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Note - pictures all the same size, but books vary quite a lot.
Listed thus:- Stock Number (QUOTE, please!); Title; Author; date of publication; publisher; hardback (HB)/paperback (PB); number of pages; notes if needed...; Price in pounds sterling
Unless otherwise noted, all are in good or very good condition
Maritime History
MBK092 South With Endurance, Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914 - 1917; Frank Hurley photographer; 2001; Ted Smart; Hardback no dust jacket; 320pp; £25
MBK123 Boatyards and Boatbuilding; Boats and Boating on Inland Waterways series; Robert J Wilson; 1974/2002;Small PB; 32pp; £2.50
MBK124 Life Afloat; Boats and Boating on Inland Waterways series; Robert J Wilson; 1976/2002;Small PB; 48pp; £3
£5 for both these little books
MBK072 The History of The American Sailing Navy, The ships and their development; Howard I Chapelle; No date; Bonanza Books; Hardback no dust jacket; 558pp; £10
MBK064 The true depiction of the investment and assault on the island of Malta 1565; Matteo Perez d'Aleccio; 1965; Progress Press; Paperback, oversize and in poor condition, cover detached; pp not numbered; signed copy; £12.50
MBK050 The Siege of Malta 1565; Ian C Lockhead, TFR Barling & Michael Goss; 1970; Literary Services Productions Ltd; PB with dust jacket; 63pp; Scruffy; £5
MBK104 the Great Enterprise - The History of the Spanish Armada; Stephen Usherwood; 1978; Folio Society; Hardback no dust jacket, gold imprinted; 192 pp; £10
MBK165 The Viking Ship Finds; Anders Hagen; Universitets Oldsaksamling, Oslo; PB; 40 pp; £3
MBK103 1797 Nelson's Year of Destiny; Colin White; 2006; Royal Naval Museum/Suttons Press; PB; 164pp; £6.50
MBK105 Nelson's Navy; Philip Haythornthwaite & Bill Younghusband; 2002; Osprey Publishing; PB; 64pp; £2
MBK077 Nelson and The Nile, the Naval War Against Bonapart 1698; Brian Lavery; 2003; Caxton Editions; HB with dust jacket; 318pp; VG; £15
MBK079 Horatio Nelson; Tom Pocock; 1987; Bodley Head; HB with dust jacket; 364pp; £8.50
MBK061 Nelson's Favourite, HMS Agamemnon at War 1781 - 1809; Anthony Deane; 1996; Caxton Editions; HB with dust jacket; 320pp; slight damage to jacket, otherwise good; £15
MBK088 Trafalgar The Nelson Touch; David Howarth; 1969; Collins; HB with dust jacket; 254pp; £7.50
MBK106 Billy Ruffian The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon, The biography of a ship of the line 1782 - 1836; David Cordingly; 2005; Bloomsbury; HB with dust jacket; £8.50
MBK010 The Victory of Seapower - Winning the Napoleonic War 1806-1814; Richard Woodman & Robert Gardiner; 1998; Chatham Pictorial Histories series; HB with dust jacket; 190pp; Originally published at £30; £10
MBK073 The Search For Speed Under Sail 1700 - 1855; Howard I Chapelle; 1967; W W Norton; HB with dust jacket; 453pp; £20
MBK014 The History of American Sailing Ships; Howard L Chapelle; 1985; Bonanza Books; HB no jacket; 400pp; slightly scuffed binding; £12
MBK070 South Eastern Sail, From the Medway to The Solent 1840 - 1940; Michael Bouquet; 1972; David & Charles; PB; 112pp; £4
MBK087 The Merchant Service Today; Lesley Howe; 1941; Oxford University Press; Hardback no dustjacket; 159pp; £4
MBK115 The Wonderful Story of The Sea; Harold Wheeler, editor; No date; Odhams Press; HB no dust jacket; 512pp; £5
MBK016 The Adventure Of Sail; Captain Donald Macintyre DSO, DRC, RN, and many others; 1970; Paul Elek; HB with dust jacket; 258pp; A very big book in all directions, with really good coloured plates, some small curly bits on the jacket, originally published at 7 guineas; £30
MBK022 The Story of Sail, Illustrated with 1000 scale drawings; Veres Laslo & Richard Woodman; Chatham; 1999; HB with dust jacket; 352pp; VG; £20
MBK031 Harland & Wolfe, Designs from the Shipbuilding Empire: Tom McCluskie; 1998; Conway Maritime Press; HB with dust jacket; 160pp; VG; £12.50
MBK032 Medieval Ships and Shipping; Gillian Hutchinson; Leicester University Press; 1994/1998; PB; 218pp; £5
MBK035 Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail, The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650 - 1815; Brian Tunstall, ed. Dr Nicholas Tracy; Conway Maritime Press; 1990; HB with dust jacket; 278pp; Some damage and fading to dust jacket, otherwise good; £20
MBK051 The Unknown Fleet, The Army's Civilian Seamen in War and Peace; Reg Cooley; 1993; Royal Naval Museum & Alan Sutton Publications; HB with dust jacket and library cover; 233pp; ex-library with marked pages and fore edge; £2.50
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