shipwreck (24 Ergebnisse)

1986, 224pp. Illustrated. Paperback. In good condition.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An antique original hand coloured engraving . Colouring - not contemporary but delicately and expertly executed. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame . Very good condition. Printed about 1860. A fine opportunity to acquire an original vintage view Fine view of the Amphitheatre at Nismes.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original antique hand coloured view . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame . Very good condition, Colouring not contemoorary but delicately and expertly executed . Shows a fine view of . the rescue of shipwrecked men at sea.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original antique hand coloured view . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame . Very good condition, Colouring not contemoorary but delicately and expertly executed . Shows a fine view of . Danish Ship being wrecked - the L'Adriana 1827.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. A splendid original antique hand coloured view . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame . Very good condition, Colouring not contemoorary but delicately and expertly executed . Shows a fine view of . a shipwreck in the Bay of Biscay.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. A splendid original antique hand coloured view . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame . Very good condition, Colouring not contemoorary but delicately and expertly executed . Shows a fine view of . a shipwreck - a Coquette about to run on to the rocks in a storm.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An original antique engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. hand-coloured. In excellent condition, decorative and impressive.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An original antique engraving. Mounted and ready to frame. hand-coloured. In excellent condition, decorative and impressive.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original hand coloured engraving . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame . Very good condition . Shows a Shipwreck fine colouring.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. Signed first edition of The Shipwreck Of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga by Peter Cozzens. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 515pp. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. Full number line on copyright page. In publisher's fine dust jacket. Signed by Peter Cozzens on the title page. Peter Cozzens is an award winning author of numerous books on the Civil War and the Indian Wars of the American West. He served as a Foreign Service Officer for the United States Department of State and was awarded the department's William R. Rivkin award for service in 2002. He is the recipient of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize and the 2016 Caroline Bancroft Prize for history. Some of his works include: The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (2016), This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga (1992), and The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga (1994). His next book will be Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied A Nation, expected in 2020.

Leather bound. Zustand: Near fine. First edition of Shipwreck and Captivity of Captain Donald Campbell, published by Thomas Tegg circa 1808. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, 28pp. 13 additional blank leaves bound in at rear. Bound in three-quarter leather with cloth-covered boards. Title in gilt on spine. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Solid text block, faint offsetting to endpapers, a near fine example. Features a fold-out frontispiece depicting "Miraculous Preservation from Shipwreck of Captain Donald Campbell on the Coast of Malabar." This work is one of forty chapbooks published by Thomas Tegg from 1805 to 1809. All of the small volumes contain narratives of captivity and shipwrecks that took place between 1678 and 1809. From the collection of Charles Fleishmann III, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Fleishmann III was a lifelong traveler, collector, and philanthropist who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Hindman Auctions, November 2023).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy leather covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society gilt roundel to the front cover, pink marble lining papers. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 72 pp with 3 full-page colour plates, monochrome text illustrations. In very near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. LIVERPOOL.

Leather bound. Zustand: Near fine. First edition of Shipwreck and Death of Lord Royston, published by Thomas Tegg circa 1808. (illustrator). First Edition. Octavo, 28pp. 13 additional blank leaves bound in at rear. Bound in three-quarter leather with cloth covered boards. Title in gilt on spine. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Solid text block, faint offsetting to endpapers, a near fine example. Features a fold-out frontispiece depicting "The Melancholy Shipwreck & death of Lord Royston & Suit near Memel." This work is one of forty chapbooks published by Thomas Tegg from 1805 to 1809. All of the small volumes contain narratives of captivity and shipwrecks that took place between 1678 and 1809. From the collection of Charles Fleishmann III, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Fleishmann III was a lifelong traveler, collector, and philanthropist who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Hindman Auctions, November 2023).

First edition, 12mo (112 x 65 mm), 80, [2]pp., advertisement leaf at end for relics from the wreck, wood-engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 plates, marbled endpapers, original morocco-backed wooden boards made from timbers of the wreck of the Royal George, boards split, but holding firm, edges gilt. The Royal George,108 guns, the oldest first-rate in the Navy, was anchored at harbour where she was hove down for minor repair. The officer of the day refused to heed a seaman who warned him that the ship was taking in water through the ports. The ship sank as she took in water, and went to the bottom with 1200 people on board, including 250 women and children; nearly 900 of them drowned, including Admiral Kempenfeldt. The Royal George was launched in 1751, and had served as the flagship for Anson, Boscawen, Hawke, Rodney, and Howe. Her hull was finally broken up by exploding gunpowder in 1839-41. (Huntress). After the recovery of the timbers from the wreck by Colonel Pasley, they were sold to E. & E. Emanuel (Goldsmiths to the Queen) who reworked them into 'Genuine Relics of the Royal George', i.e. Carved Chairs, Tables, Work Boxes, Walking Sticks, Ink Stands, etc. Huntress, pp. 51 & 145.

