Maritime

Antique Microscope Slide – Spines of Echinus (Sea Urchin) c1865

Mid 19th Century slide from a quality maker likely Wheeler given the stunning gold and blood red paper cover.

Good example of spines of echinus (sea urchin) in deep mount.

Click on the image to see the whole slide

$40.00

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Bowhead Whale – 1793 (Balaena Mysticetus) – Shaw and Nodder

The Bowhead Whale then known variously as the Great Northern Whale, Toothless Whale, Greenland Whale, Artic Whale etc etc. They grow up to 18 metres and 100 tonnes and have no dorsal fin. It has the largest mouth of any animal. Whilst once endangered a moratorium in 1966 has saved the species which is now no longer under threat.

Copper engraved and hand coloured by Shaw & Nodder and published in London on 1st March 1793 (marked in the plate). Shaw was in charge of the Natural History Department at the British Museum. Frederick Nodder was a natural history artist and worked for Banks on his Florilegium.

Framed in Voyager Natural History style within black cored cream mat and beaded gilt frame.

Early Whale Engraving in fine condition … click on the image to see all my whaliness! … hmmuuuueooowmh

$180.00

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Collectable Marine Microscope Slides – From the 1860’s – Prepared by Edmund Wheeler – From a 19th Century Australian Collectionn

Edmund Wheeler was a leading mid Victorian microscope slide preparer now highly collectable – one of this group is dated 1866 and the others of identical preparation must be from around that time. Ernest Wheeler sold his business to Watson & Sons in 1884 and died the following year. So all EW slides must be over 130 years old

This group of five slides are in good condition and carry Wheeler’s distinctive yellow paper covering with burgundy and gold paper front cover with his “EW” monogram. Their condition is near perfect. They are from the collection of John Owen Evans a serious microscopist who lived in Port Fairy, Victoria and prepared slides of local subjects as well as purchasing top class London prepared slides through T Gaunt, Optician, who operated out of the Royal Arcade Melbourne.

The samples comprise:

Shells etc. from Chalk, Strood Hill Kent.
North Atlantic Soundings from 2 Miles deep 1866
Foramenifera from the Adriatic Sea
Foramenifera from the River Suir (Ireland)
Group of Heliopelta for Binocular

All annotated in Wheelers tidy cursive hand and carry the circular Wheeler address label – 48 Tollington Road, Holloway, London

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A very good Ernest Wheeler Group from an early Australian Collection

$120.00

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Submarine Classic – Take Her Deep – Galantin

Published by Unwin, London 1988. 262 pages with illustrations and end paper charts. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

Galantin perhaps the most courageous submarine Captain in the US Pacific Fleet. His true story is full of the tension of the depth charge attack – Beats “The Hunt for Red October” hands down

Torpedoes away

$50.00

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The Cruise of the Marchesa – Guillemard (engravings by Whymper) -1889

Published by John Murray, London 1889.

The magnificent account of the voyage of the schooner yacht Marchesa from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in 1881 first to Ceylon, then via Singapore to Formosa and the Liu-Kiu islands to Japan. She left Yokohama for Kamschatka returning three months later, thence to China and Hong Kong at the end of March 1883 from where the Sulu islands were explored and then the Celebes and on to New Guinea.

Many maps and special Whymper illustrations. One of the most interesting Victorian travel accounts. Very good condition.

Superb voyage and natural history account

$180.00

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The Retospect: Or, Review of Providential Mercies: With Anecdotes of Various Characters, and an Address to Naval Officers – Aliquis (Richard Marks)

The author was formerly a Lieutenant in the Rpyal Navy, and now a Minister in the Established Church

Published in London by James Nisbet of Oxford Street, 1816, a first edition.

A contemporary half leather binding. 12mo. 239 pages. Green leather spine and corners over marbled boards. Corners lightly rubbed and scuffed but nicely presented and tightly bound. Spine with 5 raised bands with blind-stamp decorated compartments and original red leather title label. Clean text throughout. A very good copy of this scarce book especially the 1816 edition.

Marks, Richard (1778–1847) was born in 1778 at North Crawley, Buckinghamshire, the son of Thomas and Mary Marks. Enlisting in the wartime navy in 1797, he found a ready outlet for a self-described partiality for water, gunpowder, and ‘deeds of dangerous enterprise. Here he recalls how he immediately immersed himself in the opportunities for ‘unabated licentiousness’ of contemporary shipboard life, ‘the broad road of destruction, loud in blasphemy, and ever ready to burlesque the Holy Scriptures’. Two narrow escapes from shipwreck in successive ships seemed only to confirm him in a life he openly describes as deliberate rebellion against God. After returning to England in 1810, following thirteen years of unrelenting sea service, Marks relinquished prospects of further advancement in the navy in order to follow an inner call to the ministry. He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge and in 1813 he was ordained as a priest. He gave up his naval half pay, and served an initial seven-year curacy in a remote village parish. From 1820, following these ‘wilderness years’, as he later called them, he ministered for the remaining quarter century of his active life among ‘the humble cottagers’ of Buckinghamshire, as vicar of Great Missenden

Aliquis had experience

$120.00

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Antique Microscope Slide – Spines of Echinus (Sea Urchin) c1865

Bowhead Whale – 1793 (Balaena Mysticetus) – Shaw and Nodder

Collectable Marine Microscope Slides – From the 1860’s – Prepared by Edmund Wheeler – From a 19th Century Australian Collectionn

Submarine Classic – Take Her Deep – Galantin

The Cruise of the Marchesa – Guillemard (engravings by Whymper) -1889

The Retospect: Or, Review of Providential Mercies: With Anecdotes of Various Characters, and an Address to Naval Officers – Aliquis (Richard Marks)

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