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| 76. | Huycke, Harold D. Jr. TO SANTA ROSALIA FURTHER AND BACK. Newport News. 1970. b/w plts. some folding. xix, 631 A group of German boys aboard 12 square rigged ships, trapped in Mexico by WW I. Interesting and little-known bit of West Coast sailing ship history, and something of a cult favorite. VG, in dj with lightly sunned spine. $85 |
| 77. | Jones. Herbert. (editor) IT’S A FRIENDSHIP. Rockland, ME. (1965) Color and b/w plates, lines. 4to. 95 pp. First edition, one in a limited edition of 3000. This copy inscribed by Betty Roberts, of the Friendship Sloop Society, to whom the book is dedicated. VG, dj. $75 |
| 78. | Kemp, Peter (ed.) OXFORD COMPANION TO SHIPS AND THE SEA. Lon. (1976) b/w and color ills. vii, 967 pp. Thirty-seven hundred articles, the best work of its kind. VG, dj. $60 |
| 79. | Key, Astley Cooper. A NARRATIVE OF THE RECOVERY OF H.M.S. GORGON. Lon. 1847. folding b/w plates., map. 113 pp. A British warship was driven ashore in Monte Video in 1844. This is the story of her wreck and her salvage. “18 plates and 23 detailed drawings.” - Huntress 352C. Rebound in green cloth. VG $350 |
| 80. | Kilby, Kenneth. THE COOPER AND HIS TRADE. Lon. (1971) b/w plates, ills. 192 pp. Wonderfully written and profusely illustrated from contemporary sources. The tools, methods and history of this ancient trade are brought to light. First ed. VG, dj. $75 |
| 81. | (Knox, John). A NEW COLLECTION OF VOYAGES, DISCOVERIES AND TRAVELS... Lon. 1767, b/w maps and plates, many folding. 7 vols. Various paginations. The National Maritime Museum Catalog quotes Maggs on this set, “A capital collection containing well-digested narratives of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus, Ulloa, Dampier, Kolbe, Woodes Rogers, Drake, Pocock, Nieuhoff, etc.”—NMM Cat I, #41. Sabin 38163. 7 volumes in contemporary full calf with 19th century rebackes featuring gilt spine decorations and labels. Top lavel missing in vol IV. Light, even tanning, but all 49 maps, plans and engraved plates are clean, in Very Good condition. A nice set, almost never found complete and in this condition. $1500 |
| 82. | Kunhardt, C.P. STEAM YACHTS AND LAUNCHES; THEIR MACHINERY AND MANAGEMENT. NY 1887. b/w plates, lines. (vii)-239 pp. “A good survey of the small American marine steam engines of the time and useful in restoring or building such engines.”—Toy 4671. Also sections on auxiliary machinery, hull design and racing. First edition. Some cover wear, text and ills clean. $200 |
| 83. | La Perouse, Jean Francois. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1785, 1786, 1787, AND 1788... Lon. 1798. b/w plates, maps. 3 vols. x,(2),532; x,498, viii,446,60 pp. This is the first English edition of La Perouse’s epic voyage. He deposited the journals from which this account was taken at Botany Bay, and then sailed off into the Pacific, never to be seen again. This English edition is an abridgement of the French edition. It contains 42 maps and plates. Hill 974. Sabin 38963. Howes L-93. Bound in full contemporary calf. Vol I rebacked to match, with original label. 3 vols. VG $2500 |
| 84. | Lambert, Gerard B. YANKEE IN ENGLAND. NY. 1937. b/w plates. xiv, 203 pp. “Lambert took his yacht, Yankee to England for the yachting class season of 1935. This is a well-written account of pleasurable social events as well as of sailing and racing.” — Toy 1648. First edition with 5 line inscription from author Lambert. Inner hinges cracked else VG. $125 |
| 85. | Lancaster, Clay. THE ARCHITECTURE OF HISTORIC NANTUCKET. NY. (1972). b/w plates. xxxiii, 286 pp. First edition. Inhabited continually for 9,000 years, first by Indians, latterly by more upwardly mobile types. Yet, all have shared a fascination with this “Land Far Out To Sea,” which has kept it, if not untouched, then at least a little more chaste than the majority of the early-settled lands. VG, in pictorial dj. worn near bottom edge. $125 |
| 86. | M’Kay, L. (Lauchlan McKay) THE PRACTICAL SHIP-BUILDER. NY. 1940. b/w folding plates. Oblong 4to. x-107, (4) pp. Reprint of the rare 1839 edition, #217 in a limited edition of 250 copies signed by editor and McKay descendant Richard McKay. This edition with a biography of McKay, and a piece of wood from McKay’s shipyard tipped onto the front pastedown. The original is one of the legendary rarities in the literature of marine architecture, being the first American treatise on shipbuilding. Lauchlan wrote it as a young man, after a youth spent in the shipyards of New York, having served with his more famous brother Donald as an apprentice to Isaac Webb. This work is notable for its glossary of shipbuilding terms, its direct and detailed treatment of shipbuilding techniques, and its 7 folding plates illustrating, among other things, plans for a schooner, a pilot boat and a riverboat. This reprint is also a scarce item. VG $400 |
