Phipps Captain (3 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Book measures 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Collation, [4],372pp, 2 folding plates. Volume 11 only. Contents of this volume. Voyage towards the North Pole. Voyage New Guinea. Pelew Islands. Botany Bay, with a narrative of the settlement of the Colonies at Port Jackson. Voyage to Lisbon. Voyages to the Indian Sea and Japan. Bound in full leather. Rebacked retaining the original boards. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very good clean well bound volume. Size: Small 8vo.

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.

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.