Murphy William Scanlan (18 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in good condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. If the condition is critical to your decision to purchase, then please contact us and we will let you know our view of its condition. If the book is very heavy, we will may need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 254pp, photographs & illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. larger 8vo cloth pp254 bw plates schematic drawings notes bibliography index F-/VG Biography of the obscure Victorian era inventor, who built a submarine for the Ottoman navy. Includes technical detail. [ Larger book, so possible extra postage overseas. ].…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index. Subjects; Submarines. Ships. Sous-marins. Great Britain History. Biographies. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index. Subjects; Submarines. Ships. Sous-marins. Great Britain History. Biographies. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this book in a Fine Dust-Jacket with NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the d/j.Not price clipped.Well illustrated with over 25 b&w plates.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.This copy was acquired from the Private Library of Robert Tranter-Owen who served in Malaya with the Manchester Regiment,lovely copy for the collector 8vo 253pp First Edition 1st Impression [1987].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. /254 pages condition is very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The story of the largely unsung developer of the world's first powered under-water boat. Includes several b/w photographs and diagrams. 254pp.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 254pp. Photo illus. d.j. A fine fine unclipped copywith no inscriptions, bookplates or marks. A lovely copy.

Green cloth in dust jacket. Condition: Vg in vg dust jacket. 254 Pp.B&w illus. and diagrams throughout.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. VG DW. 1st Edition. A very clean tight copy with minor cover wear.

8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by William Kimber & Co Ltd of London in 1987. Hardcover. 1st edition. Book condition: Near fine. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Inside pages are in good order. Dust Jacket condition: Near fine. See photograph. Dims: 240mm x 155mm x 25mm. 256 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 254, [2] pages. DJ has large tear at mid/lower spine. No impact to cover. Includes Author's Preface and Acknowledgments; The Parson, the Pimp and the Duck-Pond; The Curate's Egg; Resurgam--I Shall Arise; Dykeri Pram En; The Two Abduls; Norfenfelt; The Land of Wonder; Epilogue; Notes and References; Technical Appendix; Select Bibliography, and Index. George William Littler Garrett (4 July 1852 - 26 February 1902) was a British clergyman and inventor who pioneered submarine design. He invented a diving suit in 1877, demonstrating it to the French government in the River Seine. An interest in the possible military application of what at the time were known as submarine boats prompted him to form the Garrett Submarine Navigation and Pneumataphore Company Limited and raise £10,000 through it from Manchester businessmen. (A pneumataphore was a device for removing carbon dioxide from the air). In 1878, he built a 14-foot (4.3 m) long hand-cranked submarine of about 4.5 tons, which he named the Resurgam. This was followed by the second (and more famous) Resurgam of 1879. It was 45 feet (14 m) long, displaced about 30 tons on the surface and 38 tons submerged and was powered by steam - the furnace and chimney being shut off before diving. The Resurgam was built by Cochran and Co in Birkenhead, Merseyside, Although the submarine was lost whilst under tow in 1880 on its way to trials in Portsmouth for the Royal Navy, it impressed the Swedish industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt sufficiently to finance him. They built a submarine for Greece and two for Turkey. Resurgam (Latin: "I shall rise again") is the name given to two early Victorian submarines designed and built in Britain by Reverend George Garrett as a weapon to penetrate the chain netting placed around ship hulls to defend against attack by torpedo vessels. The Resurgam was the first 'practical' British submarine, and the first in the world to be mechanically powered when submerged. It was the invention of the Reverend George Garrett (1852-1902). The full story of Garrett's extraordinary life, rising from an obscure parish to a commission in the Ottoman Navy, only to die in poverty in New York, is told here for the first time. New research into Swedish, Turkish and American documents has revealed an almost unknown area of nineteenth-century naval and technological history, the strange world of pimp-turned-armaments-tycoon Basil Zaharoff and Thorsten Nordenfelt, whose submarines, designed by Garrett, survived fearsome accidents during the difficult birth of the modern submarine.…

Condition: fine. vendeur pro, expedition soignee en 24/48h.Le livre peut montrer des signes d'usure dus à son utilisation, etre marque ou presenter plusieurs dommages esthetiques mineurs.

First edition 1987. Cloth. Very good indeed in dustjacket in clear protective removeable cover. Ask to see our other Maritime titles.