Search Results: Naval & Maritime (Bibliographies) from Wykeham Books

Eyre & Spottiswoode for His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, first edition, 1912. The edition was of 500 copies. Contemporary half-calf and moire boards, gilt spine-title, 4to,. 374 pages in double-column format. Very approximately 7,500 entries. A scarce and very important bibliographical source for early naval history.This volume comprises "all printed books in the Library bearing on Naval History" and is arranged in a detailed classification scheme, the top-level headings being : Lists of the Navy and Army (pages 5-36); Biography (37-68); History (69-212); Policy and Administration (213-310); Strategy and Tactics (311-322); Mercantile Marine, Communications and Commerce (323-359); Periodical publications of Naval interest (360); Parliamentary Papers - Inquiries into Naval Affairs (361-370). The classification scheme index is at pp 371-374. Entries give (where known) : author, title, edition, pages, indication of illustrations, format, place and year of publication, library… Read More

Eyre & Spottiswoode for His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1912. The edition was of 500 copies. Original tape-backed, printed paper boards, 4to,. 374 pages in double-column format. Very approximately 7,500 entries. A scarce and very important bibliographical source for early naval history.This volume comprises "all printed books in the Library bearing on Naval History" and is arranged in a detailed classification scheme, the top-level headings being : Lists of the Navy and Army (pages 5-36); Biography (37-68); History (69-212); Policy and Administration (213-310); Strategy and Tactics (311-322); Mercantile Marine, Communications and Commerce (323-359); Periodical publications of Naval interest (360); Parliamentary Papers - Inquiries into Naval Affairs (361-370). The classification scheme index is at pp 371-374. Entries give (where known) : author, title, edition, pages, indication of illustrations, format, place and year of publication, library shelfmark. Further parts of the… Read More

Conway Maritime Press, London, second printing, 1970. Cloth, 8vo,. xxii, 163 pp. Approximately 2,500 entries. A useful reprint of the 1930 first edition. Manwaring's bibliography remains a key reference, covering "British Naval History from the earliest times until roughly speaking just after the Battle of Trafalgar" and including works on this period published up to 1930. It is not a guide to individual books, but rather to "the mass of naval material which lies buried in books; in periodicals and magazines; in the Transactions of Learned Societies; and in Manuscripts in various archives". Manwaring's introduction illustrates examples of valuable essays in books which his guide is intended to make accessible (an example from a general source being an essay on the Maritime History of Sussex in that county's Victoria County History), and notes that among the important publications indexed by his bibliography are those of the Navy Records Society,The Mariner's… Read More

Never published; typescript c.1930?, with later manuscript additions. Half calf and marbled boards, gilt spine-title, all edges gilt, 4to,. Typescript in red and black, 110 numbered leaves with typescript on rectos only, interleaved with blanks for notes. An unpublished typescript bibliography. (Copac records a copy in the National Maritime Museum Library dated 1930 and a photocopy dated 1947 - no other references, and not in Rasor. ).. In our copy many of the typescript leaves and a few of the interleaves have corrections or additions, sometimes extensive, to the typescript entries. Most of the additions do not offer any clue as to dating of the volume, but one references an auction of March 1951 and another a Francis Edwards catalogue of 1950. The author, Roger Charles Anderson 1883 - 1976) was a distinguished maritime historian and collector who was a leading figure in the early years of the Society for Nautical Research and of the Navy Records Society. The Swedish naval historian Jan Glete has… Read More

Palau & Dulcet, Barcelona, 1995 reprint of 1851 first edition. Limited edition of 1000 copies. 2 vols, cloth, red cover titles, , 8vo, 26 cm,. xxxv, [2], 671 + [4], 801, [2] pp. Near Fine in slightly fingersoiled dustwrappers.

Maggs Bros. Ltd, London, bookseller's catalogue, 1928. Rebound in quarter leather and cloth, (original wrappers not present), small 4to,. 200, 8 pp, 24 plates, ills. 500 items. Indexed. Good.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, first editions, 1970. 2 vols, cloth, 4to,. xiii, 502 + 503 - 977 pp,8 plates. 1,463 entries in Part One, over 15,000 names indexed n Part Two. This second volume (in 2 parts) of the superb bibliographical catalogue of the famous library of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. From a contemporary review: "The first volume [ =part] contains 191 entries for works of collective biography; these have in many cases notes as to the subjects of individual chapters, and these names all appear in the index to the volume. Items 192 to 235 are navy lists, official and unofficial…The rest of the first volume has more than 1200 entries for individual biographies,listed under the name of the person concerned. There are special sections for Nelson(more than 200 items) and Pepys (over 100). Some entries have a short note on the person concerned ..The detailed index of nearly 40 pages includes authors, persons written about,and names of ships.Volume… Read More

Maggs Bros. Ltd, London, bookseller's catalogue, 1929. Illustrated printed wrappers, 4to,. 618, [25] pp, 53 plates (some in red and black), ills. 1253 items. Includes many early works - arranged in chronological order, by the halfway point of the catalogue at page 309 the catalogue has reached only the year 1625. Indexed. Front wrapper detached with old sellotape along spine-edge, spine with old tapemarks, otherwise near Very Good.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, first editions, 1970. 2 vols, cloth, 4to,. xiii, 502 + 503 - 977 pp,8 plates. 1,463 entries in Part One, over 15,000 names indexed n Part Two. This second volume (in 2 parts) of the superb bibliographical catalogue of the famous library of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. From a contemporary review: "The first volume [ =part] contains 191 entries for works of collective biography; these have in many cases notes as to the subjects of individual chapters, and these names all appear in the index to the volume. Items 192 to 235 are navy lists, official and unofficial…The rest of the first volume has more than 1200 entries for individual biographies,listed under the name of the person concerned. There are special sections for Nelson(more than 200 items) and Pepys (over 100). Some entries have a short note on the person concerned ..The detailed index of nearly 40 pages includes authors, persons written about,and names of ships.Volume… Read More

