spithead (9 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. (18/6).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Savile Row is the world's iconic address for the best in bespoke tailoring, and home to legendary Gieves & Hawkes, suppliers to the British military for more than two centuries and furnishers to elegant gentlemen today. This volume traces the rich history of tailoring, drawing from Gieves & Hawkes vast, unpublished archives of client ledgers, garments and accessories, and photographs. 239 pages : illustrations ; 36 cm. First English edition, first printing. Grey boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

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.

All unrecorded by ESTC, these broadsides variously commit to ferreting out sedition, offer rewards for exposing traitors in the ranks, and thank the King for pay increases approved by Parliament on 24 May 1797. Arguments that a foreign-backed disloyal minority are trying to "seduce" a loyal majority betray concern that mutinous feeling could spread quickly through the ranks. Loyalty paid. One broadside offers soldiers in the Oxfordshire Regiment Militia, then stationed in Norfolk, three days' pay for apprehending those who put "scandalous, wicked and seditious handbills" by the entrance to the barracks. In another, the signatories subscribe to a pot of 100 guineas payable to anyone discovering future mutinous activity. a) "To Field-Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of York the Humble Address of the Non-commissioned Officers, Trumpeters and Privates of His Majesty's Fourth or Somerset Regiment of Fencible Cavalry " Undated. 233 x 185 mm, partial watermark of "I Taylor." b) "We, the Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers and Privates of the Shropshire Regiment of Militia, cannot sufficiently express the indignation William Loader, Serg.Maj. and Pay-Mast. Lieut. Colonel F. Powell's Company" Head Quarters, Blythe Camp: undated. 321 x 195 mm, watermarked "J. Wickwar 1794". c) "Whereas on Wednesday Evening, the 24th Instant, a Number of most scandalous, wicked and seditious Handbills were put under the Gate of the Barracks occupied by the Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia . G. Lambert, Serjeant-Major, O.R.M." Norwich: 26 May 1797. 370 x 225 mm, watermarked "I Taylor 1796". d) "To Field Marshal His Royal Highness the Dule of York We the Non-Commissioned Officers, Trumpeters and Privates of His Majesty's 10th (or Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of Light Dragoons Thomas Souter, Serjeant-Major." Guilford Barracks: 29 May 1797. 237 x 181 mm, partial watermark of "GR". e) "We, the Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the East and West Lothian Regiment of Fencible Cavalry John Virtue, Serj. Majorm on behalf of Col. Hamilton's troop" Durham: 31 May 1797. 216 x 165 mm, partial watermark, corresponding to that in d). f) "We, the Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the Two Troops of the Norfiolk Fencible Cavalry, now quartered at Carlisle John Hone, Nathan Hewstead " Carlisle: 5 June 1797. 330 x 198 mm, watermarked "GR". g) "To Lieut. Col. William Mure We, the Non-Commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Privates of His Majesty's 3d, or West Lowland Fencible Regiment of Infantry Geo. Clark, Serj. Major" Newcastle upon Tyne: 6 June 1797. 335 x 196 mm, watermarked "1794". h) "To Field Marshal His Royal Highness the Duke of York. We the Non-commissioned Officers and Private Soldiers of the Somerset Regiment of Militia Nathan Ashhurst, Serjeant-Major" Ipswich: 7 June 1797. 335 x 190 mm, watermarked "1794". i) "We, the Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers and Privates, of His Majesty's Royal North Lincolnshire Regiment of Militia James Spellman, Serj. Maj. " Head Quarters, Scarborough: 12 June 1797. 340 x 198 mm, watermarked "1794". Nine printed sheets, all with letterpress one side only. See note for dimensions and watermarks. All sometime stabilized at edges with paper strips, a few old folds, chips, and short closed tears: a very good collection.