Steam Packet Memories.
Kent: Ferry Publications, 1992. 48 pp. Illus. with b/w & color photos, drawings, and maps. Obl. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. A fine copy. As new. More
Kent: Ferry Publications, 1992. 48 pp. Illus. with b/w & color photos, drawings, and maps. Obl. 8vo. Paper wrappers. First edition. A fine copy. As new. More
Newport, [RI]: 1844. [1] pp. Bifolium. 7.5 x 7.5 inches. Shipbuilding letter, dated November 14th, 1844 with integral address to N & J Atwood of Frankfurt, Maine, Acknowledging receipt: "The two masts & bows ... arrived here safe, the $30 freight we paid as directed. We shall haul them out..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1908). xi, 344 pp. Illus. with 33 b/w photos and 5 maps (4 folding). Sm. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Owner's number label to spine, else a very good clean copy, bookplate with image of seahorse on front pastedown, very light scattered foxing, and some..... More
Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1807. 4 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Letter from Robert Smith, secretary of the Navy, correcting errors made in the report originally sent to Thomas Blount regarding the attack & surrender of the USS Chesapeake to the British HMS Leopard. The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair..... More
Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1807. 8 pp., 1 fold-out. Illus. with b/w folding chart. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Following the humiliating defeat in the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith was required to answer for the current strength of the Naval Force, and was asked..... More
London: Sports and Sportsmen, Ltd., [ca.1930]. xv, 498 pp. Illus. with 8 color plates, 10 b/w photos and 254 other illus. Folio. Full red morocco, five raised bands ruled in gilt, gilt titles or floral decorations to three compartments each, boards with twin ruled borders in gilt and blind, gilt..... More
[Boston]: n.p., 1889. 8 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Benjamin Franklin Stevens (1833-1902) was a bibliographer concerned with the Revolutionary War period, prepared numerous facsimiles of important American documents, and was purchasing agent for many American libraries. A very good copy, rear wrapper a bit tender with a...... More
Glasgow: Scottish Field, (1967). 56 pp. Illus. with 23 color plates. Obl. 8vo. Stiff paper wrappers. First edition. Excellent illustrations by Nicholson. Very good, wrappers worn & lightly browned, contents leaf detacahed. More
London: Printed by Thomas Baylis, for William Cobbett, 1801. 48, xxiii pp. Sm. 8vo. Disbound. First edition. Grenville was known to write under the pseudonym of Sulpicius for the Porcupine in which these letters first appeared. "Among the most remarkable works upon international jurisprudence which the crisis of the second..... More
London: Syren and Shipping, 1948. 463 pp. Illus. with color drawings and b/w photos plus advertisements. Folio. Brown cloth with paper labels (hardback). First edition. Numerous photographs of ships, news, and many advertisements. A very good copy, light soiling and spotting to front boards, paper spine labels chipped. More
Rotterdam: Donia Pers, 1980. 103 pp. Illus. Obl. 8vo. Illustrated paper-covered boards. First edition. Van Nievelt, Goudriaan en Co's Stoomvaart Maatschappij. A fine copy. As new. More
Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1959. viii, 274 pp, Illus. with 25 b/w photos. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. Second edition. English Institutions series. Update of the first edition of 1939. History of the British Mercantile Marine. A near fine copy in a very good price-clipped slightly edgeworn dust jacket. More
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, (1987). 240 pp. Illus. with color and b/w photos, drawings, and maps. 4to. Cloth with gilt titles. First edition. Review copy; includes promotional material from the publisher. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new. More
1988. Framed size: 22 x 20 inches ; image size: 15 x 12 inches. Matted and framed. Watercolor, signed but illegible, birthday inscription. Wonderful watercolor drawing of passengers walking the deck. Fine. More
Berlin-Birkenwerder: Otto Franke, n.d.(ca. 1930). 368 pp. Illus. with color reproductions and b/w photos, drawings, and maps. 4to. Cloth. First edition. Front hinge starting, repaired tears to pastedowns, otherwise text clean; about very good. More
Kings Point: Bureau of Maritime Services, 1949. 430 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 4to. Embossed Leather. First edition. Minor wear to tail of spine, small dent in rear board, rear hinge coming loose along with rear free endpaper. More
[Washington D.C]: 1818. [1 pp.]. 8" x 10" inches. Dated January 14th, 1818 from the Navy Commissioners Office to Captain Thomas Macdonough, Commandant, Portsmouth, NH. In full: "Should the Navy yard under your command be without a fire engine, you are authorized & required to procure an efficient one, &..... More
Paris: Librairie Orientale et Américaine, 1927. 404 pp. + adv. 12 pp. Sm. 8vo. Three quarter mottled calf over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, silk bookmark sewn in. First edition. A very good+ copy with foxing on a few leaves and edges, in a...... More
ca 1952. Framed size: 24 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches; image size: 23 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Mahogany & steel frame with wooden backing. Beautiful black and white photograph of the SS United States at sea. The SS United States was the first American merchant ship since 1852 to..... More
Washington [D.C.]: Printed by William A. Davis, 1816. 7 pp. + charts. Illus. with 2 b/w folding charts. Folio. Paper wrappers, in a quarter cloth over marbled boards folding portfolio, in a slip case. First edition. January 22d, 1816, read, and ordered to lie upon the table. United States. Congress..... More
[Washington D.C.]: Blair & Rives, printers, 1839. 16 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. 26th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Doc. No.12. Discusses whaling issues including problems with entering ports as mentioned by various whaling captains. A very good copy. More
[Washington, D.C.]: Gales & Seaton, print. 1836. 10 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. 24th Congress, 1st Session, No. 387. The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the "bill for the employment of boys in the merchant service of the United States," return the same to the Senate, with amendments..... More
New York: W. W. Norton, 1960. 288 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and drawings. 8vo. Cloth. 1st ed. Signed by author. Very good+ in very good dj with faded spine and wear to edges. More
Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1854. 12 pp. 8vo. Disbound. First edition thus. Discusses the horrors and dangers of the sea, written after the 1853 hurricane season which included the strongest Atlantic hurricane until the 1924 Cuba hurricane, and just after two prominent shipwrecks: (1) the clipper packet ship Staffordshire, which..... More
New York: New York Daily News, 1939. Framed size: 24 x 16 1/2 inches; image 24 x 16 inches. Mahogany frame. Double page spread in color from The Sunday News, November 5, 1939 (pp. 12-13) of the Aquitania, Queen Mary, Normandie, and Ile de France tied up at their North..... More