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76. Manuscript. LOG OF BRIG WASHINGTON, HARPSWELL MAINE, FROM NEW YORK TO JEFFERSONTON, GA AND RETURN, JUNE 12 - AUG 27, 1852. Folio, unpaginated. About 50 pp. manuscript entries. This is the log of a timber run from New York to Georgia. It is of some interest because the captain, a man named Skolfield, died at the Satilla River in Georgia, and was replaced by the mate, Joseph Badger. His death is noted with some drama in the log, which contains the florid inscription, “Died on the Satilla River, August 2nd 1852 buried on the High Point of Cumberland Island Aug 4, Aged 28 or there abouts ‘In the Midst of Life we are in death.’” All this is of some interest because Fairburn V, p. 3305 tells us there was a prolific ship builder named Skolfield at Harpswell Neck who built a ship named Washington. Might have been a son who died... VG $300 |
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77. Manuscript. PAPERS OF APPRENTICE SEAMAN HOWARD TOURTELLOTTE, 1902-1907. This is a fascinating little archive. Tourtellotte trained on the USS Hartford 1902-1903, then shipped aboard the USS Brooklyn, of the old Atlantic Squadron, as an Apprentice Seaman, second class. In 1905, as flagship of Rear Adm. Sigsbee, the Brooklyn sailed for Cherbourg, France, to recover the body of John Paul Jones and return it for interment at the Naval Academy. Tourtellotte was a member of the party sent to Cherbourg to receive the body, and he records the transfer ceremony in great detail in his journal of the Brooklyn’s cruise. This journal takes up over 100 pages (the Jones business is described in a full eight pages) and features samples of shipboard printing from the Brooklyn, as well as contemporary news clippings and photographs. Also in the archive are a copy of the Brooklyn’s cruise book, 1903-1904, a copy of Marion’s “John Paul Jones’ Last Cruise” four photographs of Tourtellotte and fellow swabbies, photos of the Brooklyn and the Hartford, and Tourtellotte’s discharge papers. A very neat slice of history. The lot $850 |
| 78. Manuscript. THREE ACCOUNT BOOKS FOR THE ROPE WALK OF BRINLEY & LITTLEFIELD, NEWPORT, RI, 1810-1834. 3 vols. folio. 156, 262 and 110 pp. manuscript entries. The book of expenditures, 1810-1834 (262 pp.) begins “Edward Brinley and William Littlefield commenced Partnership in the Rope making business under the firm of Brinley & Littlefield the 1st of March 1810.” Brinley was Littlefield’s brother in law. Apparently they also ran a distillery in Newport during this time. Both the books listing expenditures and general accounts (156 pp.) indicate business did not slow down during the War of 1812. These two are accompanied by a third cash book, 1827-28 (approximately 110 pp. manuscript entries). Detailed records of an essential maritime business for which little documentation seems to exist. $1500 | |
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79. Manuscript. TWENTY LETTERS REGARDING COD AND MACKEREL FISHERIES FROM VARIOUS CAPTAINS TO E.F. AND C.W. POTTER, OWNERS, SOUTH DARTMOUTH, 1868-1885. Letters from men with honest Cape names like Eldridge, Howland, Cahoon and Nickerson, from places like Chatham, Harwich, Dennisport, etc. The writers discuss schooners and men for forthcoming or ongoing fishing seasons. A good documentation of the nuts and bolts of the fishery. $200 |
| 80. Manuscript. WHALEMAN’S LETTER, 1858. 4to. Half sheet manuscript. A whaling captain whose signature I cannot decipher writes his owner, a Mr. Potter, from Talcahuano, about leaving a sick crewman at Paita. Apparently the Consul there fouled up the paperwork, and this captain is reporting the situation. $25 | |
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81. Mercer, Henry C. ANCIENT CARPENTER’S TOOLS. (Doylestown, PA.) (1975) b/w plates. 339 pp. Illustrated and explained, with the implements of the lumberman, joiner and cabinet maker in use in the eighteenth century. Reprint edition of a scarce and desirable book. VG $75 |
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82. (Morse, Henry W.) THE APPLEDORE. Portsmouth, NH. n.d. b/w photo ills. Unpaginated (8 pp.) Rare advertising brochure for this hotel, which burned in 1914. Self wrappers, VG $75 |
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83. Mullins Co. MULLINS STANDARDIZED WOODEN BOATS. “THE WORLD’S BEST.” Cleveland, n.d. (ca. 1920). Duotone ills. 23 pp. A beautiful catalog of wooden launches designed by Whittelsey & Whittelsey, and built to high specifications by Mullins. And they could fly. The Mullins “Arrow,” a 25 footer would seat up to ten passengers. They claimed she’d make 20 mph. with their 35 hp. Sterling 4-cycle engine. The catalog is illustrated in duotone - yellow and blue, and the last five pages are devoted to motors and accessories. Not in Romaine. Fine condition, in illustrated wrappers. $175 |
