Popular Subjects
Buy Bulk Books
600-900 books per box.
More information
Buy Books
by the Foot
Decorator collections available.
More information
Members Savings Club
Join & Save at least 5% every day
Join and be notified of "Members Only" sales and discounts. Save from 5% to 50% on all items ordered!
If you haven't already done so, sign-up and save at least 5% today.
Sign-Up Now
Help
Podcast
Listen to the Zubal brothers unload about things in the book trade that make them smile or give them the feelings that their heads may explode!
Listen Now
Provide Feedback on our Search
Please use this online form to provide Search Feedback.
Search Results
You searched for:
Subject: NavalNavy Yard, Norfolk. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting Reports of the Commissioner appointed to make an investigation at the Gosport Navy Yard, &c. March 4, 1842 ...
Upshur, A. P., et al.
/ Washington: 1842
first edition, issued in the Serial Set; 223 pp, age staining, extraction roughness at spine and partially disbound in self wrappers; results of an investigation of a naval storekeeper and various master workmen at the yard who are accused of using government time and materials for private projects, bill padding, receiving wage kickbacks from junior workers, etc, George Loyall, the Navy Agent at the yard, feels that Commissioner B. Homans deliberately and grossly distorted the situation to reflect badly on his office. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Gosport Shipyard, corruption
Item #: 872067
$44.88
Description of Naval 3-In. B. L. Howitzers with Instructions for Their Use and Care by Commander Montgomery Sicard, U. S. Navy
Sicard, Montgomery.
/ Washington?: United States Navy, Bureau of Ordnance 1878
first edition; 57 pp., 5 plates with all but the last folding; library markings, general age toning and shaken in original paper wrappers, complete but good only; the Navy has been considering introducing a "breech loading rifled boat howitzer" and Sicard, who was Chief of bureau at the time, describes how they are built, how to fire them, how to get them off a boat if necessary, etc.. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: naval artillery, RBH
Item #: 865724
Request a photo for this item.
$98.19
Il Traffico Marittimo, a cura di C. Ernest Fayle. (Storia della Grande Guerra, series)
Fayle, C. Ernest, ed.
/ Roma: Provveditorato generale dello stato, Libreria ... 1928
complete in 3 volumes; first edition in Italian, "Tradotto dall'inglese a cura dell' Ufficio del capo di stato maggiore della marina"; quarto, I. Il periodo degli incrociatori, traduzione di Ubaldo degli Uberti, II. Dal principio della campagna sottomarina alla nomina del controllore navale, traduzione di Angelo Varoli-Piazza, III. La guerra ad oltraza coi sommeribili, traduzione di Silvio Salza; library markings and later cloth but sound and near very good with all twelve folding maps and charts. Volumes
Included: 3
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: World War I, naval operations, shipping, merchant marine, Great Britain
Item #: 837286
$29.81
Essai sur l'histoire de l'administration de la Marine de France 1689-1792.
Lambert de Sainte-Croix (, Alexandre).
/ Paris: Calmann Levy, Editeur 1892
first edition; [iv], 457 pp, later quarter leather very rubbed at spine and front hinge cracked, light general age toning to text but block sound, good only. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: naval history, France,
Item #: 780493
$12.33
Report from the Secretary of the Navy, Transmitting a Report, etc., in relation to the erection of light-houses, &c., in compliance with the second section of the act of March 3d, 1837, making appropriations for building light-houses, light-boats, beacon-
M. Dickerson.
/ Washington: Blair & Rives, Printers 1837
published as 25th Cong., 2nd Sess., Senate Report 38; 96 pp., extracted from larger bound volume, age darkening, overall good,. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: travel business history americana nautical naval engineering architecture public finance
Item #: 731669
Request a photo for this item.
$362.53
The Hague conventions of 1899 (III) and 1907 (X) for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention. (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law, Pamphlet No. 6)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
/ Washington: 1915
quarto, iv, 19 pp, extraction roughness at spine of paper wrappers, disbound reading copy. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Hague Convention, Geneva Convention,, laws of war, international law, naval warfare
Item #: 724617
$12.71
United Service Magazine. January & February 1914
Alsager Pollock. editor
/ London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited 1914
Nos. 2022 & 2033, complete issues, bound together with original paper wrappers retained. Included are articles on the Peninsular War, American Civil War, Balkan War of 1912-13, progress in aviation, etc. etc. etc. Very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: British Military History Naval Warfare tth
Item #: 709140
$14.79
American State Papers. Documents Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States, frm the First Session of the Eighteenth to the Second Session of the Nineteenth Congress, Inclusive, Commencing May 13, 1824, and Ending January 5, 1827: Volu
Dickins, Asbury, & John W. Forney, select. & eds.
/ Washington: Gales and Seaton 1860
quarto, 856 pp., disbound with chipping to margins of first and last dozen pages, not affecting text! WORKING COPY!. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Americana Naval History Public Law Finance Travel Exploration BWK
Item #: 706585
Request a photo for this item.
$857.86
American State Papers. Documents Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States, from the Second Session of the Twenty-first to the First Session of the Twenty-Fourth Congress, Commencing March 1, 1831, and Ending June 15, 1836: Volume I
Dickins, Asbury, & John W. Forney, select. & eds.
