Early Shipbuilding in Pennsylvania, 1683-1812.
CHANDLER, Charles L. Early Shipbuilding in Pennsylvania, 1683-1812. N.p., 1932. 43pp. Scarce. Some wear to spine, but overall a very good copy in orig. boards.
CHANDLER, Charles L. Early Shipbuilding in Pennsylvania, 1683-1812. N.p., 1932. 43pp. Scarce. Some wear to spine, but overall a very good copy in orig. boards.
DALZELL, George W. The Flight from the Flag: The Continuing Effect of the Civil War Upon the American Carrying Trade. Chapel Hill, 1940. 1st ed. Illus. xviii, 292pp. Orig. cloth, d/j. Very good copy.
DAVIS, Charles G. Ships of the Past. By...With an Introduction by Irving R. Wiles. Salem, Mass.: The Marine Research Society, 1929. 1st ed. 4to. Profusely illus. with plates and plans (many folding). xi, 170, (1)pp. Orig. full leatherette. Fine.
DOW, George Francis. The River Agawam an Essex County Waterway. Topsfield, Mass.: [Privately Printed], 1926. 1st ed. 16 pp. Illus. Boards warped; spine chipped; front lower corner bumped, esle a very good copy in orig. boards. One of 100 copies. Essex Tracts No. VII.
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775. Edited by Michael E. Hoare. London: Hakluyt Society, 1982. 4 vols. Illus. 831pp. Orig. cloth, d/js. Fine.
GOULD, E.W. Fifty Years on the Mississippi; or, Gould's History of River Navigation.... Columbus, 1951. Illus. 750pp. Howes E-273. Fine in d/j. Reprinted from the rare edition of 1889.
GURN, Joseph. Commodore John Barry, Father of the American Navy. N.Y., [1933]. Illus. 318pp. Very good in orig. cloth.
(MANDEVILLE, JOHN). LETTS, Malcolm. Mandeville's Travels. Texts and Translations by.... London: Hakluyt Society, 1953. Two vols. Illus. maps. lix, 554pp. Fine in orig. cloth.
(BUCHANAN, FRANKLIN). LEWIS, Charles Lee. Admiral Franklin Buchanan Fearless Man of Action. Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co., 1929. 1st ed. xvi, 285 pp. Illus., map endpapers. Orig. armorial cloth. Fine in d/j.
MACLAY, Edgar Stanton. Moses Brown, Captain U.S.N. N.Y., [1904]. 1st ed. Illus. 220pp. Spine rubbed, else a very good copy in orig. cloth.
PAULLIN, Charle Oscar. The Navy of the American Revolution: Its Administration, Its Policy and Its Achievements: A Dissertation. New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1971. Facsimile of 1906 ed. 549pp. Orig. cloth. Fine.
SCHAEFER, Rudolph J. J. E. Buttersworth, 19th-Century Marine Painter. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 1975. 1st ed. 4to. xxvi, 276 pp. Errata slip laid in. Frontis., illus., portraits, plates. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Biography of this well-known artist of yachts and yachting.
SELFRIDGE, Thomas O., Jr. Memoirs of Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., Rear Admiral, U.S.N. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. 1st ed. xii, 288 pp. Portrait frontis., illus., portraits, maps, some folding. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Jacket chipped, very old waterstains to exterior leaves, else very good. Selfridge participated in the.....
WEISS, Harry B. and WEISS, Grace M. Rafting on the Delaware River. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1967. 1st ed. Illus. 72pp. A fine copy in orig. wrappers.
WELLS, Capt. Theodore. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of..., of Wells, Me. Giving a Minute Account of His Voyages and the Places He Visited. Biddeford, 1874. 1st ed. 12mo. Illus. with orig. photographic portrait. 204pp. A very good copy in orig. cloth. An account of the author's voyages in.....
BARRY, William D. & PEABODY, Frances W. Tate House Crown of the Maine Mast Trade. Portland: National Society of Colonial Dames, 1982. Illus, folding maps. xii, 116pp. Orig. cloth. In publishers slipcase. Limited to 750 copies. A fine copy in d/j.
BLANCHARD, Fessenden S. Block Island to Nantucket Narragansett and Buzzards Bays Block Island, Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds. Princeton, (1961). 1st ed. 4to. Illus. maps. xiv, 253pp. A very good copy.
CARSE, Robert. Blockade The Civil War at Sea. N.Y., (1958). 1st ed. Illus. 279pp. Very good in d/j.
CLARK, William B. George Washington's Navy: Being an Account of His Excellency's Fleet in New England Waters. Baton Rouge, [1960]. Illus. map. xi, 275pp. Orig. cloth, d/j. A fine copy.
GOSNELL, Harpur A. Before the Mast in the Clippers. Composed in Large Part of the Diaries of Charles A. Abbey Kept While at Sea in the Years 1856 to 1860. N.Y.: Derrydale Press, 1937. Illus. maps. Fine. Limited to 950 copies.
HEIZER, Robert F. Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1947. PP. 251-301. Frontis., plates, map. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Near fine. Analyzes Drake's descriptions of California Indian life to conclude that Drake landed in coastal territory inhabited by Miwok-speaking Indians.
HOWARD, James L. Seth Harding, Mariner: A Naval Picture of the Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. 1st ed. xv,301pp. Portrait frontis., facsimiles, maps. Orig. cloth, printed paper spine label. Very good.
LOTHROP, S[amuel] K. A Sermon, Preached at the Church in Brattle Square, on Sunday morning, January 19, 1840, on the Destruction of the Lexington by Fire, January 13th. Boston: John H. Eastburn, Printer, 1840. 1st ed. 24pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Spine ends partially abraded, else very good.
MACKENZIE, Alexander. Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Lawrence...to the...Pacific Oceans...Present State of the Fur Trade.... Edited by John W. Garvin. London, 1801. Reprinted 1927. Portr. maps. 498pp. Fine in slightly chipped d/j.
OLSON, Julius E. and BOURNE, Edward, eds. The Northmen Columbus and Cabot 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen. Edited by Julius E. Olson; The Voyages of Christopher Columbus and of John Cabot. Edited by Edward Gaylord Bourne. With Maps and Facsimile Reproduction. N.Y., 1925. 443pp. In the series: Original Narratives.....