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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. VG pictorial softcover. 2014. SIGNED/Inscribed by AUTHOR on half title page. Pages all clean/unmarked. Photos throughout. Covers bright and clean. Binding solid. LIghtest scuffs. 197 pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small handling wear on jacket. Signed by the author on the front end paper with short author's dedication. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1988, First Edition, Signed by author on title page, Condition: Very good Dust jacket: Good, Dark blue boards, text block and edges are clean, unmarked and tight. Gilt lettering on spine is bright. Dust jacket has slight rubbing ans small chip from shelf wear (see pictures). Memories of the men who served in the Fishermen's Reserve, a special naval unit formed to patrol the coast of BC during WWII. Wrapped in mylar. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: As New. Book appears unread. Dedicated on the flyleaf by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, First Printing. xix, [3], 648, [1] pages. Maps. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Index. Inscription signed by author on half-title. Arthur L. Herman (born 1956) is an American historian, currently serving as a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He generally employs the Great Man perspective in his work, which is 19th Century historical methodology attributing human events and their outcomes to the singular efforts of great men that has been refined and qualified by such modern thinkers as Sidney Hook. Herman received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University. He spent a semester abroad at Edinburgh University in Scotland. His 1984 dissertation dealt with the political thought of early-17th-century French Huguenots. His father was a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Herman taught at Sewanee: The University of the South, George Mason University, Georgetown and The Catholic University of America. His 2001 book on the Scottish Enlightenment, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2008, he added to his body of work Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special operations, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy -- of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world. The author discussed the British Royal Navy and the British Empire from the Elizabethan age to the Falklands war. He argued that after the British Royal Navy took control of the oceans from the Spanish navy it paved the way for the rise of the British Empire. He asserted that the British Navy was instrumental in creating the new overseas trading routes and colonies that generated a global economic system and shaped the modern world.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Beth Herman (Author photograph) (illustrator). xix, [3], 648, [1] pages. Maps. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Index. Inscription signed by author on title page. The inscription reads For Brendan Keegan with very best wishes Nov 18, 2006 Arthur Herman. Arthur L. Herman (born 1956) is an American historian, currently serving as a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He generally employs the Great Man perspective in his work, which is 19th Century historical methodology attributing human events and their outcomes to the singular efforts of great men that has been refined and qualified by such modern thinkers as Sidney Hook. Herman received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota and M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University. He spent a semester abroad at Edinburgh University in Scotland. His 1984 dissertation dealt with the political thought of early-17th-century French Huguenots. His father was a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Herman taught at Sewanee: The University of the South, George Mason University, Georgetown and The Catholic University of America. His 2001 book on the Scottish Enlightenment, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2008, he added to his body of work Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age, a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special operations, historian Arthur Herman tells the spellbinding tale of great battles at sea, heroic sailors, violent conflict, and personal tragedy -- of the way one mighty institution forged a nation, an empire, and a new world. The author discussed the British Royal Navy and the British Empire from the Elizabethan age to the Falklands war. He argued that after the British Royal Navy took control of the oceans from the Spanish navy it paved the way for the rise of the British Empire. He asserted that the British Navy was instrumental in creating the new overseas trading routes and colonies that generated a global economic system and shaped the modern world. Derived from the Kirkus review: The contributions of the British fleet extend beyond the inventive use of rum, sodomy, and the lash. The British Empire, argues Herman, would scarcely have been possible without it, and "half the world's independent nations would not exist today." The inhabitants of the British Isles, by mere virtue of the fact that they live on islands, have been going down to the sea in ships for millennia. But Herman credits Henry VIII with taking lessons from his fellow rulers in more ambitious lands and rethinking the whole business of the ocean as more than an inconvenient obstacle between England and its holdings in Ireland and France; a "skilled copycat," he built up a modern fleet for his time and, stealing a page from Scotland, mounted its ships with heavy, bronze siege cannons. Its descendant, the navy of Elizabeth's age, sailed the world, mostly in order to chase the Spanish; as Herman notes, the Spanish crown replied by launching three successive armadas in 1596, 1597, and 1598, the last of which set off a national panic, "with citizens of London closing off streets and rushing to Tilbury with 30,000 militiamen to repel the imagined attackers." England's swabbies found worthy opponents in Napoleon's fleet, too, which dogged them around the globe and made heroes of Lord Nelson and his lieutenants; in the fleets of the Germany in WWI and WWII; and even in the Argentine navy, which gave England's ships a hard fight in the Falklands War of 1982. The last conflict, the author notes, forced a rethinking of the fleet's increasing reliance on high-tech gizmos and put it back in touch with the old traditions: "If the British navy was going to win this w.

