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For Sale - Naval History of Great Britain, 19thC First Edition in 5 vols.

Brenton, Edward Pelham - THE NAVAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM THE YEAR MDCCLXXX111 TO MDCCCXX11. C.Rice 1823-1825. First edition - the fruit of ‘six years intense labour and application’. By Captain Brenton (1774-1839), promoted for gallantry off Martinique, had served at sea throughout most of the period under review. Five volumes. Demy 8vo. Mezzotint portraits, litho plates, maps and tables. Victorian half calf, banded and gilt with ships; contrasting labels; some slight marks, small flaws etc, but still a very attractive set. Lacks three leaves of directions to the binder, but otherwise complete with all plates etc. The lithograph of Santa Cruz in volume 2 is the publisher’s substitute plate offered to purchasers in lieu of the ‘bad print’ originally produced. Contact: Nigel Luckett on 01384 872923 or Email

For Sale - Naval and Maritime Books

Prices reflect the condition and at the time of compilation were comparable to those offered on the internet. Postage and packing is extra. PQ17 by Godfrey Winn, £4.00 (Minesweepers from Belfast to Archangel during WWII) Lord Nelson’s letters to Lady Hamilton by Douglas Sladen, n.d. £15.00 Horatio Nelson by Tom Pocock, 1987 £6.00 Naval Ratings Handbook BR1938 revised 1964 reprinted 1972, £4.00 A Junior officer’s Handbook on Simple Navigation by William Alexander, 1941 £3.00 Shell Guide Sailing on the South Coast [of England] by K.A. Coles, c.1943, £3.00 In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2000, £3.00 Nathaniel’s Nutmeg How one man’s courage changed the course of history by Giles Milton, 1999, £3.00 From the Lower Deck the old navy 1780-1840 by Henry Baynham, 1969 ex-lib, £5.00 Sir Francis Drake by G.M. Thomson, 1973, £4.00 Sir Francis Drake by Julian Corbett, 1901, £6.00 The sands of Dunkirk by Richard Collier, £4.00 Naval battles of the First World War by Geoffrey Bennett, £4.00 Scapa Flow by Malcolm Brown and Patricia Meehan, £4.00 D Day by John Gunther, £3.00 The longest day June 6 1944 by Cornelius Ryan, £4.00 Underwater Warriors by Paul Kemp, £6.50 The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy (1991), £3.50. Coastal Command the Air Ministry account of the part played by Coastal Command in the Battle of the Seas 1939-1942, 1942, £3.50 The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey, c1895 (back board detached), £3.00 Life among the Pirates by David Cordingly, 1995, £6.00 Nelson by Clennell Wilkinson, 1931, £4.00 The Royal Navy in the River Plate 1806-1807 by John D. Grainger, £10.00 The Sailing Ship: a Voyage through the Ages by Rosemary and Colin Mudie, £3.00 HMAS Sydney II the cruiser controversy in the archives of the United Kingdom ed Peter Hore, £7.50 Voyage of the "Beagle": Journal of the Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage Round the World of HMS Beagle by Charles Darwin, £3.00 Another copy, £3.00 A Book of the Sea by A. Williams, £3.00 All the World’s Fighting Fleets by E. Talbot-Booth, 2nd ed, £5.00 Log of the Centurion (Lord Anson’s Flagship, 1740-1744) by L. Heaps, £8.00 Our Navy for a thousand years by S. Eardley-Wilmot, £5.00 Colour plate of Nelson, + illus. The Naval and Commercial History of Great Britain by John Payne, 1793 £20.00 volume II and III only, disbound, lacks plates and boards. Royal Admirals 1327-1981 by David Thomas, 1982 £4.00 The British Navy a Concise History by Oliver Warner, 1975 £4.00 Tall Ships in Torbay by John Pike, 1986 £3.50 Lost at Sea: Great Shipwrecks of History by Ronald Pearsall, 1996 £4.50 H.M.S. "Durban" 1931-1933 South American Division by Commodore RH Lane-Poole, c1933 £20. Drake by E. Bedford, 1967 £2.00 The Naval Annual 1887 ed. Lord Brassey. A bit worn with a couple of stamps £25.00 Shipwreck by J. Fowles and photography by the Gibsons of Scilly, 1976 £4.00 Cornish Seafarers the smuggling, wrecking and fishing life of Cornwall by AKH Jenkin, 1932 £8.00 The Journal of a Slave Trader (John Newton) 1750-1754, with Newton’s Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade edited, with an introduction by Bernard Martin and Mark Spurrell, 1962, £32.50 Sir Walter Raleigh by Norman Lloyd Williams, 1962, £4.00 Sorrowful Captives, The Tudor Earls of Devon by Horatia Durant, 1960, £8.00 The Royal Naval College Dartmouth: 75 years in pictures by EL Davies & EJ Grove, 1980, £5.00 The River Road to China: the Mekong River Expedition, 1866-73 by M. Osborne, 1975, £4.00 The Road to Pearl Harbor by H. Feis, 1965, paperback, £3.00 The Defeat of John Hawkins: a Biography of his Third Slaving Voyage by R. Unwin, 1960, £3.00 Sea Rime from many Ships by A. Smith, 1938, £3.00 Without Peer Sir William Clarkson KBE CMG (1895-1934) Engineer Vice-Admiral, Royal Australian Navy by C. Coulthard-Clark, £6.50 Charts and Surveys in Peace and War R.O. Morris, 1995, £28.00 Manual of Seamanship 1908 vol. 1 reprinted 1922 £10. Very worn. The Crisis of the Naval War by Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, 1922 £16.00 lacks charts. The Merchant Venturers of Bristol by M. McGrath, 1975 £30.00 MARITIME PRINTS from the Illustrated London News - £10 each British Seaman’s Orphan Home, Brixham (1878) British Seaman’s Orphan Home, Brixham (1878) H.M.S. Amazon leaving Plymouth with the President of Liberia (1848) The Prince of Wales in H.M.S. Hero at Plymouth for Canada (1860) Launch of the Exmouth Life-boat (1859) Launch of the Exmouth Life-boat (1859) The watering places of England – Budleigh Salterton and Tynemouth, Northumberland (1850) Plymouth Sound, the Breakwater looking seaward; the Hamoaze, Devonport Dockyard with H.M.S. Adelaide; the Citadel; the Barbican; the Royal Victualling Office, Stonehouse (1882) Start Point and the wreck of the Spirit of the Ocean (1866) Launch of The Avenger steam frigate at Devonport. Books continued – all are spiral bound Milford Marathon the story of the Customs officers who helped to repel the French invasion of Pembrokeshire in 1797 by M. Bullen, 1997 £4.00 HO 8 Quarterly Prison Returns 1824 to 1876 no author or date of publication £12.50 Contains a useful list of hulks and their locations Contact: Adrian Webb on 01823 282267 or Email