Books on Contemporary Scale Ship Models 1600-1850

• anon.: Acquisition of the Mercury Scale Models.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 15, London, 1929. pp. 282-301. Annual General Meeting of the Society for Nautical Research.
• Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models.
  Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1971. obl4to, (12), 137 pp, ill.
• Catalogue of the Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models.
  United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD, 1954. 4to, xvi, 117 pp, ill.
• Maritime Technology from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: Multimedia Catalogue of the Dutch Navy Model Collection, 1698-1889
  MMF Publications, Lisse, 1996. A CD-ROM disk with 1600 b/w illustrations, video, bibliography, indices.
• National Maritime Museum Catalogue of Ship Models.
  National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 1980.
• En utställning av modeller. Sjöhistoriska Museet 28 April - 29 Oktober 1989.
  SSHM, Stockholm, 1989. 8vo, 32 pp, ill.
• Albert, Alfred: Das historischer Schiff als Modell. Bd. 3.
  Koehler, Herford, 1988. 4to, 112 pp, ill.
• Albert, Alfred: Ein kaum bekannter antiquarischer Schatz: Das Admiralty Model Royal George, erbaut 1714/15, ausgestellt im Historischen Museum Hannover.
  Das historische Schiff als Modell. Band 2, Herford, 1987. p. 54-61, ill.
• Anderson, R.C.: The Britannia Model.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 12, London, 1924. pp 95-97.
• Anderson, R.C.: The Chuckfield MSS and Models.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 5, London, 1919. pp 154.
• Anderson, R.C.: An Early English Scale-Model.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 15, London, 1929. pp 83-84.
• Anderson, R.C.: Early Spanish Models.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 15, London, 1929. pp 415.
• Anderson, R.C.: An English Model at Stockholm.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 10, London, 1924. pp 216-218, ill.
• Anderson, R.C.: English Models in Leningrad.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 56, London, 1970. pp 154.
• Anderson, R.C.: The framing of models - and of actual ships.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 40, London, 1954. pp 155-156, ill.
• Anderson, R.C.: A Model of 1692.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 52, London, 1966. pp 180.
  Identifies a Third Rate 70-gun ship at Wilton House as the Hampton Court of 1678.
• Anderson, R.C.: Models and Drawings.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 8, London, 1922. pp 151-152.
  A discussion on the St. Michael of 1669 and the English second rate of about 1675 now in the National Maritime Museum. The article also mentions the sale of an admiralty yacht in New York, 1921, similar to the author's English private yacht of c1690.
• Anderson, R.C.: Models at Bordeaux.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 12, London, 1924. pp 320.
• Anderson, R.C.: Models of Dutch East-Indiamen, 1716 to 1725.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 18, London, 1932. pp 161-167, 4 plates.
• Anderson, R.C.: Models of Dutch East Indiamen and Other Matters.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 16, London, 1930. pp 88-90.
• Anderson, R.C.: A Model of St Michael of 1669.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 16, London, 1930. pp 280-281, 5 plates.
• Anderson, R.C.: Models: Some Confirmation and a Recantation.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 5, London, 1919. pp 149-153, ill., 1 plate.
• Anderson, R.C.: The New York Yacht Club Model.
  Mariner's Mirror Vol. 14, London, 1928. pp 168-169.
• Anderson, R.C.: The New York Yacht Club Three-Decker.
  Mariner's Mirror Vol. 7, London, 1921. pp 382-383.
• Anderson, R.C.: Notes on a Collection of Ship Models.
  Mariner's Mirror Vol. 28, London, 1942. pp 92-103, 5 plates.
• Anderson, R.C.: The Royal Louis Model.
  Mariner's Mirror Vol. 12, London, 1924. pp 218-219.
• Anderson, R.C.: Some Contemporary Prints of the First Britannia.
  Mariner's Mirror Vol. 26, London, 1940. pp 270-275, 2 plates.
• Anderson, R.C.: The Trinity House Ship Models.
  The American Neptune Vol. 5, Salem, 1945. pp 146.
