- Lacks vol. 72, 79 (no.1 and 2), 87 (no.2), 97 (no.4), 101 (no.3), 106 (no.4), 107 (no.4), 108 (no. 2 and 4). Otherwise a very good run.
= Incl. a small stack of duplicates and several other related sm. publications incl. The Mariner's Mirror Bibliography for 2006, 2009 and 2010 and indexes to vol. 1-65, 71-90. "The Society was founded in 1910 to encourage research into matters relating to seafaring and shipbuilding in all ages and among all nations, into the language and customs of the sea, and into other subjects of nautical interest." (advert on inside frontwr.). A rare near complete set.
= Fundamental work on early electric engineering and its development, and electric personal watercraft, steam-electric boats, submarines, canal boats, rental fleet operations, charging, motors, storage batteries, etc. It contains drawings of original electric launches, rowboats, catamarans, paddlewheelers, sub-marines, "dirigible" torpedoes, canal boats, etc. and collectors can use the text and illustrations to identify earliest motors, controllers, batteries, accessories and electric boat artefacts.
= Both vols. w. AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION by the editor on title-p. Facs. reprint of selected articles from the quarterly magazine "The Shipbuilder".
AND 5 others, i.a. W.H. MILLER a.o., Liners of the Golden Age. A Pictorial Record of Passenger Ships in the 1930s (London, 2004, num. ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio); E.C. TALBOT-BOOTH and D.G. GREENMAN, Warship Identification (ibid., 1971, ills., orig. cl.) and C. DONZEL, Luxury Liners. Life on Board (New York, 2006, richly illustrated, orig. cl. w. dustwr., folio).
- Occas. trifle nibbled by silverfish; mostly contents fine. Bindings occas. w. sm. defects; mostly fine.
- Upper hinge splitting; sl. foxed. = Sabin 3480.
= The M1 helmet was in use from World War II until 1985.
AND 2 others: a Dutch army helmet (±1930) and a French (Foreign Legion?) kepi.
- Binding trifle fingersoiled.
= Interesting instruction booklet published on the eve of World War I, in which Sir Robert Baden-Powell, based on his own military experience in Africa, lays down the guidelines for military succes according to the "Four C's of Soldiering": Courage, Common-sense, Cunning and Cheerfulness.
- A few scattered owner's stamps; edges of dustwrappers occas. sl. worn.
- A few plates (sl.) foxed. Two vols. spine-ends dam.
= "Frankreich" (93x); "Preussen" (159x), "Kur-Brandenburg" (8x) and "Russland (Sonderausgabe)" (28x). Lipperheide Qc 33; Colas 1631.
- The atlas only, without the text; title trifle foxed and w. owner's entry.
- Trifle yellowed/ foxed. A good/ fine set.
= Maurice de Saxe (1696-1750), succesful general and commander of French troops in the Netherlands during the war of the Austrian Succession.
- Without vol. 4.
- Portion cut from upper corner first text leaf (w. loss of text); sl. foxed. Rebacked w. use of orig. backstrip; backcover (water)stained.
= From the library of R.J. Wigington, with his bookplate on upper pastedown. Lipperheide Qb 66; Pohler III, p.717. Very fine plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXXV.
- Various defects; not collated, but apparently complete. = Seel 9402-10297. Rare complete run.
- Frontcover sl. waterst.
- Owner's entry on upper pastedown; otherwise fine.
- Upper hinge weakening; potentially lacks htitle and prelim. leaf, but al textp. present; contents trifle/ sl. foxed; owner's entry on upper pastedown and library stamps and annot. on title-p. and last textp. Binding worn along extremities and w. (remnants of) tickets on spine; covers sl. stained.
- Library stamps on first free endpaper and title. Otherwise fine.
= On the Quechuan language, the main family language of the Inca empire, spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes.
= Contains a photogr. portrait of the author with an AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION on verso.