Search Results: Titles starting with E from Naval Marine Archive

Eaton's Spring and Summer Catalog of 1932, original, 254 pages, There are coloured pages of items mixed with the predominately sepia coloured pages and includes one page a section of coloured wallpaper. Fascinating items of bygone times are pictured, described and priced. A rare find. Condition: front cover has some staining, first page a tear at the bottom, several areas taped on spine.

Crosby, 1890, 3rd ed. 380 p., 41 p. adv., 16 p. engineering series, with 145 illustrations; plain directions for the treatment of dynamo-electric machines, batteries, accumulators and electric lamps. Also discusses generators and circuits. Green boards stained, spine cracked, fep repaired, next page foxed but seems mostly clear throughout. Fascinating reading about early development of batteries and light. A rare edition.

Cambridge University Press, 1911, New York, eleventh edition, volume 20, from ode to pay. b/w drawings and plates, maps and more. Condition good - some wear to corners of board and several page with tears. Heavy will require more postage.

Hutchinson, London, 1956 Book Society remmendation, 244 pgs. bw photos with colour frontepiece. Adventure story of building and sailing a raft across the Pacific.
 

Ian Allan, London, 1972, 1st ed. 160 p.with 48 pages of photographs includes index. Very good/very good mylar. WWII escort carrier ships. During the Second World War the British needed a platform for planes to use for protection of the convoy fleets moving goods. They converted captured German merchant ships and added decks for take off. Then the pilots were able to attack U-boats and enemy bombers.

Time-Life Books, 1979. 1st. good.

Time-Life Books, 1979. 1st. good +.

Time-Life Books, 1979. 1st. good +.

Time-Life Books, 1979. 1st. good +.

Time-Life Books, 1979. 1st. good +.

Time-Life Books, 1979. 1st. very good.

Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008, first edition, xiii, 377 p. : ill., b/w, maps ; 25 cm, includes index. very good hardcover, gilt title. Map of the transatlantic slave trade, 1501-1867 -- A new assessment of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis and David Richardson -- Origins and destinations -- The foundations of the system: a reassessment of the slave trade to the Spanish Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / António de Almeida Mendes -- The slave trade to Pernambuco, 1561-1851 / Daniel Barros Domingues da Silva and David Eltis -- The transatlantic slave trade to Bahia, 1582-1851 / Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro -- The origins of slaves leaving the Upper Guinea coast in the nineteenth century / Philip Misevich -- The African origins of slaves arriving in Cuba, 1789-1865 / Oscar Grandío Moráguez -- National slave trades -- The significance of the French slave trade to the evolution of the French Atlantic world before 1716 / James Pritchard, David Eltis,… Read More

New York : Facts on File, 1988, 1st US ed., 239 p., illustrated b/w detailed diagrams and plans of wooden ships and photos, 29 cm. very good, very good minus - slight repair to corner of dj (1.4"). traces the history of wooden ships and looks at the trading vessels, the three and four masted schooners and barques.