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LUBBOCK, Basil. The Arctic whalers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1968). Original blue cloth. With photographic illustrations and plans. XI,483 pp. First edition 1937. - The first complete history of hunting for the Greenland whale in Arctic waters in the days of sail. 'In this book I have tried to give a complete history of the trade, its ships and seamen, from the earliest days right down to the outbreak of the Great War, by which time the Greenland whale had become so rare that it was considered extinct in all those regions of the Arctic' (Preface). [Boeknr.: 29364 ]

€ 45,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The China clippers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1957. Original blue cloth, with dust-jacket. With plans and photographic plates. XIII, 295 pp. First edition 1919. - 'The history of the celebrated clipper ships in the Chinese opium and tea trades'. [Boeknr.: 29362 ]

€ 45,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. Coolie ships and oil sailers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1935. Original blue cloth. With many photographic plates. X, 180 pp. First edition. - 'The book starts with a short sketch of the West African slave traffic, whose horrors form a strong contrast to the humane and carefully controlled coolie trade'. [Boeknr.: 38193 ]

€ 45,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The Down Easters. American deep-water sailing ships 1869-1929. Glasgow, Son & Ferguson, 1930. Original cloth. With plans and photographic illustrations. XVI,285 pp. First edition 1929. - A history of the American square-rigged sailing ship. [Boeknr.: 32003 ]

€ 45,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The last of the windjammers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1927-1929). 2 volumes.Original blue cloth gilt. With numerous plans and photographic plates. XIV,518; XV,443 pp. First edition (vol. I in second impression). - A windjammer is a type of sailing ship with a large iron hull, usually used for cargo in the nineteenth century until the 1930s. They were only produced from the 1870s to the 1890s and were the grandest of cargo sailing ships, with between three and five large masts and square sails, giving them a characteristic profile. - Standard work on large sailing ships. [Boeknr.: 2235 ]

€ 150,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The last of the windjammers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1949. 2 volumes. Original blue cloth gilt, with dust-jackets. With numerous plans and photographic plates. XIV,518; XV,448 pp. First edition 1927. - A windjammer is a type of sailing ship with a large iron hull, usually used for cargo in the nineteenth century until the 1930s. They were only produced from the 1870s to the 1890s and were the grandest of cargo sailing ships, with between three and five large masts and square sails, giving them a characteristic profile. [Boeknr.: 38191 ]

€ 95,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The log of the 'Cutty Sark'. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1949. Original blue cloth, with dust-jacket. With plans and many photographic plates. VIII,332 pp. First edition 1924. - A history of the famous tea and wool clipper Cutty Sark, the most interesting sailing ship still afloat, considered to have been the fastest of all the clippers. [Boeknr.: 38189 ]

€ 45,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The nitrate clippers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1953. Original blue cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic plates. XII,159 pp. First edition 1932. - 'A history of the sailing ship would be far from complete without some account of the trade to the West coast of South America containing the history of the famous nitrate ships of F. Laeisz and A.D. Bordes'. [Boeknr.: 38192 ]

€ 45,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The Blackwall frigates. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguason, 1950. Original blue cloth, with dust-jacket. With plans and photographic plates. XV, 280 pp. First edition 1924. - 'The Blackwall frigates form a connection link between the lordly East Indiaman of the Honourable John Company and the magnificent P. & O. and Oriental liners of the present day'. [Boeknr.: 29363 ]

€ 45,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The colonial clippers. New edition.. Glasgow, Brown, & Ferguson, 1948. Original cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations and plans. XVI,384 pp. First edition 1921. - 'In this book I have attempted to give some account of the beautiful sailing ships which played so great a part in the devellopment of the great British Dominions under the Southern Cros'. [Boeknr.: 3454 ]

€ 45,00

LUBBOCK, Basil. The opium clippers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1953. Original blue cloth, with dust-jacket. With many plans and photographic plates. XIV,392 pp. First edition 1933. - 'The opium traffic into China was one of the most risky and adventurous, for it was a forbidden trade on a scarcely known coast amidst wild, stormy seas and the haunt of the most cruel pirates the world has ever known'. [Boeknr.: 38190 ]