| 84. Murray, John and G. Lee. THE DEPTH AND MARINE DEPOSITS OF THE PACIFIC. Cambridge, MA. 1909. Color folding maps, b/w plates 4to. 169 pp. These are reports from information gathered during the cruise of the US Fish Commission steamer Albatross, under Alexander Agassiz in 1899-1900, and 1904-1905. Part of Harvard’s Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology series. Inscribed by Murray. Bound in cloth over marbled boards, Front wrapper bound in. $150 | |
| 85. Nelson, Horatio. NELSON’S LETTERS FROM THE LEEWARD ISLANDS AND OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS... Lon. 1953. b/w plates. 4to. 73 pp. Handsome production of the Golden Cockerel Press, #36 of 60 copies specially bound in tricolor full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Edited by Geoffrey Rawson. Engravings by Geoffrey Wales. Fine in slipcase, with four page printed prospectus laid in. $1000 | |
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86. Norton, Charles B. AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN BREECH-LOADING SMALL ARMS, HEAVY ORDNANCE... AND OTHER MUNITIONS OF WAR.. Bos. 1882. Chromo litho and b/w plates and ills. 4to. 425, (4) pp. This is the second edition, “With notes on cast-iron heavy guns and later inventions in machine guns and magazine small arms” - including life saving guns and projectiles. It also features handsome colored lithographs in metallic ink of pistols, and excellent steel engravings of factories and their products - various guns and their components and ammunition. The final four pages are advertisements for gun companies of the day, one of them illustrated. The first edition, 1872, has been reprinted and is readily available. This expanded edition is scarce. Light cover wear, else VG, with gilt cannon on front cover still bright. $500 |
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87. Perrault, Major P.H. A MEMOIR ON THE SURVEY OF THE ROUTE OF CANALS, INTENDED TO CONNECT BUZZARD AND BARNSTABLE BAYS... Wash. 1826. b/w engraved folding charts. 15 pp. Presented as a memorial by the Secretary of War to Congress in 1825, “with three sheets of drawings.” Discusses the viability and strategic importance of such a canal. Charts on this paper with splits and old repairs along folds, and in need of more repair, but clean and complete. Pamphlet untrimmed sheets, taped along spine. A vintage Cape Cod item, worth of restoration and study. $250 |
| 88. Phillips, Stephen Willard (editor). SHIP REGISTERS OF THE DISTRICT OF GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. 1789-1875. Salem, MA 1944. b/w plates. 196 pp. Compiled from the Gloucester Customs House Records, now on deposit at the Essex Institute. Useful and hard-to-find. VG $125 | |
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89. Photographs SCRAPBOOK OF FORTY ALBUMEN PRINTS Most of these prints measure 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. They are primarily of southern rural scenes, perhaps Florida, with a good bit of river life, showing yachts Madelinie, two of the Mabel V., a primitive lighthouse, a cargo ship, the sidewheeler New York, and a steam tug. All mounted on card stock in an album cover $200 |
| 90. Porter, Admiral David D. MEMOIR OF COMMODORE DAVID PORTER. Albany, NY. 1875. b/w plates. ix, 427 pp. Scarce biography by Porter’s son. Covers Porter’s exploits in the Revolution, Quasi-War, and War of 1812, with much on his adventures aboard the Essex, marauding British shipping in the Pacific. Smith I 1633. Howes P-485. Original cloth, ex-library, with no markings in text and original tissue guards over heliotype plates. $75 | |
| 91. Porter, David. A VOYAGE IN THE SOUTH SEAS... WITH PARTICULAR DETAILS OF THE GALLIPAGOS (SIC) AND WASHINGTON ISLANDS Lon. 1823. b/w plates. 126 pp. Something of an oddity. The keynote of Porter’s career - and of his published narrative - was his campaign in the Pacific against British shipping during the War of 1812. His book was first published in America in 1815. It appeared eight years later in London, with all the anti-British passages cut out. This edition features three plates and a folding map of the Galapagos Islands. See Hill, 1374. Howes P-484. A handsome, untrimmed copy, rebound in half morocco over marbled boards. An excellent copy of a scarce book. $1500 | |
