commander graham (11 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. DJ is complete with some rubbing to edges and light sunning to spine. Tape marks to endpaper and front flap. Contents are clean but lightly toned. Free from markings or inscriptions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. DJ is complete with some rubbing to edges and light sunning to spine. It has been price clipped. Ex libris sticker to endpaper. Contents are clean but lightly toned. Free from markings or inscriptions.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint. Pictorial card cover. 135 x 215 x 20mm. 256pp. Maps; appendices. Cover and pages are as new. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Gift inscription signed by the author on front endpaper. Book smart in smart dustwrapper.

8vo. pp 195. Original publisher's blue boards with lettered gilt at the spine. Illustrated in black and white. ISBN: 1898594023 Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. A long narrative poem from the authors' service as a Commander in the Royal Navy during the First World War. ix+236pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt illustration to upper left corner of front board. Rubbing to edges of boards and fraying and split to lower joint. Formerly owned by the Air Ministry Library with plate on fixed end paper and several stamps on end papers and title page. Free end paper has several areas of rough loss.

Ln gb ohne SU, Die Sturmfahrt der Yacht "Emanuel", übersetzt ins deutsche von Kapitänleutnant a.D. E. v. Beulwitz, die Pläne zeichnete A.G. Nissen, 237 S, Einband angeschmutzt, Rücken oben und unten etwas beschädigt, Rücken ausgebleicht, Vorblätter etwas angeschmutzt, sonst gut erhalten; Sprache: deutsch; lgk 103_Seidel 450 Gramm.

Leineneinband, gebunden, 239 Seiten, Name auf Vorsatzblatt, angestaubt und Gebrauchsspuren, sonst ok Der Versand kann in Deutschland auch auf Rechnung erfolgen (Vorauskasse vorbehalten).

Rupert Hart-Davis, Pub, London, 1952; 1st edition, 2nd impression; Number 9 in 'The Mariners Library'; Introduction by Claud Worth; Illustrated; previous owner's signature on front free-fly, else a fine copy with a very good dust jacket: jacket shows light wear to edges; Commander R D Graham; Maritime.

First edition of Graham's narrative of his solo voyage across the Atlantic to Newfoundland, Labrador, and Bermuda on the Yacht Emanuel. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers, with maps and illustrations including frontispiece. From the library of of James Stephen âSteveâ Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailingâs most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviationâs highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fà dà ration Aà ronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. In 1934, Commander R.D. Graham sailed alone in his 30-foot yacht Emmanuel from England to Newfoundland, cruised on the coast of Labrador, sailed to Bermuda, and finally brought the small vessel back across the Atlantic. "One of the most remarkable small-boar adventures of this or any other time" (Arthur Ransome).

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.'.