1890 Antique Print - AFRICA MOZAMBIQUE BRITISH NAVY REAR ADMIRAL FREMANTLE (75A) For more info please ask seller a question. Royal Mail 2nd Class - £0.00 Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For - £4.50 Standard Int'l age - £4.00 Royal Mail International Signed - £8.00 No PICK UP OPTIONSorry, our items are NOT available for pick-up.PAYING VIA PAYPALWe accept on our all our items so you can shop with confidence.Simple choose the option when proceeding through the checkout.

1878 Mar 23 Original Antique Print taken from The Graphic: H.M.S. SUPERB. Overall size of this print is approx 20cm x 28cm with large margins, perfect for mounting for home, business, interior decorators, hotels, pubs, boardrooms and restaurants. All our prints are ORIGINALS ANTIQUES AND GUARANTEED TO BE AS DATED. Please note we are offering an ANTIQUE PRINT on this listing unless otherwise described. These prints are taken from the THE GRAPHIC and in many cases, there will also be text on the reverse of the image side. The Graphic was first published in 1869, founded by William Luson Thomas and was a weekly newspaper reporting details of local, UK and worldwide events and stories. The Graphic is known for its coverage of of the following subjects: The Wars, Ships, Boats, Guns, Sailing, Portraits, Fine Art, Old and Antique Prints, Wood Cut, Wood Engravings, Early Photographs, Victorian Life, Victorian Culture, Kings, Queens, Royalty, Travels, Adventures, Natural History, Birds, Fish, Mammals, Fishing, Hunting, Shooting, Fox Hunting, Sprts including Tennis, Cricket, Football, Horse Racing etc. WE ARE HAPPY TO COMBINE POSTAGE FOR UP TO 10 ITEMS FOR NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE OVER THE SINGLE ITEM POSTAGE COST FOR OVERSEAS BUYERS. FOR UK BUYERS, POSTAGE IS FREE. PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU WOULD LIKE THE ITEM TO BE SENT BY TRACKED AND SIGNED FOR MAIL, YOU WILL NEED TO PAY THE APPROPRIATE HIGHER POSTAL CHARGE. 1878 Antique Print - BRITISH IRONCLAD NAVY HMS SUPERB (191) 1878 Antique Print - BRITISH IRONCLAD NAVY HMS SUPERB (191) 1878 Antique Print - BRITISH IRONCLAD NAVY HMS SUPERB (191)Click image to enlarge Description1878 Mar 23Original Antique Print taken from The Graphic:ÂH.M.S. SUPERB. Overall.

(11012) Paperback. 272 pages. B.w. illustrations. V.g. with inscription signed by author on half title page, in a v.g. papercover. Born in the Norfolk Broads village of Reedham in 1911, he joined the Royal Navy at 14 and remained there for the next 26 years, after which he returned to Norfolk.

Condition: Acceptable. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A readable copy. All pages and the cover are intact (dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes--in pen or highlighter--but notes cannot obscure the text. 1911. "With the compliments of the author" inked to dedication page. Acceptable copy. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. Blue cloth boards scuffed at edges and corners. Spine split at rear outer join. Front hinge cracked and taped by a previous owner. Rear hinge cracked with exposed webbing. Textblock itself remains firm overall. Contents clear and bright within. A fair reading copy.

