Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Faint smudges on spine. Pages untrimmed. Inside crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Title on spine label slightly chipped away. Small stain on back cover. Pages untrimmed. Some foxing Inside, but otherwise crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York , Wilfred Funk, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages, many b&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. Salem, MA, Marine Research Society, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 399 pages. B&W portraits of sea captains and ships throughout. Tissue-covered frontispiece. Top edge colored blue. Green pictorial dust jacket with taping and edgewear. Blue boards with gilt title to spine and stain to front cover. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum of Salem, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover journals, 307 pages total, b&w illustrations. Light cover wear, some dog-earred pages. Clean set. Scholarly essays covering a wide spectrum of maritime history.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 77 pages, red cloth binding with blue and gilt stamping. A facsimile reprint of the London 1613 printing. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 383 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Scarce novel about the War of 1812.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, b&w illustrations, Green cloth, silver title to spine. Tan, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear and foxing to edges and spine. Overall a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Bennington, Vermont Heritage Press Inc./Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with slipcase. One of a limited edition of 250 copies - does not include the additional map portfolio. Measures: 15.75"L X 12.25"W. Blue cloth covers with titles and decoration in silver. Features black & white illustrations, maps - including 3 fold-out maps. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Bennington, VT, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages. Hardcover with slipcase. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to slipcase edges. One of a limited edition of 250 copies. Blue cloth covers with titles and decoration in silver. Features black & white illustrations, maps, including 3 fold out maps.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business--one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one's goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the highest price. "With the verse of a natural dramatist" (The Christian Science Monitor), Steven Ujifusa tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores. They were visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and socially ambitious merchants with names like Forbes and Delano--men whose business interests took them from the cloistered confines of China's expatriate communities to the sin city decadence of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, and from the teeming hubbub of East Boston's shipyards and to the lavish sitting rooms of New York's Hudson Valley estates. Clean, like new copy.
Softcover. Plattsburgh, NY/ Elizabethtown, NY, Clinton County Historical Association/ Essex County Historical Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages. Blue cwrappers with some faint smudges, small sticker on back, but otherwise very little wear. Inside is bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. London, England, Adam and Charles Black, Reprint with corrections, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image), covered in protective clear, plastic brodart. Some light tanning to edges and pages, otherwise unmarked. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, white title on spine and front cover board. Binding tight, spine straight. in great shape. A comprehensive and authoritative book on the British submarine and its place in the Royal Navy.
Hardcover. Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, First Edition English text. Historiography of maritime Bruges. Beautifully illustrated in color and black & white. 355 pages including index. Oversize and heavy.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 320 pages with chronology, notes & index, B&W photographic & other illustrations. "The mutiny that involved 25 officers and men led by the Bounty's handsome, privileged and gifted second in command, Fletcher Christian". Endpapers chart of the track of His Majesty's Armoured Ship Bounty in the South Seas 1788 to 1790. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Naval History Society, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 377 pages, white vellum spine with blue-gray boards, gilt device on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Number 269 of an 800 copy limited edition.
Hardcover. Susquehanna University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Masterfully weaves the tale of the newly arrived Irishmen who contributed to the growth of maritime industries and who invigorated New England seaport life through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Eventually, as this book documents, they would compete with their Canadian counterparts in swashbuckling schooner races that captivated both nations. In so doing, these groups of old and new Americans helped to forge some of the best maritime traditions of our country, which we all still share.
Hardcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 156 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated frontispiece. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 117 photographs are grouped by chapter, depicting T Wharf and its successor the South Boston Fish Pier; schooner construction at Essex, Massachusetts; outfitting for voyages; departures and arrivals; discharging dish; the passing of the fishing schooner; the emerging steam trawler fleet; and the Italian boat fishermen. Published here for the first times, these photographs are now in the collection of Mystic Seaport Museum.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers, 1st, 1888, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark brown cloth stamped in black and gilt design, 443 pages plus 53 page appendix, b&w plates with a folding map (in excellent condition). B&w frontispiece portrait of the author, blue floral endpapers. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to corners. Title page says 1888, copyright page states 1887. Still believed to be a first printing. Early exploration through Chippewa country, source of the Mississippi, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis. Saint Paul, La cRosse, Rock Island, Saint Louis, Memphis, Natchez to Baton Rouge, New Orleans.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography. From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for modern oceanography. Following the ship's naturalists and their discoveries, earth scientist Doug Macdougall engagingly tells a story of Victorian-era adventure and ties these early explorations to the growth of modern scientific fields. In this lively story of discovery, hardship, and humor, Macdougall examines the work of the expedition's scientists, especially the naturalist Henry Moseley, who rigorously categorized the flora and fauna of the islands the ship visited, and the legacy of John Murray, considered the father of modern oceanography. Macdougall explores not just the expedition itself but also the iconic place that H.M.S. Challenger has achieved in the annals of ocean exploration and science.
Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 3rd pr., 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt design on spine, 480 pages. Ten b&w illustrations including frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Binding slightly cocked. Some marking to edges. Rubbing and light edgewear to cover. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, 179 pagees, with illustrations by Mudge-Marriatt. Minor corner and spine edge wear, otherwise, in very good condition. The "extraordinary seaman" was Captain Lord Cochrane, tenth Earl of Dondonald; the author of this book was an M.P., and contributor of the Parliamentary Report to the weekly New Statesman. "Captain Cochrane went to sea in the Royal Navy's greatest period. He became one of the finest sea fighters Britain has ever known. His scientific ingenuity and imaginative genius made him a pioneer of combat methods which were only fully developed nearly one hundred and fifty years later in the second world war."
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Discusses the history and technology of the Erie Canal, examines some of the famous and infamous people involved with its construction, describes how other canals were built as a result of its success, and discusses how "Great Western" opened up the west.
Hardcover. Camden, International Marine Publishing Company, First Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Ivory cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Coffee-table sized volume, profusely illustrated in black & white. Full color dust jacket with light toning, price clipped, & light wear to edges. Clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 430 pages, with illustrations throughout. Gilt titles and decorated cover on blue cloth. Minor corner and spine edge wear, cracked binding at front and rear end paper. Yellowing on pages 104 and 105, otherwise, clean and tight overall. A book about the sea battles of the War of 1812 by a noted Canadian naval historian.
Hardcover. New York , De Vinne Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 269 pages. Light blue and white cover. Printed for the Naval History Society. Pages untrimmed. Worn slipcase. Clean condition inside and out. Number 582 of 650 copies. B&w illustrations with tissue guards by various artists. Includes one page insert addressed to members of the Naval History Society. With introduction stressing the importance of Naval campaigns in the American Revolution.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in dark blue. 230 pages, color frontis and 20 b&w drawings by Clifford Ashley. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, darkening to cover edges, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 519 pages. Blue cloth with gilded lettering. Top edge gilt. Minor bump on edges and spine. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Many b&w illustrations by various artists. Nice, clean interior.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam & Co, 1st, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Three volumes in one. 267, 248, and 100 pages respectively. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Heavy spotting to endpapers, title page, and spotting throughout. Previous owner's signature and stamp on front flyleaf, bookplate on front endpaper. Front hinge cracked. Markings on top edge. Damp stains, wear, rubbing, and soiling to cover.
Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some minor wear to edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear, and a small tear on bottom of spine. Library sticker on front endpaper. Eight page section of b&w photographs. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.
Hardcover. London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 291 pages. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Minor spine edge wear. Gilt title on front cover and spine. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. Account of the US Navy from Independence through the War of 1812. 8 maps, numerous illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Barre MA, Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a slipcase, 248 pages. Many illustrations from manuscript charts and drawings by Ingraham, introduction by Mark D. Kaplanoff, one of 1950 copies. Binding is decorated gray paper over boards, with yellow cloth spine and pasted on label. A record of a voyage for the sea otter trade, with a route that took the ship to the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, the Marquesas, and China as well as to the northwest coast of North America.
Hardcover. Boston, John P. Jewett & Co., 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blind stamped cloth with gilt stamped lettering on spine. 479 pages with mild foxing to a few pages. Very good plus, no markings.
