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Anon. RULES AND BY-LAWS OF THE ROYAL BOMBAY YACHT CLUB. |
£65 |
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63pp. Small format. In the original blue cloth with club crest in gold on front board. Very good. 1922, 1st October, Bombay. |
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Ballard, Admiral G.A. RULERS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN. |
£25 |
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319pp. 16 illustrations. Map. From the arrival of the European navigators to British supremacy. Spine starting to fray. Otherwise very good. 1927 First edition, Duckworth. |
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Bontekoe, Willem Ysbrantsz. MEMORABLE DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST INDIAN VOYAGE 1618-25. |
£35 |
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168pp. Index. In The Argonaut series (US version of the Broadway Travellers). Dutchman's eventful voyage to the East Indies. Very good indeed. 1929 First thus McBride, New York. |
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British India Steam Navigation Company Limited. REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS 1949. |
£38 |
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80pp. Index. 20pp blank (for notes). Large folding chart in colour showing sleeve bands of officers. Small 8vo in original red cloth with gilt decoration. Very good. |
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Bulley, Anne. FREE MARINER. |
£10 |
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John Adolphus Pope in the East Indies 1786-1821. 244pp. Index. 15 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Card covers. From the letters of an observant ship's officer who became the editor of the 'Bombay Gazette'. Fine. 1992 First edition, BACSA. |
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Bulley, Anne. FREE MARINER. |
£8 |
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John Adolphus Pope in the East Indies 1786-1821. 244pp. Index. 15 b/w illustrations and 3 maps. Card covers. From the letters of an observant ship's officer who became the editor of the 'Bombay Gazette'. Very good. 1992 First edition, BACSA. |
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Clancey, Sons & Co.. 'BANFF PARK' S.S. |
£88 |
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Grounded in River Hooghly 11October 1947. On fire at Rangoon 27th December 1947. 497pp. Foolscap cyclostyled. The loss adjuster's report. Includes relevent sections of the ship's log. Every last detail of what ships like this carried, who owned the cargo and its value. Very good indeed. Bound in plain blue cloth. 1952. |
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Dulles, Foster Rhea. EASTWARD HO! |
£18 |
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The First English Adventurers to the Orient. 199pp. Index. 20 illustrations and maps. An account of the travels of Richard Chancellor, Anthony Jenkinson, James Lancester, William Adams and Sir Thomas Roe. Very good indeed. 1931 First edition, Bodley Head. |
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Dulles, Foster Rhea. EASTWARD HO! |
£24 |
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The First English Adventurers to the Orient. 199pp. Index. 20 illustrations and maps. An account of the travels of Richard Chancellor, Anthony Jenkinson, James Lancester, William Adams and Sir Thomas Roe. Very good indeed in worn dw. 1931 First edition, Bodley Head. |
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Foster, Sir William. ENGLAND'S QUEST FOR EASTERN TRADE. |
£35 |
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355pp. Index. 13 maps. 16th and 17th century voyages and commercial penetration. Very good indeed. 1933 First edition, A & C.Black. |
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Foster, Sir William. ENGLAND'S QUEST FOR EASTERN TRADE. |
£18 |
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355pp. Index. 13 maps. 16th and 17th century voyages and commercial penetration. Little read ex-public library copy. Very good. 1933 First A & C.Black. |
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Foster, Sir William. ENGLAND'S QUEST OF EASTERN TRADE. |
£12 |
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355pp. Index. 13 maps. 16th and 17th century voyages and commercial penetration. Little read ex-university library copy. First published in 1933. Very good in very good dw. 1966 Reprint A & C.Black. |
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Furniss, Harry. P & O SKETCHES IN PEN AND INK. |
£75 |
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203pp. 4to landscape. All edges gilt. Drawings in the Punch tradition with facing page of humorous writing. In the original decorated olive cloth. Front hinge slack. Otherwise very good. No date (c1900), The Studio of Design & Illustration. |
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Greenhill, Basil. THE BOATS OF EAST PAKISTAN. |
£6 |
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40pp. Card wrappers. 4 b/w photographs and 20 drawings. Very good. 1966 Reprint from 'The Mariner's Mirror'. |
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Hastings, Commander D.J. (edits). BOMBAY BUCCANEERS. |
£15 |
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Memories and Reminiscences of the Royal Indian Navy. 257pp. Card covers. Fine. 1986 First edition, BACSA. |
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Hastings, Commander D.J. (edits). BOMBAY BUCCANEERS. |
£14 |
