Russian Navy (8 results)

Hardback, 243mm x 160mm maroon cloth boards, gilt titles, first edition, xii prelims, 303+pp. plus index, Photographic illustrations. Good +++/Good +. Book is clean with light wear from handling. Dustwrapper has light wear from handling and to edges. The story of an 1986 incident involving a submarine which threatened to turn the Cold War hot, as dramatized latterly in an HBO movie. Catalogue: Military History. Keywords: submarine, soviet, nuclear, Cold War.

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Russian and English edition. (Russian Navy, Military History, Books in Russian) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

HardBack. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First edition. Published by Hutchinson Co. London. circa 1920sTranslated by Arthur Chambers. A fairly good copy in navy cloth boards which are scuffed, bumped and worn at edges, split at the inside with a section of pages ffep bw photo frontispiece detached. Otherwise although obviously shaken at the spine internally a clean and reasonably sound copy.Illustrated with sixteen illustrations including bw photographic plates and ten diagrams as listed including portrait frontispiece.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Manuscript periodical in four parts, numbered 3, 4, 11, and 13. Staple-bound heavy cardstock wraps, brightly illustrated in pen-and-ink and watercolor; four volumes; 8vo (230 x 180 mm); pp. 136, illustrated throughout with pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings signed "S. Sh." or "S. Sheff," Russia, 1929. Covers a little scuffed along spine and edges, otherwise fine -- bold and bright. A compilation of various accounts relating to the Russian Navy and Air Force in the decade following the Revolution, recorded in tidy penmanship, and with quick watercolors painted direct in text, plus nicely accomplished pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations tipped-on (showing landscapes, sea-scapes, portraits, and air and sea vessels). The accounts report the travails of various ships, including the "Prome," "Paris Commune," "Frunze," the ice-breakers "Ermak" and "Lenin," and others. One part is devoted mostly to the Turkish Fleet and action in the Black Sea during 1914-1917. The aeronautic sections discuss Zeppelin's dirigible, and the British R-101. The journal lists various contributors, including F. Raskol'nikov, L. Berman, A. Marti, P. Stasevich, and others. S. Sheff, who drew the illustrations, probably produced this journal, issuing it over the course of a number of years; the present issues are numbered 3, 4, 11 and 13, and belong to the fourth year of composition. A nice folk art example of "Grafica Russa" (Russian Graphics) of the early 20th century, combining graphic design, illustration, and calligraphic interest.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (24.5 cm), [2], 146 pp, 7 folding maps and plans. Publisher's cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover and spine (binding slightly stained and rubbed, ownership entry on the front free endpaper, number in red pencil to title page). The volume presents the complete geodetic results of thirty years of systematic triangulation survey of the Russian and adjacent coastlines of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, conducted by the Hydrographic Expedition of the Black Sea from 1871 and continued by the Separate Survey of the Black Sea to 1901, covering seven component triangulation chains from the Nikolayev, Bakal, Yenikalsky, Taganrog, Mariupol, Berdyansk, and Feodosiya bases, with all angles measured by theodolites to 10-arc-second precision, coordinates calculated using Legendre's formulae on the Bessel ellipsoid to 0.001 arc-seconds, and results presented in extensive numerical tables. Complete with all large folding plates, comprising a schematic overview map of the principal triangulation network (corrected to 1903), and five detailed triangulation chain diagrams showing all measured points, triangle sides, and base measurements with distances in versts. A work of fundamental importance to the geodetic and cartographic history of the Black Sea region, representing the primary positional control data upon which subsequent Imperial Russian and later Soviet hydrographic charting of these waters was founded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (24 cm), LXIX, 539 pp, 2 folding maps, 1 folding table, 98 plates of photographs and diagrams. Publisher's cloth, title gilt (binding slightly rubbed and stained, gilt partly faded). From the library of Paul v. Hintze (stamps on endpapers). The fourth edition of the sailing directions for the Black and Azov Seas, comprising an extensive physical-geographical survey covering coastlines, currents, temperatures, salinity, ice conditions, weather prediction, and storms, followed by ten navigational chapters describing all shores from the Constantinople Strait proceeding westward, northward, and eastward around the entire Black Sea littoral to the Anatolian coast, with a full chapter devoted to the Sea of Azov. With a prefatory history tracing the work through its four editions from 1851, the present edition prepared by Lieutenant A. M. Bukhtveyev in 1901-1902 and verified in the field by Colonel K. P. Andreyev. Supplemented by 118 autotype photographic views of Black Sea shores, 31 wind-rose diagrams, a general chart of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, and a composite sheet of charts and plans corrected to 1 January 1903. Provenance: Paul von Hintze, German Admiral and diplomat who served as Naval Attaché in St. Petersburg (1903-1908) and later as Foreign Secretary of the German Empire in 1918.

One page, 4to,fold marks, good condition. In English as follows: "The harbour of Vladivostock is not bvery large indeed, but still there is sufficient room for the wellcom [sic] guests, who are now present, and as you wish that I let you know where some of [H J Bitt?] ships, belonging to your squadron, are to be anchored, changing the place tomorrow, I beg to inform you that it is the best for them to remain in the same place, where they are now. The shallow water end of the harbour, where the gun-boats are at anchor, is sacrifised [sic] for torpedo practice and usually we avoid to place our ships there, but the season of that kind of practice is now over and therefore there is no objection for the gun-boats to remain also unmoved. | Regarding the defects of 'Champion' the engineer of the port is instructed to do what is required and he will be tomorrow on board the mentioned ship. | We have no Government stores of coal, and all the requirements about the coal are to to be made to the representative of the Sahalien coal camp Mr. Makovsky. The coal is always on hand in a large quantity." The visit by a British fleet was apparently a surprise. See DNB: "After promotion to vice-admiral in 1884, he returned the following year to the China station as commander-in-chief. In 1886 he took his fleet into Vladivostok harbour, through a thick fog. His unexpected appearance inside a major Russian naval base had a powerful effect on the Russians." Hamilton had become Commander-in-Chief, China Station in September 1885.

First edition, just one institutional copy traced, at Stanford. This excellent pictorial history comprises images of ships, battle scenes, and portraits. Published at the time of the Russo-Japanese War, the front cover incorporates an image of the cruiser Varyag, celebrated for the stoicism of her crew at the Battle of Chemulpo Bay (1904). At the time of publication, Apostoli (1861-1937), a captain in the Russian Navy, was already established as a photographer and captured many images of the fleet, his work being published in a number of manuals and reference books. From 1905 to 1910 he was successively staff officer at Kronstadt, then head of the communications service of the Baltic Fleet. Following the Revolution, he managed the photo laboratory of the Baltic Fleet Political Directorate (Pubalt), although in 1919 he was arrested by the Petrograd Cheka for attempting to cross the Finnish border and sent to Vologda for "community service". Released in 1920 he was stationed in Petrograd, later in the decade teaching photography at the M. V. Frunze Higher Naval School (now the Saint Petersburg Naval Institute). He also had a reputation as a camera designer, developing twin-lens and underwater cameras, and wrote a number of books, including A Guide to the Study of Practical Photography for Naval Officers and Tourists (1893). Landscape quarto. Illustrated throughout from engravings and photographs, red decorative borders to each page. Original reddish-brown pictorial pebble-grain cloth, back cover with publisher's name in blind within blind-stamped borders. Contemporary Russian bookseller's stamp to rear pastedown. Front cover dulled, spine ends chafed, some edge wear, corners rubbed through, ink stain to back cover, internally some finger soiling and general light signs of handling, closed tear into images of one leaf, another closed tear across final leaf, the latter repaired with opaque tape: just about very good.