1889 Antique Print BRITISH SHIPS ROYAL YACHT OSBORNE German Emperor Navy (267) For more info please ask seller a question. Royal Mail 2nd Class - £0.00 Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For - £4.50 Standard Int'l age - £4.00 Royal Mail International Signed - £8.00 No PICK UP OPTIONSorry, our items are NOT available for pick-up.PAYING VIA PAYPALWe accept on our all our items so you can shop with confidence.Simple choose the option when proceeding through the checkout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 50 Illus. 371 Pages. 13 x 23cms. Good. Spine a little weak. Some foxing. From earliest times to present day. Col. frontis. Pictorial inset to blue cloth & gilt cover. Short biblio. Index. Unsigned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [FISHER, Sir John]; NICHOLSON, Sir Walter Frederic (1877?1946). Typed letter signed W. F. Nicholson, on Admiralty stationery, concerning submarine fittings. Admiralty, S.W., 15 July 1905. Single sheet 230 × 203 mm, typed, with Admiralty blind-embossed seal at head; signed in ink at foot. Horizontal folds from original dispatch; light creasing and faint toning, otherwise clean and legible. Very good. An official Admiralty letter written on behalf of Sir John Fisher, then First Sea Lord, acknowledging correspondence and offering comments on the fitting of appliances for pumping air into British submarines while submerged. The letter confirms that such systems had been fitted 'since their first inception'. This is an early letter about submarine technology, with A class subs being launched in 1902 and B class only a year earlier in 1904.  Signed by Walter Frederic Nicholson, at this date a junior Admiralty official, who would later rise to become Permanent Secretary of the Air Ministry and appointed KCB in 1922.  The letter sits firmly within Fisher's programme of naval modernisation, during a period when submarines were controversial, strategically uncertain, and still regarded by many senior officers as auxiliary or even ungentlemanly weapons. An administrative letter in the formative phase of British submarine policy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. Octavo; xviii, 332 pages, cloth With maps and diagrams. In the vast literature on the American Revolution, historians "ignore the extent to which the War of Independence was a naval war." Professor Tilley does not ignore it. My subject is the admirals because I believe that those characters' actions, their personalities, and their relationships with the generals, the government, and each other were vital components of the war in North America." - Introduction.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This is a presentation copy of the work from the author to the artist who drew to battle plans, inscribed 'To the owner of the initials 'ERH' which appear on the admiralty drawings in this book, from the author, Oct.21. 1926'. Also includes a letter from the author to the same illustrator. Includes 28*battle plans and 15*maps and 26*appendices. xx, 459pp. Bound in the original blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelf-wear to extremities. Boards protected by removable clear plastic cover. Colour illustration (of the author as a child painted by his grandfather Sir John Millais) pasted onto the front pastedown. Related newspaper cutting to the second free endpaper. Notes relating to the author on the title page. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY JOHN HAYWARD ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1915.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Presentation copy from the author, with hand- written, signed letter loosely inserted. Small octavo. 170pp. Original printed card boards. Cover slightly rubbed and faded, occasional scattered foxing to contents, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original gilt-titled cloth, TEG. Slight bumping/edgewear/rubbing. Some lightly pencilled marginalia. Text block edge lightly foxed. "With the author's compliments" inked to dedication page. Frontis, plates. Hinges a bit pulled. ; quarto; 811 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Robert Lloyd ( Paintings ) and John Clarkson ( Photographs ) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Beautifully illustrated with Full-Page Full-Colour Reproductions of Robert Lloyd's Paintings. Includes P&O and Cunard Liners, and Liners and Ships of many other Lines. Complemented with B&W Photos by John Clarkson. Text by Roy Fenton. FLAT SIGNED BY John Clarkson, Robert Lloyd and Roy Fenton on Title Page. No other inscriptions. Landscape Format, 12" x 8 3/4". 112 p. pages. Little surface scrape in top fore margin of frontis. Jacket has very slight edge wear at the top. Signed by Author & Illustrator.

Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. Illustrated. 352pp. 1st edition, 1st issue.Signed boldly by Richard Woodman on title page. ISBN 9780752448145.

