charles haultain (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. pp 330. Modern blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to Spine. Binding very good .Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions or annotation. No foxing. Page 72 close trimmed to fore edge with slight loss to first initial listed. Navy List number xvi November 1843. A very good tight copy. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st & 2nd Editions. Hardback. Important Navy list for February 1845 with details of Officrs, war services and HM Ships etc. Internal binding slightly worn, else vgc in more recent blue cloth, gilt.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. Two very scarce first edition volumes of 'The New Navy List' for the years 1842 and 1854, offering detailed information on officers and their ranks. Four volumes of 'The New Navy List', one for 1842 and the other for 1854.'The Navy List' or 'The New Navy List', now known as 'Navy Directory', is an official list of naval officers, their ranks, seniority, ships, and more. This volume offers an expanse of information on the Royal Navy of Victorian England.The first of these volumes is No. X, the list for 1842, compiled by Charles Haultain.The second is the 1854 volume, conducted by Joseph Allen.With the bookplate of Captain Richard Campbell to the front pastedown of the later volume. He served on submarines before becoming a specialist in hydrographic surveying, a skill which took him around the world including Antarctica aboard the HMS Endurance. During the Falklands War he led the conversion of deep ocean survey vessel HMS Hydra into a hospital ship, which transported wounded personnel to Uruguay. For this significant contribution, he was appointed OBE. One volume rebound in cloth with endpapers renewed, the other in a contemporary cloth binding. Bump to back strip head and tail of 1842 volume. Hinges of this volume strained, but firmly held. Bookplate to front pastedown of 1854. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned, with spotting throughout. Very Good. book.