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| 101. | Light House Board. LIST OF LIGHT-HOUSES, LIGHTED BEACONS, AND FLOATING LIGHTS ON THE ATLANTIC, GULF AND PACIFIC COASTS... 1880. Wash. 1880. 4to. 91 pp. Light lists for the 13 districts, with remarks. Front wrapper detached but present. Wraps chipped, text VG $75 |
| 102. | Lloyd’s Register. LLOYD’S REGISTER OF AMERICAN YACHTS... 1934. NY. 1934. Color plates. Oblong 8vo. 597 pp. plus 12 pp. illustrated ads. 62 color plates showing hundreds of flags, pennants and private signals of yachtsmen. VG $100 |
| 103. | Lockhart, J.G. STRANGE TALES OF THE SEVEN SEAS. NY. 1930. b/w plates. ix, 210 pp. A well considered collection of strange-but-true tales, including “Last Thoughts on the Mary Celeste.” A very nice copy, unopened, in dj. $35 |
| 104. | Loomis, Alfred F. RANGING THE MAINE COAST. NY. 1939. b/w and duotone plates, signed litho. 274 pp. First trade ed. of a handsome book illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. VG, chipped and sunned dj. $45 |
| 105. | MacDonald, Rose. AN ANALYTICAL SUBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 1871-1920. Wash. 1921. 306 pp. Bureau business, voyages, fishes, mammals, mollusca, sponges, crustaceans, etc. all get their due in this useful bibliography covering the book period of American commercial fisheries. Chipped wraps. $45 |
| 106. | Macfarlane, Robert. HISTORY OF PROPELLERS AND STEAM NAVIGATION. NY. 1851. b/w plates and ills. 144 pp. Survey of existing technology by editor of “Scientific American” with many dead ends and weird inventions documented. Interesting wood engravings of these early attempts. A scarce title. First edition. Sabin 43251. Scott 692. Lower corner tanned, not affecting text block. Bound in original cloth, moderate cover wear. Gilt steamship on front cover still intact. $125 |
| 107. | MacGregor, David R. FAST SAILING SHIPS. Newfoundland, NJ 1973. b/w illus. 4to. 319 pp. “Design and construction 1775-1875.” First edition. VG, dj. $45 |
| 108. | MacGregor, J. THE ROB ROY ON THE JORDAN... Lon. 1870. Color and b/w plates, ills. xiii, 474 pp. Second edition. “The third of MacGregor’s immensely influential canoeing books... This is probably the best of MacGregor's canoe books...” — Toy 1457. Inscribed by author, “With Rob Roy’s regards, July, 1870.” Covers age-darkened along edges. Text clean. $125 |
| 109. | Manuscript. LOG OF THE SHIP FAWN. BOSTON TO INDIA. 1817-1818. Unpaginated. About 200 pp. manuscript entries. An excellent and early account by the captain, William Austin, of an American vessel engaged in the India trade. The Fawn was a 436 ton ship built at Charlestown for William Gray, the greatest shipowner and merchant of his day. (By this point in his career he’d moved from Salem to Boston, taking with him Salem’s preeminence in maritime trade.) The Fawn traveled to India via Mauritius, where she put in at Port Louis, discharging leather, gin, lumber, fish and other articles he thought he might sell there. She proceeded to the northwest of India, then to Bombay. Austin sold his cargo on a low margin and purchased sugar, cotton, indigo, “elephant’s teeth” and alum. From Bombay, the ship returned to Boston. Daily entries detail weather, course, shipboard evolutions, vessels and landmarks sighted, and events of importance onboard. The log is enhanced by lengthy port entries, in Austin’s hand and signed by him, from Mauritius and India. In these sections he hashes out difficulties and details of trade, and records his process of deciding where to go and what to sell. References to “Mr. Gray” are frequent, and Gray’s best interests are never far from Austin’s mind. Quite unusual in this respect. Entries legible, text clean, boards detached but present. $2000 |
