Items 26-50
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26. Davis, Sir Robert H. DEEP DIVING AND SUBMARINE OPERATIONS. A MANUAL FOR DEEP SEA DIVERS AND COMPRESSED AIR WORKERS. PARTS I & II. Lon. (1951) b/w plates, some folding. xiv, 654, index. Fifth edition of this standard text, In fine condition with crisp dj. $250 |
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27. Donnelly, Ivon A. CHINESE JUNKS AND OTHER NATIVE CRAFT. (Shanghai 1930) Color plates, b/w line ills. 142 pp. Interesting book by a western resident in China. Color plates are particularly useful. Second ed. In excellent condition. $125 |
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28. Donnelly, Ivon J. THE CHINA COAST. Tientsin, China. 1931. Color and b/w plates, ills., charts. 4to. 71 pp. Donnelly was an old China hand who wrote several books on her waterways and watercraft, of which this is one of the scarcer examples, and is quite desirable. First edition. A very nice copy in original cloth. $250 |
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29. Edye, John. CALCULATIONS RELATING TO THE EQUIPMENT, DISPLACEMENT, ETC. OF SHIPS AND VESSELS OF WAR. Lon. 1832. b/w tables, many fldg. x, 153 pp. British naval vessels from an engineering point of view. Very useful for its meticulous and specific facts and figures about these vessels. For example, one could find, to the inch and pound, the length, diameter and weight of the bowsprit of an 18 gun corvette. Equal attention is given to the area, dimension and center of effort of sails, to the weight and number of cartridges and gunpowder, weights of timber, expenses of labor, and on and on. The 31 engraved diagrams and 15 folding plates illustrate vessel types and calculations for placements of guns, etc. Scott 603. This copy is bound in full black morocco. It bears the bookplate of John Pakington, Disraeli’s Secretary of War, and a member of the Institute of Naval Architects, with a note initialled by him - “Presented to me by the author. 1859. JP.” Front hinge split, else a VG copy. $650 |
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30. Ephemera. COLLECTION OF TWENTY-SEVEN STEREO VIEWS OF MARTHA’S VINEYARD. Scenes include “Steamer John H. Starin at Oak Bluffs, Aug 30th, 1876,” “View from Sea View House,” interiors of various celebrity cottages, “Trinity Square,” “Congregation in Tabernacle Camp Ground,” and “Oak Bluffs Landing” Photographers include locals such as Shute & Son, Edgartown, and S. F. Adams, Oak Bluffs. All VG condition. $1000 |
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31. Ephemera. NAVALITE. (Chi. 1894) b/w halftone plates. Oblong 12mo. Unpaginated. (About 40 pp.) This is a trade catalog for the Chicago Varnish Co. What makes it unusual and exciting is that it is illustrated with photos of Navalite customers like Vigilant, Pilgrim, Electra, Corsair, and other grand yachts and racing boats, taken by such masters as Stebbins and Bolles. Not in Romaine. Small - measuring 6 x 3 1/2 inches, but neat. $125 |
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32. Ephemera. NOTICE TO MARINERS. (NO. 18) NEW LIGHT-HOUSE ON CAPE SAN BLAS, FLORIDA. Mobile. 1859 Folio sheet. This broadside measures 8 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches. It describes the new light house and the light itself for the information of passing mariners. Dated Mobile, Ala. March 29, 1859. VG $200 |
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33. Ephemera. PHOTO OF THE “SCHOONER THOMAS G. SMITH. STRANDED NEAR ASBURY PARK, NJ., SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10TH, 1878.” Albumen photo measures approximately 7 x 4 1/2 inches. It shows a dozen men on the beach leaning against two boats, with the stranded schooner in the background. This comes with a copy of a long article from the New York Times describing the wreck - “A VESSEL STRANDED BY MAKING FOR A PATROLMAN’S LIGHT” The photo is mounted on cardboard with the caption printed beneath, and housed in a very handsome walnut and gilt oval frame. $200 |
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34. Ephemera. THE OLD ARM CHAIR, A BALLAD. LITHOGRAPHY BY FITZ HENRY LANE. Folio sheet. “The music composed and respectfully dedicated to Holton Olmstead, Esquire. By Henry Russell... F.H. Lane del. Thayer, successor to Moore...” The lithographed image depicts a woman leaning against a chair with a piano behind her. It is one of the few works by noted American luminist painter Fitz Henry Lane to center on a human figure. Wilmerding p. 188. $300 |