/ Washington: Gales and Seaton 1860
x, 1013 pp., disbound, ex library, WORKING COPY!. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Americana Naval History Public Law Finance Travel Exploration BWK
Item #: 706586
$66.01
The Hague Convention (XI) of 1907 relative to certain restrictions with regard to the exercise of the right of capture in naval war.
International Peace Conference, second, 1907.
/ Washington: 1915
large octavo, 6 pp., issued as Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of International Law, Pamphlet No. 18; original paper wrappers, minor chipping or tattering to spine, overall good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: international war, naval warfare
Item #: 723941
$12.30
United States Naval Academy. Annapolis, Maryland. Catalogue of Information 1960-1961
United States Naval Academy.
/ Annapolis: United States Naval Academy, 1960
96 pp., illustrated; paper wrappers lightly soiled but overall a very good copy; general overview with emphasis on course of study, Digital Computers already an elective. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States Navy, Naval Academy
Item #: 693549
Request a photo for this item.
$171.26
Catalogue of Information, March 1948.
United States Naval Academy.
/ Annapolis 1948
93 pp., original paper wrappers (softcover), handstamp and minor ownership marking to front cover, spine and bottom edge faded, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: Naval history
Item #: 682740
$24.18
Navy Yearbook. Compilation of Annual Naval Appropriation Laws from 1883 to 1909 including provisions for the construction of all vessels of the New Navy ... also Statistics of Foreign Navies.
Pulsifer, Pitman, comp.
/ Washington: GPO, 1909
iv, 713 pp, issued as 61st Congress, 2d Session, SD 195; library hand stamps, original tan cloth, very good; "with tables showing present naval strength in vessels and personnel, and amount of appropriations for the Naval Service",. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States Navy, appropriations, naval history
Item #: 680351
Request a photo for this item.
$96.39
Washington Observations, 1876. Appendix II. Reports on Telescopic Observations of the Transit of Mercury, May 5-6, 1878
Hall, A., et al.
/ Washington: Government Printing Office 1879
large quarto, 126 pp., 1 plate (called Figure 2), illustrations in text, stiff paper sides darkened and detached with crack along top margin of front cover, good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: history of , astronomy, United States Naval Observatory, RWB
Item #: 661260
$76.46
Navy Yearbook. Compilation of Annual Naval Appropriation Laws from 1883 to 1910 including provisions for the construction of all vessels of the New Navy ... also Statistics of Foreign Navies.
Pulsifer, Pitman, comp.
/ Washington: GPO, 1910
774 pp, issued as 61st Congress, 3d Session, SD 666; ex library, original buckram, very good; "with tables showing present naval strength in vessels and personnel, and amount of appropriations for the Naval Service",. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States Navy, appropriations, naval history
Item #: 644256
Request a photo for this item.
$123.40
Transactions Vol. 111, 2003
Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers
/ Society of Naval Architects & 2004
637 pp., Paperback, NEW!!. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0939773457
Subject/Keywords: bl4 marine engineering naval architects
Item #: 638034
$25.76
Documents, Letters, etc. in Connection with the Appointment of Charles F. Stokes as Commander of the U.S.S. Relief, and Resignation of Willard H. Brownson as Chief of Navigation Bureau. 60th Congress, 1st Session, HD 552
Metcalf, V. H.
/ Washington: GPO 1908
31 pp., self wrappers, good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: medicine americana naval history
Item #: 603372
$46.40
Transactions of the Institution of Naval Engineers. Volumes 88-97 (1946-1955)
Duckworth, A. D., ed.
/ London: Institution of Naval Engineers 1946
volumes 88 to 97, an uninterrupted run in original publisher's cloth, quartos, well illustrated throughout, ex library, overall good PRICE IS FOR THE LOT:. Volumes
Included: 10
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: marine engineering travel navigation naval warfare big sets
Item #: 573095
Request a photo for this item.
$357.09
The Log of the United States Naval Academy. (Volumes 33 and 34)
United States Naval Academy.
/ Baltimore/Annapolis: 1943
Volume 33, complete in 18 numbers, September 24, 1943 through June 2, 1944 Volume 34, complete in 17 numbers, October 6, 1944 through June 1, 1945; both volumes ex library in later and now rubbed, blue cloth, issues usually 40-50 pages, all color pictorial paper covers present and near very good (the back always a color advertisement for Chesterfield cigarettes with almost all of them different); the interior of Volume 33 is very good but the text of Volume 34 on cheap paper now browned with some leaves tattered and/or detached, occasional chips, some deep and with loss, a working volume only and need careful handling. Volumes
Included: 2
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, student magazines
Item #: 485253
$41.14
Letter of the Secretary of the Navy, reporting The number and names of appointments to the Naval School, &c.
United States Naval Academy.
/ Washington: 1854
16 pp, issued as 33d Congress, 2d Session, HED 5; light extraction roughness at spine, now disbound in self wrappers. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: United States Naval Academy, Navy, Annapolis
Item #: 452128
$73.65