Maritime History from Tapsell's Books and Music

Osaka: Osaka Shosen Kaisha, 1931. Quarto. 724 pages. Many b/w illustrations and full-colour maps. Many interesting advertisements with spot colour. Thumb index. Original pictorial embossed and decorated blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine. Coloured titling on upper board. Top and bottom edges gilt. Blue art paper endpapers. Very minor insect hole on front free endpaper. A beautiful… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1826. Volume I: Voyage to Loo-Choo and Other Places in the Eastern Seas, in the Year 1816. Including an Account of Captain Maxwell's Attack on the Batteries at Canton; and Notes of an Interview with Buonaparte at St Helena, in August 1817. iv, ii, 322 pages. Volume II and III: Extracts from a Journal Written… Read more about this item

London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831. Set of two volumes. xxiv, 566 and viii, 568 pages. Fourteen b/w engraved plates, including the frontispieces. About half the plates have varying degrees of tanning with offsetting on the facing page. Pale foxing on the title page and frontispiece of Volume One. Rebound at some time in three-quarter calf with raised bands,… Read more about this item

London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created… Read more about this item