Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot. With a Foreword by Ben Ames Williams.
RICHARDSON, John M. Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot. With a Foreword by Ben Ames Williams. [Augusta, Me., 1946]. Illus. with maps. (x), 141pp. Orig. cloth. Very good.
RICHARDSON, John M. Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot. With a Foreword by Ben Ames Williams. [Augusta, Me., 1946]. Illus. with maps. (x), 141pp. Orig. cloth. Very good.
RINGLE, Dennis J. Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, [1998]. 1st ed. xvi,202pp. Illus. Orig. boards, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Daily life in the Union navy.
ROBINSON, Charles M. Shark of the Confederacy. The Story of the CSS Alabama. Annapolis, [1995]. 1st ed. Illus. xii, 212. Fine in d/j.
ROBINSON, Charles N. Old Naval Prints: Their Artists and Engravers. London, 1924. 1st ed. Folio. Illus., many in color. Very good in orig. cloth, t.e.g. Limited to 1,500 copies.
ROBINSON, John, and DOW, George Francis. The Sailing Ships of New England. Series Two. Salem, MA, 1924. 51pp. plus 554 plates of sailing ships. Orig. vellum-backed boards, t.e.g. Binding a bit soiled and scuffed, else a fine copy. One of 95 large paper copies.
ROBINSON, John, and DOW, George Francis. The Sailing Ships of New England. Series Two. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1924. 4to. 51pp. plus about 225 illus. of sailing vessels. Very good in a d/j with a tear in the spine.
ROBINSON, John, and DOW, George Francis. The Sailing Ships of New England. First, Second, and Third Series. Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1922, 1924, 1928. 3 vols. 4to. 770 illus. of sailing vessels with introductions in each volume. Orig. cloth. Old tape marks on endpapers of Vol I. Chipped d/js.....
ROBOTTI, Frances D. Whaling & Old Salem. A Chronicle of the Sea. With an Account of the Seal Fisheries, Excerpts from Whaling Logs & Whaling Statistics. Salem, Mass., 1950. Illus. 192pp. 1st ed.
ROGERS, William M. A Sermon, Occasioned by the Loss of the Harold and the Lexington, Delivered at the Odeon, January 26, 1840. Boston: Printed by Perkins & Marvin, 1840. 1st ed. 18pp. Orig. printed wrappers. With the ownership signature, "Geo. Bond, Esq." George Bond was a prominent Massachusetts abolitionist and.....
ROSENBACH COMPANY. The Sea: Books and Manuscripts on the Art of Navigation, Geography, Naval History, Shipbuilding, Voyages, Shipwrecks, Mathematics, including Atlases, Maps, and Charts. Contemporary cloth, red morocco spine label, original printed wrappers bound in. Phila.: The Rosenbach Company, 1938. 4to. First edition. A fine copy.
ROUX, Antoine. Ships and Shipping: A Collection of Pictures Including Many American Vessels Painted by Antoine Roux and His Sons. With Introductory Text...Translated and Edited by Alfred Johnson. Salem: Marine Research Society, 1925. 4to. Illus. A very fine copy.
(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.
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.
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.....
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.
(DAHLGREN, JOHN A.). SCHNELLER, Robert J. A Quest for Glory. A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, [1996]. Illus. xvii, 452pp. Fine in d/j. Dahlgren was Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance in 1862 and invented the Dahlgren gun. This biography examines both his contributions.....
SCORESBY, William, Jr. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including Researches and Discoveries on the eastern Coast of West Greenland, Made in the Summer of 1822, in the Ship Baffin of Liverpool. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. 1st ed. xliii,472pp. Illus., 8 plates and maps.....
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.....
SERVIES, James A., ed. The Log of H.M.S. Mentor, 1780-1781. A New Account of the British Navy at Pensacola. Introduction by Robert R. Rea. Pensacola: University Presses of Florida, [1982]. xii, 207pp. Fine in d/j.
(FRANKLIN IMPRINT, JAMES). [SHIPPING AGREEMENT]. Partially printed document completed and signed. Port of [Newport] It is agreed between the Master, Seamen, and mariners, of the [Sloop Endeavor] now bound from the Port of [Newport] to [the West Indies at and from thence back to Rhode Island] That in Consideration of.....
RUSSELL, Thomas C. SIMPSON, George. Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42 Together With Voyages to Sitka, the Sandwich Islands and Okhotsk. To Which Are Added Sketches of Journeys Across America, Asia and Europe from the Narrative of a Voyage Round the World...This Edition Edited, Corrected..., With Sketches.....
SINCLAIR, Arthur. Two Years on the Alabama. With an Introduction and Notes by William N. Still, Jr. Annapolis, MD, [1989]. Illus. xxx, 303pp. Fine in orig. cloth. Reprint of the 1895 ed.
SLAFTER, Carlos. Sir Humfrey Gylberte and His Enterprise of Colonization in America. Including His Discourse to Prove a Northwest Passage to Cataia.... Boston: Prince Society, 1903. 1st ed. Small 4to. xiv, 335pp. A fine, untrimmed copy in orig. wrappers. Limited to 250 copies.
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.
SMITH, Myron J., Jr. American Civil War Navies: A Bibliography. Original cloth. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1972. First edition. A very good copy.