| 110. | Manuscript. LUMBER OR SHIP YARD ACCOUNT BOOK. PHILADELPHIA, 1802-1808. Tall folio, about 400 pp. manuscript entries. Dated entries detail purchases and sales of lumber products such as pine boards, sap pine, hickory, barrel staves, tar, turpentine, spikes, as well as occasional bulk foodstuffs such as rye flour, pork or corn (and a wonderful debit on leaf 70, to George Lake for $1.50 cash “by your wife”). Also such items as cedar boat planks, “oak nees,” ship timbers, oak scantling and debits for wharfage, use of scow, etc. indicate proximity to the waterfront. Philadelphia names such as Mendenhall and Chew abound, and the last few pages contain later entries in pencil and a billhead from a Philadelphia commission merchant. Old boards, worn and detached. First few pages chipped on edges, otherwise text clean and legible. $350 |
| 111. | Manuscript. NOTES ON A VOYAGE TO NEW ORLEANS ON THE SHIP CHARLES. 8vo. 32 manuscript pages. The Charles, of Danvers, departed Salem on December 22, 1823, with a crew of 20 and 9 passengers. The author of this journal, one of the passengers, writes in a colorful, almost novelistic, manner. A harsh gale over Christmas drove the ship 600 miles off course. The sprung a leak and, in the vicinity of Hole In The Wall, thought they were going to be overtaken by a pirate (which turned out to be a British naval vessel). They speak various naval and merchant vessels, pass north of Cuba, and arrive with several other vessels at Belize, awaiting a fair wind to New Orleans. After a week, the breeze is in their favor and they begin the 120 journey upriver. This occupies the last third of the journal, and goes into great detail about life ashore... Rice plantations, slaves, overseers and Indians. Passing the battleground, they finally reach the city, hidden behind its levee, and the journal ends. This is a richly descriptive account, in which we learn such minutia as what the crew were paid, or how the pilot rate was calculated, as well as how it felt to depart Salem, and the rich panoply of sights as they approached New Orleans. About 10,000 words. Text legible, bound in old gray wrappers. Housed in red cloth chemise and slipcase with black spine label. $1000 |
| 112. | Manwaring, G. E. (ed.) LIFE AND WORKS OF SIR HENRY MAINWARING. (Lon.) 1920, 1922. b/w frontis. 2 vols. xxii, 325; 303 pp. Interesting a colorful account of 17th century maritime life. Naval, piracy, fisheries. Navy Records Society. Blue cloth. VG, 2 vols. $100 |
| 113. | March, Edgar J. SAILING DRIFTERS. Lon. (1952) b/w plates, folding plans. xvi, 3w82 pp. “The story of the herring luggers of England, Scotland and the Isle of Man.” First edition, VG in chipped dj. $75 |
| 114. | Markham, Admiral John. SELECTIONS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL JOHN MARKHAM DURING THE YEARS 1801-4 AND 1806-7. (UK) 1914. b/w frontis. xx, 451 pp. Letters written during this period to Markham, who was lord of the admiralty. Much on internal workings of the Royal Navy of the time. Edited by Clements Markham. VG $50 |
| 115. | Markham, Clements R. (ed.) LIFE OF CAPTAIN STEPHEN MARTIN. (UK) 1895. b/w plates. xxxix, 223 pp. Martin served in the British Navy from 1686 to 1714, having previously served in the merchant service. Such interest as his journal may posses “is that which belongs to the career of an active naval officer in stirring times, who saw a great deal of service.” Navy Records Society. Lightly soiled boards, VG $50 |
| 116. | Marsden, R.G. (ed.) LAW AND CUSTOM OF THE SEA. (UK) 1915 2 vols. xl, 561; xxiii, 447 pp. Documentary history of maritime law in England and Europe. Including privateering and prize courts. 2 vols. VG $100 |
| 117. | (Marshall, James.) DESCRIPTION OF COMMANDER MARSHALL’S NEW MODE OF MOUNTING AND WORKING SHIP’S GUNS. Lon. 1829. b/w engravings 4to. vii, 76 pp. plus plates. Theory, construction, training, ways to use, and field testing of new gun carriage, which depended on a rotating front truck to give greater ease of use and angle of fire. Dozens of figures on 9 full page engravings depict construction and operation of this new design. Small circular stamp of United Service Club at top of title page, VG in black morocco over cloth. $350 See Illustration |
| 118. | Marshall, John. ROYAL NAVAL BIOGRAPHY OF PETER HEYWOOD, ESQ. NY. n.d. (ca. 1940) b/w plates. 77 pp. One of the survivors of the mutiny on the Bounty, first published in 1825. $25 |