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, first edition, 1968. Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to,. xi, 403, [1] pp, 8 plates, 2 maps. 1204 entries. The first volume of the superb bibliographical catalogue of the famous library of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. Arranged geographically, sub-arranged chronologically. Contents include : Introduction; Collective voyages; Circumnavigations; Africa; America; East Indies; Europe and Mediterranean; Far East; Pacific; Polar: Arctic; Polar: Antarctic; General voyages; General index; Index of ships. Previous owner's small stamp on fore-edges. Good in rubbed and price-clipped dustwrapper. Maps at end slightly creased.

Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, first edition, 1968. Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to,. xi, 403, [1] pp, 8 plates, 2 maps. 1204 entries. The first volume of the superb bibliographical catalogue of the famous library of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. Arranged geographically, sub-arranged chronologically. Contents include : Introduction; Collective voyages; Circumnavigations; Africa; America; East Indies; Europe and Mediterranean; Far East; Pacific; Polar: Arctic; Polar: Antarctic; General voyages; General index; Index of ships. Good in worn, torn and price-clipped dustwrapper.

Navy Records Society, [London], first edition, 1903 - 1923. 4 vols, two-tone cloth, gilt cover device, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed, 8vo, 25 cm,. xii, 452, 3 + xxxviii, 455, [3] + liii, 458, 4 + cxxviii, 725 pp. Contents: Vol I. General introduction (pp 1-251). Register of ships (pp [253]-306. Register of sea officers (pp 307-435). Index; Vol II. Admiralty letters (vols 2 and 3); Vol III. Admiralty letters (vol. IV and V); Vol IV. AdmiraltyJournal [January 1, 1673-4 - April 21, 1679]. Covers of Vols I and II rather soiled, endpaper of Vol II cracked at front hinge, some wear to heads and tails of spines, Good.

National Maritime Museum, London, first edition, 1971. Illustrated wrappers, large 8vo, 30 cm,. [1], vii, 120 pp. 1446 entries. The first attempt to cover the field, including both books and monographs and journal articles. . Part I (pp 1-87) covers descriptions of boats all over the world which were in contemporary or near contemporary use at the time the descriptions were written. Part II (pp 89-105) covers ancient boats. A few entries are briefly annotated where the content is not apparent from the title. Small name sticker on front inside wrapper, minor marks to wrappers, otherwise Good.

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1985. Laminated printed wrappers, large 8vo,. xiv, 54 pp. 106 entries. The publishing firm Mount & Page dominated maritime publishing in England throughout the first half of the 18th century and continued to occupy a prominent place in the second half. This handlist attempts to identify the titles and editions of all non-cartographical books with which Mount or Mount and Page were associated (from about 1684 to about 1790) and lists some 106 works (many of which went through large numbers of editions, all separately noted). Three appendixes provide a table of advertisements, a list of non-maritime works, and a chronological summary list.Occasional Publications of the Bibliographical Society No. 1. Booklabel on front inside wrapper, slightly creased, otherwise Near Fine.

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1985. Laminated printed wrappers, large 8vo,. xiv, 54 pp. 106 entries. The publishing firm Mount & Page dominated maritime publishing in England throughout the first half of the 18th century and continued to occupy a prominent place in the second half. This handlist attempts to identify the titles and editions of all non-cartographical books with which Mount or Mount and Page were associated (from about 1684 to about 1790) and lists some 106 works (many of which went through large numbers of editions, all separately noted). Three appendixes provide a table of advertisements, a list of non-maritime works, and a chronological summary list.Occasional Publications of the Bibliographical Society No. 1. Fine.

Bibliographical Society, London, first edition, 1985. Laminated printed wrappers, large 8vo,. xiv, 54 pp. 106 entries. The publishing firm Mount & Page dominated maritime publishing in England throughout the first half of the 18th century and continued to occupy a prominent place in the second half. This handlist attempts to identify the titles and editions of all non-cartographical books with which Mount or Mount and Page were associated (from about 1684 to about 1790) and lists some 106 works (many of which went through large numbers of editions, all separately noted). Three appendixes provide a table of advertisements, a list of non-maritime works, and a chronological summary list.Occasional Publications of the Bibliographical Society No. 1. Good.

R. Perkins, Newton Abbot, first edition, 1994. Rexine, top edge gilt, 8vo, 24 cm,. 806 pp, ills. From the introduction - "More than two thousand books are recorded in the following pages, and virtually all of them are regimental or Corps histories, formally published and available in conventional permanent bindings. They are all accessible - some a great deal more easily than others - to the diligent researcher or collector who wishes to consult them. A small number of general reference books and campaign histories have been included in order to set the scene for the unit histories, or for other reasons which are apparent in the observations with which each entry is accompanied. However, Í have in broad terms followed a policy of excluding all items of ephemera, personal memoirs, generalised war stories, books in which fiction and fact are blended into a single narrative, and any other publication which does satisfy two fundamental criteria - is this the history of a specific formation… Read More