• Anderson, R.C.: The "Wappen von Hamburg.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 34, pp 155-160.
• Andreasen, Ove: HMS Prince 1670.
  Model Shipwright Vol. 12, pp 48:46-49, ill.
• Baker, William A.: More on the framing of models.
  Mariner's Mirror Vol. 40, London, 1950. pp 80-81, ill.
• Bjerg, H.C.: Orlogsmuseets model nr. 1 - forsøg på nyidentificering.
  Marinehistorisk Tidskrift 12. årg., København, 1979. pp 11-17, ill.
• Bjerg, H.C.: Orlogsmuseets såkaldte model nr. 47. Forsg till en re-identifikation.
  Marinehistorisk Tidskrift 8. årg., København, 1975. pp 30-35, ill.
• Bonnerburg, K.: The cutter Vlieg.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 49, London, 1963. pp 233-234. Answer to Query 9 (1963).
• Boudriot, Jean: L'Artésien, vaisseau de 64 canons 1762-1785.
  Neptunia Vol. 36, Paris, 1981. pp 143:1-12, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: L'Égyptienne.
  Neptunia Vol. 44, Paris, 1989. pp 175:11-16, ill. A model of the French frigate Égyptienne (<1797).
• Boudriot, Jean: Les Frégates, La Flore.
  Neptunia Vol. 28, Paris, 1973. pp 109:37-48, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: A Model Builder of the Eighteenth Century.
  Nautical Research Journal Vol. 26, Washington, 1980. pp 18-32, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Un modèle du Tonnant.
  Neptunia Vol. 44, Paris, 1989. pp 174:40-44, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Un modèle du Vengeur 1756-85.
  Neptunia Vol. 38, Paris, 1983. pp 152:1-8, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Modèles et architecture navale.
  Neptunia Vol. 47, Paris, 1992. pp 186:20-23, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Modèles historique au Musée de la Marine.
  ANCRE, Paris, 1997. 4to, 254 pp, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Le Royal, modèle d'instruction de Rochefort.
  Neptunia Vol. 33, Paris, 1978. pp 132:1-8, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Les Royal Louis.
  Neptunia Vol. 28, Paris, 1973. pp 112:9-16, 113:17-18.
• Boudriot, Jean: A Ship Model with Coach-House.
  Nautical Research Journal Vol. 28, Bethesda, 1982. pp 63-78, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Des vaisseaux de 64 canons en général et de L'Artésien en particulier.
  Neptunia Vol. 36, Paris, 1981. pp 142:1-10, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Les vaisseaux français de 80 canons aux 18e et 19e siècles.
  Neptunia Vol. 38, Paris, 1983. pp 151:1-20, ill.
• Boudriot, Jean: Le vaisseaux trois-ponts L'Océan 1785-1855.
  Neptunia Vol. 26, Paris, 1971. pp 102:13-28, ill.
• Bowen, Frank C.: From Carrack to Clipper. A Book of Sailing-Ship Models.
  Halton & Truscott Smith, London, 1927. 8vo, viii, 64, vii pp, ill., 64 plates.
• Bracker, J.: Die Wapen von Hamburg(III)-ein schwimmender Barockpalast.
  Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg, 1976.
• Voorbeijtel Cannenburg, W.: Beschrijvende catalogus der scheepsmodellen en scheepsbouwkundige teekeningen 1600-1900.
  Nederlandsch historisch scheepvaart museum, Amsterdam, 1943. 4to, 191 pp, 100 plates.
• Carr, Frank G.G.: Dockyard Models of the 17th Century.
  Sea Breezes Vol. 5 (1948), pp 100-104, ill.
• Carter, Charles: The Shipping Callery of the Liverpool Museum.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 17, London, 1931. pp 223-235, 5 plates.
• Chaplin, W.R.: The Trinity House Ship Models.
  The American Neptune, Vol. IV, Salem, 1944. pp 261-268, 8 plates.
• Chatterton, E. Keble: Sailing Models. Ancient and Modern.
