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To order, email tenpound@shore.net | 1. | Abeel, David. JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE IN CHINA, AND THE NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES... NY. 1836. 378 pp. Abeel was an American missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church. As well as China, “he also visited Java, Malacca, Siam, Singapore and Borneo.” (Hill p. 337), though his narrative is “mainly concerned with Canton and Macao.” - Lust, 209. A small portion of the narrative is devoted to the ocean passages between these places, but more attention is given to local customs, trade practices, etc. INSCRIBED BY ABEEL TO HIS NEPHEW. Scarce and informative. Second ed. (published the same year as the first). Scattered foxing, VG in original cloth with chipped paper spine label. $200 |
| 2. | Alden, John D. THE FLEET SUBMARINE IN THE U.S. NAVY. Annapolis. (1985) b/w plates, ills., folding plan. Oblong 4to. xiv, 290 pp. History of the fleet-tpe submarine from the days before WWI to 1975. VG, dj. $35 |
| 3. | American Bureau of Shipping. THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE. n.p. 1933. b/w plates. ix, 164 pp. History and present state of American merchant fleet, mostly documenting the decline of the merchant marine. With photos of merchant vessels, past and present. VG $25 |
| 4. | American Shipmasters’ Association. REGISTER OF APPROVED SHIPMASTERS, AND OFFICERS OF MERCHANT VESSELS. NY. 1867. 53 pp. plus unpaginated list. List of over 5000 masters and merchant officers with vessels and dates of sailing. Lower section of back cover and last pages stained, light soil to wraps. VG. $200 |
| 5. | (American Tract Society). LIBRARIES FOR SEAMAN AND BOATMEN. NY. 1836. 8” x 10” This broaside proposes that libraries of moral volumes be placed on ships and steamboats to improve the character of the men on board. A letter from Wm. A. Hallock to A. W. Riley is written on the blank half of the sheet, asking his opinion on the value of such actions, including the possible effect reformed seamen might have on others “in this and foreign lands.” Postmarked and addressed on the rear page. Small tape repair to letter, which remains legible. $125 |
| 6. | Andrews, Roy C. MONOGRAPHS OF THE PACIFIC CETACEA. I - THE CALIFORNIA GRAY WHALE... n.p. (NY) 1914. b/w plates and ills. in text. Folio, pp. 229-287. Natural history, detailed physical description, some mention of natural and human predators. One in the series of Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History. New Series, Vol. I, Part V. Original wrappers, edges chipped, pages mostly unopened. Inscribed by Andrews, “Mr. Thomas Barbour with the Writer’s Compliments.” $300 |
| 7. | Anon. A VOYAGE WITH THE MAILS. BRISBANE - LONDON. Lon. n.d. (1911) b/w plates. 4to. 58, (6) pp. Published as an advertizing vehicle by the London Stereoscopic Company, this is a photographic tour of a typical voyage on an Orient Line steamer between England and Australia. Dozens of photos reproduced, with descriptive text. Front hinge cracked else VG. $50 |
| 8;. | Anon. DOCUMENTS RESPECTING BARBARY. Wash. 1801. 48 pp. Madison’s letter to consul Eaton, Jefferson’s instructions, State Department reports - all documents pertaining to the deteriorating situation along the Barbary Coast. This in turn provided the stimulus for the birth of the American navy. VG in later printed wraps. $75 |
| 9. | Anon. THE BOOK OF FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS. n.p. n.d. (ca. 1915?) color, b/w plates. 8 pp. plus plates. An informative pamphlet with 16 color plates of flags and badges and 7 plates of codes and diagrams. Stiff wraps worn with one crease but still bright. $30 |
| 10. | Anthony, Irvin. VOYAGERS UNAFRAID. Phil. (1930). b/w plates. 272 pp. Stories of those who braved the sea alone. VG. $20 |
| 11. | Armstrong, Jas. DEFENSE OF COM. JAS. ARMSTRONG BEFORE NAVAL COURT MARTIAL... Wash. 1861. 21 pp. Armstrong was court martialed for surrendering the navy yard in Warrington to the State of Florida without any resistence. Inscribed on front wrap “with Com. A’s Compliments.” VG in self-wraps. $50 |
