•The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.•Captain Lewis Anselm da Costa Ricci/Ritchie (1883-? ), who wrote under the pseudonym Bartimeus, was the author of: Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-Man (1914), A Tall Ship: On Other Naval Occasions (1915), The Long Trick (1917), The Navy Eternal (1918), An Awfully Big Adventure (1919), Unreality (1920), Seaways (1923), Great Security (1925), Overlooked (1933), A Make-and-Mend (1934), The 'Bartimeus' Omnibus (1935), Naval Occasions (1936), An Off-Shore Wind (1936), Under Sealed Orders: A Tale of Yesterday (1938), The Elephant's Head: A Tale of the Carribean Sea (1939), A Ditty-Box (1940), Malta Invicta (1942), Steady as You Go (1942), The Turn of the Road (1946) and Hammy and the Beanstalk (1951).
•The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.•Captain Lewis Anselm da Costa Ricci/Ritchie (1883-? ), who wrote under the pseudonym Bartimeus, was the author of: Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-Man (1914), A Tall Ship: On Other Naval Occasions (1915), The Long Trick (1917), The Navy Eternal (1918), An Awfully Big Adventure (1919), Unreality (1920), Seaways (1923), Great Security (1925), Overlooked (1933), A Make-and-Mend (1934), The 'Bartimeus' Omnibus (1935), Naval Occasions (1936), An Off-Shore Wind (1936), Under Sealed Orders: A Tale of Yesterday (1938), The Elephant's Head: A Tale of the Carribean Sea (1939), A Ditty-Box (1940), Malta Invicta (1942), Steady as You Go (1942), The Turn of the Road (1946) and Hammy and the Beanstalk (1951).
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