Fine in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 383pp. 1st edition, 1st issue. Signed boldly by Richard Woodman on title page. ISBN 9780752448206.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Alphabetical and ship Registers. February, 1992. The work is in 4 parts with some 370 pages (some are hand-written and some with added notes) housed in loose-leaf-binder with gilt lettered morocco label to spine and two to upper cover. Formerly belonging to George V Monk (one of the two compilers). The website of: The Radio Officers Association, has the following: <The association is particularly proud to have been given the original Register of Radio Officers Lost At Sea 1939-1945. This was complied by ex Radio Officers Peter J Barber, and his colleague George V Monk and lists the 1,406 Radio Officers known to have been lost during the war. This is provided in full under the heading (In Memoriam). Each entry gives Name- date killed- Name of Ship- Rank. Part 1: MEMORIAL REGISTER- BRITISH MARCHANT NAVY RADIO OFFICERS KILLED AT SEA 1939-1945. 160PP (approx). Lists the particulars of 1251 Radio Officers; Part 2: MEMORIAL REGISTER- COMMONWEALTH & COLONIAL RADIO OFFICERS KILLED AT SEA 1939-1945. 6PP. lists the particulars of 42 Radio Officers; Part 3: BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH RADIO OFFICERS KILLED AT SEA 1939-1945. Who have known graves or have been buried in Plots Recorded by the Commenwealth War Graves Commission, 12pp. Lists the particulars of 79 Radio Officers; Part 4: BRITISH MERCHANT NAVY SHIP REGISTER: RADIO OFFICERS KILLED AT SEA 1939-1945. pp: IV + 150 (approx). Miscellaneous information. 40pp (approx) of relevant information. Size: 4to. Signed by Author(s).

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 4to. 164 pages. Contemporary midnight blue straight-grained morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, rose-colored paper endleaves, morocco gilt inner dentelles, edges gilt. First edition. The dedication copy "to the Right Honorable Robert Viscount Melville, Baron Dunera, First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, This work is, with His Permission, Inscribed." (from the printed dedication). Inscribed by Knowles, who was Secretary to the Committee of Surveyors of His Majesty's Navy from 1806-1832, at the top right corner of the title-page: "Rt. Hon. Viscount Melville with the Author's most respectful complts." Knowles (1781-1841) published naval works, an edition of Henry Fuseli's 'Lectures on Painting' (1830), and a 'Life of Fuseli' (1831). With Melville's bookplate and that of William Tarun Fehsenfeld. (BA). Wear at ends of spine and along outer joints and at places on edges, otherwise in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First. PRESENTATION COPY TO BVT. LT. COL. GEORGE ARMISTEAD, COMMANDER OF FORT MCHENRY DURING THE BATTLE OF BALTIMORE, FROM JOSEPH H. REES, CAPT. OF ORDNANCE AT THE BALTIMORE ARSENAL. Philadelphia: Printed by G. Palmer; November, 1813. First edition. Octavo in 8s and 4s (8 7/16" x 5 1/16", 213mm x 130mm). [Full collation available.] With 3 engraved plates and 5 hand-colored folding engraved maps. Bound in contemporary half red roan over marbled boards and cloth ties. Gilt fillets to the corner-pieces. On the spine, seven transverse gilt fillets. Title gilt (MILITARY ATLAS.) in the second panel. Ties perished. Rubbed generally, with some wear and splits at the edges of the boards. Moderately tanned and offset throughout, with some spotting. Presentation inscription on the verso of ?1: "G. Armistead Lt Coln/ presented by/ his friend/ Jos H Rees/ Capt. U. S. Ordnance/ 1814" John Melish (1771-1822) was born in Scotland and emigrated to America, settling in Philadelphia in 1811. There he established himself as a cartographer-printer-publisher in the mold of the Dutch masters, and became the great mapmaker of the expanding United States. Crucial to his success was the pocket military atlas (compare the 1776 "Holster Atlas" of Sayer and Bennet) that combined not only large folding maps but considerable descriptions of the places depicted, their strategic roles ("The Seat of War in North America") as well as the military personnel crucial to the ongoing War of 1812. Indeed, so emblematic of the period was his "Seat of War" that a friend's suggestion that he make a corresponding maps of the "Seat of Peace" led to the first domestically-made coast-to-coast wall map of America in 1816. The present copy was presented to Lt. Col. George Armistead (1780-1818), whose brevet was the command of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore 12-15 September 1814. Crucial to the War of 1812, Fort McHenry's withstanding the bombardment of the Royal Navy inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Defence of Fort M'Henry, whose words were set to music as The Star-Spangled Banner, the United States National Anthem. Col. Armistead was responsible for the creation of the "flag so large that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a