captain eardley wilmot (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1900. No Edition Remarks. 329 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and sticker to front pastedown. Small tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Light wear marks overall.

Zustand: Good. Boards have some wear, scuffs. Cracking to hinge. Content has light toning. Heavy toning to end papers. No DJ.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. N/A (illustrator). 1982. Seeley & Co, London, 1892. Hard Cover. Book Condition : Very Good, clean text, superb illustrations. Covers has shelf wear, spine bumped, blank front page missing section, pages browned. Binding exposed at back. Bookseller Inventory #003660. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N/A.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Ex-library, usual markings, hinges cracked, one plate loose but laid-in (pg. 24-25). Covers are scuffed and slighlty soiled. Contents are bright. A Good copy for reading or reference.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, illustd,295pp, orig tan cloth gilt, just a small bit rubbed top and bottom of spine,owners name in pencil to front end paper, a vg clean tight copy. Book.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Good. Condition Notes: Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners of the binding with a little rubbing to the leather. The contents complete, clean and tight but with sparse, light, spotting more conspicuously to the start and end; Hardback. Blue boards with gilt on 5 raised bands titles to the spine; Measures 8" x 5¼" (1 kg); pp (xvi) 329; Index; Includes: Tissue-guarded Frontispiece; Black & white profiles; Black & white plates; Diagrams; Tables; Marbled lining papers; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203311 ||.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1894, first edition; two volumes, 8vo, pp ix, 399 and viii, 360. . . NOTE that volume I in particular is only in fair condition, hence the low price for the item. Each volume is blue cloth gilt but the spine of vol I has discoloured to while the sides are duller than those of vol II; ex-library with a library stamp, annotated neatly in ink, on one of the prelims and the end papers of each volume; the front hinge of vol I has a 25mm tear at the foot while at the head of the spine a similar sized patch has been roughly glued back into place; the back cover, variously up to around 50mm from the back hinge has suffered water damage and consequent discolouration and damage to the covering fabric and with the hinge now weak; some foxing in both volumes but the contents, particularly of vol II, generally clean. . . Brassey was a Liberal politican, serving under both W E Gladstone and Lord Roseberry. He headed the Royal Opium Commission and was Governor of Victoria, Australia, from 1895 to 1900. In 1886 he founded the eponymous Naval Annual which brought together expert articles on naval developments. . . NOTE that as the two volumes together weigh some 1.5kg there will be a carriage supplement for overseas (but not domestic UK) orders, the exact amount depending on destination and form of carriage.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A biography of Edmund Lyons,1st Baron Lyrons and famous naval commander during the Crimean War. First edition. With numerous tissue-guarded plates throughout. Armorial bookplate of 'Foley' to the front pastedown. In a blue cloth binding. Externally quite smart, though with a few marks to the boards and cockling and some wear to the heads and tails of the spine. Front hinge strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are quite bright and clean, with just the odd patch of foxing and some light marginal age-toning. Good. book.

, xiii, 437 pages, 25 tissue guarded plates including frontispiece of Lord Lyons and 2 maps, some pages unopened First Edition , spine is faded, a few scratches on the leather, stains from leather around edges of the free endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, occasional foxing on leaves and on fore and bottom book block edges, some edges untrimmed, very good condition. , bound in blue cloth with half morocco binding, raised bands and gilt titles and decoration on spine, gilt top edge of book block, coloured pastedowns and free endpapers , Octavo, 24.5 x 17 cm Hardback ISBN:

1900 London, hardcover 329 pages. With a fleetlist and a index. Our Fleet To-day and Its Development During the Last Half-Century is a technical yet accessible survey of the evolution of the British Royal Navy from the mid-19th century to around 1900, written by Rear-Admiral Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot. The book traces changes in ship design, armament, armor, and tactics, with chapters on torpedo warfare and recent naval wars, to explain how Britainâs modern fleet emerged and why sea power remained vital to the empire. In very good condition Â.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Scarce first edition complete in two volumes of Lord Brassey's voyages and travels, illustrated with folding maps. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes. A scarce copy. Containing an account of Lord Brassey's voyages and travels from 1862 to 1894, arranged and edited by Captain S. Eardley-Wilmot. Narrating of voyages to Algeria, Europe, the Suez Canal, a cruise around the world, the United States, and more.Illustrated with four maps to vol. I, of which three folding in colour. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, boards lightly marked, slightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Few spots scattered to occasional leaves. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Unamed (illustrator). A greatly revised second edition copy of Captain S. Eardley-Wilmot work of naval history, with numerous illustrations of naval ships throughout. Second edition. In its first edition the work charted the changes and history of naval fleets across the globe, up until its publication in 1890. This second edition, published 10 year later, reworks the volume include then naval systems at the time of publishing, that being 1900. This comprehensive look at the progression of naval fleets explore the development from 'sail to steam, wood to iron', during this period of quick technological growth and change. Written by Sydney Eardley-Wilmot, a Naval Officer and Captain. An interesting look at the history of naval fleets of the 19th century. In a full cloth binding. Externally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and also to the extremities. Light patches of rubbing to the front and rear joint. Front hinge is lightly strained, but firm. Offsetting to the front and rear endpapers and pastedowns. Small amount of loss to the rear endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound, strained in places. The odd spot and handling mark throughout. Very Good Indeed. book.

London: Sampson Low. 1898. 8vo. Original illustrated cloth, top edge gilt; pp. xiv, [2], 437, [2, publisher's catalogue], lithographic portrait-frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous plates with tissue guards after painitngs and drawings, minimal marking to cloth, offsetting from endpapers to initial and final few leaves, extensivve pencil annotations by previous bookdealer to endpapers; a very good copy.First edition of th first full-length biography of Edmund Lyons,1st Baron Lyrons (1790-1858) and famous naval commander during the Crimean War. He contributed largely to the British advancement on Crimea and beyond. He had gone first to sea on board HMS Terrible in 1798 and served the Royal Navy with great panache and intitiative until the end of the Crimean War.