| 119. | Marx, Robert F, SHIPWRECKS OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. 1492-1825. NY. (1971) b/w plates. xxi, 482 pp. Chronological listing by geographical area. First ed. Minor cover spotting, else VG. $30 |
| 120. | McGowen, A. P. (ed.) THE JACOBEAN COMMISSIONS OF ENQUIRY, 1608 AND 1618. (UK) 1971. b/w frontis, plates. xxvii, 319 pp. Naval fraud and administration at the beginning of the 17th century. VG. $45 |
| 121. | McWilliam, Robert. AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN AND OPERATION OF THE DRY ROT, WITH A VIEW TO ITS PREVENTION OR CURE. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED SUGGESTIONS ON THE CULTIVATION OF FOREST TREES AND AN ABSTRACT OF THE SEVERAL FOREST LAWS FROM THE REIGN OF CANUTE TO THE PRESENT TIME. Lon. 1818. b/w plates. 4to. xx, 420 pp. This sounds like a boring treatise on dry rot, and it is. But it is also a marvelous work on English forestry with an eye to the shipbuilding industry, with chapters on cutting, seasoning and preserving various kinds of timber, methods of planting and harvesting shipbuilding timbers, and laws governing British forests. There are even chapters on mushrooms and fungi, and on shipbuilding in India. Scott, 534. Quite a scarce work. Bound in 19th century cloth with an old card pocket on back pastedown and two small circular private library stickers on backstrip. No other markings. A VG copy. $500 |
| 122. | Mikal, Alan. EXPLORING BOSTON HARBOR. Quincy, MA. (1973) b/w plates. 128 pp. Islands, lighthouses and historic spots. A hard book to find. VG, dj. $60 |
| 123. | Mitchell, Mairin. THE MARITIME HISTORY OF RUSSIA 848 - 1948. Lon. (1949) b/w maps, some folding. xvi, 544 pp. First ed. Excellent, inclusive, hard to find. VG $50 |
| 124. | Moebs, Thomas Truxtun (ed.) AMERICA’S NAVAL HERITAGE. A CATALOG OF EARLY IMPRINTS FROM THE NAVY DEPARTMENT LIBRARY. Wash. 2000 Color and b/w plates. Oblong 4to. xv, 174 pp. 340 mouthwateringly rare naval books and documents are described and annotated in this excellent catalog. The well written descriptions constitute miniature essays in Naval history and bibliography. With citations that correspond to a helpful list of sources. Indexed as well. Apparently out of print already. VG-Fine $50 |
| 125. | Montagu, Edward. THE JOURNAL OF EDWARD MONTAGU FIRST EARL OF SANDWICH ADMIRAL AND GENERAL AT SEA 1659-1665. (UK) 1929. lxxi, 329 pp. His adventures during this period include the expedition against Algiers, the Restoration, the acquisition of Tangier, the battle of Lowestoft the capture of the Dutch East-Indiamen in 1665 and most of the other important events in the British Navy during the mid 1600s. Some cover spotting, text clean. $60 |
| 126. | Morriss, Roger. (ed.) THE CHANNEL FLEET AND THE BLOCKADE OF BREST, 1793-1801. (Lon.) 2001. b/w charts. xii, 700 pp. Navy Records Society. Fine $50 |
| 127. | Murrell, William Meacham. CRUISE OF THE FRIGATE COLUMBIA AROUND THE WORLD... Bos. 1840. 12mo. 230, (2) pp. A scarce little sailor’s narrative of life before the mast and the sights and adventures of a round-the world cruise. The Columbia, which accompanied the John Adams, took part in the shelling of Quallah Battoo on Sumatra to avenge the murder of American sailors by Malays. As Forbes notes, there is also a good deal of information on Hawaii. Scarce. Not in Hill. Forbes 1232. Smith M121. Judd 133. Bound in 19th century half black calf over marbled boards with gilt spine rules and title. Scattered light foxing. Chip at top of spine else a VG copy, tight and bright. $750 |
| 128. | Naish, George P. B. (ed.) NELSON’S LETTERS TO HIS WIFE. (UK) 1958. b/w frontis, plates, facsimiles. xxxii, 630 pp. “And other documents. 1785-1831.” Navy Records Society. VG. $65 |
| 129. | Navy Dept. NAVY SONG BOOK. Wash. 1919. b/w plates. Oblong 12mo. 98 pp. “Issued by the Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities and compiled with the assistance of the National Committee on Army and Navy Camp Music.” This was distributed free to “Officers and Men of the Navy.” We’re glad to see “Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula (Hawaiian Love Song) was included in this collection. Wraps, VG $25 |
