English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588-1595...
ANDREWS, Kenneth R. English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588-1595...Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society, 1959. 1st ed. Illus. maps. xxvii, 421pp. Fine in d/j.
ANDREWS, Kenneth R. English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies 1588-1595...Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society, 1959. 1st ed. Illus. maps. xxvii, 421pp. Fine in d/j.
CAMPBELL, John F. History and Bibliography of The New American Practical Navigator and the American Coast Pilot. Orig. cloth. Salem: Peabody museum, 1964. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. A fine copy printed by the Anthoensen Press.
FREITAS, Lima de. COLUMBUS, Christopher. Journals and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Translated and Edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas. 4to. Orig. cloth with leather label (chipped) in publisher's box. N.Y.: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club,1963. Limited.....
DAVIS, Charles G. Shipping and Craft in Silhouette. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1929. A fine copy in d/j. Drawings and text by the author.
DAVIS, Charles G. Ships of the Past. With an Introduction by Irving R. Wiles. Salem, Mass.: The Marine Research Society, 1929. 1st ed. Folio. Profusely illus. xi, 170pp. plus folding plans. Orig. leatherette, dust jacket. Fine.
DOW, George F. Whale Ships and Whaling. A Pictorial History of Whaling During Three Centuries. With an Account of the Whale Fishery in Colonial New England. Introduction by Frank Wood. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1925. 1st ed. 4to. Illus. with 206 plates. 446pp. Howes D-439. Orig. cloth. Fine...
HARLOW, Frederick P. The Making of a Sailor or Sea Life Aboard a Yankee Square-Rigger. Salem: Marine Research Society, 1928. Illus. Fine in d/j.
HOPKINS, Esek. The Letter Book of ...Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy 1775-1777. Intro. and Notes by Alvert S. Beck.Providence, 1932. Frontis. 151pp. Fine in orig. cloth.
HOWAY, Frederick W. Voyages of the "Columbia" to the Northwest Coast, 1787-1790 and 1790-1793. [Boston], 1941. 1st ed. Small 4to. Illus. 518pp. A very good copy in orig. cloth-backed boards.
LESTER, C.E. and FOSTER, A. Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius.... N.Y., 1846. 1st ed. 431pp + 26pp of advts. Illus with frontis and folding plate. A very good copy in orig. cloth.
Matthews, Frederick C. American Merchant Ships 1850-1900. Series Two. Salem: Marine Research Society, 1931. 1st ed. Illus. xi, 358pp. Fine in d/j.
(U.S.S. CONSTITUTION). [MERCIER, Henry J.] Life in a Man-of-War, or Scenes in "Old Ironsides" During Her Cruise in the Pacific. By a Fore-Top-Man. With a Preface by Elliot Snow. Boston, 1927. 4to. Illus. 288pp. Very good in orig. cloth-backed boards. Limited to 785 copies.
NUTTALL, Zelia, ed. New Light on Drake: A Collection of Documents Relating to His Voyage of Circumnavigation, 1577-1580. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1914. 1st ed. lvi,433,xxxvipp. Portrait frontis., facsimiles, portraits, maps (1 folding). Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Light rubbing to outer hinges, toning to exterior leaves, else very good.....
(RODGERS, JOHN). PAULLIN, Charles O. Commodore John Rodgers:Captain, Commodore and Senior Officer of the American Navy, 1773-1838. A Biography. Cleveland, 1910. Illus. 434pp. plus bibliography and index. Fine in orig. cloth. [a].
PLIMSOLL, [Samuel]. Cattle Ships. Being the Fifth Chapter of Mr. Plimsoll's Second Appeal for Our Seamen. London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1890. 1st ed. 150pp. Frontis., illus., portraits. Orig. pictorial cloth. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, internally cracked, else a very good copy. Plimsoll's plea for.....
RUSSELL, Charles Edward. A-Rafting on the Mississip'. New York: The Century Co., [1928]. 1st ed. xii,357pp. Frontis., plates, map, folding map, map endpapers. Orig. pictorial cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. History of the logging, lumber, and rafting industry on the Mississippi from St. Paul to St. Louis , 1832-1890.
SNOW, Elliot, ed. The Sea, the Ship and the Sailor. Tales of Adventure from Log Books and Original Narratives. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1925. xviii, 353pp. Illus. Very good in d/j.
[TAPLEY, Harriet Silvester, ed.] Early Coastwise and Foreign Shipping of Salem. A Record of the Entrances and Clearances of the Port of Salem, 1750-1769. Salem: The Essex Institute, 1934. 1st ed. x, 217pp. Illus. Fine in orig. cloth.
THOMPSON, Margaret Jefferds. Captain Nathaniel Lord Thompson of Kennebunk, Maine and the Ships He Built 1811-1889. With Introduction by Lincoln Colcord. Boston, 1937. 140pp. Illus. Orig. cloth. Fine in d/j. Limited to 1000 copies.
WILLIAMS, Lloyd Haynes. Pirates of Colonial Virginia. Richmond, Va., 1937. 1st ed. Frontis. maps. illus. xvi, 139pp. A very good copy in orig. cloth. Scarce.
(U.S. NAVY). The United States Navy 1776 to 1815 Depicted in an Exhibition of American Naval Engagements and Naval Commanders Held at the Grolier Club.... N.Y.: The Grolier Club, 1942. 4to. Illus. 158pp. Fine in orig. boards. Limited to 700 copies.
BATES, D.B., Mrs. Incidents on Land and Water, or Four Years on the Pacific Coast. Being a Narrative of the Burning of the Ships Nonantum, Humayoon and Fanchon, Together with Many Startling and Interesting Adventures on Sea and Land. Boston, 1858. Frontis. 336pp. Very good in orig. cloth...
BERTHOLD, Victor M. Pioneer Steamer California, 1848-1849. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. 1st ed. xiii,106pp. Frontis., plates, maps. Orig. cloth, printed paper spine label, unprinted glassine d/j, publisher's slipcase, printed paper spine label. Fine. One of 550 copies. Voyage of the California from New York through the Strait of Magellan.....
CHANCE, Franklin N., CHANCE, Paul C., and TOPPER, David L. Tangled Machinery and Charred Relics: The Historical and Archaelogical Investigation of the C.S.S. Nashville. [[N. Orangeburg, SC: Sun Printing, 1985]. 1st ed. 4to. viii,267pp. Illus., portraits, maps, diagrams. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Fine. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the.....
DAVIS, Charles G. The Ship Model Builder's Assistant. Salem: Marine Research Society, 1926. 1st ed. Illus. by the author. 275pp. Fine in d/j.