| 12. | Arton, Mary Alicia Juliette. TRADE AND COMMERCE IN BERMUDA 1515 TO 1839, AND OLD SEA CAPTAINS’ TALES. n.p. n.d. b/w ills. 256 pp. Arton left 10 exercise books of Bermuda history at her death in 1925. They are published here by her granddaughter. VG in worn and creased wraps. $40 |
| 13. | Audel, Theo. AUDEL’S SHIPFITTERS’ GUIDE. NY. (1919). b/w plates. 16mo. 183 pp. With illustrations showing current practice, ca. WWI. VG. $30 |
| 14. | Badger, George Percy (editor). HISTORY OF THE IMAMS AND SEYYIDS OF OMAN, BY SALIL-IBN-RAZIK, FROM A.D. 661-1856. Lon. 1871. b/w folding map. cxxviii, 435 pp. Translated from Arabic texts with a lengthy “introduction and analysis” continuing the history to 1870. Title page detached but present. Hakluyt First Series Publication. Bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Ex-lib, with call numbers on spine and glue marks from card pocket on back endpapers. $100 |
| 15. | Bailey, Alfred M. FIELD WORK OF A MUSEUM NATURALIST. Denver. 1971. b/w photos. 192 pp. Southeat and Far North Alaska, 1919-1922. VG, wraps. $20 |
| 16. | Bailyn, Bernard and Lotte. MASSACHUSETTS SHIPPING, 1697-1714. A STATISTICAL STUDY. Cambridge, MA. 1959. xi, 148 pp. Now-classic statistical study of Massachusetts shipping based on exhaustive computer analysis of the small body of records existing from this period. VG, dj. $35 |
| 17. | Barbaro, Josafa and Ambrogio Contarini. Charles Grey (editor). TRAVELS TO TANA AND PERSIA. (AND) A NARRATIVE OF ITALIAN TRAVELS IN PERSIA, IN THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. Lon. 1873. xi, 173; xvii, 229 (2) pp. Two volumes published together. Hakluyt First Series Publication. Bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Ex-lib, with call numbers on spine and glue marks from card pocket on back endpapers. $100 |
| 18. | Barbosa, Duarte. A DESCRIPTION OF THE COASTS OF EAST AFRICA AND MALABAR IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Lon. 1866. b/w facsimiles. xi, 336 pp. “Translated from an early Spanish manuscript in the Barcelona Library.” Hakluyt First Series Publication. Bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Ex-lib, with call numbers on spine and glue marks from card pocket on back endpapers. $150 |
| 19. | Barron, James. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL COURT MARTIAL CONVENED FOR THE TRIAL OF COMMODORE JAMES BARRON... OF THE UNITED STATES’ SHIP CHESAPEAKE, IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY, 1808. (Wash) 1822. 496 pp. In 1807 Barron, in command of the Chesapeake, was stopped on the high seas by the British frigate Leopard and ordered to surrender three alleged deserters. Barron refused and the Leopard opened fire. The Chesapeake’s decks were too cluttered with stores for her to return fire and Barron tried to surrender. The Leopard refused this, seized the men and sailed away, leaving the Chesapeake to limp into port. Barron was tried and convicted only of neglecting to clear his ship for action. It was a humiliating incident for Barron and for America, and it led to the War of 1812, and Barron’s duel with Decatur, who Barron claimed bore false witness against him. Smith II, 3561, who says this is the first publication of the trial, held 14 years earlier. Pages tanned, untrimmed and partially unopened. Title page stained. Original boards rebacked in calf with spine label. $135 |
| 20. | Barrow, John. (editor). THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUDSON’S BAY: BEING THE REMARKS OF CAPTAIN W. COATS, IN MANY VOYAGES TO THAT LOCALITY BETWEEN THE YEARS 1727 AND 1751. Lon. 1853. x, 147 pp. “Containing extracts from the log of Capt. Middleton on his voyage for the discovery of the North-West passage...” First Series Hakluyt publication. Original blue cloth with bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Library marks on spine, back endpaper. Text clean. $200 |
| 21. | Bartlett, Kim. THE FINEST KIND. NY. 1977. b/w ills. 251 pp. Hard-edged and accurate portrait of Gloucester fishermen, their lives and work. First Edition. VG, dj. $20 |
| 22. | Beach, Edward L. AROUND THE WORLD SUBMERGED. NY. (1962). b/w plates. xix, 293 pp. “The Voyage of the Triton.” First underwater circumnavigation, by earlu US nuclear submarine. A landmark book. First edition. Fine, in dj. $20 |