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35. Ephemera. TO MISS ROSE KENNEDY, OF NEW ORLEANS. POLKA. SEA SERPENT. b/w lithograph. 8 pp. This is a piece of sheet music with a wonderful full page cover lithograph by B.W. Thayer Co. showing a sea serpent rising in Boston Harbor with the city in the background. Just a bit of the bottom of the page is chipped away where the copyright date was printed, but Worldcat shows a date of 1850. It also shows that only two libraries hold copies. With 7 pages of music. $150 |
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36. Evelyn, John. SYLVA, OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES, AND THE PROPAGATION OF TIMBER IN HIS MAJESTIES DOMINIONS. Lon. 1670. b/w engravings. Folio. (1), title, (44) 247; (2), 67; 33, (1) pp. This, of course, is a maritime book, since it was written in 1662 “Upon Occasion of Certain Queries Propounded to that Illustrious Assembly by the Honourable the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy.” Specifically, they were worried about timber for their ships, and Evelyn, a friend of Samuel Pepys’, wrote this treatise encouraging land holders to plant trees to provide timber for England’s burgeoning navy. The unique feature of this copy is that it leads off with a full page manuscript discourse on the expense of planting and harvesting timber, signed at the King’s Head Inn, Mar. 6, 1804 by Giles Boardman, Nurseryman. The statement is seconded by one S. Sothern. The text has occasional marginal notes in an 18th century hand. Two other treatises - “Pomona,” 1670, and “Kalenarium Hortense,” 1669 - are bound in as usual and have separate title pages and paginations. A nice clean copy in original calf boards rebacked in antique style, with original spine label laid down. $1500 |
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37. Gascoigne, Henry Barnet. GASCOIGNE’S PATH TO NAVAL FAME... Warwick. 1825. b/w engravings. x, 180, 16 pp. The second edition, revised and enlarged, with an index of nautical terms and phrases. After being retired to half pay in 1808, Lt. Gascoigne became an industrious and opinionated pamphleteer. His long nautical poem, written in neoclassical couplets, is a literary curiosity and a mine of information to the student of Napoleonic-era naval history. The poem is annotated with details of British naval custom and practice, and ends with a 17 page glossary of naval terms. Pages untrimmed. Bound in original blue paper-covered boards. Hinges weak, some chipping on spine. $300 |
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38. Gatenby, Greg. (editor). WHALE SOUND: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS ABOUT WHALES AND DOLPHINS. Toronto. 1977. b/w plates, some handcoloring. Oblong 4to. 96 pp. This is #12 in a limited edition of 100 copies - marked “A/P 12” rather than signed by the editor as the colophon states. It consists of 71 poems and 21 drawings, etchings etc. from various sources. Contributors include Dorothy Livesay, Bill Bissett, Irving Layton, Susan Musgrave, Margaret Atwood, the editor, and many more. The illustrations range from classic engravings and lithographs to contemporary prints and drawings; from whimsical to tragic. Winningly designed and printed on a luscious French handmade paper. Bound in speckled handmade paper over boards, with white linen spine, and housed in a clamshell box of the same materials. A beautiful production. $500 |
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39. Gordon, Thomas. PRINCIPLES OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. Lon. 1784. b/w folding plates. viii, 207 pp. “With proposals for improving the form of ships. To which are added, some observations on the structure of carriages for the purposes of inland commerce, agriculture, &c.” McDonald calls it “minor and eccentric” - McDonald 258 - but so was he. It’s certainly scarce enough in the trade, and provides an insight into thinking on matters of naval architecture at the time of the American Revolution. The last eight pages are a dictionary of the nautical terms used by Gordon. Not in Craig. Adams & Waters 1202. Scott 394. Tanned fold on the frontispiece, else the five folding plates are clean and fresh. Bound in original cloth over boards with paper label. $850 |