Second and rare edition of an account of two fatal voyages with two ships. The first voyage was made with the French East Indiaman Le Prince and was commanded by Captain Morin. On 19 February 1752 this ship left the port of Lorient, sailing for Pondicherry. However initially the voyage went well, on 26 April 1752 there was a fire in Le Prince. It spread fast and it also reached the gunpowder magazine. Therefore the ship exploded, as the engraving shows, and only 10 persons survived.The second account concerns the seizure of the Dutch ship Rustenwerk, an East Indiaman of 650-ton. On 28 June 1752 this ship was taken by the pirate Frans Fransz after mooring of Ternate. He and his companions killed 12 people on board, which is depicted in the engraving. The survivors of this violent seizure by Frans Fransz reached Batavia and they sailed to Holland. Although the VOC succeeded in retaking the ship, Frans Fransz. Already escaped with the valuable cargo. A more historical addition to this report is the list it includes of 210 VOC ships lost in the period 1688-1752 through disasters, mutiny and piracy. These two ships are cruel examples of how East Indiamen could be defeated by fate. After this first edition, Mourik also published a second, also undated edition with the same plates. Spine slightly discoloured, otherwise in very good condition.l Landwehr & V.d. Krogt 437; STCN (1 copy); Tiele, Bibl. 1238; Worldcat (7 or 9 copies). Boards covered with modern pink decorated paper, which are also used as paste-downs and endpapers, with a dark brown morocco spine label. With 2 etched plates, the publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title page, a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Pages: [2], 37, [1] pp.

First edition hard back binding in contemporary full brown leather covers, four raised bands with gilt tools between, spine title label missing -imprint in underlying leather showing. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. The accounts (some of which had been previously published as pamphlets) were collected by historian Bernardo Gomes de Brito and published in two volumes in 1735 and 1736. It is said that Brito had enough material to publish five volumes, but ended up only publishing two. In the course of the 18th century, several collections of other shipwreck accounts were published, alleging themselves to be the 'third volume' of Brito's work. Some of these latter accounts were appended to Brito's original in a multi-volume 1904-1909 edition of the História prepared by Gabriel Pereira. The original title of Brito's collection was História trágico-marítima, em que se escrevem chronologicamente os naufragios que tiveram as naus de Portugal, depois que se poz em exercício a Navegação da Índia, published in Lisbon by the Off. da Congregação do Oratório, volume I in 1735 (4° de XVI-479 pages.) and volume II in 1736 (4° de XVI-538 pages.). Brito's original 1735-36 work contains twelve accounts, in chronological order, from 1552 to 1602. [Volume 2 of 2 only] Comprising:- 1: The travails of the nau Santo Antonio, captained by Jorge de Albuquerque Coelho, attacked and seized by French corsairs when returning from Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1565 (written by Bento Teixeira Pinto, originally published 1601); 2: The wreck of the nau Santiago, captained by Fernão de Mendonça, off the Bassas da India (Mozambique Channel) in 1585 (written by Manoel Godinho Cardozo, originally published 1602); 3: The wreck of the nau São Thomé, captained by D. Paulo de Lima, off the 'Terra dos Fumos' (southern Mozambique), in 1589 (written by Diogo do Couto, 1611); 4: The wreck of the Santo Alberto, captained by Julião de Faria Cerveira, off 'Penedo das Fontes' (Kwaaihoek, South Africa) in 1593. (written by João Baptista Lavanha); 5: The travails of the nau São Francisco, captained by Vasco da Fonseca, returning from Brazil, drifted to Puerto Rico in 1596 (written by Fr. Gaspar Afonso, originally published 1597); 6: The battles of the galleon Santiago against the Dutch at Saint Helena in 1602, and the nau Chagas against the English at the Azores in 1594 (written by Melchior Estacio de Amaral, originally published 1602). Contains [xvi], 538 pages. Each account has its own title page, with fine device representing each shipwreck in distress, with end vignettes and fleurons. A little worm damage to the top of the spine and inside the rear gutter. Member of the P.B.F.A. PORTUGAL & PORTUGUESE.