distance" about which Scott Key wrote, and which now has pride of place in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Capt. Joseph Rees is known through correspondence (with George Bomford, who would go on to be Chief of Ordnance) relating to ordnance the provision of armaments which had been set up as a department in May of 1812. He was stationed at the Baltimore Arsenal, in which capacity he will have come to call Col. Armistead "his friend." The hand-writing is not Rees's but Armistead's, distinguished by the "Gr." abbreviating his given name. Armistead material is extremely uncommon (indeed, the auction record of an autograph letter calls it "among the rarest of all early American patriot's signatures"), to say nothing of the relevance of our volume to his famed command. From the collection of Charles J. Tanenbaum (2009), whose Pine Tree Foundation supports pre-school and after-school literary programs K-12, as well as fellowships for conservation and bibliography (their sale, Sotheby's New York, 16 July 2021, lot 44). Howes M 492; Phillips, Atlases 1346; Sabin 47432 ("scarce"); Streeter I.81.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Presentation copy to, "John Isaac Thornycroft", signed by "The Author" in volume I. Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was a British shipbuilder who founded the Thornycroft Shipbuilding Co. in 1866, and built for the Royal Navy in 1876 the HMS Lightning, the first seagoing vessel to be armed with self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. Messrs Thornycroft appears in the text of vol. II on pages 163-168. A Good, solid set, complete in five volumes. Blue cloth boards rubbed/mottled on front and rear, though spines relatively unaffected and attractive on the shelf. Gilding remains strong on spines and front covers. Mild to moderate wear at corner tips and spine-ends. Bindings are sound and solid. Contents are Very Good - in quite pleasing shape. Virtually no evidence of foxing, with text and engravings sharp and bright. Vol. I has a short tear at the top of fold-out plate 1. The preliminary pages of vol. IV are bound in upside-down, with this corrected following the Table of Contents. Page 339 of this volume has an edge-tear and small hole in the margin. There is a light bump to the bottom corner of the last 60 or so pages of vol. V. Laid in at the front of vols. II and III is a printed "From the Author" bookplate. Vols. I-III, published in 1882. Vols. IV & V published in 1883. International shipping may be additional for this large, heavy set. Signed by Author(s).

See the two men's entries in the Oxford DNB. Each of the two letters is 1p, 4to, with the Prince's letter on the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium, and the Earl's signed autograph copy of his reply on the recto of the second leaf of the same bifolium. Both leaves are discoloured and damaged, with wear and loss from infestation, but the two signatures and the area around them are good and clear. The document has been folded twice for postage. Strip of white tape along gutter of blank reverse of second leaf from mount. ONE (Frederick's ALS): Fifteen lines. Reads: 'My Dear Lord / I trust that You will excuse my troubling You with this Letter in favor of a young man to whose Father I am under very particular Obligations, He is Son to my fri[end] [.] Adam, and having been as I understand irregularly promoted in the East Indies to the Command of the Carysfort Frigate, has been of course Superceded by the Admiralty and obliged to return home. Were it possible for You my dear Lord to promote Him to the Rank of Master and Commander I should feel myself highly gratified, and am [convinced?] that the Young Man will not disgrace my recommendation as He has always given great Satisfaction to the Officers under whom He has served, and particularly distinguished Himself [a]s a Volunteer in assisting to quell the Mutiny at the Cape / Believe me ever My Dear Lord / Yours most sincerely / Frederick'. TWO (Spencer's Signed Autograph Copy of his reply): Twelve lines. Addressed to 'H. A. Hs. The Duke of York.' and 'sgd. / Spencer'. Reads: 'Sir / I am very much concerned that it is not in my power in this Instance to obey your Royal Highness's Commands by giving a Commission of Master & [Commander] [.] Adam; that Gentleman not being at present by the Rules of the Navy qualified even to receive a Lieutenant's Commission, previous to which it is an invariable Custom that he should pass an Examination before the Navy Board, which, as I am informed, he has not yet had an opportunity of doing. / When he shall have gone through that necessary Ceremony, I shall be very happy to give him a Commission of Lieutenant on an early opportunity, but before he can with propriety obtain the Rank of Commander he must serve at least for a time in the Capacity of a Lieutenant. / I have the Honour to be / Sir / your Royal Highness's / most dutiful / & obedient Servant / sgd. / Spencer'.