| 87. | Macpherson, David. ANNALS OF COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES, FISHERIES AND NAVIGATION. Lon. 1805. b/w folding plates. 4 vols. 4to. xvii, 719; 738; 728; 550 (202) pp. “With brief notices of the arts and sciences connected with them. Containing the commercial transactions of the British Empire and other countries.” A narrative history arranged in chronological order up to 1800. Much attention given to fisheries and maritime commerce. Kress B4939. A handsome set, bound in full calf, rebacked to match with original red spine labels. 4 vols $500 |
| 88. | Macy, Obed. THE HISTORY OF NANTUCKET; BEING A COMPENDIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE ISLAND BY THE ENGLISH, TOGETHER WITH THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE WHALE FISHERY.... Bos. 1835. b/w map, plate. xi, 300 pp. First edition of this classic history, with much on the whaling industry and the men who pursued it. Howes M-195. Forster 217. Jenkins p. 122. Backstrip laid down, scattered foxing. VG $450 |
| 89. | Magoun, Alexander. THE FRIGATE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER HISTORIC SHIPS. Salem. 1928. Folio. 155 pp. Magoun’s reconstructions of famous ships. McDonald call this “the most famous (and expensive) of Marine Research Society books.” It is a lavish production, with folding plans, lines and plates throughout. Other vessels covered in the book are a Viking ship, the “Santa Maria”, the “Mayflower”, the “Flying Cloud” and the “Bluenose”. See McDonald, “Sailing Ship Technology” 488. VG in dj. and scarce thus. $200 |
| 90. | Manuscript. 4 LETTERS REGARDING WRECK OF GLOUCESTER MACKEREL SCHOONER OFF EDGARTOWN. In April, 1852 the Gloucester fishing schooner William P. Dolliver went aground off Edgartown. She later came free and drifted farther from shore, “half a mile from the main land half her keel out quarter and bows much broken both masts and bowsprit gone.” She wound up “laying on her broadside” on a shoal nine miles from town. Most of her cargo, nearly 400 barrels of mackerel, was salvaged. Three of these letters, from Thomas Foster, describe the wreck and salvage efforts. The fourth, from Abraham Osborne, regards the salvage of materials from the vessel. $200 |
| 91. | Manuscript. ARCHIVE DOCUMENTING THE BUILDING OF SHIP JAMES LLOYD, 1811-1813. WITH OTHER FAMILY PAPERS OF BENJAMIN WALKER OF TAUNTON, MASS., 1800-1825. This lot is highlighted by eight manuscript documents on folio sheets pertaining to the building of a merchant ship in 1812. These include detailed contract and specifications between carpenter Joseph Perry and the Walker and Briggs families as owners; Walker’s invoice for materials, 1811, 1812; invoice for sailcloth and rigging materials; account of expenses, total cost of the ship divided among owners; division of money among four principals, and settlement of accounts as of Dec. 30, 1813. Plus a dozen documents pertaining to the life and affairs of Benjamin Walker of Taunton, and scraps of miscellaneous Walker family papers. Financial and shipyard documents with this continuity for a single vessel are scarce on the market. The lot $1250 |
| 92. | Manuscript. JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FROM FAIR HAVEN AROUND CAPE HORN ON BOARD SHIP GENERAL SCOTT 1839 - 1843. Small folio, about 150 pp. manuscript entries. The General Scott was a 333 ton whaleship that cruised the Pacific for sperm whales between May 13, 1839 and June 18, 1843. She did not have a particularly successful trip, returning only 910 barrels of sperm oil. Robert Fosdick was captain, and this journal was kept by Obed F. Alley, probably the mate, who became a captain himself in 1846. The journal is kept - with some gaps - throughout the voyage, from June 22, 1839 to May 13, 1842. As well as frequent mentions of position, shipboard occurrrences, and ships sighted, it contains many action sequences such as the following from 1841, “At 8 AM lowered for whales off the lee beam. The waste & Larboard boat struck together the starboard fastened the whale was spounting blood run against the boat & upset her & cracked her a little the whale went off - saved two and cut them in.” It features several small watercolor renditions of the horizon - the ocean’s surface - with spouting whales to indicate pods sighted. It also has whaling stamps, but uses them in an unusual manner, ganging them together on one page near the middle of the journey as a visual talley of whales taken. There are 19 whale stamps arrayed in three rows with numbers from “15” to “85” written atop each stamp, indicating the number of barrels yielded by each whale. At this point - October 6, 1840 - the total was 625 barrels. The end pages contain handwriting and bookkeeping exercises, copies of letters home, small watercolors of a ship and a leafy vine, several whale stamps, a list of the vessels sighted during the first part of the voyage, and several miscellaneous notations, including a short note by Alley presumably from 1846 when his first command, the Marie - “Mary” - left Nantucket bar. In all, an excellent journal from the heyday of Pacific whaling. No other logbooks for this voyage have survived. See Starbuck p. 356-7: Lund pp. 15, 489; “Whaling Logbooks p. 142. Log is bound in calf over marbled boards. Writing legible, pages clean. $6500 |
