The Naval Temple.
by Badger, Barber (Horace Kimball).
Boston: Barber Badger, 1816. Second enlarged edition. A complete history of the battles fought by the Navy of the United States. From its establishment in 1794 to the present time; including the wars with France, and with Tripoli, the late War with Great Britain, and with Algiers. As with Bowens work of the same year the plates (depicting now-legendary battles) are a source of American decorative motifs. Howes K-135. Moebs 67. Bound in full contemporary mottled calf, rebacked to match... Read More
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The Mediterranean: Seaports and Sea Routes...
by Baedeker, Karl.
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1911. "[I]ncluding Madeira, the Canary Islands, the Coast of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia... with 38 maps and plans." This is the first edition, and the only edition in English. See Gretton, Med1. Bound in classic Baedeker red cloth with gold lettering. Light cover wear, but a very good copy.. 16 cm. xxxvi,607 pp. folding color maps.
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Baedeker's Rhine.
by Baedeker, Karl.
London: Karl Baedeker Publisher, 1889. "The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance. Handbook for Travellers." A VG HC copy. . 16 x 11 cm. 386 pp. b/w, color maps and diagrams.
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Canaletto.
by Baetjer, Katharine.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989. Bound in printed wrappers. Very good condition. A collection of illustrated essays concerning the works of painter Canaletto.. 25 cm. xii, 387 pp. C. plates
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The Colloquies of Erasmus.
by Bailey, N. (translator).
London.: Reeves & Turner., (1878).. Handsome edition. Slight sunning of spine. In very good condition.. 22 cm. Two volumes with a key. xxvi; 464; 467; 62 pp. Facsimile of title page of the 1725 edition. Blindstamped boards. Gilt lettered spine.
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Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
by Baily, John.
London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850. "Natural features, products, population, and remarkable capacity for colonization..." I guess you can see where this book is headed. Despite the obvious interest, and the author's attention to the wealth of natural resources and possibilities for agriculture, the above countries were able to avoid Commonwealthization. Sabin 2771. Signature clipped off top of title page. Lean to spine. Bound as issued in blind stamped blue cloth with gold spine lettering. Very good condition.. 11.5 x... Read More
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Life and Explorations of Fridtjof Nansen.
by Bain, J. Arthur.
London: Walter Scott, Ltd., n.d. but 1897. No date, but this "New edition revised and considerably enlarged" is essentially a new work - a revised biography of the great polar hero, who had yet to launch his second career as a renowned humanitarian. So, first edition thus. In a pretty gilt-decorated red cloth pebbled binding, which is unfortunately sunned. With an equally pretty chromolithographed "Prize" bookplate, which is similarly unfortunately effaced, the prize winner's name having been scratched off.... Read More
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The Artistic Legacy of John Prentiss Benson.
by Baker, Nicholas J.
(Pocasset, MA): (John Benson Book), (2003). ix, 276 pp. Color and b/w plates. Study of Frank Benson's lesser-known but gifted brother. First edition. As new. Not issued with dust jacket.
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The History of Warren, Rhode Island, in the War of the Revolution, 1776-1783.
by Baker, Virginia.
Warren, RI: Author, 1901. Narrative history plus 30 pages of manning lists of soldiers and militiamen, with "valuation lists" of property lost during the war. First edition. Light spine face, very good condition.. 8vo. 19.5 cm. 68 pp. b/w halftone frontispiece.
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Sloops & Shallops.
by Baker, William A.
(Columbia, SC): University of South Carolina Press, (1966). Development of the shallop from open work boats to fully decked vessels, and parallel evolution of sloops. Reprint of Baker's classic. VG in dj.. 22.5 cm. xiv, 174 pp. b/w plates.
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Running Her Easting Down
by Baker, William F.
Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1974. British tea clippers culminating with the Cutty Sark. Very good condition in rubbed dust jacket.. 28 cm. xiv, 170 pp. Color frontis. b/w plates. Endpaper maps
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Mariner's Atlas.
by Balder, A.P.
