Search Results: Sailing Ships /Barges from G. L. GREEN LTD

1970 305 Illus. 257 Pages. 30 x 25cms. Good in torn D/W History from Caravel to Clipper. 28 extracts from different Authors. Naval Glossary, Biblio. 44 col. plates. Oblong.

1938 168 Illus. 411 Pages. 20 x 25cms. 1st Edition. History & romance of America on the High Seas from the 15th to the 19th century. All aspects covered both historically & ship types. Naval & maritime. Bibliography. Index. End-paper maps. Pictorial chart green cloth covers

1956 From sail to steam to wings. a diverse record of 100 years of North Atlantic Travel. 276pages.33illus. frontis.

1975 179 Pages. 25 x 30cms. Good in torn D/W. A selection of 36 Spurling paintings with text by Lubbock, taken from their classic "Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships". Introduction by Alan Villiers, who has made the selection of those he considers show Spurling at his best. Index of Ships'Names. General Index.

1988 128 Pages. 29 x 28cms. Good in D/W. Forty of the world's famous sailing ships from the paintings of Cornelis de Vries, in colour, with descriptive text. A short history of sail as an introduction. Short Biblio. Index.

1973 40 Illus. 95 Pages. 15 x 23cms. Ex-Libris. Bookplate gift for launching of Thron Lightings Clipper Fluorescent fitting range July 1975. Bound in blue leather. Historical review, building, sailing, speed, Tea race of 1866. 8 col. plates. Index.

1921 Original covers a littl worn. spine a little weak, contents generally good. 79 Illus. 433 Pages. 13 x 20cms. History of Emigrant ships, wool & iron clippers, & New Zealand trade. 4 plans. 2 col. plates of 24 House Flags.

Sailed Birkenhead 9 September 1874. Arrived London 12 January 1875,out and home via Suez Canal. 50 page photocopy.20 x 33 Held in Paper Covers. Good.

1909 278 Pages. 12 x 15cms. 4 illus. Covers little worn, spine little weak. Fiction.

1952 114 Pages. 18 x 25cms. Covers marked, Blue cloth Marine Historical Association Mystic. Detailed listing by the various Ocean & American coastwise passages. Lists record or near record runs. Knots per hour, passage, ship tonnage & master, date, source of information.

1912 347 Pages. 18 x 23cms. Spine little weak, some foxing.Story of the Fore & Aft Rig. From earliest times to present day. 1st Ed. Col. frontis. 130 illus, plans. Glossary. Original pictorial & gilt cloth. teg.

1925 80 Illus. 25 x 33cms. No.295 Indiamen, packets and Clipper Ships. Limited edition of 1500 copies. 13 tipped in colour plates, 80 black and white plates from contemporary engravings and paintings in the Macpherson collection. 86 pages of text. Blue and gilt cloth worn at edges. t.e.g. Some plates grubby at edges. spine little weak.

1978 Written for the Unicorn Preservation Society. Frigage Unicorn launched in 1824 looks at the Guns, Crew and actions. 18pages fully illustrated by Mary Stewart.

1934 79 Illus. 96 Pages. 15 x 23cms. Covers little marked. Taken from 3 special numbers of "Syren & Shipping" during the '20s. & '30s. & consolidated into a book. Clippers in their Heyday. Notable Old Windjammers, Nitrate Clippers, The Last Survivors. Contemporary illus. Art pp.

1981 473 Pages. 18 x 23cms. V/G. in D/W A Camera Record. Over 500 photographic illus. of many of world's vanished sailing craft, both great & small, with comments & descriptions by experienced ship-masters & other experts, including A. Hurst. Art pp. Index. Gilt motif.

1984 150 Illus. 256 Pages. 23 x 28cms. V/G in D/W. Heyday of Sail. The period of iron & steel construction. All types from sloops & ketches to the ocean carriers. 165 line drawings. 6 appendices including List of Ships built by Alexander Stephen, R. Steele & W.Pile. Source references. Index.

32 Illus. 350 Pages. 15 x 23cms. Published by T. Werner Laurie London. Covers worn. Foxing. Spine weak. Spine cover rebound. . C. 1918. Historical - the Company from small beginnings. The ships. Activities with the Royal Navy. At sea, conditions of service, passengers, life on board, actions. Colour frontis.missing. 17 page booklet bound called Bombay Dockyard A Forgotten Chapter reprinted from the Journal of Iranian Assoc. Bobmay 1921.

Written by Sir Alan MooreReprinted from Vol. 42 NO. 1 Feb. 1956. 37p. 32 drawings.Paper covers

1984 150 Illus. 161 Pages. 19 x 25cms. V/G in D/W. The contemporary sailing vessels. Listing over 250 surviving sailing ships with details and brief history.

Blake's, 1930 practical handbook of sailing and cookery. diagrams. 138 pages. some foxing.