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| 126. | Treasury Department. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD FOR... 1906. Wash. 1906. fldg. color charts. 180 pp. District-by-district summary of the year’s doings, with folding color chart illustrating each district and its lights, their range and location. Ex. Lib. Some light wear, still VG in original wraps and scarce thus. $125 |
| 127. | Treasury Department. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD FOR... 1907. Wash. 1907. fldg. color charts. 191 pp. District-by-district summary of the year’s doings, with folding color chart illustrating each district and its lights, their range and location. Ex. Lib. Some light wear, still VG in original wraps and scarce thus. $125 |
| 128. | Treasury Department. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD FOR... 1908. Wash. 1908. fldg. color charts. 77 pp. District-by-district summary of the year’s doings, with folding color chart illustrating each district and its lights, their range and location. Ex. Lib. Original wraps starting to come undone, else VG. $125 |
| 129. | Treasury Department. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LIGHT-HOUSE BOARD FOR... 1909. Wash. 1909. fldg. color charts. 113 pp. District-by-district summary of the year’s doings, with folding color chart illustrating each district and its lights, their range and location. Ex. Lib. Original wraps detached but present, else VG. $125 |
| 130. | (U.S. Dept. of Commerce.) LIST OF LIGHTS, BUOYS, AND DAYMARKS IN THE FIRST LIGHT-HOUSE DISTRICT... Wash. 1906. 142 pp. From the Northeast Boundary to Hampton Harbor, New Hampshire. Binding broken with end pages and back board detached. Just Good, but full of information. $35 |
| 131. | (U.S. Dept. of Commerce.) LOCAL LIGHT LIST. NEW ENGLAND COAST. 1929 Wash. 1929. 182 pp. “Including lights, fog signals, buoys, and day marks... Maine to Massachusetts. First and second Lighthouse Districts.” Half-bound in green morocco. Light wear, VG. $50 |
| 132. | (U.S. Dept. of Commerce.) LOCAL LIGHT LIST. NEW ENGLAND COAST. 1931. Wash. 1931. 178 pp. “Including lights, fog signals, buoys, and day marks... Maine to Massachusetts. First and second Lighthouse Districts.” Half-bound in green morocco. Light wear, VG. $50 |
| 133. | Vanderdecken (William Cooper). YACHTS AND YACHTING. Lon. 1873. b/w plates, many folding. viii, 391 pp. “Treatise on building, sparring, canvassing, sailing and the general management of yachts.” An interesting illustrated section on sail making. “Very comprehensive”—Toy 1956. With 47 plates, many of which fold. Bound in original decorative cloth with bright gilt decoration. Inner hinge starting. VG. $250 |
| 134. | Vaux, C. Bowyer. CANOE HANDLING. NY. 1885. b/w ills. 168 pp. First ed. Quite scarce. History of the sport, chapters on rigging the vessel, even on what to wear. Speaking of which, the cover shows only the slightest wear. Text is clean. A very nice copy. $175 |
| 135. | Verne, Jules. THE EXPLORATION OF THE WORLD. NY. 1879, 80, 81. b/w plates. 3 Vols. xviii, (2), 432; xvi, 409; xv, 378 pp. First editions published by Scribners. The 3 volumes comprising this set are : “Famous Travels and Travelers,” “The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century,” and “The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century.” Spines just slightly duller that covers which are quite bright, with black and gilt design against red cloth. VG 3 vols. $500 |
| 136. | Walker, Richard. THE NELSON PORTRAITS. (1998). color, b/w plates. 4to. xx, 316 pp. A definitive iconography of Nelson, with every known contemporary image. In addition to the catalogue, Walker uses the images as primary evidence to learn about Nelson. Fine in dj. $100 |
| 137. | (Ward, Ned.) NEPTUNE AND MARS, OR THE FLEET AND THE ARMY DISPLAY'D IN THEIR TRUE COLOURS... Lon. 1745, n.d. b/w frontis. Title in red and black. 2 vol. (6), 77; (6), 76 pp. Ward was a prolific English satirist who died in 1731. His gad-fly humor and attacks on the government resulted in his twice being pilloried. The two works here are second printings of scurrilous and entertaining pieces first published in 1707 and 1709. (The 1707 work was about sailors and was originally titled “The Wooden World Dissected.”) They describe in a satirical manner the typical soldiers and sailors of the day, from captain to man before the mast. Despite the tone there is much good information on social mores and shipboard customs in the 18th century Royal Navy, as well as a few laughs that survive into the 20th century. This edition is rare. Not in NMM catalog or in Adams and Waters. Handsomely rebound in antique style half calf over marbled boards with gilt spine decoration. $500 |
| 138. | White, John. JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES, WITH SIXTY-FIVE PLATES OF... BIRDS, LIZARDS, SERPENTS... AND OTHER NATURAL PRODUCTIONS. Lon. 1790. Engraved title, color plates. 4to, (8), 299, (1), (40) pp. “White was appointed surgeon general to the settlement at New South Wales, and he sailed to Australia in 1787 with the convict transports... White’s account contains many circumstances omitted by Governor Arthur Phillip and others. The long appendix is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first major work of this sort.” - Hill p. 324. The voyage itself was from London to Rio to Captetown to Australia. A few copies of the work have colored plates - Hill refers to them as “special copies” - and this is one of those, with coloring fresh and bright, and no foxing or tanning present. It is bound in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, and bears the gold embossed stamp of the Conservative Club of London on its front board. All 65 plates present, with plate 7 misbound, as in the Foyle copy which brought 5000 pound sterling in 2000. A beautiful copy. $7500 |