€ 45,00

MaCDOUGALL, Philip. Naval resistance to Britain's growing power in India 1660-1800. The Saffron Banner and the Tiger of Mysore. Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2014. Boards. With illustrations. XVI,205 pp. The book, considering the subject from an Indian point of view, discusses the naval activities of the Maharatta Confederacy and the later those of Mysore under its energetic rulers Haidar Ali and his successor Tipu Sultan. [Boeknr.: 37038 ]

€ 65,00

MaCGREGOR, David R. The China Bird. The history of captain Killick and one hundred years of sail and steam. London, Chatto & Windus, 1961. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 3 folding plans, 56 illustrations and 58 plates. XIV, 366 pp 'Captain Killick was a man of business as well as one of the great sailors of his day, and in 1861 he founded with John Hnery Martin, the firm of Killick and Martin'. Annual races of the tea clippers from Chinese ports to the docks of England. [Boeknr.: 38194 ]

€ 45,00

MARINE. Les jeunes marins, ou voyage d'un capiteine de vaisseau avec ses enfans sur les côtes et dans les ports de mer de la France; contenant la description des côtes et des ports sous les rapports de l'histoire, de la statistique, de la marine, du commerce et de l'histoire naturelle; enrichi d'une foule d' anecdoctes, épisodes, historiettes et nouvelles; d'un précis de l'histoire de la marine; d'un traité élémentaire et d'un vocabulaire des mots de cette science, et des principaux traits de bravoure, d'intrépidité et de dévouement des plus célèbres marins français. Par M. V***. 2me tirage. Paris, Guillaume et Compagnie, 1827.Sm8vo. 4 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt. With 4 folding engraved plates by Baugean and 34 (of 40) plates (missing plates vol. 3 ?). XXXII,239; 260; 283; 248 pp. The thrilling adventure of Valcourt, a ship's captain who takes his children on a voyage along the French coast. - Some foxing otherwise a nice set.Polak 4697. [Boeknr.: 38179 ]

€ 125,00

MARRYAT, Frederick. Mr. midshipman Easy. London, George Routledge & Son, (ca. 1900). Original red cloth (spine sl. discoloured, top of spine sl. dam.). 350 pp. Routledge's Hearth & Home Library. - First published in London in 1836. - A famous novel by Frederick Marryat, a retired captain in the Royal Navy. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat himself served with distinction. [Boeknr.: 37147 ]

€ 35,00

MARTIN, Henry Byam. The Polynesian journal of Captain Henry Byam Martin, R.N. In command of H.M.S. Grampus - 50 guns at Hawaii and on station in Tahiti and the Society Islands August 1846 to August 1847. Salem, Peabody Museum, (1981). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With water colours, wash drawings and decorative pen and ink sketches after Martin, several in colours. 192 pp. From the original manuscript in the British Museum. Introduction, editing and notes are by Edward Dodd, with the assistance of Bengt and M.Th. Danielsson and P. Montillier. [Boeknr.: 29308 ]

€ 35,00

MEDINE, Pedro de. L'art de naviguer .. contenant toutes les reigles, secrets, & enseignemens necessaires, à la bonne navigation. Traduict de Castillan en Françoys, avec augmentations .. par Nicolas de Nicolai. Lyon, 1554. Reprint. (Bussum, 1974). 8vo. Artificial leather, in slipcase. With illustrations. (6),115 lvs. Pedro de Medina (1493-1567) was the Royal Cosmographer of Spain in the 16th century. He published the first manual for compass navigation, Arte de Navagar. Valladolid, Francisco Frenandez de Cordova, 1545. [Boeknr.: 7172 ]

€ 95,00

MEULEN, R. van den. De Hollandsche zee- en scheepstermen in het Russisch. Amsterdam, Johannes Muller, 1909.8vo. Original printed wrappers (corner frontwrapper sl. dam.). 281 pp.. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. - Added: IDEM. Aanvullingen op ''De Hollandsche zee- en scheepstermen'. 24 pp. - Rare contribution to the Dutch maritime and nautical terms in Russian. [Boeknr.: 38160 ]

€ 75,00

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