Keelboat Age on Western Waters.
BALDWIN, Leland D. The Keelboat Age on Western Waters. Pittsburgh, 1941. 1st ed. Illus. D/j. River boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat.
BALDWIN, Leland D. The Keelboat Age on Western Waters. Pittsburgh, 1941. 1st ed. Illus. D/j. River boating in the West before the invention of the steamboat.
BARR, William and WILLIAMS, Glyndwr, eds. Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747. Vol. 1: The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742, Vol. 2: The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith, 1746-1747. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1994-1995. 1st eds. xii,333;xv,393pp. Frontises., maps. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth, non-priceclipped.....
(PERRY, MATTHEW). BARROWS, Edward M. The Great Commodore: The Exploits of Matthew Calbraith Perry. Indianapolis, [1935]. 1st ed. Illus. 397pp. Fine in d/j.
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.
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...
BENNETT, Frank M. The Steam Navy of the United States. A History of the Growth of the Steam Vessel of War in the U.S. Navy, and of the Naval Engineer Corps. Pittsburgh, PA: Warren & Co., 1896. 1st ed. xv, 953, [1, errata] pp. Illus., plans, (some folding). Orig. pictorial.....
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.....
BISHOP, Capt. Charles. The Journal and Letters of...on the North-West Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wales 1794-1799. Edited by Michael Roe. Cambridge : Hakluyt Society, 1967. Illus. maps. lvi, 342pp. Fine in d/j.
BISHOP, Nathaniel E. Four Months in a Sneak-Box. A Boat Voyage of 2,600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1879. 1st ed. 322pp. Illus. maps. A near fine copy in orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. A classic account, seldom found in.....
BLAIR, Walter A. A Raft Pilot's Log: A History of the Great Rafting Industry on the Upper Mississippi, 1840-1915. Cleveland: A.H. Clark, 1930. 1st ed. Illus. 328pp. A near fine, untrimmed copy in orig. cloth, a.e.g.
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.
Ingleton, Geoffrey C. BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Seas. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship.....
BLUNT, Edmund M. The American Coast Pilot; Containing the Courses and Distances between the Principal Harbours, Capes, and Headlands, on the Coast of North and South America; with Directions for Sailing into the Same; Describing the Soundings, Bearings of the Light-Houses and Beacons from the Rocks, Shoals, Ledges, &c. with.....
(DAMPIER, WILLIAM). BONNER, Willard Hallam. Captain William Dampier. Buccaneer-Author. Some Account of a Modest Bucaneer and of English Travel Literature in the Early Eighteenth Century. Stanford, Calif., [1934]. 1st ed. ix, 235pp. A fine copy in d/j.
BOYKIN, Edward. Ghost Ship of the Confederacy. The Story of the Alabama and Her Captain, Raphael Semmes. N.Y., [1957]. Illus. xi, 404pp. Very good in d/j.
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.
BRONSON, George Whitefield. Glimpses of the Whaleman's "Cabin."Boston: Damrell & Moore, printers, 1855. 96pp., including five wood-engraved illustrations (three full-page). 12mo. Original pictorial front wrapper, with the rear wrapper and backstrip supplied in matching modern paper. Expert repairs to closed tear in margin of final leaf and two other text.....
(NEW YORK). BUCKMAN, David L. Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River: Tales and Reminiscences of the Stirring Times that Followed the Introduction of Steam Navigation. N.Y., [1907]. 1st ed. Illus. Orig. cloth.
BULKELEY, John, and John, CUMMINS. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740-1. Containing A Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship the the [sic] Wager on A Desolate Island.... London, Printed; Philadelphia, Reprinted. 1757. xxxii,306[i.e.296]pp. (pages 257-266 omitted from the pagination, as issued). Pages 193-200.....
BULKELEY, John, and John CUMMINS. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740-1. Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship the the [sic] Wager on A Desolate Island.... London, Printed; Philadelphia, Reprinted. 1757. xxxii,306 [i.e. 296]pp. (pages 257-266 omitted from the pagination, as issued).....
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.
BULLOCH, James D. The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe or How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, [1959]. New edition. 2 Vols. xl,460;x,459pp. Frontises., portraits, plates, maps. Orig. gilt-decorated full blue morocco, raised spine bands, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, T.e.g. in in publisher's.....
BURRAGE, Henry S. Early English and French Voyages...1534-1608. N.Y., 1932. Illus. with maps and facs. 451pp.
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.
CARSE, Robert. Blockade The Civil War at Sea. N.Y., (1958). 1st ed. Illus. 279pp. Very good in d/j.