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40. Greely Expedition. PROCEEDINGS OF THE “PROTEUS” COURT OF INQUIRY ON THE GREELY RELIEF EXPEDITION OF 1883. Wash. 1884. b/w photo plates, folding maps. 310, 225 pp. Voluminous documentation on the bungled attempt to rescue Greely and his men. The rescue expedition consisted of the Yantic and the Proteus, the latter being lost in Kane Basin. The head of the expedition never followed his orders for re-supplying Greely. Arctic Bib 18416. A VG copy in original government calf over marbled board with spine labels. Backstrip a bit tanned. $500 |
| 41. Ingalls, Wm. M.D. A CASE OF TYPHUS OR SHIP FEVER, WITH REMARKS. Bos. 1848. 28 pp. Treatise on possible causes and treatment of typhus, its miasmic origin, and case studies. The author finds opium to be the best treatment. Original wraps, VG $100 |
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42. James, William. FULL AND CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE CHIEF NAVAL OCCURRENCES OF THE LATE WAR... Lon. 1817. b/w plates. xv, 528, ccxvi, (16) pp. An important work on the War of 1812, with much on naval battles, but written from a British point of view , which earlier American historians found objectionable. J.R. Soley, for example, says, “Its tone is ... offensive and its comments are of the same scurrilous character... The War of 1812, with its absurd generals and its farcical strategy, affords a fine opportunity for caustic humor, but James only makes it the occasion of a tirade of vulgar abuse.”—Narr. & Crit. Hist. VII, 425. Smith II, 1186. Plates depict grape shot, the frigate President and the Frolic. VG in contemporary half calf over marbled boards with spine label. Binding shows light wear, text is clean. $250 |
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43. Johnson, Richard. AN ADDRESS TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE COLONIES ESTABLISHED IN NEW SOUTH WALES AND NORFOLK ISLAND. Lon. 1794. viii, 74 pp. A fascinating little book written by the chaplain of the prison colony. Ferguson says “He has written the address and hopes to have it printed in England and the to have copies distributed in the colony among those to whom he cannot minister.” He succeeded in this endeavor. Wantrup states, “As a book designed to be distributed among the convict population of New South Wales it is, not surprisingly, very rare. The only copy I have found listed recently is one sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. in 1982 for US $2600.” Ferguson 187. Wantrup pp. 85-86. Worldcat shows ten institutions holding copies, but the last copy to appear at auction was in 1977, when it brought. $377.70. This copy is in excellent condition, bound in calf over marbled boards with spine label. $3000 |
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44. Kelly, Ebenezer Beriah. EBENEZER BERIAH KELLY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Norwich (CT). 1856. iv, 100 pp. First Edition of this scarce and rich autobiography. Kelly first went to sea in 1796, served aboard the Constellation on her maiden voyage under Truxtun - and includes an account of the taking of the Insurgente. He was later impressed into the British navy aboard the Nattey, and served in the R.N. under Collingwood aboard the Royal Sovereign at Trafalgar. He gives an account of the battle, and describes the line of battle and the battle itself, and notes that Nelson “was rather tyrannical in the government of his men, and only half an hour before this battle had punished two of them severely for some trifling misdemeanor, but he lived and died a hero.” He made a voyage transporting convicts to Australia aboard the “hell ship” Hillsborough, ravaged by sickness, gales and a leaking ship, and describes a convict uprising and how it was discovered and suppressed: “We were eight days flogging, ironing and packing them again ...” He absconded when he reached Sydney, relates the murder of Clode, a clergyman, near Sydney, and the subsequent capture and execution of the two murderers. Kelly’s account of this incident is one of two, and contains information not in the other. He was held captive in Tripoli for a time, and in 1816 he went privateering on a Buenos Airean privateer, and also made a whaling voyage aboard the Friends of New London in 1836. There is no copyright, and one can reasonably conclude that it was published in a small edition only. Ferguson 11064. Howes K.61. Sabin 37305. Not in Cowie, Lord Nelson, nor in Smith, American Travelers Abroad. Scattered light foxing, but a very nice copy bound in original cloth, lightly sunned, with gold cover title still bright. $1250 |
