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Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1989, 1st US edition, 255 p. : ill. b/w photos, drawings, lines and plans, map. Includes index, with errata slip. very good - former owner's library stamp on fep/ dj very good. Chapman was a son of an English officer serving in Swedish force. Chapman is credited with being the first scientific shipbuilder and prototype… Read more about this item

SeaWaves Books, N. Vancouver, 2011, 271 p. illus bw . George Leslie Stephens was orphaned at an early age and then at fourteen, became an apprentice at HMS Dockyard to qualify for an engine fitter. Six years later, while employed at Devonport Dockyard he was working on a cruiser that was slated to become part of the Canadian… Read more about this item

William Pickering, London, 1848, edited by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford from the original written at the time of Mrs. Godolphin's death 1678. She had been Maid of Honour to the Duchess of York and later Queen Catherine. Genealogical tables are presented in the last five pages, xviii, 291 p., marbled end papers. condition - no… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. 1st. 306 p., ill. b/w, includes index, very good/fair+. This lively history of pirates and piracy explores the connections of pirates to the economies of their times. Ritchie's research looks at the context of the voyages, what sort of men became pirates and what was life like for a pirate.

Putnam's Sons, 1988. 1st. fine/fine price unclipped.

McCelland and Stewart , 1972. 1st. very good,slight discolouration on front board.  The Story of Captain Charles C. Dixon went to sea at the age of 9 months and spent the better part of the rest of his life there. He was a great naturalist, geologist and surveyor, photographing and charting many of his discoveries.

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1968, 1st, ex lib, 1968. 1st. near fine/near fine. A fictionalized biography of John Cabot. The story follows him to Bristol where he obtains backing from King Henry VII, and his voyages of discovery to Newfoundland.