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

Macmillan and Company, 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Macmillian, 1882. 756 pp. Green cloth. Hardcover. Harvard University Peabody Museum book plate inside cover. Scuff on cover. 10 fold outs, 2 in color. Front hinge weakened. Ships daily.

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.

WBG Marine Press, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG/VG/1st ed/ Signed. A really nice copy with a little light wear around the top --front and back. Jacket now covered with a mylar sleeve and looks more than presentable. The author has signed on the title page, along with "Best Wishes From the Author". The book is clean and tight, with no markings to the white pages. 356pp., illustrations and boat blueprints,4 appendices, notes to text, bibliography, index. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage, mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC

Du Maurier, Daphne: Jamaica Inn 1936 First Edition. Doubleday Doran & Co. RARE. Title page states 1936. Used. Good-/ New Fax Whistler Dust Jacket. Condition: Front board was cracked in half in shipment and has now been taped from inside. Fabric is intact. Other than this damage the book is in good overall condition. Priced accordingly. 332 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Plot summary: "Shadows moved across the moor. Horses' hoofs rang sharply on the stone pathway. They had come again - the mysterious visitors who arrived at Jamaica Inn under cover of darkness...Here is a story of passion, treachery and death. Of a beautiful woman caught in the web of a dangerous intrigue. And of her compelling love for a scoundrel. Daphne de Maurier tells this strange tale of the suspense and excitement which characterizes her internationally famous novels Rebecca and The Scapegoat"

London : John Stockdale, 1798 Vol II only of this scarce 2 volume work - one of two english translations of La Perouse's voyage produced in 1798. With frontispiece by Stothard and 24 further plates/charts. (The plate list is presumably in Vol I so I can not confirm that the plates are present as listed. The work had 51 plates/maps over the 2 volumes). Detailed account of the voyage with Tables showing the course of La Boussole and L'Astrolabe. Separate section at the rear 'Substance of the Travels over the Continent, with the dispatches of La Perouse, in the Years 1787 and 1788 by M de Lesseps'. Page listing of Stockdale's poetry works at the rear. In contemporary full leather binding which is badly damaged. The boards with gilt edging and cross hatched blind tooling are complete and rescuable but the spine is missing. Page edges marbled. With bookplate of F E Baines (a local historian) and Laura Baines of Hampstead July 1890, on the front pastedown. The fep is detached and the… Read More

New York: William A. Mercein. Very Good. 1821. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in clean reddish-brown cloth with title label on spine. Interior of text is clean, tight & intact. Illustrated with a fold-out b/w map that has the canal in red. Both map and fold -out Appendix have neatly repaired folds. Chipped bottom corner of first two pages. Page xix with small piece missing from bottom edge but does not interfere with text. Canals, New York ; Map & Appendix & Table; 8vo; 485 pages .

THE FROZEN DEEP by Wilkie Collins, AUTHOR OF "THE WOMAN IN WHITE" AND "THE MOONSTONE". PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM F. GILL AND COMPANY, BOSTON, 1874, 1ST AMERICAN EDITION. ILLUSTRATED BY ALFRED FREDERICKS. USED. GOOD CONDITION. ANTIQUARIAN. 5 x 7 3/4. 237 pages. Green cloth boards with Black and gold gilt titling and ornamentation that remains fairly bright. a couple of loose gathers. Will ship from United States.

N. Y.: Author, 1891. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Presumed First Edition. Very good copy , with some evidence of an old repair to strengthen the front hinge. Seems to have worked. Prev. owner name dated 1892, and a bkplt on front pastedown. Spine dulled, and there is a vertical wrinkle in the front cover cloth. Internally fine. 392 profusely illustrated pages. An attractive copy..

Washington, D.C.: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1920. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 304 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in original blue cloth with a front cover design of a three masted ship embossed in gilt. The binding is worn and shows heavy white spotting to the cloth. The inner hinges are secure, but the frontis piece is detached and chipped about the edges. Text is toned. INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf, "Mrs. Elizabeth A. Weeks / Presented by / Mr. James Sprunt / Wilmington, N.C. / Jan. 1922." There are some notations on the front pastedown. Quite scarce.