12mo, 28pp., lacking folding frontispiece, title page loose and a little chipped, disbound.

original ca.1863 albumen print showing the s.s. Caledonia stranded near Cape Cod, with figures in the foreground. mounted on card. image size 9x12.5. overall card size 16x15cm. very good condition. [shipping charges will be reduced when this order is processed. please see our storefront page for shipping information] the Anchor Line steamship 'Caledonia' was stranded near Cape Cod on December 31st 1863 when sailing from Portland to New York. Given up as a total loss, she was later salvaged and renamed 'Concordia'. There is a small pencil name D.H.[?] Mayo, which may identify the photographer.

12mo, [2], 7-28pp., lacking folding frontispiece, disbound. Pages 11-28 contain an account of Bering's explorations of Kamtschatka, and of the North Pacific, and of the loss of his vessel the "St. Peter" at the most westerly Island of the Aleutian Group, and of his own death there from the scurvy. This Island was named Bering's Island in his honour, likewise the Strait dividing Asia from America.

From the papers of Alfred Clay Abraham (1853-1942), Liverpool pharmacist, and his daughter Emma Clarke Abraham (1850-1934) of Swarthmoor Hall, Ulverston. All items in fair condition, on aged paper, with texts clear and complete. ONE: Autograph Letter Signed from Henry Murray to his late wife Mary's brother. 8 pp, 12mo. On two bifoliums. Begins: 'Although a Stranger to you I perhaps need not apologise for the obtrusion of this communication upon you, when I inform you that I am the husband - or rather was the husband of your poor Sister Mary. for alas! she has been taken from me by the cold hand of death.' The couple had three children: 'Margaret Fell. who is now aged 22 resident in California, and married to an American Gentleman named Tyson. Cornelia (calld [sic] in honor of the Roman Matron of that name) aged 19, and now resident with me in Sydney; and George Washington, a very comely youth of 15, also now resident with me'. His wife 'possessed many sterling virtues as a wife, a mother and a friend, directed by a strength of understanding not commonly found among the females of this country; but she had a will of her own, which nothing could change'. Her faults 'were those of a diseased mental organization which increased in strength as she increased in years'. He tried years before to communicate with his correspondent through 'Mr Henderson Linen Draper of Church Street', and now wishes to contact his wife's aunt Margaret. His last letter to his daughter 'has been long unanswered', and he fears 'she has removed with her husband to the Atlantic States'. Initialed postscript on reverse of last leaf apologising for 'the within written unmethodical clumsily expressed production'. TWO: Manuscript copy of letter from Murray to his wife's sister Margaret Abraham English (b.1816). 20 pp, 4to; on leaves torn from a ruled notebook. Headed, in the hand of Emma Clarke Abraham, 'Seemingly copy of letter from Murray to Margaret Abraham English'. The copy of the letter is dated '20 Norton Street. Sunnyhills [sic] | Sidney. [sic] New S. Wales | 21 Dec: 1865.' and 'Recd. 15 Feb. | ? 1866'. Begins by describing his family: 'We do not occupy a high status here in point of wealth & position; but it has been my own aim through life to establish a character for probity & the unswerving exercise of those moral qualities [.]'. His daughter Margaret Fell married at the age of fifteen, during his absence '& I am sorry to have to add without the sanction & contrary to the wishes & injunctions of her mother'. Describes over two pages his wife's 'chronic dyspepsia [.] which ultimately reduced her to a state bordering on atrophy', and her attempts to treat herself: 'Her Materia Medica consisted of Oxide & Sulphate of Iron & Carbonate of Soda, of which she was in the habit of taking very large doses daily.' At the time of her death the family were living in San Francisco, while Murray himself was in Sydney, attempting to 'recover by the aid of the law a small freehold property which was in the occupancy of a refractory tenant'. The children went to stay with Murray's brother in Folsom City, 'where they remained until I sent my son by my former marriage to bring them on to Sydney on board a vessel then preparing for the voyage for Sydney called the "Ellenita". of the foundering of which at sea you may have read in the papers in the latter part of 1859'. The last eight pages of the letter carry an account of the shipwreck, and his children's 'terrific ordeal' . The account begins: 'She had been about a month out of San Francisco, & was somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Samoan Islands, a group you will find in recent maps of the Pacific. The passengers had just sat down to breakfast in the cabin one fine morning when the carpenter ran affrighted to the cabin with the alarming intelligence that a plank had started & there was then several feet of water in the hold.' Murray's two sons join twelve others on a raft, and his two daughters are placed with the Captain on the ship's boat, which 'had scarcely room for its living freight. The 2nd. officer & a seaman had forced themselves into this boat in defiance of the Captain, such was their horror of the anticipated hardships of the raft [.] When all the unfortunate men took their places in the raft, it sank to the depth of nine inches, so that they were constantly to that depth in water. The only provisions and water available for this awful emergency was the small quantity which had been brought on deck for the days consumption [.] The denisons of the ill fated ship had but just transferred themselves to the ill fated boat and raft, when, after a few oscillations she settled forward & suddenly went down head foremost, carrying with her all their earthly possessions, a silver breakfast service belonging to one of the cabin passengers still standing on the breakfast table the good things set for breakfast being almost untouched'. They boat arrives at 'the Island of Saoii, one of the Samoan group, where the natives are still in a state of semi-savageness', and its occupants are aided by the 'son of Rev John Williams the great Polynesian missionary' and sent on to Sydney. The occupants of the raft were 'certain that their early doom was settled', but were rescued by the brig HMS Elk (Commander Hubert Campion). THREE: Manuscript transcript of parts of letter from Murray in Sydney, 20 December 1846, to 'Mr Bridge, , Port of Spain'. 4 pp, 12mo; on bifolium with letterhead of the Liverpool Polytechnic Society. Giving family details.