  Hurst & Blackett, London, 1934. 4to, 95 pp, 195 plates, 7 drawings. Limited edition 1000 copies.
• Chatterton, E. Keble: Ship-Models.
  The Studio, London, 1923. 4to, x, 53 pp, ?? plates. Limited edition 1000 copies.
• Cooper, E.R.: The Somerleyton Hall Stuart Ship-Models.
  The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 34, London, 1948. p 54.
  The Protestant refugee Dean Davies "saw three fine models of ships" when visiting Admiral Sir Thomas Allin on 8 June 1690.
• Crone, G.C.E.: The Ghent Model. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 4, London, 1914. pp 252.
• Culver, Henry B.: Contemporary Scale Models of Vessels of the Seventeenth Century. Being a Collection of Illustrations of Authentic Productions of the Model Maker's Art of that Period, Gathered from many Sources; Together with brief Descriptions and Identifications thereof where Possible. Payson & Clarke, New York, 1926. Folio, (4) pp, 51 bl, 50 pl.
• Daeffler, Michel: Modele du navire dit Le Royal. Neptunia Vol. 40, Paris, 1985. pp 160:30-34, ill. A model of a 74-gun ship from c 1700, used as an instruction model at Rochefort.
• Dukes, George P.: Restoration of Ville de Paris. Nautical Research Journal Vol. 28, Bethesda, 1982. pp 3-9, ill.
• Edson, Merritt A.: Model No. 21 of the Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection. Nautical Research Journal Vol. 31, Bethesda, 1986. pp 206-211, ill.
• Fox, C. Smith: Ship Models. Conway Maritime Press, Greenwich, 1972. 8vo, 174 pp, ill.
  Originally published by Country Life in 1951.
• Fox, Frank: Great Ships. The Battlefleet of King Charles II, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1980. 4to, 208 pp, ill.
• Franklin, John: Navy Board Ship Models, 1650-1750. Conway Maritime Books, London, 1989. 4to, vi, 186 pp, ill.
• Gardiner, Robert: 36-Gun Frigate Model, c. 1765. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 61, London, 1975. pp 406-407.
  Tries to identify the model of a 36-gun frigate in the National Maritime Museum (Cat. No. NMM 1765-6) as the 32-gun frigate Lowestoffe of 1761.
• Glete, Jan: Arvet från flottans modellkammare. Sjöhistorisk Årsbok 1990-1991, Stockholm, 1990. pp 9-44, ill.
• Glete, Jan: Teknikhistoriska synpunkter på några äldre fartygsmodeller. Sjöhistorisk Årsbok 1988-1989, Stockholm, 1989. pp 66-77, ill.
• Glete, Jan: Äldre fartygsmodeller vid Statens Sjöhistoriska Museum. SSHM, Stockholm, 1990. 63 pp.
• Gröbner, Johann: Das französische 74-Kanonen-Schiff Achille (1803-05) und sein Modell. Das Logbuch 28. Jg, Hamburg, 1992, pp. 58-65, ill.
• Hand, Charles: A Classic in a Carafe (Slocum's Spray).
  Seaways' Ships in Scale, March-April 1995.
• Henningsen, Henning: Kgl. Majestæ.ts Modelkammer 1690-1970. Handels- og Søfartsmuseet på Kronborg. Årbog 1970, Helsingør, 1970. pp 146-150, ill.
• Holck, P.: Modelsamlingens æ.ldste taklede Model. Tidsskrift for Søvæ.sen 101. Aargang, København, 1930. pp 119-131, ill.
• Hoving, Albert J.: De Marine Modellenkamer (3): De William Rex. De Modelbouwer, ?, (c1991). A4, pp 208-109, ill.
• Hoving, Albert J.: The Demonstration Model. An unusual model from the Marinemodellenkamer collection at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Model Shipwright Vol. 20, London, 1991. pp 77:33-38, ill.
• Hoving, Albert J.: The Marine Modellenkamer. Model Shipwright Vol. 19, London, 1991. pp 75:3-9, ill.