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45. Kemp, Dixon (editor). YACHT RACING CALENDAR AND REVIEW FOR 1888 (AND) YACHT RACING CALENDAR AND REVIEW FOR 1890 Lon. 1888 and 1890 b/w illustrated ads. 2 vols. 4to. 170; 201 pp. Toy summarizes the contents of the 1893 edition (the only one he lists) thus: “Regattas and matches; Abstract of matches sailed... General review; Yacht racing; Cruising; Launches and field trips; Obituaries.” - Toy 70. These are rare periodicals. According to Worldcat they were issued annually for only seven years. Worldcat cites only the 1888 and 1893 editions, and locates a mere four copies in total. Bound in flexible blue boards with gilt cover design and lettering. Light soiling and wear, but still in Good condition, with wonderful vintage ads for Kemp’s books among other things, and a pencil drawing of a yacht in the back of the 1890 edition. Two vols. $250 |
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46. Key, Astley Cooper. A NARRATIVE OF THE RECOVERY OF H.M.S. GORGON. Lon. 1847. b/w and sepia toned plates, some folding, 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. Handsomely bound in full crushed blue morocco with gilt spine. $450 |
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47. King, Staff-Cmdr. J. W. THE PILOT’S HANDBOOK FOR THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. Lon. 1867. b/w charts, some folding. xii, 119 pp. “Containing Concise Directions For Entering And Navigating The Channel, And For All The Anchorages And Harbours On The English Coast, From The Scilly Islands To The North Foreland.” Third edition, and scarce. With 17 charts and descriptive text. Prettily bound in gold decorated blue boards. $150 |
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48. Lancaster, Clay. THE FAR-OUT ISLAND RAILROAD: NANTUCKET’S OLD SUMMER NARROW-GAUGE, 1879-1918 Nantucket. 1972. b/w ills. Oblong 4to. 135 pp. Scarce and esteemed history of this little line, which touched many Nantucket spots in a quaint and bygone age - wonderfully illustrated in prose and pen by Lancaster. #556 in a limited edition of 1000 copies. VG $250 |
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49. Lopes da Costa Almeida, Antonio. COMPENDIO THEORICO-PRATICO DE ARTILHARIA NAVAL. Lisboa. 1829. b/w folding litho plates. vii, (1), 434 pp., First edition of an early work on naval artillery. It features sections on powder, types of cannon and ballistics. The ten folding litho plates show cannon, carriages and projectiles. Worldcat shows but a single library, The Mariners Museum, holding a copy of this book. Bound in 19th century calf over marbled boards with gilt backstrip VG. $400 |
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50. Lovell, J.L. (Photographer). AUTOGRAPHS & PHOTOGRAPHS. GRADUATING CLASS, 1861, U.S. NVAL ACADEMY. 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Engraved title plus 46 photos, with blank pages interleaved. This rather enigmatic yearbook features campus scenes and portraits of officers, instructors and students, one per page. Lovell, who signs himself in type on the engraved title page “Photographer, Amherst Mass.,” is listed in Steele & Polito’s “Directory of Massachusetts Photographers.” He seems to have been active between 1850 and 1890, working from Amherst the whole time. What he was doing at the Naval Academy is a mystery. Gold lettering on the backstrip reads, “Photographs Class of ‘61” and “H.F. Picking.” Picking was the book’s owner, and his signed photograph is contained within. Dates on the signed photographs range from 1861 to 1869. Rare. Worldcat shows only two libraries holding microform copies. No actual copies other than this one are recorded. No sales records at auction or in the trade. Fine condition. Bound in full maroon morocco with gold lettering, all edges gilt, light rubbing to backstrip. $6500 |
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