| 23. | Beasley, Norman. FREIGHTERS OF FORTUNE. NY. 1930. b/w plates. ix, 311 pp. The story of the Great Lakes and lake shipping. VG. $30 |
| 24. | Bellwood, Peter. MAN’S CONQUEST OF THE PACIFIC. NY. 1979. b/w ills. 462 pp. “The prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania.” Hundreds of illustrations of what are now dead or dying traditional cultures. Text is scholarly, professional in tone and manner. Light bow to boards, else VG in dj. $30 |
| 25. | Bent, Arthur Cleveland. LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN SHORE BIRDS. Wash. 1927, 1929. 2 vols. 420, 412 pp. Order Limicolae, parts 1 and 2. Some pages uncut. Minor wear, VG in original paper wraps. $40 |
| 26. | Benzoni, Girolamo. HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD... Lon. 1857. b/w ills. iv, 280 pp. Reprint of a 1572 narrative “shewing his travels in America from 1541 to 1556: with some particulars of the island of Canary.” Top corners of boards bent. Hakluyt First Series Publication. Bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Ex-lib, with call numbers on spine and glue marks from card pocket on back endpapers. $100 |
| 27. | Bethencourt, Jean de. THE CANARIAN, OR BOOK OF THE CONQUEST AND CONVERSION OF THE CANARIANS IN THE YEAR 1402. Lon. 1872. b/we frontis, map, plates. lv, 229 pp. With historical introduction by Richard Henry Major. Hakluyt First Series Publication. Bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Ex-lib, with call numbers on spine and glue marks from card pocket on back endpapers. Otherwise clean and tightly bound $150 |
| 28. | Boeri, David and James Gibson. “TELL IT GOODBYE, KIDDO.” Camden, ME. (1976). b/w photos. 154 pp. “Decline of the New England Offshore Fishery.” VG, dj. $20 |
| 29. | Bollaert, William. THE EXPEDITION OF PEDRO DE URSUA & LOPE DE AGUIRRE IN SEARCH OF EL DORADO AND OMAGUA IN 1560-1. Lon. 1861. duotone folding map. liii, 237 pp. “Translated from fray Pedro Simon’s ‘Sixth Historical Notice of the Conquest of Tierra Firme.’” With an introduction by Clements Markham. Hakluyt First Series Publication. Bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Ex-lib, with call numbers on spine and glue marks from card pocket on back endpapers. $20 |
| 30. | Bonner, Williard Hallam. CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER. BUCCANEER-AUTHOR. Standford, CA. (1934). ix, 234 pp. “Some account of a modest buccaneer and of English Literature in the early 18th century.” Fascinating study of Dampier as an author as well as a pirate. Pencil notes on back end papers, else VG. $40 |
| 31. | Bowditch, Nathaniel. THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR... NY. 1846. b/w fldg chart, plates. x, 318, 451, (2) pp. Sixteenth edition of the great American navigational text. Campbell 20. A decent copy in old boards with library markings. Back board detached. No markings on text or folding frontispiece. Clean. $150 |
| 32. | Boyd, John M’Neill. A MANUAL FOR NAVAL CADETS. Lon. 1857. b/w ills, color frontis. 12 mo. xvi, 471 pp. plus 24 pp. adverts. Extensive chapters on sails, handling the ship, and the steam engine. First edition. Frontis flag plates detached but present. Rebound in blue buckram. VG. $200 |
| 33. | Bradley, Mrs. Eliza. AN AUTHENTIC NARATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK AND SUFFERINGS OF MRS. ELIZA BRADLEY, THE WIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES BRADLEY OF LIVERPOOL, COMMANDER OF THE SHIP SALLY WHICH WAS WRECKED OFF THE COAST OF BARBARY. Concord. 1829. b/w fldg. frontis, plate. 108 pp. An exciting, early and popular work, by a strong and courageous woman. Unfortunately, according to Huntress "This narrative is almost certainly spurious" having been extracted from Riley's narrative. Nonetheless, Mrs. Bradley's book has wormed its way into the imaginations of generations and is now a part of shipwreck literature. Crayon marks on ills. Paper-covered boards shaken, front board hanging. Light soil. $100 |
| 34. | Brent, Peter. CAPTAIN SCOTT AND THE ANTARCTIC TRAGEDY. NY. (1974). 223 pp. Light wear, VG. $20 |
