Empress of Britain, Canadian Pacific's Greatest Ship.
by Turner, Gordon.
Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., (1992). V G. in D J.. 28 cm. 216 pp. B/W Plates engravings and plans
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The Story of the Island Steamers.
by Turner, Harry B.
Nantucket: Inquirer and Mirror Press, (1910). Nantucket freeze-ups, the story of the camels, a few reminiscences. First ed. Scarce. Crosby, p. 190. Light cover wear, scattered foxing. Very good condition . 18.5 cm. (4), 125 pp. b/w plates.
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The Pacific Empresses.
by Turner, Robert D.
Winlaw, BC: Sono Nis Press, 2004. Illustrated history of the Canadian Pacific Railways Empress liners on the Pacific Ocean. Second edition. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering. Fine condition in fine dj. . 28 cm., 290 pp. Color frontispiece, Color and b/w plates
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The Pacific Princesses.
by Turner, Robert D.
Winlaw, BC: Sono Nis Press, 2004. Illustrated history of the Canadian Pacific Railways fleet on the northwest coast. Second edition. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering. Fine condition in fine dj. . 28 cm., 258 pp. Color frontispiece, b/w plates
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The Sealers.
by Tutein, Peter.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. Rescued from an Arctic shipwreck, the young author decides to go sealing with Captain Schjelderup, his rescuer. What follows is an absolutely authentic account of that life, "the backbreaking, gory toil of killing and flaybing seal, day and night... the labor of dragging skins for hours over jagged ice... when the ice blocks are crashing around him in a stinging arctic blizzard." First edition, very good condition, in slightly sunned and chipped dust... Read More
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A Reading of George Herbert.
by Tuve, Rosemond.
London.: Faber and Faber., (1952).. A scholarly study of the richness in the poetry of George Herbert generously illustrated to show the originality employed by Herbert in revealing the long unbroken Christian tradition. Some foxing of front blank. Otherwise very good condition with dust cover. 22 cm. 215 pp. Color photographic frontispiece. Color and b/w plates, reproduced from stained glass, medieval manuscripts and illustrated books and block book illustrations.
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The American Claimant.
by Twain, Mark.
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. First edition. Bound in publisher's green cloth boards. Rodent nibbled (no loss of text). Novel by Mark Twain.. 20.5 cm. xv, 277 pp. b/w frontispiece
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Punch, Brothers, Punch and Other Sketches.
by Twain, Mark
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., (1878). A collection of humorous sketches by Mr. Twain, with a facsimile letter to the publisher and a final page of self advertisement by the author. In embossed indigo boards. Some bumping of the spine . Otherwise V G.. 15.5 cm. 142 pp. b/w engraved chapter heading and ending designs.
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A Dictionary of British Ships and Seamen.
by Uden, Grant and Richard Cooper.
Middlesex, England: Allen Lane/Kestrel Books, 1980. Concise and well illustrated. Alphabetically arranged by topic Useful if not scholarly. Very good condition.. 23.5 cm 591pp. Many b/w illustrations, sketches plans, photographs. Color plates.
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Our Silver Streak, or the Yachtsman"s Guide from Harwich to Scilly.
by Underhill, Arthur.
London: Norie & Wilson, n.d. (circa 1892). The author of this cruising guide, and Commodore of the Cruising Club, writes, "The standard pilot books... give both too much and too little information..." The book includes 5 folding charts with courses marked, tables of magnetic courses, description of lights, and an account of tidal streams. Color decorated cloth covers rather grubby, a few spots on title page, else very good condition.. 141, (3 ads) pp.b/w folding maps, ills.
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Deep-Water Sail.
by Underhill, Harold A.
Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, (1952). Development of wooden deep-water vessels in the 19th and 20th centuries in Britain. Underhill's learned text is followed by 100 plates, many folding, of plans and construction details. Some cover wear. Text and ills.clean.. 25 cm. xxix, 302 pp. b/w plates, folding plans.
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International Code of Signals. 1969.
by United States Defense Mapping Agency.
1969: United States, Defense Mapping Agency . Visual and Radio Communication regulations for the Hydrographic/Topographic Center. Very good. . 27 x 20 cm. 156 pp.
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Maritime History A Preliminary Hand-List of the Collection in the John Carter Brown Library Brown University with a Special Section on Sir Francis Drake.
by Brown University.
Providence, R.I: John Carter Brown Library, 1979. 4to. 335 pp. With several supplements and additions laid in. Comb bound. Very good condition.
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The Houghton Library 1942-1967.
by Harvard University.
Boston: Harvard University, 1967. Complimentary copy for Friends of the Harvard College Library on the occasion of the Houghton Library anniversary exhibition. 2 catalogs laid in. Very handsome volume in embossed boards and gilt topped pages. V G. Oversize postage at cost.. 37 cm. XIV pp. 255 pp. Color and b/w plates , photographs, facsimiles, ills. and maps
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La mer et les navires. Album des petits baigneurs.
by Un Marin" (Edouard Corbière) text, Louis Le Breton illustrations
Paris: Amedee Bedelet, n.d.. Undated, but published in the mid-19th century, when transition to steam was everywhere. The eleven color lithographs picture and identify many different sorts of merchant and naval vessels, under sail, steam, and both (or neither). This is a beautiful gem of a book, in fine condition, with the full-page chromolithographs fresh and clean. It is also something of a rarity, with Worldcat showing only a single library holding a copy. Fine condition, bound in full crimson... Read More
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Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, Together with Scenes in El Dorado in the Years 1849 - '50.
by Upham, Samuel C.
