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LUBBOCK, Basil. The last of the windjammers. Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1927-1929). 2 volumes.Original blue cloth gilt. With numerous plates and ships' plans. 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 ]

€ 225,00

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

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

MOLL, G(erard). Verhandeling over eenige vroegere zeetogten der Nederlanders. Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey en Zoon, 1825. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (spine rep.). XII,220,(3) pp. Voyages of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Cornelis and Frederik Houtman, Petrus Plancius, Jacques Mahu, Simon de Cordes, Sebald de Weert, Olivier van Noordt, Joris van Spilbergen, Jakob Lemaire, Willem Cornelisz. Schouten, Jacques l'Heremite, Gheen Huygen van Schapenham, Jacob Roggeveen, Abel Janssen Tasman and Marten Gerrittsz. de Vries. Tiele 760; Cat. NHSM I, p.121. [Boeknr.: 1902 ]