Hardcover. Lavenham, Terence Dalton Limited, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 190 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear, small chunk missing on top left corner, with protective clear cover. A very clean and tight copy. Many dramatic incidents recorded here for the first time. Large format. B/w photos and diagrams. Index.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with paper label on front and spine. 286 pages. B&w frontispiece and illustrations by Warren Chappell. Minor edgewear to cover and age staining to endpapers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Alexandria VA, self-published, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 250 pages, blue wrappers with white title and sketch of lighthouse. A collection of historical facts and b&w photographs of the Lake Champlain ares, mostly New York. Covers with light edgewear. SIGNED BY GLENN on the title page. Otherwise clean. Scarce.
Hardcover. Basin Harbor VT, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED by author Arthur B. Cohn on title page. Dust jacket worn, with light sunning and tearing. Related article laid in. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Barre, Mass., Barre Publishers, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 281 pages, with b&w illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear and small tear on top spine edge. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. The story of the end of the windship era in New England waters, about the commercial sailing ships which were active from 1935 onwards. The book tells of the two-, three, four-, and five-mast schooners, the carriers of the heavy coal and lumber cargoes, and of the few remaining square-riggers which occasionally were seen during this period. Also the Brava Packets, little sailing passenger ships and a chapter is devoted to the last of the Grand Bankers, the great fishing schooners of yesteryear. Not forgotten are the small colorful 'dude schooners', the windjammers which even today still take vacationers on weekly cruises.
Hardcover. Friendship ME, Friendship Sloop Society], 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards in 2-colors, 209 pages. Originally developed in the late 1800s as a working boat and fishing platform, the Friendship sloop has survived as a type and has become recognized as an American sailing classic. This is the story of a family of boats and how they weathered more than a century of change and transition, and why they still have a passionate following today. With hundreds of photographs, both contemporary and historical, sidebars from multiple authors Uncommon hardcover edition. No dj issued.
Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, Alexander T. Bunts, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 219 pages. Limited first edition copy. Minor fading on blue cloth cover. Faded sticker mark on front flyleaf. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Clark & Lyman, 2nd Ed., 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages, frontispiece plus 3 other engraved plates. Rebound with new cloth spine and endpapers, original calf covers present. The frontispiece has some loss to the gutter edge and has been reattached. Image not affected. Moderate foxing throughout.
Softcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press Ltd, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages illustrated in b&w. INSCRIBED on half-title page by Bellico and by Barbara Bartley on the title page. During the latter 19th century, inland waterways were a primary means of commercial and public transportation in the northeast. Captain Theodore D Bartley owned 3 Lake Champlain (NY-VT) canal boats and kept a daily descriptive journal of his life over 30 years. His routes included the Canadian Waterways north of the St Lawrence River along the Rideau Canal; the Northern Waterway from Quebec Province to New York Harbor; the Western Route via the Erie Canal from Troy NY to Lake Erie. He and his canal boat family witnessed many landmark historical events, as well as ordinary life alongside the canals. His original diaries of 1500 pages were transcribed by Bartley, Barbara B., great-grand-daughter-in-law of Theodore.
Hardcover. NY, Black Dog & Leventhal, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages. Lighthouse is packed with extraordinary stories of human innovation, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues. Through more than 350 gorgeous vintage images and historic details, Lighthouse brings the golden age of seafaring alive. With rare archival blueprints and stories of daring adventure, Lighthouse captures the romance and awe-inspiring history of these isolated, life-saving towers, along with the incredible feats of engineering and invention it took to create them. Beginning in the 18th century and ending in the mid-19th century, this book examines these iconic buildings from every angle, chronicling the evolution of lighthouse design; the tremendous obstacles overcome during construction and upkeep; the thrilling tales of heroism and mercilessness of the seas; and the daily lives of the dedicated and often long-suffering keepers. With over 350 illustrations, this seasonless gift book provides the tales and original architectural plans for beloved lighthouses found throughout the world, including Eddystone, Sandy Hook, Montauk Point, Stannard Rock, Borkum Grosser, Green Point, Tillamook Rock, Cape Hatteras, Erie Harbor, and many more.
Hardcover. Boston, B. J. Brimmer Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Rare, limited edition, one of 155 copies signed. 183 pages, b&w illustrations. Green covers w/ light wear to corners, top of spine. Top edge gilt. Soiling to title sticker on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front fly leaf. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Orleans MA, Lower Cape Publishing, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth covered boards with bold gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto measuring 11 by 8 1/2 inches with map end sheets. 264 pages including an index. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Bright, clean copy.