[4]pp. on a single folded sheet. 1 vols. Snow writes in detail of the sinking of the boat and the subsequent rescue effort. Included is a list of names of those saved and by whom. A charming piece of real-life Nantucket romance. Eberstadt 132:497 Light fold lines, small tears along vertical fold line. Very good [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. 1 vols.

's Gravenhage, Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, 1882. Large 8vo. Original printed boards. With folding plate depicting the Adder and folding plate depicting the probable location of the wreck. II,181 pp. The Adder was a Dutch ram monitor who sank on the North Sea off the coast of Scheveningen on Wednesday evening 5 July 1882. All 66 people on board were killed. The wreck was never recovered. There was a lot of criticism because it was delayed until Saturday before sending a ship to locate the Adder, while the monitor was expected to be in Hellevoetsluis on Wednesday afternoon. This exceptionally slow course of action on the part of the Navy Department has been heavily criticized. A monitor was a relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armored but carried disproportionately large guns. They were designed for shallow waters and served as coastal ships and used by some navies from the 1860s. - It is the largest peacetime loss of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Added 11 newspaper clippings from 1882-1883 on the shipwreck, including 1 of the Bataviaasch Handelsblad. Cat. NHSM I, p.483.

London, Thomas Tegg, (1809). Sm.8vo. Modern boards. With folding aquatint plate depicting the 'wreck of the Hindostan, East -Indiaman on the Wedge Sand, near Margate, January 11-1809' (mounted). 28 pp. Extracted from the collection, Mariner's marvelous Magazine or wonders of the ocean, containing narratives of the most noted shipwrecks and disasters at sea. - The East Indiaman of the East India Company, Hindostan sailed from Gravesend for India January 2, 1803, passed the Nore, and anchored in the Queen's Channel off the Wedge Sand. There a terrible storm struck her, and she drove on the sandbank and broke up. A small boat of Margate rescued 129 out of 143 on the Hindostan; the dead were drowned or frozen. The ship was carrying a good deal of specie, much of which was saved from the wreck (Huntress p.53). - Rare popular edition. Huntress 153C.

The first edition of a compelling account of two fatal voyages, of the French East Indiaman Le Prince, and the VOC ship Rustenwerk. Le Prince, commanded by Captain Morin, left the port of Lorient on 19 February 1752, sailing for Pondicherry. The voyage passed quietly until fire was discovered in the ship. It spread fast, and the ship exploded when the fire reached the gunpowder magazine, leaving only 10 survivors. The second account relates the seizure of the ship Rustenwerk, a 650-ton Dutch East Indiaman. Moored off Ternate, it was taken by the pirate Frans Fransz on 28 June 1751 and some 12 passengers (including the Captain) were killed. The survivors reached Batavia by way of Makassar and sailed for Holland. The VOC eventually managed to retake the ship, but Frans Fransz escaped with the valuable cargo. The account includes a list of 210 VOC ships lost in the period 1688-1752 through disasters, mutiny, piracy etc.In good condition.l Landwehr & V.d. Krogt 437; STCN (4 copies); Tiele, Bibl. 1238. Disbound. With 2 etched plates. Further with publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title page, a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Pages: [2], 37, [1] pp.