| 92. Porter, David. JOURNAL OF A CRUISE MADE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN Upper Saddle River, NJ. (1970) b/w plates, fldg maps. 2 vol. 246; 256 pp. Early US Pacific cruise and one of the heroic episodes of the War of 1812. Modern reprint. 2 vols. VG $75 | |
| 93. Pratt, Fletcher. PREBLE'S BOYS. NY. (1950) 419 pp. Standard history, now out of print. Biographies of 15 of Preble’s comrades in arms. VG $25 | |
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94. Print. BARON NELSON OF THE NILE; AND OF BURNHAM THORPE IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK. “Nelson, thy Name from shore to shore shall ring, Joy to the Nation; Joy to Englands King. Such Prowess ev’ry tribute justly craves, E’en Arabs shout, Britannia rule the waves!!! Publish’d Oct.r 13th 1798 by John Fairburn. No 146 Minories, London.” Mezzotint engraving approximately 14" x 10". A contemporary full-body portrait of Nelson at the Battle of the Nile with the burning French ship L’Orient in the background. Some staining and surface damage, with a dark spot in the upper right, but an interesting early example of England’s burgeoning Nelson-worship. $350 |
| 95. Privateers. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRIVATE ARMED VESSELS OF THE UNITED STATES... n.p. n.d. Folio sheet, folded once vertically. The instructions are composed of four paragraphs of text, to be filled out in manuscript for the appropriate vessel, and signed by the secretary of state. This is a blank copy - it has not been filled out or signed. While it is not as valuable as one bearing the signature of Secretary of State James Monroe, it is probably scarcer. There is an example of a filled-out form pictured in Stein, “Maritime Documents” p. 84. Old fold marks, else VG $500 | |
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96. Procter, George H. THE FISHERMEN’S MEMORIAL AND RECORD BOOK. Gloucester, 1873 b/w ills. 172 pp. plus ads Along with “The Fishermen’s Own Book” this is the major reference source for 19th century fisheries in Gloucester, with articles on the fisheries and lists of losses from 1830 to 1873. A near-Fine copy. $100 |
| 97. Richards, G.H. and F.J. Evans, (compilers). THE NEW ZEALAND PILOT. Lon. 1875. b/w chart. xv, (1), 360 pp. Rare pilot to New Zealand waters gives a close description of all passages, bays, land forms and hazards. These include whaling sites from the great days of the industry. Fourth edition, “from surveys made in H.M. ships Acheron and Pandora... 1848-55.” Bound in original cloth, front cover stained. Text clean. $250 | |
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98. Robinson, J. H. GUIDE TO NANTUCKET. (Nantucket) 1948. Color maps, b/w ills. 71 pp. plus 35 pp. illustrated ads. Seventh edition of this perennially popular guide, with folding color maps. Interesting illustrated ads for local inns and businesses. A fine copy in original wrappers. $65 |
| 99. (Royal Navy, Admiralty Office). PAPERS RELATING TO THE WAR WITH AMERICA; FURTHER PAPERS RELATING TO THE WAR WITH AMERICA II; FURTHER PAPERS RELATING TO THE WAR WITH AMERICA III. Lon. 1815. Folio; 18, 9, 6 & 1pp. Four British Parliamentary Papers printed on fine laid paper watermarked 1814 and bound together in later blue paper wrappers. A scarce collection of papers relating to the naval theater of war with America between 1812 and 1814. The first deals with the war on the lakes, including an "Extract of so much of the Proceedings and Evidence of a Court Martial held on Captain Barclay, and the other surviving Officers of His Majesty's Flotilla on Lake Erie, as relates to the state of Preparation of that Flotilla in point of equipage and armament." Other reports list the number of British warships captured by the Americans and the number of American war ships, privateers and sailors captured by the Royal Navy. Paper II deals with the protection of British merchant vessels from American warships and privateers, and Paper III prints petitions to the Prince Regent from British mercantile houses in Liverpool, Glasgow, Port Glasgow, Newark and Greenock on the same subject. The fourth paper is a single sheet listing the warships that sailed for the North American Station between April and July 1814. $300 | |
| 100. Snow, Edward Rowe. AN ISLAND CITADEL. Braintree. n.d. b/w plates. unpaginated. History of Fort Warren in Boston Harbor. One of Snow’s rarer efforts, published by the Glenrose press in Braintree. VG, in original orange wraps. $50 |
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