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Paperback. Condition: Good. Map Only, 39" x 27". Some foxing and small tears to edges. At top right corner says, "to face page 16". Map chipped at edges and has some foxing/discoloration at edges and where map is folded. Shows the entire voyage on a world map. Would be a nice framed item.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. B/W Photos (illustrator). 1st. full page with 7 photos: 1. Aboard the "Ralgigh" pasing General Grant's Tomb, 2. Captain Coghlan and Mrs. Coghlan in the captain's cabin, 3. The Gun-captain who fired the first shot at manila, and the gun from which it was fired, 4. The "Raleigh" firing the first gun of the salute at General Grant's tomb, 5. USS Sandoval, 6. Aboard the "Raleigh", 7. Group of the Ship's officers Size: 11.5 x 15.5".

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. B/W Photos (illustrator). 1st. 8 full pages w/report of the welcoming activities and many photos of the celebration, including 4 full pagews of photo collage. The image here is of only the 1st page. Very nice, one page and suitable for framing [image shows nly 1st page of item] Size: 10.5 x 11".

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Oversized Hardcover, bound volume of sheet music. Black leather spine and corners, marbled paper over boards. Leather label on the front cover with the name John H. Howard stamped in gold. Front cover detached but present. Rear cover still attached. Spine is peeled bare, all the leather gone, revealing just the backing paper and page-edges. As I flipped through the book making the inventory, several of the individual compositions popped out of the binding. No dates on any of them. Likely 1850s or 1860s. Some with fancy engraved title pages and some just the music. A True and Honest Man by Edward Loder. London. Purday. Hale and Sons slug. 5 pages. Simon the Cellarer. Bellamy and Eaton. London. Addison & Hodson. 7 pages. The Red Cross Banner. Bellamy and Nelson. London. Cramer, Addison and Beale. 7 pages. The Return of the Admiral. Cornwall and Phillips. London. Addison and Hollier. 9 pages. The Maids of Merry England. Wynne and Perring. London. Purday. 5 pages. The Women of England. Blockney. London. Addison and Hodson. 8 pages. Goodbye Sweetheart Goodbye. Williams and Hatton. London. Cramer, Beale & Co. 5 pages. The Low Backed Car. Samuel Lover. Longon. Duff and Hodgson. 4 pages. To Morrow, or The Prospect of Hope. Collins and Reeve. 3 pages. O This is No' my ain House & There is No luch about the house. 4 pages. Ye Banks and Braes O'Bonnie Doon. 4 pages. When the Swallows Homeward Fly. Franz Abt. 4 pages. The Yankee Song. Bobbin' Around. Sung by Mrs. W.J. Florence. 4 pages. Shall I Wasting in Despair. R. Storms Willis. London. Musical Bouquet. 4 pages Margarethan Polka. Kuhner. Les Anemones Polka. Labitzki. Polka Militairs. Canthal. Caroline Polka. Twelve Airs arranged in easy style. The Edinburgh Quadrille A Highland Lad my Love was Born. Rob Roy MacGregor. 2 pages. Jackson's Morning Service in F. 7 pages. Tallis' Morning & Evening Services. 16 pages. Nares' Morning & Evening Services in F. 16 pages. 6 page original hand-notated composition "The sea was bright & the bark rode well." About 25 pages of blank pages, with musical staffs. 4-5 pages of handwritten musical notation upside down and backwards at the end. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Second Impression Thus, FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST EDITION THUS. 3 Volumes comprising 10 novels, in Slipcase. 8vo. blue cloth hardbacks, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust jackets by Charles Gorham, in printed and illustrated paper-covered slipcase. All 3 volumes clean with no markings or inscriptions. Red lettering to slipcase slightly faded and faintly tanned to one side. A VERY GOOD SET in VERY GOOD DUST JACKETS in VERY GOOD SLIPCASE. (Shelf 6) PLEASE NOTE: Very Heavy Set (2.6 kg+) Postage rates vary according to destination, weight and speed. For an accurate overseas quote PLEASE either call or email us before ordering. [AbeBooks shipping quote is based on items weighing up to 1 kilo only]. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

The 1812 HMS Dublin was the third Royal Navy ship of that name. At the time of this document she was a 40-gunner, and the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the South American station Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Hamond (1779-1862). See the entries on Barton, Hamond and Tait in O'Byrne's 'Naval Biographical Dictionary' (1849), and Hamond's in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape foolscap 8vo. Aged and creased. Docketed on reverse: 'Dublin / Treasure conveyed. / 31. March 1838. / E1/1 / Entd 2d. April. / W Let'. Headed: 'A Return of Treasure conveyed in Her Majesty's Ship Dublin, Robert Tait, Esquire, Captain, between the 1st. day of January, and the 31st. day of March 1838, to answer the provisions of the Freight Proclamations.' The entry is arranged in a table, with columns for: Ship's Name, Captain's Name; Received [three columns: When; From Whom; At what place], Consigned [two columns: To whom; To what place]; Species of Treasure, or other Articles on which Freight is payable; Total amount received on board, noting whether, certain or estimated; Rate per Cent; Where landed, or to what vessel transhipped. If unshipped, to be inserted as a new Shipment; Greenwich Hospital Proportion; Name and Address of the Agent authorized to give information respecting the proportion due to the Hospital.' Signed at bottom right for 'Sick. Captain. / Ralph Barton. Senior Lieutenant.'.

