for Mouchez. This is a great archive of intersecting and diverse worlds being astronomy, France and her Navy, Algeria, militaria, geography, cartography and South America. VG. Autograph.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SPAIN. Carlos IV King of Spain (1788-1808). Tratado de señales de día y noche, e hipóthesis de ataques y defensas, dispuesto por el Estado Mayor de Marina para auxiliar la instrucción de este ramo. Madrid, Royal Press, 1804. Small folio. x + 315p including tables; 75 engraved folding plates; 1 large folding table with numerical flag signals (signed: Maré). Vignette of royal arms on title. Calf. An instruction manual on naval tactics and signals compiled for the Spanish naval high command based on the latest reforms in accordance with the provisions of the navy act of 1802. Parts I and II describe a system of day and night signals in current use, and propose methods of preparing for the most common forms of enemy action encountered both in attack and defence. Part III contains a selection of innovative British and French signals and naval war tactics considered useful for Spanish naval captains. Reference by name is made to Grenier and Amblimont, French naval officers who had recently written on the subject. The engraved folding plates illustrate general naval tactics, sailing orders, and manoeuvres for attack and defence; eleven of the plates represent positions extracted from the works of Grenier (L'Art de guerre sur mer, 1787) and Amblimont (Tactique navale, 1788). The volume is internally in very fresh and crisp condition. Exposición Nacional del Libro del Mar, (Barcelona 1943) no.4276; Palau 339713.

1978 France, hardcover, 80 pages. Photobook of this world tour of the Helicopter Carrier and Frigate. In good condition.

1996 France, photobook of the world tour of this helicopter carrier and the Fregat Germinal. In very good condition.

The letter is 1p, 12mo, and is accompanied by the covering 8vo leaf, addressed to 'John Atkins Esqre | Duke Street | Westminster', with a second signature for franking. The covering leaf is endorsed: 'Admiralty August 21 1806 | Adml. Markham concerning Miles Burn that it would be impossible to get him reinstated'. Both letter and covering leaf in good condition, lightly aged and worn, with fold lines. Markham could hardly be more decisive. The letter reads: 'My Dr Sir | Your attempts I am sure will be in vain to get Mr Burn restored to his rank[.] The Evidence is very strong indeed as to his general [last word underlined] drunken habits, and the instances, render him for ever incapable [last three words underlined] of serving His Majesty his heirs or Successors'. At the foot of the page, apparently written at a later date: 'I wrote on a scrap of paper written on the other side which I did not see when I wrote this'.

At the time of writing, Berkeley's newly-constructed HMS Emerald had just completed her coppering and fitting-out at Woolwich. Sailing to join Jervis's Mediterranean fleet, within less than a year she would be involved in controversy. Following the Battle of Cape St Vincent (14 February 1797), in which HMS Emerald was too lightly built to take part, the victorious Jervis sent Berkeley off with a squadron of five ships in search of the disabled Spanish flagship, Santisima Trinidad. On 20 February Berkeley declined to engage when he sighted her under tow. This decision was widely criticised, and there were calls for Berkeley's court-martial. Two months later, on 26 April 1797, HMS Emerald was cruising with the Irresistible off the Spanish coast, when they captured two enemy frigates, one of which sank at sea. 1p, folio. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper with slight chipping to corners and edges. Addressed to 'Principal Officers & Commrs. of HMs. Navy'. Reads: 'Gentlemen / His Majesty's Ship under my Command having arrived here this day, I have to request you will cause the necessary Steps to be taken for the Payment of the Company of His Majesty's Ship Juno, (who have been turned over to serve in the Emerald) as soon as possible, as I am in hourly Expectation of receiving Orders to proceed to Sea - / I am / Gentlemen / Your humble Servt / J. Cornewall Berkeley'. Docketed on reverse: '12 Decr. 95 / Captn Berkeley / Emerald / desires he may be paid'. Also on reverse: 'Will the Board please to Order the Juno's Pay Books which were paid in Tower, to be forwarded to Shearness. [sic] / P. H. / 14 Decembr.' and the following, with the initials of three commissioners, 'Let the Books be sent accordingly / CH [Captain Charles Hope, Deputy Comptroller of the Navy, 1795-1801?] JH [John Henslow (1730-1815), Surveyor to the Navy, 1784-1806?] GM [?] / Acq[uaint] Captn'.

