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[ROYAL SOCIETY]. Philosophical transactions. Numb. 211. For the Month of June, 1694. London. Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, Printers to the Royal Society, 1694. First edtion. Quarto. 149-168pp. Drop-head title. With an engraved folding plate depicting aspects of the anatomy of a paroquet. Bound in recent blue paper boards. Leaves browned and foxed. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 12893

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[ROYAL NAVY - Treaties]. Extracts, from the several treaties subsisting between great britain and other Kingdoms and States, of such Articles and Clauses, as relate to the Duty and Conduct of the Commanders of His majesty's ships of war. London. [s.n.], 1758. Third edition. Quarto. [6], xxxii, 292pp. With two fine naval vignettes, to first and final leaves. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, with some marking, bumping to corners, loss to head and foot of spine, cracking to lower joint. Captain Thomas Peyton's copy, with his inscription (dated 1790) to head of blank fly-leaf at front; ink offsetting evidencing the removal of the FFEP (showing the mirror ... More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 27732

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[ROYAL NAVY OFFICERS]. An alphabetical list of the Commission Officers of his majesty's fleet: with the dates of their First Commissions. [London]. [s.n.], [1797]. 8vo. 176pp. Later black morocco-backed navy cloth, tooled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, lower board stained. Ink ownership inscription to head of title page: 'Henry Harvey Sholden Lodge Lieut. R.N. Dec. 8th 1837', final page with some paper adherence largely obliterating the two names listed. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 24440

[ROYAL NAVY OFFICERS]. An alphabetical list of the Post Captains, Commanders, and Lieutenants, of his majesty's fleet: with the dates of their first commissions. London. Printed by M. and S. Brooke, [1805]. 8vo. 207pp, [1]. Later black morocco-backed navy cloth, tooled and lettered in gilt. Extremities worn and stained, joints starting, surface loss to lower board. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24438

[ROYAL NAVY OFFICERS]. An alphabetical list of the Commission Officers of his majesty's fleet: with the dates of their First Commissions. [London]. [s.n.], [1798]. 8vo. 176pp. Later black morocco-backed navy cloth, tooled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, lower board stained. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24439

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[ROYAL NAVY]. Steel's original and correct List of the Royal Navy... London. Printed [by C. and W. Galabin] for P. Steel, Corrected to March, 1804 12mo. 52pp. Naively rebound in later cloth-baked buff paper boards, partially preserving original publisher's upper and lower wrappers. Rubbed and marked. Title page and terminal leaf attached to boards, the remainder (sewn, as issued) loosely inserted.

[Bound between p.26-27:] [Caption title:] Sir james saumarez' victory. Lloyd's Coffee-House, February 17, 1804. [s.i.] [s.n.], [1804]. 4pp. Bound between p2-3 are [4]pp of advertisements for publisher P. Steel. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 27803

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[ROYAL NAVY]. [Drop-head title:] A list of the Flag-Officers of His Majesty's Fleet: with the dates of their First Commissions, as Admirals, Vice-Admirals, Rear-Admirals, and Captains. [London]. [s.n.], [1799]. [10], 120 leaves. Predominantly printed on versos only with rectos blank. ESTC T101523.

[Bound with:] [ROYAL NAVY]. An alphabetical list of the Commission Officers of his majesty's fleet: with the dates of their First Commissions. [London]. [s.n.], [1799]. 176pp. ESTC T101543.

8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary richly gilt-tooled red morocco, contrasting morocco lettering-piece, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed and marked.Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. More > £ 1,250.00 Antiquates Ref. 24138

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[ROYAL NAVY]. Standing orders. Channel squadron. 1884. [London]. [Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode...For Her Majesty's Stationary Office, [1884]. Folio. 80pp. With numerous interleaved and pasted in manuscript additions (and one manuscript addition in some form of reproduction - perhaps by lithography?). Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed to extremities, marked to boards, some marking, staining and creasing to text, endpapers. Inscribed 'No. 60' to FEP and 'Capt. Britten. Private' to FFEP. More > £ 625.00 Antiquates Ref. 24658

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[ROYAL NAVY]. [Drop-head title:] The case of a great Number of seamen, belonging to His Majesty's Royal Navy, and of the Wives and poor Families of many of them, who are still in His Majesty's Service... [London]. [s.n.], [1718?]. Folio. Single sheet. Docket title printed to verso. Stab-stitch holes and remains of binding to gutter. A trifle creased and browned. More > £ 325.00 Antiquates Ref. 22461

