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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. 1st. 306 p., ill. b/w, includes index, very good/fair+. This lively history of pirates and piracy explores the connections of pirates to the economies of their times. Ritchie's research looks at the context of the voyages, what sort of men became pirates and what was life like for a pirate.
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Captain Kidd: and the war against the Pirates
by Ritchie, Robert C
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F.H. Chapman: the first naval architect and his work
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Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1989, 1st US edition, 255 p. : ill. b/w photos, drawings, lines and plans, map. Includes index, with errata slip. very good - former owner's library stamp on fep/ dj very good. Chapman was a son of an English officer serving in Swedish force. Chapman is credited with being the first scientific shipbuilder and prototype naval architect. Heavy will require extra postage.
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Gracie : a love story
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Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st. fine/fine price unclipped.
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The Life of Mrs. Godolphin
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William Pickering, London, 1848, edited by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford from the original written at the time of Mrs. Godolphin's death 1678. She had been Maid of Honour to the Duchess of York and later Queen Catherine. Genealogical tables are presented in the last five pages, xviii, 291 p., marbled end papers. condition - no spine, endpapers and several pages loose, red to edges, some foxing of title, pages clean. inscriptions in front, one 'To the Bishop of London' 1910.
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Log-line, The
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McCelland and Stewart , 1972. 1st. very good,slight discolouration on front board. The Story of Captain Charles C. Dixon went to sea at the age of 9 months and spent the better part of the rest of his life there. He was a great naturalist, geologist and surveyor, photographing and charting many of his discoveries.
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And Tomorrow the Stars
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Dodd, Mead and Company, 1968, 1st, ex lib, 1968. 1st. near fine/near fine. A fictionalized biography of John Cabot. The story follows him to Bristol where he obtains backing from King Henry VII, and his voyages of discovery to Newfoundland.
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A certain E.R.A.: the life and times of Engineer Rear-Admiral George Leslie Stephens, C.B., C.B.E., C.D.** Royal Canadian Navy (1889-1979)
by Stephens, Robert
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SeaWaves Books, N. Vancouver, 2011, 271 p. illus bw . George Leslie Stephens was orphaned at an early age and then at fourteen, became an apprentice at HMS Dockyard to qualify for an engine fitter. Six years later, while employed at Devonport Dockyard he was working on a cruiser that was slated to become part of the Canadian Royal Navy fleet. He decided to join the Canadian navy and continued to work his way through the ranks to become the first Engineer Rear Admiral of the RCN.
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