Ship Models. How to Build Them.
DAVIS, Charles G. Ship Models. How to Build Them.Salem: 1925. Illus. by the author. Plates. Large folding plan in pocket. 139pp. Orig. cloth, d/j. Very fine copy. No. 11 of the Marine Research Society Publications.
DAVIS, Charles G. Ship Models. How to Build Them.Salem: 1925. Illus. by the author. Plates. Large folding plan in pocket. 139pp. Orig. cloth, d/j. Very fine copy. No. 11 of the Marine Research Society Publications.
DAVIS, Gherardi. Alice and I and Nourmahal. [New York]: Privately Printed at the Gilliss Press, 1925. 1st ed. 42pp. Plates. Orig. printed paper-covered flexible boards. Small bookplate, else near fine. One of 125 copies. Yachting memoir.
DOW, George Francis. The Sailing Ships of New England. Series Three. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1928. 1st ed. 4to. Illus. Fine in orig. cloth.
McCLYMONT, James R. Pedraluarez Cabral (Pedro Alluarez De Gouvea) His Progenitors His Life and His Voyage to America and India. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1914. 1st ed. 72pp. plus errata. Orig. calf-backed cloth boards; spine extremities worn, else fine. Limited to 150 copies.
MORRISON, John H. History of American Steam Navigation. New York: W.F. Sametz & Co., 1903. 1st ed. 630pp. plus index. Illus. Orig. cloth. Inner hinges starting, else very good. History of 19th century steamboating with particulars on Hudson River and Long Island waterways.
PIERCE, Wesley George. Goin' Fishin'. The Story of Deep Sea Fishermen of New England. Illustrated by the Author. Salem, Mass.: Marine Research Society, 1934. 1st ed. Illus. Large 48vo. xiii, 323pp. Orig. cloth-backed marbled boards. Spine a bit rubbed, else very good. One of only 97 copies printed on Bruce.....
PIERCE, Wesley. Goin' Fishin' The Story of the Deep-Sea Fisherman of New England. Salem: Marine Research Society, 1934. 1st ed. Illus. 323pp. fine in d/j.
SAMWELL, David. Captain Cook and Hawaii. Intro. by Sir Maurice Holmes. San Francisco and London, 1957. x, 42pp. Portraits, folded plate, facsims, etc. Fine in d/j (title added to spine of d/j in ink). Limited to 750 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. First published in 1786. Describes the fate of.....
SMITH, Edgar Newbold. American Naval Broadsides: A Collection of Early Naval Prints (1745-1815). N.Y., 1974. 1st ed. 4to. Frontis. illus. xix, (1), 225pp. Orig. cloth. Fine.
(JONES, CATESBY). UNITED STATES NAVY DEPARTMENT. Letter of the Secretary of the Navy Communitcating The Proceedings of a Court-Martial on Commodore Thomas Ap Catesby Jones.... Washington, 1851. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 45. 400pp. Removed. Very good. Catesby was charged with taking money in 1848 at Monterey while in charge of.....
WALLIS, Helen, ed. Carteret's Voyage Round the World 1766-1769. 2 vols. Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1965.Illus. maps. xii, 273 & vi, 275-564pp. A fine set in d/js.
(DRAKE, FRANCIS). Drake's Plate of Brass: Evidence of His Visit to California in 1579. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1937. 1st ed. 57pp. Portrait frontis., plates, folding map. Orig. cloth, printed paper labels. Spine label slightly faded, else a very good or better copy. Laid in is exhibition brochure, Sir.....
LYON, Captain G.F. Lyon. The Private Journal of...of H.M.S. Hecla During the Recent Voyage of Discovery Under Captain Parry, 1821-1823. Introduction and Illustrations by James A. Houston. Barre, 1970. Tall 4to. Folding map. Illus. 297pp. Fine in orig. cloth-backed boards in publisher's slipcase. Limited to 1,950 copies.
(FARRAGUT, ADMIRAL). MAHAN, A.T. Admiral Farragut. N.Y., [1892]. 333pp. Illus. Very good in orig. 3/4 morocco. Limited to 1,000 large paper copies.
MILLET, Samuel. Whaling Voyage in the Bark "Willis," 1849-1850: The Journal Kept by.... Boston, 1924. 1st ed. Illus. 46pp. Fine in orig. cloth. Limited to 475 copies on American vellum.
(MAINE). ROWE, William H. Shipbuilding Days in Casco Bay 1727-1890 Being Footnotes to the Maritime History of Maine. Yarmouth, 1929. 1st ed. xii, 222pp. Illus. Orig. cloth. Fine.
WILBUR, Marguerite Eyer, transl., ed. Raveneau de Lussan, Buccaneer of the Spanish Main and Early French Filibuster of the Pacific. A Translation...of His "Journal of a Voyage Into the South Seas in 1684 and the Following Years With the Filibusters." Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1930. Illus. maps. 302pp. Very good.....
BALCH, Thomas Willing. The Alabama Arbitration. Phila.: Allen, Lane & Scott, 1900. 1st ed. 150pp. Orig. cloth, T.e.g. Faintest rubbing to spine ends, else near fine. "Story of the "Alabama Claims" from that vessel's launching until the Geneva settlement of 1872" Nevins I, p.244. .
BRADLEE, Francis C.C. Marblehead's Foreign Commerce. 1789-1850. Compiled by ...From the Marblehead Custom House Records. Salem: Essex Institute, 1929. 1st ed. Illus. 182pp. Orig. cloth. Fine copy.
BULLEN, Frank T. Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life. Original pictorial cloth. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. First American edition. Bullen's memoirs of his earliest years at sea.
BURRAGE, Henry S. Early English and French Voyages...1534-1608. N.Y., 1932. Illus. with maps and facs. 451pp.
DANA, Richard Henry Jr. The Journal. Edited by Robert F. Lucid. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Three vols. Illus. Orig. cloth in publisher's box. Fine.
FORBES, Allan and EASTMAN, Ralph M. Yankee Sailing Ship Cards and Other Yankee Sailing Ship Cards. Boston, 1948-49-52. Three vols. Illus. in full color. Orig. wrappers. A complete set of this interesting work. One volume is devoted to cards of the ships sailing to California during the gold rush. Scarce.....
GIBSON, Charles Dana and GIBSON, E. Kay, Comps. The Army's Navy Series: Dictionary of Transports and Combatant Vessels Steam and Sail Employed by the Union Army, 1861-1868. [Camden, ME: Ensign Press, 1995]. 1st ed. 4to. lx,348. [with] GIBSON, Charles Dana and GIBSON, E. Kay, comps. The Army's Navy Series: Assault.....
GREEPE, Thomas. True and Perfecte Newes of the Woorthy and Valiaunt Exploytes, Performed and Doone by that Valiant Knight Syr Frauncis Drake: Not Onely at Sancto Domingo, and Carthagena, but also Now at Cales, and uppon the Coast of Spayne, 1587. Hartford, CT: Printed for H.C.T. by C.P.R.[Carl P. Rollins.....