| 93. | Manuscript. SHIP’S LOGS KEPT BY ALFRED WILLIAM HARRISON, MASTER OF SHIP, TRAFALGAR, 1854-1863. sm. 4to. unpaginated, ca. 150 leaves. A quaint record of a seaman’s career. Harrison and the Trafalgar must have maintained a sort of packet run to Madras, because this is the only destination in the several voyages recorded here, with stops at St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope, etc. Standard entries record course, longitude, winds, etc. With remarks filling in details about weather, vessels sighted and events on board. This is accompanied by ephemeral items of considerable charm, including a curiously calligraphed letter, a list of places visited in 20 years on the London Madras run, Harrison’s Mariner’s Register Ticket dated 1860, an inscribed carte de visite of Capt. Harrison himself, and most fetching, a list of diseases and ailments he’d contracted during his seafaring career, ending with, “Hernia - 31 years.” Shaken in binding but legible and clean. $350 |
| 94. | Manuscript. SHIPBUILDING PLAN BOOK Oblong folio. Unpaginated, about 20 pp. Manuscript plans in ink for “After House Ship Eliza McNeil” with spaces identified and dimensions given, “Cabin Plan” with no dimensions, “Forward House” with dimensions, deck plan with scale of feet, rigging plan, with dimensions, and cabin plan laid in. Plus sail plan and hull view of smaller 2 masted vessel. The Eliza McNeil, a three masted square rigger of 1582 tons, was built in Thomaston, ME by Samuel Watts. She was employed in the Cape Horn service and was reputed to be a good sailer. In 1872 she ran from New York to San Francisco in 119 days. She was sold to Bremen in 1882 and renamed August. See Fairburn, vols. III and V for particulars. A most unusual shipyard plan book. $750 |
| 95. | Mason, Otis T. AMERICAN ABORIGINAL HARPOONS. Wash. 1900. b/w plates, ills. pp. 189-304. “A study in ethnic distribution and invention.” Well illustrated, with 19 plates and 92 illustrations. Part of “Annual Report of the... Smithsonian Institution... 1900.” 738 pp. overall, giving you additional learned articled about geology, Californian anthropology, Chinese ceramics, the history of musical scales, and meteorites. VG in original binding. $150 |
| 96. | (McCarty, William) HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WAR OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWELVE. Phila. 1816. 7 b/w plates. vii-252 pp. This contemporary history covers all the great naval battles as well as the overland fighting. Four of the seven plates are of naval battles. Howes mentions a map but he is in error. No map was included in this edition and no map is listed in the directions to the binder or with the plates on the title page. Howes M-38. Smith II, 1115. Rebound in cloth with leather label. Pages tanned, a good copy of a scarce book. $400 |
| 97. | McClellan, William B. THE OFFICIAL REGISTER OF AMERICAN YACHTING. Bos. 1892. Color and b/w ills., plates, ads. Oblong 4to. xvi, 318 pp. plus illustrated ads. First edition. Listing of American yacht clubs and yachts with wonderful illustrated ads and 48 full page color plates of club pennants. Morris & Howland p. 90. Bound in later blue buckram, ex lib, with occasional oval stamps. Library plate on front paste down. Rare. $200 |
| 98. | McDonald, Marshall, Commissioner. BULLETIN OF THE UNITER STATES FISH COMMISSION... FOR 1890. Wash. 1892. b/w plates, folding charts with colored outlines. 4to. vii, 450 pp. Articles on (among other topics) fishing vessels of the Pacific coast, fisheries of Lake Ontario, fishes of the lower Potomac, and several articles on oysters and the oyster industry. Binding a little worn, edges of large folding charts of oyster grounds a bit frayed, but charts themselves a clean and fresh. $50 |
| 99. | McKay, Richard. SOUTH STREET. A MARITIME HISTORY OF NEW YORK. NY. (1934). Color and b/w plates. xxii, 460 pp. plus photos. Still an important source. Stamp from a public library on front blank, else near fine with no other markings. $40 |
| 100. | (McLean, Duncan.) DESCRIPTION OF THE LARGEST SHIP IN THE WORLD, THE NEW CLIPPER GREAT REPUBLIC, OF BOSTON. DESIGNED, BUILT AND OWNED BY DONALD MCKAY, AND COMMANDED BY CAPT. L. MCKAY... Bos. 1853. 6 b/w folding lithograph plates. 24 pp. First and only edition of a rare pamphlet describing the greatest ship of its day. The Great Republic, launched in 1853, was the largest merchant sailing ship ever constructed in the United States. This pamphlet, in its own way, is a grand production. It features six folding plates of plans and lines of the great ship, two of which open out to more than 3 feet in length. Quite a rare item, not in MacDonald, Brewington, NYPL list, or Scott. No holdings in listed OCLC. The pamphlet is rebound in blue buckram, with the front printed wrapper bound in and a manuscript note from the 1870s tipped onto the back of the wrapper, giving the fate of the vessel subsequent to her burning in 1852. The plates have been removed, unfolded and hinged down on acid free mat board, covered with high quality acetate. $1750 |