Baltimore, MD. paper wraps, very good. . 35 x 25 cm. color maps and illust.
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Mariner's Atlas.
by Balder, A.P.
Baltimore, MD. paper wraps, very good. . 35 x 25 cm. color maps and illust.
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Donne and the Drurys.
by Bald, R.C.
Cambridge.: Cambridge University Press., 1959.. A scholarly study of the Drury family papers , particularly in relation to the family association with John Donne. A handsome volume in very good condition.. 21.5 cm. x; 176 pp. b/w photographic and facsimile plates. b/w drawings of street and house plans interspersed in text. Attractive gilt and black title on spine.
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Rulers of the Indian Ocean.
by Ballard, G. A.
Boston.: Houghton Mifflin Company., 1928.. An account of 'the sequence of periods of dominion or ascendancy in the Indian Ocean held by various rival maritime states',( from the author's preface). Although the author gives an avowedly eurocentric story of the European maritime dominance of the Indian Ocean during most of the second millenium, the story is expertly told and engrossing . In very good condition. 24 cm. xv; 319 pp. frontispiece... Read More
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Lost Liners.
by Ballard, Robert D. and Archbold, Rick
Hyperion, 1997.. "The ocean floor reveals its greatest lost ships". V G. in D J.. 28 cm. 223 pp. B/W and Color plates.
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The Discovery of the Bismarck
by Ballard, Robert D.
Warner Books Inc., (1990). V G. in D J.. 28 cm. 232 pp. B/W and Color Plates and Ills.
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The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal.
by Ballard, Robert D. and Rick Archbold.
(New York): Madison Press, (1993). "Exploring the Ghost Fleet of the South Pacific." Ballard, of course, is the great marine archaeologist. VG, dj.. 28 cm., 227, (1) pp. Color and b/w plates.
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The Building of the House.
by Ballou, Ellen B.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First edition. "Houghton Mifflin's Formative Years." Inscribed by author - "What's done is done / but this is no Donne." Very good condition.. 23 cm. xv, 695 pp. b/w plates
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The Paris of Henry IV: Architecture and Urbanism.
by Ballon, Hilary.
New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1991. Second (1991) edition in as new condition. This book won the Alice Davis Hitchcock award for "Most distinguished scholarship in the history of architecture, 1991-1992", and this copy has a gold seal tipped on to the front blank attesting to that fact. As new in fine dj.. 25.5 cm. x, 378 pp. b/w frontispiece and plates
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Nautical Antiques. (With Value Guide)
by Ball, Robert W.D.
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., (1994). V G. in D J.. 28 cm. 240 pp. B/W plates and ills.
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System of Jury Rudder Construction.
by Balls, William.
Sunderland, UK: Thomas Reed & Co., n.d. (circa 1924). "There are many ways of rigging a Jury Rudder for small vessels, but up to now there has been no practical system of coping for that with large steamers, and it is to this class that I particularly wish to refer." His system consisted of a raft constructed of materials commonly found aboard a steam ship, assembled by the crew in 6 or 7 hours, then towed from the stern... Read More
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The Ships of British Columbia.
by Bannerman, Gary and Patricia Bannerman.
(Surrey, BC) : (1985), Hancock House. First edition. "An Illustrated History of the British Columbia Ferry Corporation." Very good condition in VG dj.. 21 cm. 176 pp. Color and b/w plates.
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British Colonization and Coloured Tribes.
by Bannister, Saxe.
London: William Ball, 1838. xii, 323, (1), (4) pp. History and survey of the "coloured races in British Colonies," with particular emphasis on New Zealand. Bannister, first Attorney General of New South Wales, had a liberal attitude which did not serve him well in terms of his career. He returned to London after a couple of years in Sydney and composed several works urging reform in the treatment of aboriginal people througout the empire. Ferguson 2438 cites two issues... Read More
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The Autobiography of Leroi Jones.
by Baraka, Amiri.
New York.: Freundlich Books., (1984). 23 cm X 15 cm. 329 pp.
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