Philadelphia: The Author, 1876. xxii-594 pp. b/w plates and ills. in text. "After reaching San Francisco, Upham voluminously describes that city, the gold fields, Stockton, and Sacramento... There are forty-five interesting illustrations," Hill 1751. Howes U-23, with an "aa" rating. Cowan p. 652. This is a near fine copy, rebound in handsome half brown morocco with raised bands, tooled decorations on spine and, gilt lettering. Original backstrip laid in at the rear of the book.
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Alaska Blues.
by Upton, Joe.
Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing, (1977). "A fisherman's journal" of a season fishing the inside passage. VG, dj.. 27.5 cm., 236 pp. b/w plates.
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Pacific Coast Pilot. Alaska. Part I and Part II.
by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Washington DC: GPO, 1917, 1916.. 257, 303 pp. large folding duotone map of the waters covered. Covers the Alaska coast from Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay, then from Yakutat Bay to the Arctic Ocean. Two volumes, uniformly bound in government cloth. Covers show light soiling and wear, but very good condition internally.
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Report of the Commissioner for 1881.
by U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884. Contains the 500 page "Materials for a History of the Mackerel Fishery" by Goode, Collins, Earle and Clarke. With coverage of the entire US, testimony of fishermen, lists of vessels, description of fishing methods, vessels and ports engaged in the fishery, laws pertaining to it, etc. An important document in fisheries history. Bound as issued in black cloth. Covers are worn, front inner hinge cracked but holding, pencil scribbling on endpapers. However, the lengthy section... Read More
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American State Papers, Class VI: Naval Affairs, Volumes I and II, March 3, 1789-March 5, 1825 and March 13, 1824-January 5, 1827...
by U.S. Congress. (Walter Lowrie & Walter S. Franklin, editors, Vol I; Asbury Dickins & John W. Forney, editors, Vol. II)
Washington DC: Gales & Seaton, 1834 and 1860. First editions. Two hefty volumes comprising The American State Papers for the US Navy between 1789 and 1827, published in 1834 and 1860. They include all legislative and executive documents pertaining to everything naval, from the Navy's establishment to US expansion, Quasi War, War of 1812, embargo, sea battles and prizes, piracy, mutiny, navy yards, contracts, various claims against the government, etc. - every aspect of American naval history for their respective... Read More
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A Manual of Fish-Culture.
by U.S. Fish Commission.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1900. A wonderful source, detailing technologies which have not, for the most part, been substantially improved in this century. Fresh and salt water fish, oysters, etc. Abundantly illustrated, with a handsome color lithograph of a brook trout as frontispiece. Bound in original cloth, binding a bit loose.. 23 cm. Color frontispiece. b/w plates, some folding. x, (2), 340 pp.
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Barbarities of the Enemy, a Report of the Committee of the House... Appointed to Enquire into the... Manner in Which the War has Been Waged by the Enemy
by (U.S. House of Representatives.)
Worcester,: Isaac Sturtevant, for Remark Dunnell, 1814. Contains many first hand accounts, impressments, treatments of prisoners, etc. A useful piece of American propaganda especially as related to Indian attacks and episodes afloat. Smith II, 494. Howes B-112. There was a prior edition, published in Troy in 1813. Bound in original calf over boards, with paper covering on boards tidily removed. Spine label lacking.. 12mo. 192 pp.
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The Azores, Madeiras, Salvages, Canaries, and Cape Verde Islands.
by U.S. Hydrographic Office.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1898. 6/25/16. vi, 183 pp. b/w folding chart. Detailed sailing directions, and descriptions of landfalls, hazards, notable features, etc., with reference to charts published by the Hydrographic office. Includes a folding chart titled "Index to H.O. Charts. " This is the third edition. Very good condition in original government cloth showing light wear.
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Naval Ordnance.
by U. S. Naval Academy.
Annapolis MD.: The United States Naval Institute., 1917.. A revised edition of the text book of Ordnance and Gunnery by Roland I. Curtin, compiled from the notes and works of Officers of the United States Navy, for the use of the midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy. Waterstaining of front board, otherwise in good condition. 23.5 cm. x; 383 pp. b/w fold out photographic and diagrammatic plates and plans. b/w sketches and plans within text as illustrations.
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Regulations of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland (bound with) Regulations for the Interior Police of the Naval Academy.
by (U.S. Naval Academy).
Baltimore: John Murphy & Co., 1858. may18. 67, 44 pp. An early edition of these regulations. Cover title reads, "Regulations U.S.N. Academy. 1855" which may have been the first publication. Worldcat shows only one library holding a copy of this 1858 edition. Bound in original government cloth. Covers and text waterstained.
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