• Hägg, Jacob & Zettersten, Axel: Örlogsskeppet Amarant. TiS årg. 66, Karlskrona, 1903. pp 323-326, 1 plate.
• Jordening, B.W.: Katalog over den historiske Modelsamling paa Orlogsvæ.rftet. Thieles Bogtrykkeri, Kjøbenhavn, 1896. 8vo, (2), 127 pp.
• Ketting, Herman: Prins Willem. Een zeventiende-eeuwse Oostindievaarder. De Boer Maritiem, Bussum, 1979.
• Ketting, Herman: Bouwtekeningen Prins Willem IV en woordenlijst behorende bij de bouwtekeningen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, (1980). (36) pp, 4 plates.
• Ketting, Herman: Prins Willem, ein Ostindienfahrer des 17. Jahrhunderts. Verlag Delius, Klasing & Co., Bielefeld, 1981.
• Kriegstein, Arnold & Kriegstein, Henry: The Kriegstein Ship Model Collection. A Photographic Essay. Nautical Research Journal vol. 27, Washington, 1981. pp 81-93, ill.
• Krüger, Kurt: A Navy Board Model in Vienna. Model Shipwright No. 73, pp 35-42, ill.
• Krüger, Kurt: 50-Gun Fourth Rathe (c1692). An English dockyard model at the Central Naval Museum, St Petersburg. Model Shipwright Vol. 21, London, 1992. pp 81:46-52, ill.
• Köster, August: Modelle alter Segelschiffe. Verlag Ernst Wasmuth AG, Berlin, (1926). 4to, xxix, (3) pp, 124 plates.
  Reviewed by R.C. Anderson in The Mariner's Mirror, Vol. 12 (19??), pp 463-464.
• "L.McC.G.": Models in the United States. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 6, London, 1920. pp 315-316.
• Lavery, Brian & Stevens, Simon: Ship Models. Their Purposes and Development from 1650 to the Present.
  Press of Sail Publications, Rotherfield, 1995. 4to, 256 pp, ill. ISBN 0-948864-33-8.
  A comprehensive catalogue of the ship models in the collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, England.
• McLanathan, Richard B.K.: Ship Models. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1957. 4to, (48) pp, ill.
• McNarry, Donald: HMS Prince (1670). Notes on the model in the Science Museum, South Kensington. Model Shipwright Vol. 21, London, 1993. pp 84:30-38, ill.
• McNarry, Donald: Royal Sovereign 1701. Model Shipwright Vol 16, London, 1987. pp 62:4-8, ill.
• Meischl, Willibald & Albert, Alfred: Rekonstruktion des englischen Linienschiffes Hampton Court aus dem Jahre 1678. Das historische Schiff als Modell. Band 2, Herford, 1987. pp 11-22, ill.
• Menzel, Horst: Das Modell der Royal George von 1715.
  Das Logbuch 35 Jg., Köln, 1999. pp 8-15, ill.
• Mohr, Alfred: Das Schiffmodell Die Stadt Elbing, Galiot von 1738. Das Logbuch 15. Jg, Heidesheim, 1979. pp 61-66, ill.
• Nance, R. Morton: Sailing-Ship Models. A Selection from European and American Collections with Introductory Text. Halton and Truscott Smith, London, 1924. 4to, frontispiece, 80 pp, ill., 124 plates.
• Nance, R. Morton: Sailing-Ship Models. A Selection from European and American Collections with Introductory Text.
  Halton & Co., London, 1949 (2nd rev. ed.). 4to, vi, 81 pp, ill., 121 plates.
• Naish, George P.B.: 18th Century Models at Greenwich.
  Sea Breezes Vol. 6 (1948), pp 20-22, ill.
• Navy Board letter of 4th June, 1716, to the Master Shipwrights at the various yards about models. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 5, London, 1919. pp 56. Document contributed by W.G. Perrin.
• Nouhuys, J.W. van: The Model of a Spanish Caravel of the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 17, London, 1931. pp 327-346, ill., 5 plates.