[ROYAL NAVY]. Review of the fleet by his majesty the king at spithead, 24th June 1911. List of ships. [London]. [s.n.], [1911]. First edition. Quarto. 14pp. With a engraved coloured folding chart at scale [1:26,500] depicting the position of the fleet at Spithead on 24th June 1911. Stitched with navy blue cloth in original publisher's printed paper wrappers. Light spotting, paper repair to verso of final leaf - not touching text. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 18692

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[ROYAL NAVY]. A list of the flag officers and other commissioned officers of His Majesty's fleet; with the dates of their respective commissions. London. Printed by Henry Teape, 1823. 8vo. 135, [1], 253pp, [1]. Contemporary calf backed marbled paper boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavy rubbing and cracking to spine, without marbled paper to upper board and loss of majority to lower board. Light damp-staining to preliminaries, several gathering protruding from text-block, spots of dust-soiling, ink deletions to entries of first 10 pages. Ink ownership inscription to recto of FFEP; 'Captain Macnamara / R.N. / ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 11708

[ROYAL NAVY]. Steel's original and correct List of the Royal Navy... London. Printed for D. Steel, Corrected to February, 1799 12mo. [2], 49pp, [1]. With an initial leaf and final page of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's powder blue wrappers. Rubbed and spotted, loss to spine, unpaid Lombard St. penny post stamp and manuscript publication date to upper wrapper. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 375.00 Antiquates Ref. 24441

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[ROYAL NAVY]. Observations upon a memorial sent from london to scotland, To Procure Petitions against the bill For Manning the Royal Navy. London. Printed for T. Cooper, 1741. First edition. 8vo. 37pp, [1]. Uncut in modern marbled paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to upper board. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Title page browned and stained at gutter, scattered spotting. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 22029

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[ROYAL NAVY]. The answer and defence of Admiral mathews, Late Commander in Cheif of His Majesty's Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, To the charge exhibited against Him. London. [s.n.], 1746. 8vo. 24pp. Original publisher's powder blue wrappers. Without spine panel. Internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 20088

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[ROYAL NAVY]. [A manuscript log of Royal Navy personnel]. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.] [22] leaves. Stitched, as issued. Old central vertical fold, occasional spotting. Two small sketches of vessels to verso of penultimate leaf. More > £ 750.00 Antiquates Ref. 25343

[ROYAL NAVY]. A list of His Majesty's ships and vessels of the royal navy... London. Printed and Sold by J. Watson, 1741. Third edition. [4], 40pp. With initial advertisement leaf. ESTC T41015. Pen-trials to p.26., short marginal tear to leaf B4.

[Bound after:] RIDER, Cardanus. Rider's British Merlin:For the Year of our Lord God 1741... London. Printed by R. Nutt, [1741]. [48]pp. ESTC T44985. Tear to one leaf - touching text without loss of sense.

[And:] [A defective eighteenth-century almanac].

[And:] The Court Kalendar For the year 1741... London. ... More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 17432

[ROYAL NAVY]. Steel's original and correct List of the Royal Navy... London. Printed, for P. Mason, by E, Hildyard, 1 October, 1808 12mo. 52pp. Modern black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Bookplate of D. M. Fyffe to FEP, head of text-block shaved with loss to first word of title and running-titles throughout. More > £ 200.00 Antiquates Ref. 30163

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[ROYAL NAVY]. Minutes of a court martial holden on board his majesty's ship Prince of Wales, in portsmouth harbour, On monday, the 23rd Day of December, 1805, And the three following Days, for the trial of Sir robert calder, Bart. Vice Admiral of the Blue. Portsmouth. Sold by J. C. Mottley, [1806?]. First edition. 8vo. 98pp. Uncut. Stitched, as issued. Scattered spotting. More > £ 500.00 Antiquates Ref. 27313

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[ROYAL NAVY]. A proposal for the Encouragement of Seamen to serve more readily in His Majesty's Navy, for preventing of Desertion, supporting their Wives and Families, and for the easier and quieter Government of His Majesty's Ships. London. Printed for A. Millar, 1758. First edition. 8vo. [3], vi, [1], 8-32pp. Without half-title. Recent plain paper boards. Very minor wear to extremities. Recent endpapers, marginal pen-trials to p.32, else internally clean and crisp. More > £ 250.00 Antiquates Ref. 15515

[ROYAL NAVY]. The Royal Navy list or who's who in the Navy... London. Witherby & Co., 1915. 8vo. lxiii, [1], vii, [1], 312pp. With a 7pp 'War Supplement to the Royal Navy List'. Original publisher's blind-tooled navy cloth, lettered in gilt. Sunned, with some marking. Clean and crisp internally but for slight loss to blank FFEP. More > £ 175.00 Antiquates Ref. 14396