| 139. | Wilkes, Charles. NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION DURING THE YEARS 1838,1839,1840,1841,1842. CONDENSED AND ABRIDGED. Lon. 1852. b/w plates. 2 vols. x, (1), 318; xii, 326 pp. Naturally Wilkes’ Exploring Expedition was of great interest to the British. Two condensations of the 5 volume American work were issued in short order - the first in 1845 (the year the American edition first appeared) and this edition in 1852. Haskell says “Both of these English versions are genuine editions, all of the type having been reset, that of the 1845 edition being smaller than that of the 1852 edition.” This edition contains full page plates and illustrations as insets in text. See Haskell 5 and 12. Beautifully bound in half vellum over blue boards with spine labels. VG-Fine $450 |
| 140. | Wilkes, Charles. NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION DURING THE YEARS 1838,1839,1840,1841,1842. Phila. 1845. b/w plates, charts, some fldg. 5 vols. various paginations. A landmark in American exploration, these are the records of the first U.S. government-sponsored exploring expedition. Besides establishing the U.S. as a global power, it returned a wealth of scientific detail and nearly as much controversy. This set is, in essence, the first “popular” edition. It came out the year after the first official edition, and was issued without the atlas, with woodcuts (about 300 in number) replacing the steel engravings, and with 10 of the 14 maps which appeared in the first edition. However the text is unchanged. Haskell 3, Hill p. 325, Judd 189. Bound in original sheep with black spine labels. Some binding repair, foxing, tanning, but a decent set $750 |
| 141. | Williams, Capt. E.C. HISTORY OF THE WHALE FISHERIES... NY. 1862. b/w frontis. 12mo. 68 pp. A very rare little pamphlet on whaling, probably meant for sale at Williams’ lecture “The Illustrated and Muscular Lecture of Captain Williams on the Leviathan Hunt in the South Seas.” This took place on a stage with a fully rigged whaleboat and accompanying crew which acted out a whale hunt, while a series of panoramas (which had been prepared by Williams) were displayed to the audience, and mood music played in the background. Williams must have been on the road with the show for quite a while, because a 32 page edition of this pamphlet had been issued in 1860. Both editions include descriptions of whaling taken from such sources as “Moby Dick” and Hart’s “Miriam Coffin.” Also included are descriptions of the losses of the Essex and the Ann Alexander. According to Ingalls, Williams’ panorama “claimed to cover 8000 feet of canvas.” It, and his show, were based on a whaling voyage he’d made on the Elizabeth Starbuck of Nantucket in 1834-37. This edition of the pamphlet was originally sold with 10 small lithographed cards illustrating whaling scenes, probably taken from the panorama. They are not present here. While textually similar to the 1860 edition (the final 2 pages are not found in the earlier version) this 1862 edition seems to be rarer. No locations are cited in OCLC. Forster 273. Ingalls 293. Jenkins p. 160. Bound in original salmon colored wrappers. Front wrap chipped at corners with a few light stains. VG copy of a rare and interesting whaling artifact. $500 |
| 142. | Wise, Lieut. (Henry Augustus.) LOS GRINGOS; OR, AN INSIDE VIEW OF MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA, WITH WANDERINGS IN PERU, CHILI, AND POLYNESIA. Paris. 1850. 160 pp. in double columns. “This book narrates (Wise’s) experiences on an expedition from Boston, sailing around Cape Horn, bound for Mexico and California... Upon reaching the Californian and Mexican coasts, the Independent engaged in hostilities with the Mexicans until the end of the war... the vessel returned to Boston, stopping at Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, and then Callao, before rounding Cape Horn.”—Hill p. 330. Howes W-593. Cowan p. 691 where it is noted, “The descriptions of California occupy pages 38-141.” First published in America in 1849. This French edition is not noted in any of the above references. Bound in wrappers. Water stain on upper outside edge of first 70 pages, else VG $150 |
| 143. | Worcester, G.R.C. THE JUNKS AND SAMPANS OF THE UPPER YANGTZE. Shanghai. 1940. Color and b/w plates, several folding. 4to. (12), 96 pp. Scarce predecessor of Worcester’s authoritative two volume work. Worcester was a River Inspector in China and is the acknowledged expert on these craft. This book has some particularly interesting aspects, such as a color plate of Chinese vessel pennants. Original quarter cloth, printed boards, a very good copy. VG $350 |
| 144. | Worcester, G.R.C. THE JUNKS AND SAMPANS OF THE YANGTZE. Shanghai. 1947 and 1948. b/w plates, fldg. plans. 2 vol. 4to. xxviii, (245), 501 pp. First Editions of Worcester’s esteemed 2 vol. work. Worcester was for 30 years employed in the Chinese Maritime Customs, and produced a total of four volumes on the watercraft of the Yangtze. The present work covers the craft of the estuary and Shanghai area, and the Lower and Middle Yangtze. Illustrated with 197 plates. The second volume is very difficult to find. Both vols. in original cloth. VG. $750 |
| 145. | Worcester, G.R.G. NOTES ON THE CROOKED-BOW AND CROOKED-STERN JUNKS OF SZECHWAN. Shanghai. 1941. 4to. b/w ills., plates, some folding. 4to. 82 pp. Concise and well-illustrated treatise on two types of junks. According to the preface, the little-known “crooked-bow” type is thought to have functioned in its present form for 1700 years. This work is quite scarce. A VG copy, INSCRIBED BY WORCESTER ON THE FRONT FLY LEAF. $350 |