Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light chipping, unclipped. 177 pages, color frontispiece, b&w illustrations, appendices, index. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Leicester University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 262 pages, b&w photographs. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Odyssey Press/ Paul Hamlyn, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy pictorial boards, 45 pages. Pocket-sized book illustrated in color by Peter Spier. No dust jacket. Green illustrated covers. Part of the Odyssey Library. Excellent condition.

Hardcover. Salem, Peabody Essex Museum & Mystic Seaport Museum, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 371 pages. Clean, bright copy. Between 1932 and 1934, in the depths of the Depression, Donald Starr and six friends sailed the 85' Alden schooner Pilgrim around the world from Boston by way of the Panama and Suez Canals. Their adventure is recounted with wit and detail in this illustrated book -- a look at bluewater cruising, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and the Mediterranean before war and tourism altered them forever.

Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes & Co., reprint, 1854, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt decoration to cover, 437 pages, frontis. engraving of author. The first part contains two manuscripts that were sermons or addresses that the Rev. Walter Colton use when preaching in behalf of seamen. The author writes about: The Ocean in its Grandeur and Sublimity; The Sailor's Chivalric Devotion to Woman; Humanity of the Sailor; Navy Chaplains; Genoa and the Genoese; City of Pisa; We are Robbed of our Cigars; etc. The second part contains his writings about travel to France and Italy. Also includes his poetry, editorials, aphorisms, etc. Includes a memoir of the Rev. Walter Colton by Rev. Cheever. Light chip, wear to spine. Circulating library sticker on inside front cover otherwise clean. Covers with minor edgewear. Title page states 1854, copyright page is 1851.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 142 pages. This volume covers the voyage, a few days less than a year in duration, of the clipper ship Sea Serpent around the world in 1854-55, from New York to New York by way of Cape Horn, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. One of the crew, Hugh McCulloch Gregory, better educated than the average seaman of his day, kept a journal in which he made daily entries of events on board.

Softcover. British Columbia, Sono Nis Press, 1st, 1995, Softcover, 72 pages illustrated in b&w and color, clean, crisp copy.

Hardcover. Vermont Heritage Press, Revised Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a rubbed, edgeworn dust jacket. Pictorial end papers. B&w illustrations throughout. Intact foldout of "Shelburne Shipyard in Winter" in winter circa 1920. This new edition adds essays by Arthur B. Cohn, director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, on Lake Champlain steamboats and ferries and recent developments in Champlain Valley Maritime archaeology. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Ward Ritchie Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Story of a real sailor, Capt. Barney Burnett, aboard the four-masted bark Astral. The ship is smashed and dismasted. at Cape Horn. The crew laboriously clear away the wreckage, rerig the shattered masts, and sail on to San Francisco through the teeth of the gale. Much related ephemeral material laid-in, including correspondence by Burnett.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 3rd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 439 pages, b&w illustrations with fold-out map of Polo's travels in rear. First published in 1931, this is the 1950 third printing. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones. * An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871). * The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 616 pages. A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the developing South.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a sweeping epic of how the Vikings and their descendants have shaped history and America. Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when they finally left their homeland in search of opportunity, these wanderers--including the most famous, the Vikings--would reshape Europe and beyond. Their ingenuity, daring, resiliency, and loyalty to family and community would propel them to the gates of Rome, the steppes of Russia, the courts of Constantinople, and the castles of England and Ireland. But nowhere would they leave a deeper mark than across the Atlantic, where the Vikings' legacy would become the American Dream. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Albatross, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 280 pages, The World's Best Sailboats has become the most cherished and respected illustrated sailing book of all time. Its unique format includes over 400 spectacular color photographs by the world's leading nautical photographers coupled with astutely presented technical information on the best and most beautiful sailboats manufactured. Mate's insistence on uncompromising quality and his always engaging, entertaining style make this a timeless work and must-reading for anyone interested in sailboats. Its encyclopedic scope covering all aspects of sailboat design and construction, gleaned from personal visits to the world's best boatyards and interviews with the leading builders and designers, gives us not only a feast for the eyes and the stuff of dreams but also a thorough education. Mate visited the world's best boat builders from Finland to Italy, from Maine to California, and in his book evaluates and describes the sailboats of the nineteen best yards. The text is full of technical information on design and construction of available boats, while the magnificent color photos celebrate the beauty of sailboats and fine craftsmanship. His writing, as always is both informative and entertaining. Shelfworn dust jacket with wear to edges, short repaired tears. Book is clean, no markings. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Albatross, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 299 pages, The World's Best Sailboats Vol. 2 includes over 400 spectacular color photographs by the world's leading nautical photographers coupled with astutely presented technical information on the best and most beautiful sailboats manufactured. Mate's insistence on uncompromising quality and his always engaging, entertaining style make this a timeless work and must-reading for anyone interested in sailboats. Its encyclopedic scope covering all aspects of sailboat design and construction, gleaned from personal visits to the world's best boatyards and interviews with the leading builders and designers, gives us not only a feast for the eyes and the stuff of dreams but also a thorough education. Mate visited the world's best boat builders from Finland to Italy, from Maine to California, and in his book evaluates and describes the sailboats of the nineteen best yards. The text is full of technical information on design and construction of available boats, while the magnificent color photos celebrate the beauty of sailboats and fine craftsmanship. His writing, as always is both informative and entertaining. Shelfworn dust jacket with wear to edges, short repaired tears. Book is clean, no markings. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Lauriat, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Multiple illustrations and plates with detailed engravings. Limited to 500 copies, reprint of 1808 1st London edition, with appendix from the 1819 2nd London edition. Subtitled: A key to the leading of rigging, and to practical seamanship. A knowledgeable and comprehensive manual by Darcy Lever designed to assist young gentlemen of the Royal Navy from the early 19th century.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt decoration, 500 pages. Color frontispiece and 246 illustrations, the majority black and white photographic illustrations. 3 maps and endpaper maps. Index. Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) was an American forester, the first head of the US Forestry Service, the person for whom the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington state is named, and a governor of Pennsylvania. In 1929 Pinchot and family took a seven-month cruise to the South Seas during which time he collected specimens for the National Museum. On board were other naturalists and representatives of scientific institutions. Profusely illustrated.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver decoration and lettering to front cover and spine. 347 pages, eight b&w plates by Taber.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 2nd, 1833, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 - 222 pages. Previous owners name at top of title page. Foxing to pages. Spine cloth faded. Volume 2 - 160 pages. Foxing to pages. Spine cloth faded. Both volumes show light wear overall.