Nelson dashes off a farewell to his old commanding officer the day after news broke that the French fleet was on the move. The following day, 4 September, it was proposed that Nelson, as commander-in-chief, Mediterranean, should go out in the Victory. Within seven weeks the Franco-Spanish fleet was engaged at Trafalgar. Before departing, aside from pressing naval matters, "farewells and last-minute arrangements absorbed the rest of the time" (Knight, p. 499). On 14 September he departed Portsmouth on the Victory. Skeffington Lutwidge (1737-1814) was captain of the Carcass on which the teenage Nelson sailed to the Arctic in 1773: "desperate to join, [Nelson] circumvented an order that no boys be taken by persuading Lutwidge to rate him coxswain" (Lambert, p. 6). In 1799 Nelson wrote in his "Sketch of My Life", published in the Naval Chronicle, that from his time on the Carcass, he and Lutwidge had "continued the strictest friendship" (cited in Knight, p. 652). Lutwidge and his wife were friends with Emma Hamilton, dining with her regularly. In full: "My Dear friends, I would not let Lady H's [Hamilton's] letter go forth without saying a word to assure you of my most affectionate regard & esteem. Perhaps I may see you in the Winter, but that depends upon others and not on your Most Obliged & Affectionate Nelson & Bronte". Address panel: "Merton, September third, 1805. Admiral Lutwidge, near Whitehaven, Cumberland, Nelson & Bronte". Provenance: Dr Otto O. Fisher (d. 1961), book and manuscript collector, although unmarked as such; with an old bookseller's description in French. Roger Knight, The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, 2006; Andrew Lambert, Nelson: Britannia's God of War, 2004. One-page autograph letter signed (285 x 197 mm), verso with integral address panel in Nelson's hand; two postal franks to address panel, one with the time of "7 o'Clock". Old repairs to tears at sides where the seal has been broken (affecting one word), paper reinforcement to one fold, creased where folded, small holes at interstices of folds, minor stains, but clean and legible and remaining very good.

First edition, limited to 75 numbered copies of which this is no. 46. 12mo. In very good condition, the fragile wrapper has a few little tears here and there slightly more serious at the foot of the spine, own protected, but unrestored, the text has a very small stain affecting the margin of a couple of pages, otherwise this is an extremely good copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. [vi], 39pp. University of Reading, 1938- One of the few genuine rarities from the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.   William Lashly (1867-1940) was a working class sailor from Hampshire who joined the Royal Navy in 1889. He saw service as a stoker in India and the West Indies before volunteering in 1901 for Sir Robert Falcon Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition. He proved himself an invaluable member of the Discovery crew, and in particular rose to the gruelling physical and mental challenge of man hauling a sledge through the Antarctic terrain. When, in 1903, Lashly was on a sledging trip with Captain Scott and Petty Officer Edgar Evans, the latter two men fell through the ice into a deep crevasse. Lashly acted quickly, and with his characteristic strength, saved both of their lives. It's little wonder that when Scott was putting together a crew for his 1910 Terra Nova expedition, he selected Lashly again from amongst the thousands of applicants.    The diary was kept by Lashly during the sledge march towards the South Pole, in the winter of 1911-1912. Appointed second engineer servicing the experimental motor vehicles intended to give Scott's expedition a technological edge, the unsuitability of this machinery meant they were soon abandoned. Thereafter, Lashly was paired in a harness with Lieutenant Evans, hauling together for three months.    Serving as a support unit to the Polar Party, it was with some disappointment that Lashly, Tom Crean and Lieutenant Evans said farewell to Scott and the four other men at latitude 87º32'S. Their return journey to Hut Point was forestalled by Evans' worsening health. When it became apparent that Evans was suffering from scurvy, the two sailors loaded the ailing man onto their sledge and bore his weight as far as they could manage towards safety. At a distance of thirty miles they decided Tom Crean should proceed for help alone, and that Lashly should remain with Evans awaiting a rescue party. The fortitude and endurance of these two men undoubtedly saved Evans' life, and they both received the Albert Medal in recognition of this feat. Evans dedicated his book South with Scott to their bravery.    Unlike the ranking officers whose accounts provided the traditional record of these expeditions, the voices of heroic seamen like Lashly offer a below-decks perspective, invaluable to a complete picture of these extraordinary journeys. The early decades of the twentieth century saw massive changes in the rigidity of British class and social mobility, which of course was further shaken by the experiences of the First World War. Described as an example of the "dependable, uncomplaining, ever ready 'other rank', upon whom Scott build two Antarctic expeditions" (ODNB) the later appreciation of Lashly's literary output perhaps illustrates this shift.   This charming book was set by printing apprentices and designed and illustrated by students of book production at Reading University, under the superintendence of Robert Gibbings, the noted wood engraver associated with the Golden Cockerel Press. The result is a very pleasing publication. While there is plenty of ephemera relating to the expedition, this book was published in a limited edition of 75 copies and is one of the few genuinely rare books from the Heroic Age. Lashly died not long after the publication, and we have never seen a copy signed or inscribed by him.    OCLC locates copies at Alexander Turnbull Library, Dartmouth, Columbia & Colorado State. Libraryhub adds Reading. SLNSW also has a copy. There are six copies on auction records, one o.