spithead (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 191pp. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good to very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good minus condition (edges chipped and torn with some loss). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. An antique original hand coloured view , mounted and ready to frame, published in 1837 and so 170 years old - splendid view - showing impressive men-of-war at Spithead.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. A4 paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 131pp. Colour and b/w photographs/illustrations, colour map endpapers. Not library copy, no creasing to spine, no inscriptions. (25).

8½'' x 5''. Certified Copy No. 62 of 70 first day Royal Navy cover stamped envelope. SIGNED 'Alan West'. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. FALKLAND ISLANDS.

8vo; 33 pp. In original blue printed wraps. On lightly-aged paper, with occasional foxing, in creased wraps. With the stamp of the Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht Club. The entries for the eighteen nations listed on the second page have been ticked off in blue pencil, and the ships of two other nations (Canada and India) added beneath the list in manuscript. Listing the crews of the various ships, with seniority. Represented are both the U.S.S.R., with the 'Marat' ('Flagman 2nd Rank (Rear Admiral) - V. I. Ivanov (Commanding Officer). 4 Nov., 1936.') and Germany, with the 'Admiral Graf Spee' ('Kapitan zur See (Captain) - Conrad Patzig (Commanding Officer) 1 Oct., 1933.' Scarce: no copy recorded on WorldCat (COPAC currently down!

A scarce item: no copies on WorldCat or JISC, nor at the Caird Library, National Martime Museum (though the latter does have a signed print of one of the illustrations). Twenty-six broadsheet pages, on news stock paper, in shiny paper covers printed in red, blue and brown. Filled with illustrations and topical advertisements for everything from corsetry to bicycles, from a full-page one on the inside front cover for 'Brickwoods Jubilee Brew / 4d. per Small Bottle in Public Bars', to one on the back cover reading 'On Review / United Ales & Stout Are Supreme'. First article is 'Britain's Dependence On Sea Power / A Review Foreword / By / Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Bart., / G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., LL.D., M.P. for Portsmouth North, and a former Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.' Among many other articles are 'Warship Design in our Sailor King's Reign / Dreadnought Types - Good Looking and Ungainly Ships - Greater Armament Efficiency' by Frank C. Bowen, and the poem 'Semper Fidelis' by Evelyn H. Healey. Central 'Admiralty Plan of Ships at Spithead'.

12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium, with the reverse of the second leaf carrying the address ('J. Sykes Esqr: | 22 Arundel Street | Strand', with two postmarks and docketing by Sykes. Nineteen lines. Text clear and complete. On aged paper, with wear to second leaf. Sykes 'will not be surprized to hear' that on the previous day 'Poor Georgina [.] paid the Great Debt'. Colpoys has arranged for her funeral to be 'conducted - in a Decent Private manner', and for her to be buried 'in the Parish of Kensington where she Died - Mr. Fenwick - An Apothecary & a relation of her Mothers will have the Directing of it'. Sykes was a partner, with his father, in a naval agency and banking house, and Colpoys will be giving Fenwick an order on the house 'for the Amount of the Expenses'. Colpoys's signature would appear to read 'JHo. Colpoy's'. Colpoys is remembered for ordering his officer's to open fire on the men during the Spithead Mutiny.