Hardcover. Boston, A.J. Wright, 1st, 1848, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages, illustrated with 6 b&w engravings from sketches done by the author. Interesting sailing, whaling adventures by a 14-year veteran seaman. Embossed brown cloth with gilt design on cover, gilt lettering and design on spine. Spine cloth chipped, worn at top and bottom. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Corners show wear, internally very good with only minor foxing.

Hardcover. Camden NJ, International Marine, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 278 pages, b&w illustrations. Navigation at sea was a matter of guesswork until well into the 19th century. Changing that became the obsession of Matthew Fontaine Maury. While others built railroads, Maury mapped highways of wind and current over the seas. Hearn uses Maury's career as a window on America's maritime development in the 19th century, including the clipper-ship era of the 1850s, the rise of steam and steel, and the Civil War. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 168 pages, 78 b&w photos. Text comprised of six chapters within two parts all titled as: PART ONE-THE SAILING SHIP "Living at Sea Before the Nineteenth 19th Century," "The Accommodation in Wooden Sailing Ships," "Iron and Steel Sailing Ships as Passenger Carriers;" PART TWO-THE STEAMSHIP "The Accommodation in Early Steamers," "The Paddle Lines," "The Travelling Palaces". Name and date on front fly leaf, clean internally. Uncommon.

Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages, softcover with wire spiral binding. Scarce early proof. The author boarded this Orkney trawler whilst the weather was at its worst. An old trawler , converted for Deep-Sea Fishing , by a young skipper who now has a huge overdraft. The Nortantean is the only boat leaving. O'Hanlon sets off, with the crew of five , on a gut-wrenching, leg-jellying voyage.

Hardcover. Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Aksant, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 366 pages, a few color and b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. This study describes and analyses a wide array of initiatives leading to the hunt, by Dutch whalemen, of whales and seals in Arctic waters, the temperate zones of the South Pacific and the waters of the Dutch East Indies during the major part of the nineteenth century (1815-1885) - an era neglected so far. A pioneering book focused on the men involved in the two maritime industries, be it on shore or aboard the whaleship.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, blue cloth with bright silver titles to spine. Published to accompany 2013/14 Exhibition at National Maritime Museum. 288 pages with Foreword by Keven Fewster, Introduction, 7 Chapters, Notes, Bibliography, Credits and Index. Large collection of color plates. Clean copy.