| 35. | British Waterways Board. SET OF 15 PAMPHLETS ON CRUISING BRITISH CANALS. Lon. 1965 b/w ills. duotone maps, some folding. Various paginations, about 35 pp. per pamphlet. Complete set, with photos, descriptions, route maps, larger folding map and ads for areas businesses.. Some with prior owner’s annotations. Bound in wraps. VG, minor wear. $100 |
| 36. | Brooks, George S. (editor). JAMES DURAND AN ABLE SEAMAN OF 1812. New Haven. 1926. b/w plates. 139 pp. “His adventures on Old Ironsides and as an impressed sailor in the British Navy.” VG. $25 |
| 37. | Brower, Charles D. FIFTY YEARS BELOW ZERO. NY. (1942). viii, 310 pp. “A Lifetime of Adventure in the Far North.” VG, dj. $15 |
| 38. | Burroughs, Polly. ZEB. A CELEBRATED SCHOONER LIFE. Riverside, CT. (1972). b/w. 4to. 160 pp. Photographic record of an old Yankee skipper, his vessels and way of life. Quality work by Alfred Eisenstaedt, Berenice Abbott, Samuel Chamberlain and Morris Rosenfeld. VG, dj. $20 |
| 39. | Cable, Boyd. A HUNDRED YEAR HISTORY OF THE P. & O. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, 1837-1937. Lon. (1937) Color and b/w plates. x, 289 pp. First edition. Centenary history of a powerful enterprise, told by means of the personalities who drove it. The color plates of P. & O. ships are close to artwork in themselves. VG $75 |
| 40. | Carmichael, Gertrude. THE HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIAN ISLANDS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. 1498-1900. Lon. (1961) b/w plates. 463 pp. Detailed and scholarly. VG $40 |
| 41. | Chapelle, Howard I. YACHT DESIGNING AND PLANNING. NY. (1936) b/w frontis., line ills. ix-319 pp. First edition of this useful and still important work. VG in chipped and torn dj. $40 |
| 42. | Chapman, Walker. ANTARCTIC CONQUEST. Indianapolis. (1965). b/w plates. xv, 368 pp. “The Great Explorers in Their Own Words.” Selected and introduced by Chapman. VG in dj with short tears. $25 |
| 43. | Colcord, Joanna. ROLL AND GO. Indianapolis. (1924) b/w plates. (22) 118 pp. One of the earliest and still best books on American sea shanties. History, words and music. First edition. Light wear to boards, VG. $45 |
| 44. | (Committee of General Literature and Education). THE BOOK OF FISHES. Lon. 1857. b/w ills. 12 mo. 160 pp. Informative and well-illustrated by quaint woodcuts of various species, with a chapter on the art of angling. VG. $125 |
| 45. | Coote, Jack. EAST COAST RIVERS. London. 1957. b/w ills. 64 pp. “The Yachtsman’s Pilot for the Thames Estuary.” Title and facing page marred near inner edge, light wear, else VG. $25 |
| 46. | Corbett, Julian S. SOME PRINCIPLES OF MARITIME STRATEGY. Lon. 1911. b/w frontis. viii, 317 pp. 1st ed. of Corbett’s 1911 classic treatise on the uses of modern naval power in wartime, furthering Clausewitz, Mahan and Colomb. From the ship’s library of the U.S.S. Neptune. Some wear to spine ends. A good copy. $50 |
| 47. | Corney, Bolton, (editor). THE VOYAGE OF SIR HENRY MIDDLETON TO BANTAM AND THE MALUCO ISLANDS... Lon. 1855. b/w map, plates. xi, 83, 52, viii pp. “Being the second voyage set forth by the governor and company of merchants of London trading into the East-Indies.” 1604 voyage first published in 1606, with 1609 appendix. Hakluyt First Series Publication. Bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Ex-lib, with call numbers on spine and glue marks from card pocket on back endpapers. Clean and fresh. $150 |
| 48. | Correa, Gaspar. THE THREE VOYAGES OF VASCO DA GAMMA... Lon. 1869. b/w plates. lxxx, 430, xxxv, (1) pp. One signature slightly sprung. Spine top chipped. Hakluyt First Series Publication. Bookplate of Sherard Osborn. Ex-lib, with call numbers on spine and glue marks from card pocket on back endpapers. $150 |
| 49. | Cowper, Frank. YACHTING AND CRUISING FOR AMATEURS. Lon. 1912. b/w plates, charts. (4), 166 pp. “A good introduction to pre-modern yachting.” - Toy 1841. First ed. With illustrated ads. VG $50 |
| 50. | Coxe, William. RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES BETWEEN ASIA AND AMERICA. NY. 1970. maps. xxviii, 454 pp. Fascimile reprint of the 1787 third edition, with maps and charts in a back pocket. VG. $60 |