Items 76-100
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76. 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. $100 |
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77. 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. $150 |
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78. Photo. ADOLPHUS GREELY AND MEMBERS OF HIS EXPEDITION. This photograph was taken in Newburyport some time before the expedition departed in 1881. Nine of the twenty-one men in the photograph are identified in pen on the backing card. Among them are Linn, Henry and Kislingbury, who died on the Expedition. Photo measures 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. $150 |
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79. Photograph. FIVE “REAL PHOTO” POSTCARDS SHOWING WHALES AND WHALING. As the name implies “Real Photo” cards are photographic prints with a postcard back having a place for address, correnspondence and stamp. These five depict a harpoon gun ready to fire, a whale being harpooned, a monster right whale, and beached sperm and orca whales. They probably date from the 1920s and 30s. The lot, $200 |
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80. Photograph FRENCH CRUISER HUSSARD. HENRY G. PEABODY, CIRCA. 1892. Vintage albumen print measuring 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. The ship was in New York for the Columbian Exposition. VG $100 |
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81. Photograph. “REAL PHOTO” POSTCARD OF ICE CUTTING. This card shows nine men and tools, working a row in a frozen lake. An ice cart stands to the side with horses in the background. Probably dates from about the WW I era. $30 |
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82. Photograph REPLICA OF COLUMBUS’ NINA. HENRY G. PEABODY, 1893. Vintage albumen print measuring 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. The vessel was built to comemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery. VG $100 |
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83. Photograph RUSSIAN CRUISER RYNDA. HENRY G. PEABODY, CIRCA. 1892. Vintage albumen print measuring 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. The ship was in New York for the Columbian Exposition. French cruiser Hussard in the background. VG $100 |
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84. Photograph. SCHOONER YACHT MERLIN. HENRY G. PEABODY, 1892. Merlin, sailing dramatically right to left in the frame. Vintage albumen print measuring 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. Small hole in lower left hand corner, else VG $75 |
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85. Photograph YACHT FREDA. Vintage albumen print measuring 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Mounted on card. Small blindstamp in lower right corner reads, “West & Son. Gosport.” The yacht was built in 1876. $150 |
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86. Plimpton, Theodore M. and Frank Merrill. A CRUISE ON THE DAWN. N.P., N.D. (ca. 1878.) Color and b/w lithos. 4to. 60 pp. “Through the generosity of Mr. Wm. A. Merrill, the good yacht Dawn had been placed at the disposal of Ned Tuttle for a cruise of a week down the coast of Maine.” This delightful work recounts that week and the adventures of the five friends who chartered the yacht. It is a privately published lithographic printing of handwritten journal entries, with illustrations on most pages, (executed by Frank Merrill) many hand colored. As they sailed east from Boston they stopped at Gloucester Harbor (a colored illustration of Ten Pound Island Light graces p. 9). They shopped in Gloucester and stopped at a boatyard (also illustrated) on Rocky Neck. The next day found them at Appledore on the Isles of Shoals, where they saw, but did not speak with, Celia Thaxter. Then Boon Island, Cape Porpoise, Cape Elizabeth and Portland Harbor, where they put in. They sailed down to Harpswell Harbor before returning to Boston. This is a decidedly social account. The men go to dinners and balls, and meet frequently with other yachtsmen, both at sea and ashore. The people they meet are recorded with as much gusto as the landscape they pass, and the entire work gives us an intimate and animated look at yachting in Victorian times. This is a rare work, unknown to either Toy or Morris & Howland, obviously printed in a very small run (probably less than 10, assuming a copy for each crewmember) and unrecorded anywhere, with no holdings on OCLC and no sales records anywhere that I can find. It is bound in half leather over boards and is accompanied by a letter to one of the men, thanking him for the loan of the book. Bound in half morocco over pebbled cloth with gold cover title. Front free endpaper detached but present. Light cover wear. Text and illustrations in an excellent state of preservation. Colors in the illustrations are still fresh and bright. $2500 |
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87. Porter, D. AN EXPOSITION OF THE FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH JUSTIFIED THE EXPEDITION TO FOXARDO. Wash. 1825. 107 pp. “The official investigation of Porter’s campaign against pirates in the West Indies, particularly his rather high-handed landing on Foxardo.” - Smith II, 2966. Sabin 64217. Untrimmed and uncut, stab sewn, in old paper wrappers, chipped. Title page a little dusty, but in original condition. $450 |
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88. 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 inches. 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 |
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89. 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 valauble 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 $350 |
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90. 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. $50 |