| 130. | Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris. THE DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF VICE ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT NELSON. Lon. 1845-46 b/w portraits, plates and plans. 7 vols. (xlix), 509; xxviii, 495; xxxvi, 527; xxxi, 542 (plus two terminal advertisement pages); xxiv, 523; xxxv, 502 (four terminal advertisement pages); xxxii, 424, ccxc (Addenda). Volume I is a second edition. The compiler, in the advertisement to this second edition says, “Since the publication of the First Volume of this work, the Editor has been favoured with many communications, which have caused some additional (sic) Letters to be inserted in the present Edition.” This advertisement is dated 13 January 1845. The subsequent six volumes are first editions. Thus, this is the best available edition of the standard reference work for Nelson’s correspondence, “and the principal source from which his biographers have drawn (and still do draw) their material.” Cowie #144. A very nice set, bound in original embossed and gilt decorated brown cloth. Stamped in gold on the front panel of each volume is a circular ornament composed of the King’s naval crown ringed with the words “England expects every man will do his duty.” $1000 |
| 131. | Oppenheim, M. (ed.) NAVAL ACCOUNTS AND INVENTORIES OF HENRY VII. (UK) 1896. lvi, 349 pp. Shipping, transport and naval matters at the end of the 15th century, and the foundations of the modern British navy. Much detail on supplies carried by naval vessels. VG $50 |
| 132. | Oppenheim, M. (ed.) NAVAL TRACTS OF SIR WILLIAM MONSON. (UK) 1902, 1912,1913, 1914. b/w plates, fldg. charts. 5 vols. Various paginations. Navy Records Society. “With a commentary drawn from the state papers and other original sources.” 5 of 6 vols., the most complete set available. VG $400 |
| 133. | Parkinson, C. Northcote. PORTSMOUTH POINT. Cambridge, MA. 1948. b/w plates. 154 pp. “The Navy in fiction. 1793-1815.” This excellent work by historian and novelist Parkinson provides the historical background needed for a fuller appreciation of the classics of naval fiction. With helpful bibliography, glossary and illustrations. First Edition. VG in worn dj. $75 |
| 134. | Patterson, A. Temple (ed.) THE JELLICOE PAPERS. (UK) 1966, 1968. b/w frontis. 2 vols. xi, 315; xiv, 497 pp. Selections from private and official correspondence, 1893-1935. Navy Records Society. VG $75 |
| 135. | Patterson, Captain Howard. YACHT SAILS. NY. (1901) b/w ills.. 12mo. 96 pp. Third in Patterson’s Pocket Yachting Series, “Adequately Illustrated” with ills. by Cozzens. A sweet little book. VG $40 |
| 136. | Perin, W. G. (ed.) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PHINEAS PETT. (UK) 1917. civ, 244 pp. Pett was one of the great ship builders of the early 17th century. Navy Records Society. Spine sunned, boards soiled. $50 |
| 137. | Periodical THE NAVAL CHRONICLE FOR 1805. Lon. 1805. b/w engravings. xi, 511, (15) pp. July-December 1805. Biographies of naval heroes, outlines of incidents and battles, obituaries, lists of vessels captured, relation of shipwrecks, promotions, appointments, and summary of recent naval history. Worn calf over marbled boards. Sewing tight, contents clean. $200 |
| 138. | Periodical. THE NAVAL CHRONICLE... FROM JULY TO JANUARY, 1801.. Lon. n.d.. b/w engravings. v, (4), 518, (12) pp. Biographies of naval heroes, outlines of incidents and battles, obituaries, lists of vessels captured, relation of shipwrecks, promotions, appointments, and summary of recent naval history. Worn calf over marbled boards. Front board and title page detached but present. Some staining. $150 |
| 139. | Periodical. THE YACHTING MONTHLY AND MARINE MOTOR MAGAZINE. VOL. XLIX. n.p. 1930. b/w plates, ills. 480 pp. May-October, 1930. Scarce yachting periodical edited by Maurice Griffiths. Lines, plans, yachting and race news, narratives of voyages, historical articles, etc. VG $65 |
| 140. | Perrin, W. G. (ed.) BOTELER'S DIALOGUES. (UK) 1929. xxxvii, 341 pp. 17th century British naval history. Navy Records Society. VG $45 |
