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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Britain is an island nation and throughout history its navy has been of great importance for its defence. As a consequence it has always had a special significance and has over the centuries entrenched itself in the national psyche, making itself manifest not only through the hero-worship of its principal characters such as Horatio Nelson and Sir Francis Drake but also finding expression through art, music, and literature. Like any great national institution, the navy is a complex web of interconnected histories - operational, strategic, political, economic, administrative, technological, and social. Now updated for its paperback edition, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy, in a series of fourteen chapters, provides a thorough and engaging treatment of these histories, covering every aspect of naval history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the dawn of the new millennium. The book explores: Major action and campaigns - the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland, the Atlantic Campaign of 1939-45, the Falklands conflict, the Gulf War, and attacks on terrorist bases in Afghanistan in 2001. Developments in naval history and technology - navigational advances, surveying, constructional developments, disaster relief, the suppression of the slave trade, and the Strategic Defence Review of 1998. Key personalities - Drake and Nelson, Samuel Pepys, Francis Beaufort, Jackie Fisher, Lord Charles Beresford, Lord Jellicoe. Naval life - recruitment (press gangs, training, education, discipline), tactics, gunnery and armaments, amphibious operations, wages and conditions, victualling and supply. How and when did Britain's perception of the sea change from a thing of fear to a 'moat defence' (in the words of Shakespeare)? How did the navy's administrative systems develop during the Tudor period? During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, its greatest period of expansion, how did the navy develop strategically and operationally? How successfully did the navy defend the British Empire during the nineteenth century? What role did the navy play in Victorian Britain's thirst for exploring of the world? What technical developments have been important to the navy? What effect did two world wars have on the role of the Royal Navy? What does the modern navy look like now and what about the future? With a full chronology, which has been brought up to date to the end of 2001, an extensive list of further reading, 16 pages of colour plates, 23 maps, 6 special Action Station diagram 'box' features, and around 200 black-and-white integrated illustrations, this is an authoritative and highly readable account of a unique fighting service and its people. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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(Hardcover, 2005). 2005 1st edition. Large 8vo (177 x 251mm). Ppvi,294. Colour photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Slight use, edges slightly tanned else very good in slightly dust-wrapper. Signed by the author. Terry Lampard's account of his highly successful career angling for specimen fish, mainly in the south of England. Barbel, tench, bream, carp and much else besides. Chapters include:- Early days (eels, carp and pike); Charlton Pit; Barbel (Henry and the gang); White Mill; Yateley; The rudd lake; Wraysbury; Englefield Lagoon; Half Pit; The Spinney; Broadwater bream; Early Avon days; Avon dream fish; Personal best pike; Avon secrets; Ambition achieved; Frome grayling; Summer on the Stour; Stour record; Mobile magic (autumn 2003); Stour in winter; Stour pike; Eels; Gasper; The circus; Last cast. .

London 1811, Longmans. New wrappers, extracted article, very clean, pp. 573-776, 15 full-page engraved plates, transfer from the last plate, some foxing to plates, large size: 21.2 x 27 cm., text clean, solid, complete, 3 facsimile pages. *** *** *** The completed article with footnotes from the 1811 edition. . *** WITH SIXTEEN LOVELY FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS: . From Hodges, engraved by George Cooke: . 1. PART OF THE CITY OF BENARES [frontis] . The balance of the 15 plates are at the end of the text: . 2. PART OF THE CITY OF BENARES [duplicate of frontis] . Sept. 1, 1810 . 3. Tombs at Gazipoor. Sept. 1, 1810 . 4. The Cuttera at Muxhavad. Oct.1, 1810 . 5. Tomb at Jionpoore. Oct. 1, 1810 . 6. A Woman of Distinction. A Chittery. A Dybuck. By . permission of Mr. Orme, from B. Solvyns's Costume of . Hindostan. . 7. N.E. View of the Cotsea Bhaug on the River Iumma, Delhi . 8. Ramnugur, near Benares, on the River Ganges . 9. Entrance to Chunarghur [Hindostan] . W. Alexander, del from a sketch by E. H,.E., Locker Esq. . F.S.A. taken August 18, 1808. . 10. Mausoleum of Kausim Solemanee at Chunar Gur. . 11. Jungeira Pagoda at Sultan Ganges [Hindostan] . W. Alexander, del't from a sketch by E. H. Locker Esq. . F.S.A. taken July 28, 1808. . 12. Mootyjernah or the Shower of Pearls near Rajhmahal, . Hindostan [Taken July 28, 1808]. W. Alexander, del from . a sketch by E. H,.E., Locker Esq. F.S.A. . 13. The Chalees Saloon at Allahabad. Engraved by permission . from Mr. Daniell's Works of Oriental Scenery. Dec. . 11, 1810. . 14. Chouragantchy near Berhampore. W. Alexander, del from a . sketch by E. H,.E., Locker Esq. F.S.A. Taken July 17, . 1808. . 15. The Great Pagoda, at Tanjore. August 11, 1810. . *** WHO WAS BUCHANNAN AND HIS CAREER IN INDIA: . In 1799, after the defeat of Tippu Sultan and the fall of Mysore, he was asked to survey South India resulting in [this article] "A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar" (1807). He also wrote An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal (1819). . He conducted two surveys, the first of Mysore in 1800 and the second of Bengal in 1807-14. From 1803 to 1804 he was surgeon to the Governor General of India Lord Wellesley in Calcutta, where he also organized a zoo that was to become the Calcutta Alipore Zoo. In 1804, he was in charge of the newly founded 'Institution for Promoting the Natural History of India' at Barrackpore. . From 1807 to 1814, under the instructions of the government of Bengal, he made a comprehensive survey of the areas within the jurisdiction of the British East India Company. He was asked to report on topography, history, antiquities, the condition of the inhabitants, religion, natural productions (particularly fisheries, forests, mines, and quarries), agriculture (covering vegetables, implements, manure, floods, domestic animals, fences, farms, and landed property, fine and common arts, and commerce (exports and imports, weights and measures, and conveyance of goods). His conclusions are reported in a series of treatises that are retained in major United Kingdom libraries; many have been re-issued in modern editions. They include an important work on Indian fish species, entitled An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches (1822), which describes over 100 species not formerly recognized scientifically. . He also collected and described many new plants in the region, and collected a series of watercolors of Indian and Nepalese plants and animals, probably painted by Indian artists, which are now in the library of the Linnean Society of London . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1806 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in January 1817. Above extracted from Wikipedia. *** CONDITION: The text is clean and solid, no issues. The last page 776 has some of the usual darkening transfer from the opposing engraving, which is common for books of this period. The plates have some foxing, more on the verso than the recto, else clean, solid copy, see photos posted to our site. The frontis has some mild stain in 2 of the margin corners, amd in the left margin, the image is unaffected. . The title, contents and list of plates pages are supplied in facsimilie, else all original. Note the list of plates pages also refer to other articles and list all engravings, engravings numbers 5-18 are related to this article and all are present, inlcuding a duplicate of the first, "BENARES," per above sixteen plates in all present, more than the list of plates calls for. *** REFERENCES: Francis H. BUCHANAN: Francis Buchanan [1762-1829], later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton was a Scottish physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist while living in India. Color scans of this and most other items posted to our website.