1. original copper plate engraving by Robert Collier (signed in the plate) after a drawing by Hamilton on handmade paper, size of the copper plate about 30 x 20,5 cm, paper size about 38 x 22 cm, some minor foxing in the lower margin, otherwise in very good condition, rare 2100 gr.

See his entry and that of Stuart in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, 4to. On bifolium. Sixty-six lines of neatly-written text, signed 'R Mends' and addressed 'To / The Honble Chas. Stuart / His Majestys Envoy / Lisbon'. A vivid and substantial historical document. Of his activities around this time the Oxford DNB writes: 'In the summer of 1810, in command of a squadron on the coast of Spain, Mends destroyed several French batteries, for which service, in addition to a formal letter of thanks from the junta of Galicia, he received the order of the Cross of Victory of the Asturias and the nominal rank of major-general of the Spanish army.' He begins by osberving that the 'Correspondence with Biscay has been kept so profoundly abstracted' from his knowledge, that he really knows 'nothing of the matter, beyond having directed every Ship on the Station to attend to it, in preference to every other object. ie to receive on board any Agent who might present himself as so employ'd'. He continues with reference to 'the mode of carrying on this correspondence', 'the Deputy Commissary Mr. White', 'Arana', 'the Blockaded Ports', 'the Nimrod cutter', 'the House of Mr. Dickinson', 'Don Raymond de Castro the late Captain General of Galicia', 'the Ifegena', 'Santona', 'General Renovales'. He concludes: 'I am now getting under weigh for Bermio [sic] with a large Quantity of Ammunition on board for Biscay & Navarra, and shall immediately return here to conduct the Expedition which I make no doubt will succeed in a very extensive degree - God grant that we may receive such accounts from your side of the Country as we hope soon to send from this'.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. On offer is a fascinating diary kept by a teenaged British Merchant Navy sailor in WWII who turns 17 while serving aboard the M/V Willowbank. The author of this diary is one R. Bruggey. Our research has not turned up any biographical information about him. The diary covers the year 1939 and the first two days of 1940. This frontline World War II diary opens with an entry from 1938 noting that he was accepted into the Merchant Navy as an apprentice. He was 16 years old at the time. After Christmas at his home, he joined a coaster, the Dutch vessel SS Westlaan. On Jan 4th, he got his orders to report to M/V Willowbank. [The Willowbank was a motor merchant ship owned by Andrew Weir & Co. In London. On June 12, 1940, it was sunk in an attack by the German submarine U-46. All 51 on board at the time survived, our author was likely still on board at this time]. This young diarist was so delighted to be joining the war effort. He even draws small diagrams of the ships he is on as well as the ports he stops at. Some excerpts of his writing follows: "On the 14th (Oct, 1938) I first joined the Shipping Federation. Nov 8th I was accepted for Andrew Weir s waiting list. 1 week before Christmas, I purchased my uniform. On the 23rd Dec I received a letter from the A. W. Co stating I was to fill a vacancy in one of the apprenticeships aboard Willowbank just completing at doseford s yard Sunderland. Had a very enjoyable Christmas. One of the best" [Memoranda 1938]. "I joined my ship the Willowbank. Everything very dirty. Signed on about 10: 30 AM. No dinner. Had tea ashore. Mate told us to have bed and breakfast on shore. Back in morning to dinner in ship. Doseford s Yard filthy. Sunderland is not a very nice place" [Jan 7]. On January 10th, 1939, after workups, M/V Willowbank left Tyneside, UK bound for Turkey. His entries from this point detail shipboard routines, his work and studies and events that he experienced. Excerpts follow: "The ship has nearly a full load! Her first cargo. It now remains to be seen what she s like at sea when loaded. Worked all day putting a canvas "dodger" round the Monkey Island" [Feb 6]. "It is exactly 2 month since I first started out from home. Started caulkingMonkey island did about half in one day. Pitch not ready in the eveningWeather very hot. Worse shorts while working got legs terribly sore strong sunburn" [March 6]. "Sea high. High winds. Heavy spray on deck did not have breakfast lunch in my bunk asleep during dinner felt very ill got a cold" [Mar 13]. "Weather fair sea very nasty swell and a fair bit of windApparently there has been 1 Canadian ship sunk the Athenia with Americans on board. Germany has now to face Poland , Britain, France, Australia" [Sept 4]. "Weather fair choppy sea. 1 British ship sunk to day the Bosnia. Off Portugal getting nearer! All port holes painted black have to shut them at night now. Rooms very hot. Sat in the tire hatch all into eveninglife boats cleared away for action. New Zealand and South Africa have declared for Britain. Planes bombed Kiel Canal! " [Sept 5]. "My birthday today - 17. Everything just the same. I wonder if anyone is thinking about me today? 1 German ship sunk last night. The French have broken through" [Sept 10]. "At N Guinea this morning. Into Pt Moresby at lunch time a fairly hilly place. Started loading at 2: 00 PM . Went into the Hotel and had a few drinks (mostly lemonade) beer is too costly" [Dec 8]. "Started cargo here this morning and got everything finished by 5-0 PM. Waited at anchor all night to get away in the early morning. 4th Engineer pinched a cake out of the store. We all agreed it was very nice! Just going ashore when we were told the launch we re bound for Raboul so that knocked that on the head" [Dec 20]. "Had the day off today. Went for (crocodile) shooting up the little creeks in B. P. 6got back in time for a lousy Christmas dinner.[Abe word limit reached, contact seller for full listing]. Signed by Author(s).