Bligh's entry in the Oxford DNB does not note his service on HMS Wasp, to which he was appointed in October 1774. According to one authority the ship 'saw service out of Passage, County Cork, Ireland from [November 1774]. In October 1775 [Bligh] brought sixty volunteers from Ireland into Plymouth, and in June 1776 sailed from Portsmouth to Plymouth with money for the dockyard artificers. Towards the end of August, the Wasp arrived off the Devonshire port with ten transports bound for North America, and she then sailed for Ireland.' Built in 1749, the 8-gun sloop the Wasp was sold off by the Royal Navy in 1781. In 1784, under the name Mentor, she was a slave ship. Good bold signature on letter of 1p, 4to. In fair condition, on aged and discoloured paper, with wear to corners and closed tear along the two postage folds. Addressed to 'The Honourable The Principal Officers & Commissrs. of His Majesty'[s] Na[vy]' (parts of last two word chipped away). Docketed '1: Decembr. 1775. / Wasp / Captn: Bligh / Book sent' and 'Recd. the above Muster Book / TM / 12 Decr. 1775'. The letter reads: 'Gentlemen, / Yesterday I Lodged at the Clerk of the Checks Office at this Port, to be forwarded to your Board, One Monthly Book for September & October 1775 for His Majesty's Sloop the Wasp under my Command, which please to Acknowledge the receipt off to Waterford in Ireland, as I shall sail for that place in a day or two. I am, with great respect, / Gentlemen, / Your most Obedient / Humble Servant R R Bligh'.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1898 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 126 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 126 Language: English.

Four pages, 4to, inc. address (p.4), bifolium. IMAGE on application. Addressed on reverse of second leaf, with two postmarks and a manuscript note by forwarding agents the Frères Smitmer of Vienna, to 'Robert Thorp Esqr | Alnwick | Northumberland | For George Thorp's Letters to his family, see Note B. below. Text: He starts by congratulating his brother on his wedding, admitting that sailors are "bad hands at Complements" but expresses pleasure at contact from his sister. He then goes into his activities in Smyrna: We have been paying our respects to the Captain Pacha, the great man in this Empire & brother of the Grand Seignior [sic] his power is unlimited all [?] jurisdiction ceasing on his arrival. [H]e came on board us twice & we got under weigh he expressed himself much pleased with the Ship & look a great deal of [?] alterations made in his own Ship (from ours he smoaked out of a Golden pipe set in diamonds. [H]is ring was a diamond about the size of [O -large ring/nought drawn] not less from its brightness some of the officers concluded it worth 7 or 8 thousand Pounds, the first dress[?] I saw him in was blue velvet set full of various stones his turban a Camels hair [Shall?] the last magnificent part about him[.] His next dress a rich blue velvet covered with diamonds of great value o0o & pearls about the same size again in a yellow satin full of various sized diamonds, I never saw such a Collection of riches in my life[.] I suppose he carried on his [back?] Pistols ring & sabre from 50 to 100 Thousand pounds each time - which I do not expect you to believe till you have seen the Nillions of oppressed wretches who furnish them - if you should in this Country get worth 10000 your head is gone & the Grand Signior or his Officers your heir.' The Pacha has given 'other Ships from 1500 Piastres he presented the Officers with Turkish stuffs my present is a piece of Blue Silk worked with Gold & all the Officers nearly the same. he presented Capt Hood [later Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood (1762-1814)] with a Gold Box set with diamonds a quantity of muslins & various rich things we are not judges of diamonds but all agree the Captain to be worth near a thousand pounds'. The Pacha '[see Note C.] wished to make a Second present to all the Offiers & Crew but the Capt. very properly would not allow it - He is gone with his Fleet to collect the tribute of the Empire.' Notes: A. HMS Aigle "When Captain Hood transferred from the Juno to the bigger frigate HMS Aigle (38 guns) in March 1794 he took with him a contingent of officers and men that included Midshipman Thorp. Corsica: Between April and August 1795, Aigle took part in the blockade of Corsica and the capture of Calvi. Smyrna: Aigle spent six months from May to October 1795 blockading French warships in the Turkish port of Smyrna (now Izmir) a very unpopular operation because of its lack of opportunity for prizes and its unhealthy climate, with frequent outbreaks of the plague; B. "Letters to his family Thorp wrote numerous letters to his parents and siblings throughout his career, except for his time on Thisbe in Nova Scotia during his first year of service and his subsequent time on Magnificent. These were deposited in the National Maritime Museum in 1968 in the form of two letterbooks. Regrettably, no record of persons inspecting these letterbooks seems to have been kept by the National Maritime Museum but anyone studying them in detail who is familiar with the AubreyMaturin series of novels of Patrick O'Brian may find a remarkable coincidence between some of the descriptions in Thorp's letters and events or characters in O'Brian's novels, inviting speculation whether O'Brian may have read the letters and been inspired by their content. Thorp's letters describing the escape from Toulon, the attack on the Mortella Tower and the siege of Saint-Florent, the blockade of Corsica, the capture of Calvi and the cutting out of the Principe Fernando are particularly noteworthy. Dean.