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Memories and Reminiscences of the Royal Indian Navy. 257pp. Card covers. Very good. 1986 First edition, BACSA. |
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Hiney, Tom. ON THE MISSIONARY TRAIL. |
£12 |
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The Classic Georgian Adventure of Two Englishmen Sent on a Journey Around the World, 1821-29. 367pp. Index. 20 illustrations and 6 maps. A deputation from the 'London Missionary Society'. Long chapter on visits to the missions in Bengal and South India. Fine in fine dw. 2000 First Chatto. |
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Howarth, David & Stephen. THE STORY OF P&O. |
£16 |
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The Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company. 224 pp. Index. A company history lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. |
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Jenson, John R. (edits). JOURNAL AND LETTER BOOK OF NICHOLAS BUCKERIDGE 1651-1654. |
£15 |
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104pp. Index. Voyages for the East India Company in the Indian Ocean. Fine. 1973 First edition, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. |
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Keast, John. THE TRAVELS OF PETER MUNDY 1597-1667. |
£14 |
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122pp. Card covers. Cornish seaman's accounts of his travels in Britain and Europe with three voyages to Moghul India. Very good. Owner's name. 1984 first edition, Dyllansow Truran, Redruth. |
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Leasor, James. BOARDING PARTY. |
£18 |
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The Last Action of the Calcutta Light Horse. 204pp. Index. 22 b/w illustrations. Map. Across India in 1943 to raid German shipping in neutral Goa. Fine in fine dw. Owner's name. 1978 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Leasor, James. BOARDING PARTY. |
£14 |
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The Last Action of the Calcutta Light Horse. 204pp. Index. 22 b/w illustrations. Map. Across India in 1943 to raid German shipping in neutral Goa. Very good in very good dw. Related letter neatly taped to front endpaper. 1978 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Leasor, James. BOARDING PARTY. |
£12 |
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The Last Action of the Calcutta Light Horse. 204pp. Index. 22 b/w illustrations. Map. Across India in 1943 to raid German shipping in neutral Goa. Very good in very good dw. 1978 First edition, Heinemann. |
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Leasor, James. THE MARINE FROM MANDALAY. |
£18 |
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178pp. Royal Marine walks out of Burma to rejoin his ship. Fine in fine dw. 1988 First edition, Leo Cooper. |
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Leasor, James. THE MARINE FROM MANDALAY. |
£6 |
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178pp. Royal Marine walks out of Burma to rejoin his ship. Paperback reprint. Fine in fine dw. 2001 House of Stratus. |
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Lee, Ida. COMMODORE SIR JOHN HAYES. |
£45 |
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His Voyage and Life (1767-1813), with Some account of Admiral d'Entrecasteaux's Voyage of 1792-93. 340pp. Index. 8 maps and 26 b/w illustrations. Career in the Bombay Marine with discoveries in Tasmania and New Guinea A sound copy but slack and faded. 1912 First edition, Longmans, Green and Co.. |
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Mookerji, Radha Kumud. A HISTORY OF INDIAN SHIPPING. |
£16 |
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A History of the Sea-borne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest times. 206pp. Index. 12 illustrations. First published in 1912. Very good in very good dw. 1962 Kitab Mahal, Allahabad. |
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Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line. GLIMPSES OF THE EAST. |
£65 |
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Extensive handbook of the shipping line with a gazeteer of countries and many interesting colour photographs. Many advertisments. An interesting period document. Expensively printed with finger indents on the front edge. A very heavy book, the weight of which has cracked the hinges. 19334/1934 N.Y.K.Line. |
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Parkinson, C.Northcote. TRADE IN THE EASTERN SEAS 1793-1813. |
£28 |
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435pp. Index. 8 b/w plates and 2 maps. Very good indeed. An excellent copy. 1937 First edition, Cambridge University Press. |
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Pearson, M.N. COASTAL WESTERN INDIA. |
£15 |
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Studies from the Portuguese Records. 149pp. Index. Very good in very good dw. 1981 Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi. |
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Pearson, Michael N. PORT CITIES AND INTRUDERS. |
£15 |
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The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era. 202pp. Index. 2 maps. Fine in fine dw. 1998 First edition, Johns Hopkins University Press. |
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Phillips, Sir Percival. THE PRINCE OF WALES' EASTERN BOOK. |
£18 |