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. On offer is a super, original 1823 manuscript letter handwritten by a staff member of Sir Thomas John Cochrane (1789-1872) , Royal British Navy officer and Governor of Newfoundland from 1825-1834. He would have had this letter written for him while in command of the Leeward Island Station, which had been handed over to him by Sir Edward Owen in late 1822. He would remain in command of this station until he returned to England in late 1824. The letter was written to one Captain Porter and is transcribed below: "Sir Thomas Cochrane presents his compliments to Captain Porter. He thinks he heard Captain Porter mention that he had [ ] information about Pirates in the neighbourhood the particulars of which Sir Thomas forgot to ask Captain Peters who might oblige Sir Thomas by favouring him with any information he may be at liberty to disclose Sir Thomas not having the means of [posessing? ? ] such Intelligence there being neither English Coastal or Merchants at this port." [dated March 7, 1823]. It is signed by an unknown secretary of Sir Cochrane's. This letter is an important piece of both British naval and political history as well as Canadian history, as Cochrane was a key figure in Newfoundland's early days. BIO NOTES: Sir Thomas John Cochrane (1789-1872) , son of Admiral Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane (1758-1832) , was a British Royal Navy officer and politician. He became Governor of Newfoundland from 1825-1834. During that time he was a controversial figure and helped establish representative government. He was elected as a Conservative MP for Ipswich Suffolk in England and was in office from 1839-1841. Other highlights of his career include his time as second in command and then commander-in-chief of the China Station (1842-47) and commander-in-chief for Portsmouth (1852-55). Cochrane became Admiral of the Fleet in 1865. In his personal life, Cochrane married Matilda Ross (later Wishart) and they had two sons, including the well-known Alexander Cochrane-Wishart-Baillie (1816-1890) and two daughters. Sir Thomas John Cochrane is often confused for his cousin, cousin of Lord Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald (1775-1860). ; Manuscript; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; KEYWORDS: MARINE, PIRACY, NAVAL, BRITISH ROYAL NAVY, NAVAL HISTORY, PIRATES, PRIVATEERS, PATRICK O'BRIAN, CAPTAIN JACK AUBREY, HORATIO HORNBLOWER, COCHRANE, LOUP DES MERS, NAPOLEON, NAPOLEONIC ERA, NAPOLEONIC WARS, EARL OF DUNDONALD, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, DIARY, JOURNAL, LOG, KEEPSAKE, WRITER, HAND WRITTEN, DOCUMENTS, SIGNED, LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS, HISTORICAL, HOLOGRAPH, WRITERS, DIARIES, JOURNALS, LOGS, AUTOGRAPHS, PERSONAL, MEMOIR, MEMORIAL, PERSONAL HISTORY, Archive, Lot, antiquité, contrat, vélin, document, manuscrit, papier Antike, Brief, Pergament, Dokument, Manuskript, Papier oggetto d'antiquariato, atto, velina, documento, manoscritto, carta antigüedad, hecho, vitela, documento, manuscrito, Papel,; Signed by Author.