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91. Schulz, Gustav. (Illustrator) NORDDEUTCHER-LLOYD ERINNERUNGSBLATTER NO. 3. n.p. n.d. (ca. 1890.) b/w plates. 4to. Twenty gravure photo plates depicting shipboard scenes and views of European and American coasts and ports, including Sandy Hook light and Hoboken Harbor entrance. The work of Schulz, who specialized in industrial and urban landscapes, has seen increasing interest in recent years - his Falklands portfolio bringing prices in the thousands of dollars. This collection of Norddeutscher-Lloyd images in apparently quite scarce, OCLC locating no similar copies. Twenty plates on 9 x 11 inch sheets with tissue guards, in gilt cloth portfolio. Short splits at edges of portfolio, else a Fine set. $400 |
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92. See, Horace. SOME SEA SPECIALTIES. NY. 1906. b/w plates. Oblong 8vo. 48 pp. Trade catalog issued by naval architect and engineer Horace See, with photos of yachts, merchant vessels, liners and warships for which his firm provided “hydro-pneumatic ash ejectors.” Minor wear. $50 |
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93. Smith, Fitz-Henry Jr. THE STORY OF BOSTON LIGHT. Bos. 1911. b/w plates, ills. 70 pp. A mostly uncut, unopened copy of this privately printed account of the lights in Boston’s harbor. Stain in lower corner of pages not affecting text or ills. Original wrappers chipped and detached, but present. A scarce book. $75 |
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94. Solis, (Juan Diaz de), and (vincente Jaime) Pinzon. EERSTE SCHEEPS-TOGT TER VERDERE ONTDEKKINGE VAN DE WEST INDIEN... GEDAAN NAAR JUKATAN IN’T JAAR 1506. Leyden. 1706 b/w cut on title page. 27, (5) pp. Spanish voyage to the West Indies following Columbus’ success. Sabin 86427 notes that this work was included in Pieter van de Aa’s collection of voyages, and that it is “Sometimes found seperately” as this copy, with its own title page, was. Bound in later marbled wrappers. VG $100 |
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95. (Somers Mutiny). CASE OF THE SOMERS’ MUTINY. DEFENSE OF ALEXANDER SLIDELL MACKENZIE, COMMANDER OF THE U.S. BRIG SOMERS, BEFORE THE COURT MARTIAL HELD AT THE NAVY YARD, BROOKLYN. NY. 1843. 30, ii pp. A contemporary report of the Court Martial of Commander Mackenzie for hanging three sailors of the crew of the U.S. Brig Somers for mutiny, including Midshipman Philip Spencer, son of the Secretary of War. Despite the public outcry over the hangings, the Court of Inquiry found Mackenzie’s actions in the presence of mutiny warranted and necessary. Mackenzie immediately requested a Court Martial with the goal of eliminating the possibility of later exposure to civil proceedings. The two-page appendix is a translation of the Greek notes found in Midshipman Spencer’s razor case that identified the mutineers. Lacking the original printed wrapper, but with a piece clipped from the wrapper inscribed and signed by Mackenzie to author H. T. Tuckerman pasted to the first text page. $350 |
| 96. Southey, Robert. THE LIFE OF NELSON. Hartford. 1814. 16mo. 71 pp. Abridgment of Southey’s classic for the American market during the War of 1812. Original calf-backed paper-covered wooden boards; worn and stained example of a scarce and fragile early American publishing effort. $75 | |
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97. Stevengraph. “ARE YOU READY?” (ROWING SCENE) The Stevengraph, a woven silk picture, was invented by Thomas Stevens and first appears on the backing paper for his bookmarks in 1876. He called his factory “The Stevengraph Works” and later referred to his woven silk pictures in the same way. They first appeared in 1879. This image shows two “eights” just getting ready to begin a rowing race. It measures 6 x 2 1/4 inches. On the back is a printed ad for 14 other similiar Stevengraphs, including trains, hunting scenes, lifeboats, fire engines, bicycling and, tantalizingly, “The Lady Godiva Procession.” VG, matted and framed, under glass. $200 |
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98. Tripp, Lot. DIRECTIONS FOR MARINERS ON VOYAGES IN HOT AND COLD CLIMATES; HOW TO TREAT THE SICK, AND TO USE THE MEDICINES CONTAINED THE CHEST. NY. 1838. 12mo 22 pp. This pamphlet was intended to accompany the ship’s medicine chest. Each medicine in the chest was numbered. Each disease is described symptomatically, and the appropriate treatment is given by citing the number of the medicine to be administered. Thus, Bloody Flux is described on p. 12. Bottles no. 3 and 4 - Castor Oil and Rhubarb are prescribed. According to the title page, the medicine chest was put up by Silas Carle & Nephew, at Fulton and Water streets in New York. Though this title is rare - no copies listed on OCLC (the Blunt Library at Mystic Seaport seems to own an earlier edition) - the type of pamphlet turns up occasionally, since one was printed to accompany every medicine chest that ever set sail. In original plain wraps. Tide mark on outer half of every page, else a VG copy. $200 |
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99. Wehman, Henry J. (publisher). STORIES OF THE WHALE OR PERILS OF THE WHALE FISHERY. NY. n.d. (ca. 1890s) b/w ills. 48 pp. plus 16 pp. ads. Compilation of whaleship disasters, from the beginning of the 19th century to the 1850s. Also sections on whales and on methods employed in the fishery. Illustrated with oft-reprinted wood engravings of whaling scenes. Printed on terrible, highly acidic paper, quite tanned, but still - miraculously - intact in its illustrated paper wrappers. Not in Jenkins, and certainly scarce, most copies having fallen apart long ago. $100 |
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100. Worshipful Company of Watermen and Lightermen. THE LAWS AND CONSTITUTIONS OF THE MASTER, WARDENS AND COMMONALTY OF WATERMEN AND LIGHTERMEN OF THE RIVER THAMES. (Lon.) 1828. b/w title engraving xii, 85 pp. Wonderful printed evidence of a trade group that had been publishing their laws at least since the early 18th century. As these 85 pages make clear, this was a highly regulated profession. Digital iterations abound, but Worldcat shows only three libraries holding copies of this edition. Bound in old marbled wraps. $200 |
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