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A Pictorial Record of the Voyages of H.M.S. 'Renown' 1921-22. Very many sepia photographs and 7 full-page colour paintings by Donald Maxwell. Very good indeed. 1922 First Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Phillips, Sir Percival. THE PRINCE OF WALES' EASTERN BOOK. |
£28 |
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A Pictorial Record of the Voyages of H.M.S. 'Renown' 1921-22. Very many sepia photographs and 7 full-page colour paintings by Donald Maxwell. Very good in complete but rubbed pictorial dw. 1922 First edition, Hodder & Stoughton. |
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Potts, W.H. WIND FROM THE EAST. |
£12 |
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244pp. 25 plates of b/w photographs. Adventurer who sails to Australia as crew on a three-master, reaches China and travels by himself overland to Burma through the Kingdom of Muli. Very good. 1940 First edition, Blackie & Son. |
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Quilley, Geoff and Bonehill, John (edit). WILLIAM HODGES 1744-1797. |
£16 |
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The Art of Exploration. 212pp. 4to. Index. Card covers. Catalogue of exhibition at 78 items each illustrated in colour or b/w. Includes his work in India and his voyage with Captain Cook. Fine. 2004 The National Maritime Museum. |
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Ryley, J.Horton. RALPH FITCH. |
£45 |
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England's Pioneer to India. His Companions and Contemporaries. With His remarkable Narrative Told in his own Words. 264pp. Index. 19 illustrations. Elizabethan visitor to Akbar's India. Very good. 1899 First edition, Fisher Unwin. |
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Sanceau, Elaine. INDIES ADVENTURE. |
£15 |
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The Amazing Career of Afonso de Albequerque, Captain-General and Governor of India (1509-1515). 308pp. 11 illustrations. Endpaper maps. Very good. 1936 First, Blackie. |
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Sproule, Anna. PORT OUT STARBOARD HOME. |
£10 |
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the rise and fall of the ocean passage. 128pp. Index. Over 100 period photographs and prints. Mostly on the North Atlantic route. Fine in fine dw. 1978 First edition, Blandford Press, Poole. |
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Spurr, Russell. LET THE TIGER TURN TAIL. |
£12 |
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Spurr's War. 203pp. Many b/w photographs. He joined the Indian Army and the Royal Indian Navy and served as a war correspondent and photographer. Fine in very good dw. 1992 First edition, Mainstream. |
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Stanford, J.K. LADIES IN THE SUN. |
£18 |
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The Memsahibs' India 1790-1860. 145pp. Index. Based on the papers of lady travellers. The author came across three journals of voyages from England between 1811 and 1855. Presentation copy signed by the author on the title page. Very good indeed in very slightly chipped dw. Owners name. Newspaper review neatly pasted to front endpaper. 1962 First edition, Galley Press. |
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Stevens, Captain John THE PORTUGUES ASIA |
£180 |
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or the History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portugues. In 3 vols. 448, 526 and 440pp. Facsimile reprint of 1695 original translated fron the Spanish of Manuel de Faria y Sousa. Fine. 1971 Gregg International, Farnborough. |
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Sutton, Jean. LORDS OF THE EAST. |
£25 |
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The East India Company and its Ships. 176pp. Index. Many b/w illustrations. 10 detailed appendices. Fine in fine dw. 1981 First edition, Conway Maritime Press. |
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Verney, Major-General G.L. THE DEVIL'S WIND. |
£16 |
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The Story of the Naval Brigade at Lucknow. 176pp. Index. From the Letters of Edward Hope Verney and Other Papers concerning the Enterprise of the Ship's Company of H.M.S.Shannon in the Campaign in India 1857-58. Very good. 1956 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Watson, J.Forbes. THE INDUSTRIAL SURVEY OF INDIA. |
£12 |
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Part 1. 206pp. Mainly comprising a list of 656 ports and anchorages in India and Burma with notes on each. With presentation label 'from Sir Bartle Frere.' In modern library binding with spine lettering in white ink. Very good 1872 India Museum. |
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Young, Gavin. IN SEARCH OF CONRAD. |
£14 |
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304pp. Endpaper maps. From Bangkok through the islands of Indonesia. Fine in fine dw. 1991 First edition, Hutchinson. |
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Young, Gavin. SLOW BOATS HOME. |
£18 |
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442pp. Endpaper maps. From China through the Pacific Islands. Fine in fine dw. 1985 First editiont, Hutchinson. |
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Young, Gavin. SLOW BOATS TO CHINA. |
£14 |
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489pp. Endpaper maps. Includes chapters on sea routes round southern India. Fine in very good dw. 1981 Reprint, Hutchinson. |
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