| 141. | Proper, Ida Sedgwick. MONHEGAN, THE CRADLE OF NEW ENGLAND. Portland, ME. (1930) b/w plates. xvii, 275 pp. First edition of the history of this island off the Maine coast, limited to 1000 copies. VG $45 |
| 142. | Ralfe, J. NAVAL BIOGRAPHY OF GREAT BRITAIN. Lon. 1828. b/w folding charts, engraved portraits and plates. 4 vols. 4to. Vol. I: xiv, (iii)-vi & 428; Vol. II: 528; Vol. III: 400 & errata; Vol. IV: 542, errata & advertisement page. “Consisting of historical memoirs of those officers of the British Navy who distinguished themselves during the reign of his Majesty George III.” Howe, Graves, St. Vincent, Saumarez, Gambier, Nelson are among the 149 biographical sketches. DNB notes that much of the material used in the biographies was contributed by the subjects themselves and may be accepted as factual. With the engraved bookplates of the Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet. BMM Catalog II, 77. With 13 engraved plates and charts, several folding. Uniformly bound in half black morocco over marbled boards. This useful set is very difficult to locate. $1250 See Illustration |
| 143. | Ranft, B. McL. (ed.) THE BEATTY PAPERS. (UK) 1989, 1993. b/w frontis. 2 vols. xxiv, 600; xxiii, 500 pp. Selections from the Admiral’s papers. Navy Records Society. Blue cloth, Fine. $100 |
| 144. | Reste, Bernard de. HISTOIRE DES PECHES, DES DECOUVERTES ET DES ETABLISSEMENS DES HOLLANDOIS DAN ;LES MERS DU NORD... Paris. An IX (1801) b/w plates and charts, some folding. 3 vols. xxxvi, 432, 464, 378 pp. Illustrated account of Greenland and the whale fishery. With 28 maps and plates, most folding. Wonderful old engravings of whaling scenes, implements, fishes, whales and birds, with six maps. Jenkins p. 139. Sabin 70100. Based on Dutch sources, primarily. De Jong plate from Duhamel du Monceau. Bound in full tree calf with spine labels. Some rubbing, joints weak. Text and plates fresh and clean. $1250 |
| 145. | Richmond, Capt. W.H. (Editor) PAPERS RELATING TO THE LOSS OF MINORCA IN 1756. (UK) 1913 xl, 224 pp. Documents which came to light as a result of the trial of Admiral Byng. VG. $50 |
| 146. | Robinson, M.S. A PAGEANT OF THE SEA. THE MACPHERSON COLLECTION... Lon. 1950. Color and b/w plates. 4to. vii, 264 pp. An illustrated survey of the important collection of maritime prints and drawings in the National Maritime Museum. Handsome color plates and informative text. A good reference. VG. $85 |
| 147. | Rose, Susan (ed.) THE NAVY OF LANCASTRIAN KINGS (UK) 1982. b/w frontis. 288 pp. “Accounts and Inventories of William Soper, Keeper of the King’s Ships, 1422-1427.” Navy Records Society. Blue cloth, VG. $30 |
| 148. | Rowbotham, W. B. (ed.) NAVAL BRIGADES IN THE INDIAN MUTINY, 1857-58. (UK) 1947. fldg. map. xv, 331 pp. Naval forces that worked with the Army in supression of the mutiny. Navy Records Society. Library book plate and stamp on endpaper else no other markings. Light wear. VG. $100 |
| 149. | Scammon, Charles M. THE MARINE MAMMALS OF THE NORTH-WESTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY. Riverside, CA. (1969) 4to. b/w plates. xlvi, 319, v pp. Facsimile reprint edition of this whaling classic, with excellent biographical revue of Scammon and whaling of his day, with folding charts of whaling lagoons and the Baja, made during Scammons’ time but previously unpublished. An excellent resource. VG $125 |
| 150. | Scoresby, William. JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTHERN WHALE-FISHERY... (Yorkshire, ENG. 1980) b/w folding plates, maps. xliii, 472 pp. Facsimile of the first (1823) edition of an important early book on whaling and on Greenland. “Contains an account of cruise in the Baffin... 1822, in Greenland Sea... whaling in waters off east Greenland, exploration of the Scoresby Sound...” — Arctic Bib 15614. Jenkins p. 144. Melville had a high opinion of Scoresby... “On the separate subject of the Greenland or right whale, he is the best existing authority.” VG in dj. This facsimile is difficult to find, and quite a bit cheaper than the original. $125 |