• Reincke, Heinrich & Schulze, Bernhard: Das hamburgische Convoyschiff Wapen von Hamburg III. Modell und Geschichte: Museum für hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg, 1952 (1st), 1956 (2nd).
  Arbeitskreis historischer Schiffbau, Köln, & Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg, 1998 (3rd).
  Reviewed in MM 39 (1953), p 73.
• Robinson, Gregory: Ships Models in the Museum of the Training Ship Mercury, at Hamble. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 1, London, 1911. p. 116-117.
• Robinson, Gregory & Anderson, R.C.: The Identification of Models of Men-of-War. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 2, London, 1912. pp 142-146, 164-166, 193-???, 236-???, 264-???, 340-???, ill., III:18-19, 2 pl, IV:69-??.
• Ronnberg, Erik A.R. Jr: A Model of an English Brig of War. Notes and Photographs. Nautical Research Journal Vol. 35, Gloucester, 1990. pp 195-206.
• Salisbury, W.: The framing of models. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 40, London, 1954. pp 156-159.
• Steensen, Steen R.: Orlogsmuseet. Marinehistoriskt Selskab 6, København, 1961. 8vo, 128 pp, ill.
• Stevens, John R.: An Account of the Construction, and Embellishment of Old Time Ships. Toronto, 1949.
• Sumrall, Robert F.: A Commonwealth Model. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 66, London, 1980, pp 50-52.
  Cf. A.H. Waite's note.
• Svensson, Sam: Identifiering av några fartygsmodeller i Sjöhistoriska Museet. Sjöhistorisk Årsbok 1959-1960, Stockholm, 1961. pp 95-113, ill.
• Szymanski, H.: Naval Museums. - VI. Germany. MM Vol. 8, London, 1922. pp 334-337.
• Terry, C.E.: An Eighteenth-Century Model. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 18, London, 1932. pp 87, 1 plate.
• Vaughan, H.S.: Ship Models in the Louvre. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 9, London, 1923. pp 344-345, ill.
• Vries, Freerk de: HMS Prince (1670), Linienschiff 1. Ranges. Das Logbuch, 24. Jg, pp 33-35.
• Waite, A.H.: A Commonwealth Shipmodel. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 66, London, 1980, pp 157.
  Cf. Robert Sumrall's article.
• Waite, A.H.: National Maritime Museum Catalogue of Ship Models. Part 1, Ships of the Western Tradition to 1815. NMM, Greenwich, 1981. A4, (2), xiii pp, 209 leaves.
• Walker, Grant H.: Collecting the Dockyard Models.
  Nautical Research Journal Vol. 44, Silver Spring, 1999. Pictorial Supplement.
• Walker, Grant H.: An Introduction to the Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models.
  Nautical Research Journal Vol. 44, Silver Spring, 1994. pp 3-14, ill.
• Walker, Grant H.: The Rogers Collection: Collecting the Dockyard Models.
  Nautical Research Journal Vol. 44, Silver Spring, 1999. pp 74-88, ill.
• Wassell, John: The Framing of Navy Board Models. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 65, London, 1979. pp 253-254.
  With reference to the anonymous Treatise on Shipbuilding written c 1625 and published by the Society for Nautical Research.
• Wheatley, Henry B.: The Ship Models at Chuckfield Park, Sussex. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 1, London, 1911. pp 54-55.
• Wiles, Irving R.: Naval Museums. - V. The United States. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 7, London, 1921. pp 236-242, 4 plates.
• Winter, Heinrich: Der Holländische Zweidecker von 1660/1670. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld, 1978. 8vo, 51 pp, 36 plates, 3 drawings.
• Witt, Mario: A Picture of the Royal George of 1756. The Mariner's Mirror Vol. 39, London, 1953. pp 58-60, 1 plate.
• Woods, Maria Pulsone & Napier, Rob: Ship Models at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - A Fresh Look. Nautical Research Journal Vol. 37, Gloucester, 1992. pp 196-214, ill.

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