A Book for the HammockChatto & Windus, 1893 - 334 sider |
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A. B. GROSART Admiral ancient mariner Ann Bonny ashore barque birds boat BRET HARTE brig British cabin called cannon canvas Cape captain cargo carried century CHARLES CHARLES READE cloth extra cloth limp colours craft crew Crown 8vo deck Demy 8vo Devil's Die Dutch Edited English eyes fancy Fcap feet fire flag floating forecastle French Frontispiece gale gilt gold guns half-bound hand Hannah Snell head helm honour HUME NISBET hundred illustrated boards islands Jack JOHN knots Lady land lives loadline Love mast mermaid nautical naval navigation NOVELS ocean passengers picture cover plates POEMS Portrait Post 8vo rigging romance rope round Royal sail sailors schooner seamen ship ship's Spanish spirit stay-sail steamer story strange superstitions THOMAS thousand tion tons top-gallant top-sail vessel Vols voyage whilst WILLIAM wind wonder word yards
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Side 22 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Side 21 - Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England; including the Rural and Domestic Recreations, May Games, Mummeries, Shows, Processions, Pageants, and Pompous Spectacles, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
Side 4 - Comic Almanack. Complete in Two SERIES : The FIRST from 1835 to 1843 ; the SECOND from 1844 to 1853. A Gathering of the BEST HUMOUR of THACKERAY, HOOD, MAYHEW, ALBERT SMITH, A'BECKETT, ROBERT BROUGH, &c. With 2,000 Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by CRUIKSHANK, HINE, LANDELLS, &c.
Side 3 - Complete in Three Vols. Vol. I. contains the Plays complete, including the doubtful ones; Vol. II. the Poems and Minor Translations, with an Introductory Essay by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. Vol. III. the Translations of the Iliad and Odyssey.
Side 13 - A History of Our Own Times, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880.
Side 6 - Emanuel On Diamonds and Precious Stones ; their History, Value, and Properties ; with Simple Tests for ascertaining their Reality. By HARRY EMANUEL, FRGS With numerous Illustrations, Tinted and Plain. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Illustrations, js.
Side 11 - Jonson's (Ben) Works. With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir by WILLIAM GIFFORD. Edited by Colonel CUNNINGHAM. Three Vols., crown 8vo, cloth extra, 18s. ; or separately,6s. each. Josephus,TheCompleteWorks of. Translated by WHISTON. Containing both " The Antiquities of the Jews " and
Side 17 - Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. Translated from the Greek, with Notes Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch, by JOHN and WILLIAM LANGHORNE.
Side 5 - Caricature History of the Georges. (The House of Hanover.) With 400 Pictures, Caricatures, Squibs, Broadsides. Window Pictures.
Side 18 - St. Pierre's Paul -and Virginia, and The Indian Cottage. Edited, with Life, by the Rev. E.