Folio and 8vo. Altogether 25 ½ pp. Interesting collection of letters, all addressed to a good friend named Paul whom he calls "Grand" and who appears to be a fellow writer. In a letter from 30 Dec. 1943 Farrère thanks him for dedicating to him a piece called "Fée du platane" and remembers his good friend Pierre Lou˙s (1870-1925): "Mon Grand, il y a des semaines, que j'aurais dú t'écrire / au moins depuis le jour que j'ai reçu ta fée du platane, une des plus belles choses que tu aies écrites, et que je suis fier que tu m'aies dédiée. J'ai pensée en la lisant, aux derniers vers / testament qu'écrivit Pierre Lou˙s, que nous devons toujours méditer, nous qui touchons à la plume / te souviens-tu?". - In a letter from 1947 he expresses his outrage against Paul Claudel (1868-1955), elected to the Académie française on 4 April 1946: "A propos de l'election de Claudel, j'ai été proprement insulté. Car je ne sais lequel de ces deux bas canards [Claudel et Brisson] a insignué que toutes les attaques brissonnesques contre l'Académie datent de mon élection [.]". Farrère was himself elected to a chair at the Académie française on 26 March 1935, in competition with Paul Claudel, partly thanks to the lobbying efforts of Pierre Benoit. - Further, Farrère reflects on his novels, like "Fern-Errol" and "Homme Seul", which he describes as the "least superficial" works of his life: "Mon Fern-Errol peut plaire ou déplaire / mais je suis sûr que c'est avec mon Homme Seul, ce que j'ai écrit de moins superficiel de toute ma vie []" (Biarritz, 27 Nov. 1943).

Splendid vellum manuscript on the condition and organisation of the French Royal Navy of King Louis XV in the year 1732, including maritime data on the French colonies in Canada, Louisiana and the West Indies. The manuscript is beautifully calligraphed in a formal roman and italic in brown-black, red and blue, sometimes with gold covering the ink, with 2 decorated initials in gold over red. The use of the high quality vellum, the fine gouache illustration, the lavishly executed calligraphy and the beautiful contemporary binding, indicate that the manuscript must have been produced for an important person, probably a head of the marine or an official at the court. The manuscript gives a complete survey of the size and organisation of the French navy of the Ancien Regime in 1732 and must have been top secret at the time!From the library of the well-known art historian and book collector Henri Beraldi (1849-1931). The manuscript is generally in fine condition, with only an occasional minor spot or small stain. The binding is slightly worn at the hinges, head and foot of spine and on the raised bands, but is also generally fine. A remarkable and luxurious manuscript providing a wealth of information on the French Royal Navy in 1732.l Bibliotheque Henri Beraldi II (Paris, 1934), 168; Sotheby's, London, Sale 16 & 17 december 1963, lot 223. Contemporary red goatskin morocco, sewn on 5 cords, gold-tooled spine, gold-tooled fillets on boards and board edges, title in 2nd and 3rd of 6 spine compartments (further each with 5 small fleurs-de-lis), blue-black goatskin morocco pastedowns with wide, richly gold-tooled frame, headbands worked in red and white, gilt edges. Manuscript in brown-black, red and blue ink on vellum, some of the lettering and borders gilt. With a beautiful frontispiece painting in coloured gouaches (14 x 9.5 cm) pasted on the page facing the opening of the text, showing a small warship at a shipyard in a small harbour being repaired by workmen. On the left shore a man tends pots on an open fire outside a small hut while 2 others watch and talk, across an inlet behind it are the larger ruins of a church(?) with tower, in the background more people, smaller boats and the far shore. Centred at the foot is a scrollwork shield (leaning against a crate) with the text "Marine du Roy. 1732." Pages: Frontispiece plus [2], 26 ll., including 2 double and 1 larger folding.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1880 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 219 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 219 Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919,United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equipment.