The Bligh Notebook: Rough Account, Lieutenant Wm. Bligh's Voyage in the Bounty's Launch from the Ship to Tofua & from Thence to Timor, 28 April to 14 June 1789 with a Draft List of the Bounty Mutineers Facsimile Edition in Two Volumes by Bligh, William;Bach, John - 1986

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 copy. OVERSEAS BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This is a very heavy book (about 3.7kgs) so please ask us for an exact price for shipping to your country.. 18th Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Devonport: Swiss & Co., 1927. "With the commencement of the War the Corps took up at once the traditional role, which it has performed in every war for the last three hundred years, and for which indeed it had been originally raised in 1664, that is to say the reinforcement of the personnel of the Royal Navy." A highly detailed account and a 'mine' of information. 492pp with halftone plates and plans in black and white line. Seven folding maps in colour enclosed in a pocket to lower paste down. Covers slightly soiled and corners lightly rubbed otherwise very good throughout. . Single Volume Edition. Buckram Spine Cloth Boards. Very Good. 280x220mm.

NEW YORK AND BOMBAY: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO., 1906 Book. Very Good (+) Book. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Navy blue with gilt title. Solid binding with clean pages & light cover wear. 9 x 5-1/2 with 341 pages. Scarce..

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1892. SCARCE in the First Edition and in a fine contemporary binding. Handsomely bound in half calf over marbled boards, the back with five raised bands and richly gilt, page edges marbled to match boards, the binding unsigned. Armorial bookplate and 1892 Christmas gift bookplate of Henley front paste down. Near Fine, tiny rubs at top corners, end pages only are lightly foxed, interior quite clean and fresh. . First Edition. Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries , 1915. SCARCE study of the Alaska fishing industry, 155 pages with numerous black and white photographs, many of them of Native American fishermen. This copy finely bound and from the private collection of Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, noted North Carolina geologist, conservationist, and state and local civic leader, and later during WW I he was colonel in command of the First Battalion of the 105th Engineers, and part of the famous Thirtieth "Old Hickory" Division, the first to break the Hindenburg Line. Bound in full black calf without original paper wrappers, A distinctive copy of this SCARCE title. with gilt lettering, Pratt's name in gilt, and gilt rules, marbled end papers and edges. Near Fine, final blank end paper with worm holes at edge. . First Edition. Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Toronto: Musson [1913]. (Hardcover) 198pp. Very good plus. Stamped beige cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece, index, photographs, drawings. The book is in practically new condition with only some of the pages having been opened. This is a very scarce book on Canadian transportation. Locale: Niagara River. (Transportation, Steamships).

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860 xx, 540pp. 2 plates of signals facing page 1 - 8 colour plates of flags plus folding plate of masts following page 506. The directions to the binder call for a plate of the Union Jack to face pp506 which as far as can be ascertained was never included in this binding. A scarce and authorative reference work with numerous wood engraved figures throughout.

Devonport: Swiss & Co., 1927. "With the commencement of the War the Corps took up at once the traditional role, which it has performed in every war for the last three hundred years, and for which indeed it had been originally raised in 1664, that is to say the reinforcement of the personnel of the Royal Navy." A highly detailed account and a 'mine' of information. 492pp with halftone plates and plans in black and white line. Seven folding maps in colour enclosed in a pocket to lower paste down. Covers slightly soiled and corners lightly rubbed otherwise very good throughout. . Single Volume Edition. Buckram Spine Cloth Boards. Very Good. 280x220mm.

The Easton Press, 1990. 2 vols. The Leather-Bound Library of American History. First thus; Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Issued without dust jacket. Used - Fine, "as new" condition. Bindings and text blocks are tight, bright, and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Appear unopened / unread. Bound in full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spines and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper. All edges gilt. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes from History sheet laid in. Photo is of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books. A beautiful set!

Boston Massachusetts: Privately Published by Thomas W. Lawson, 1902. Numbered, limited edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A very good copy of this classic history of the World Famous yachting race. Appears to have been recased, with new endpapers in Quarter binding with marbelled boards and leather spine with title label tipped on to spine. Illustrated in monochrome and with chromolithographs. This is number 497 from a numbered edition of 3000 copies - this one presented to Linton Hope & Co - the British Yacht Designers. Collated complete but with some minor water staining to the fore-edges of pages 181-199, not affecting text (see photos) and a tear to the corner of page 9 without loss. T.E.G. At 3.2Kg this is a large and heavy book that might require a modification to the shipping charge if it is to be sent outside the UK. Kindly contact me, before ordering, for a revised shipping quotation should this apply.,